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Russia and Spain

Bridget Kendall explores how in Moscow the sense of Russian national glory seems to be surging. Tom Holland meets the medieval warriors in southern Spain reliving past glories.

In President Putin's Russia these days, is there room for dissent? In the capital the sense of national glory certainly seems to be surging with the summer sunshine. Bridget Kendall can feel the force of it engulfing almost everyone.

In the south of Spain, Tom Holland meets people from as far afield as Japan who have come to try out as medieval warriors. He wasn鈥檛 expecting much - until the combat began.

(Photo: Combatants clash at the First International Medieval Combat Federation World Championships, 2014. Credit: Getty Images)

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11 minutes

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Wed 11 Jun 2014 19:50GMT

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  • Wed 11 Jun 2014 19:50GMT