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149 imagesFrom the ashes of the Soviet Union, Russia has again risen to world power status, with money, oil and attitude. The country has embraced capitalism and flung its door wide open to all the luxuries money can buy. Yet dark forces remain, and democracy is dead. This series looks at the winners and losers of Russia’s resurgence and asks why people are willing to support Putinism, exchange freedom for wealth, and participate in modern empire-building.
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44 imagesWestern Europe is seen by many as a beacon of liberty. But many immigrants who enter illegally are shunned, prosecuted and stripped of basic rights. Forced to live in the underworld, they scrape for food, shelter, work and dignity — and find that, whatever they do or not do, they are always on the wrong side of the law. Co-produced or commissioned in parts by Spiegel Reporter, Agentur Focus, M Magazine.
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78 imagesIn an old brick warehouse in a Chinese boomtown, workers have thousands of jeans to scrub before dawn. The machines they use — to create the vintage look — send into the air lung-clogging blue dust. For each pair of jeans they scrub, workers earn one euro cent. In an adjacent part of town, their boss sits among fellow factory owners in a street restaurant, ready for another toast: “To the millionaires of Zhongshan!” Today, most people do not wear jeans for hard physical work, but they still want to affect an air of ruggedness. This wear-and-tear process is outsourced to countries such as China, where cheap wages and lax environmental control allowed the rapid growth of a labour-intensive industry drenched in toxic chemicals.
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58 imagesSpring arrives in Siberia as life stirs beneath the snow that has smothered it for half a year. The four of us set off for Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, near Russia’s border with Mongolia. For several months each year Baikal – the world’s largest body of fresh water, more voluminous than all the North American Great Lakes combined – freezes so solidly that locals drive their cars and lorries over it to reach towns that are only accessible by boats in summer. We trek 90 km from the eastern bank to the west, taking in the fabled Olkhon Island on the way. We waited until March because February would be too cold; but rising temperatures have already opened a web of cracks underfoot that regularly kill those who fall through.
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45 imagesRupert and Kristin believe horses and shamans can unlock their son’s autistic mind. So they saddle up and take an incredible journey with their five-year-old Rowan across the Mongolian grassland on a quest for a miracle cure.
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82 imagesSophie’s parents got divorced when she was one and she was raised by her mother. At fourteen she ran away and stayed at various addresses. Hakan, 16, was born in the Netherlands but feels more Turkish than Dutch. Roderick, 15, comes from an affluent family. At school he gets good grades, though his teachers complain of his attitude. Commissioned by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the NRC newspaper, this exhibition project looks at youngsters growing up in the Netherlands.
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