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VANGUARD IS A NO-LIMITS DOCUMENTARY SERIES whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show’s correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world’s most important stories. Vanguard has received some of the media industry’s highest honours for journalism, including the 69th Annual Peabody Award, given for excellence in electronic media, and the 2010 Television Academy Honour, which recognizes achievements in programming that present issues of concern to our society in a compelling, emotional and insightful way. Vanguard has also been awarded the 2009 Alfred I duPont-Columbia Award and the 2009 Livingston Award and was nominated four times for a news and documentary Emmy and for a sports Emmy. WATCH AT: http://www.smh.com.au/tv/current-affairs/show/vanguard-4201550.html VERY POPULAR EPISODE: RUSSIAN NEO-NAZIS at: http://www.smh.com.au/tv/Current-Affairs/show/Vanguard/Russian-Neo-Nazis-4202502.html About this episode: Political and economic upheaval is changing the demographic mix of Russia and one side-effect is a growing neo-Nazi movement. Frustrated by their country's ongoing turmoil and an influx of immigrants, mobs of skinheads are turning on migrant workers and posting videos of their violent beatings online. Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to Russia to investigate... Warning: Contains violent scenes.