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Hi, this is BAZA. My name is Anatoly Suleymanov. Recently we have published several stories about our trip to Afghanistan. We shared our interview with one of the Taliban leaders, the terrorist organization banned in Russia. Also, we told you about the street food in Kabul. But all those stories were only starters before the main dish – our new film about the new, unrecognized by anyone in the world, “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”. On September 11 our dream team (our cameraman and I) crossed the border of Afghanistan. By the way, in order to do it, we had to receive accreditation. Many journalists applied for it to the Embassy, but we chose another way. We sent a message to the Taliban spokesman on Twitter, saying that we were coming. And it worked! We spent 9 days in Afghanistan. During that time, we traveled the country from the same north to its capital, the city of Kabul. We talked to dozens of people: the Taliban fighters, women, musicians, police officers, sellers at the market, drug addicts… We heard the real stories of real people. We recorded hundreds of gigabytes of video. We will definitely remember those 9 days for the rest of our lives. And I want to share our impressions with you. So, make some tea and get yourself comfy. Enjoy!

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Afghan street food    • Еда очень жирная, но афганцы стройные...  
Interview with Zabihullah Mujahid :    • Интервью с одним из лидеров Талибана:...  
Instagram of our dear friend and also our guide and interpreter:   / sargand_off.  .
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Time codes:
00:00 Getting in
02:23 How we were able to get to Afghanistan
04:50 The famous “Friendship” bridge
07:27 Hairatan. The first Taliban checkpoint
10:08 Fighters stop us on the road
11:00 The entry stamp on the page for information about children
12:09 Like in Russia: money for road construction is stolen
15:09 American armor and vehicles
16:35 We wrote to the Taliban on Twitter in order to get to Kabul
18:33 Erotic miniatures
20:54 TikTok: how Taliban fighters make videos
24:47 Blending into the crowd: pirhan, tumban and pakol
29:27 Why do Afghan men use the eyeliner?
33:01 Afghan street food
39:08 Local teeth whitening
40:34 Tom Cruise, Kim Kardashian or Kalashnikov?
45:12 The souvenir you can go to jail in Russia for
47:10 Poverty: how to survive with only 250 rubles per week
49:57 How they buy and sell children
53:25 Removing the evil eye from us
56:09 The incredible Afghanistan of the future
59:33 How the Taliban “won” the fight with COVID
01:00:05 Zabihullah Mujahid (the local Dmitry Peskov)
01:04:38 Badri special forces, the elite unit of the Taliban
01:05:34 The Taliban are called “Toliks”… But why?
01:08:48 What do Afghan people expect from the Taliban?
01:11:54 The female protest
01:15:29 “A woman in Islam can do anything – be an entrepreneur, a teacher, even go to war”
01:17:17 Marzia, a professional taekwondo player
01:19:40 The unreal threat from the Taliban
01:22:57 Nadima, the Afgan blogger
01:26:11 The Taliban promise gender equality
01:26:53 Why is the gender equality impossible in Afghanistan?
01:28:58 Barbershops: a fancy haircut, Kabul style
01:30:50 “Soapy asses”
01:32:18 Banned music and underground concerts
01:35:50 “They opened fire on me”
01:36:30 We lost our drone
01:37:57 Kabul is similar to Makhachkala
01:40:03 “They were going to the USA riding donkeys”
01:44:10 The USA had agreements with the Taliban
01:46:10 Amnesty: ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
01:49:22 Interview with a mullah who turned into an atheist
01:52:33 “Everything that the Americans told us, was lies”
01:56:43 Ordinary Afghan people about the Taliban
02:00:18 Our cameraman got lost in Kabul (…again)
02:03:01 Why do ordinary people support the Taliban??
02:04:24 “Dos/Dushman”: a game of Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan
02:06:32 The enemy of the USSR – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
02:08:23 The origins of the Taliban
02:12:12 It’s all the same: corruption, the USA and Afghanistan
02:15:13 Why the Taliban were able to come to power so fast
02:19:03 “Americans told us that we had to surrender to the Taliban“
02:23:24 “Afghanistan has no chances for a quiet life”
02:28:05 What should Russia be ready for with the Taliban in power?
02:31:30 Pudhari, the drug addicts in Kabul
02:36:22 Cruel treatment methods: how the Taliban cure drug addicts
02:38:28 A road back home
02:40:36 The exploded American Humvee
02:43:09 The one and only statue of a Soviet soldier
02:45:30 Afghan Tatars
02:50:16 The last checkpoint of the Taliban
02:53:43 Stopped at the border