Who ’s this Aussie

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[Bobby]

Wait till Putin conscripts him into the army.

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Wait till Putin conscripts him into the army.

It isn't going to happen as Russian conscription law limits conscription age to 30. Scotty Mortimer is 44.

[Jasin]

He's living a good life.

[Bobby]

Wait till Putin conscripts him into the army.

It isn't going to happen as Russian conscription law limits conscription age to 30. Scotty Mortimer is 44.

OK - for now anyway.

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Australians experience a Real Russian Banya [Sauna] and submerge in ice lake in Siberia -31 Celcius.

They are trying to speak Russian so switch on subtitles.

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Russell takes a ride on the Worlds First Year Round ELECTRIC River Tram. Located in Moscow, Russia.

[Jasin]

Pretty neat ferry.

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The special ice-proofed design of the ferry Russell talks about is "koch".

The koch (Russian: коч) was a special type of small one- or two-mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for transpolar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas, popular among the Pomors.

The development of koch began in the 11th century, when the White Sea shores began to be settled. This type of ship was widely used during the heyday of Russian polar navigation in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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In 1648 Semeon Dezhnev used boats like that to sail from the Kolyma River on the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific and was first European to cross the strait between Siberia and Alaska.