they seek shelter in the capital cost. of living here waters keep rising. the floods are coming. storms catch twenty two double. the small island of kino is located in the gulf of riga a bay in the eastern baltic sea at first sight it seems pastoral and serene in fact it almost looks as if time has stood still here. but in fact kino is an unusual blend of past and future. broadband internet access is faster here than it is in berlin or munich.

and pretty much every house on kino is connected. as stony and lithuania and latvia separate russia from the baltic sea. is located off the stony as west coast. the food. this is mari met us she has four children a lot of grief and a husband who works out at sea. and she also has a soft spot for old soviet motorcycles with side cars. you can still smell the

exhaust fumes long after they are gone. there's only ten minutes left until school starts so mari has to hurry to get her children to class this morning. if that's the good looking very mellow over there not the kind of driving that you never know yesterday we were talking about it. it's morning is it not for this. dolly sad to say engine up working if some party says stop begging and it be a dollar fuck ups say i use a side car and usually have wooden side car it also seems inside the car and you can transport cheated on no time really. reading practices on the schedule today the school has three classes with a total of thirty five children the first lesson today is a stone ian in the class will be reading a fairy tale about

a fox. oh sorry daughter ani is the first to raise her hand to read aloud which she does with out a mistake was what this was who was who was a fool you know we were on he doesn't get her grades straight away as per usual the teacher enters the information into the computer first. a few miles away on his mother mary is tending to the sheep until she hears a ping from her phone he's the one which. he seemed to kick in. marcus fight. that he got. five as the top mark on e. is pleased to she's still too young to worry about her mother knowing all about what she does. no i don't mind except when i only get a good. then it bothers me because i'd prefer to get

a very good. here in kenya it's internet first like in all schools in a stone age. and i don't know if such and such a school or not missing are about the kind of mocks he gets and no no. i don't mind that teaches us ending and you can find quickly information. while her children are at school mari works to help boost tourism on kenya. the fish factory is bankrupt and the collective farm long gone only the clattering motorcycles remain. mari is very pragmatic she says german tourists want to see the motorbikes whereas japanese tourists come for the hand-woven skirts and the french to look at kenya's proud matriarchs married women

here wear headscarves. who is home to tradition but also emancipation. mari who studied law is especially skilled to getting money from brussels for her island. for everything she wants as many people as possible to experience kenya's colorful culture from its extended wedding ceremonies to the woven cloth. the e.u. financed this hotel. once a portrait of lenin would have hung here but today it's young claude younger brussels could learn a lot about minimizing bureaucracy from a stony and here you can register a company during a coffee break the bank. branches start the coffee is. it is very honest and. if i'm me it takes five minutes and you know i think so maybe.

kino may not look high tech but it's digitally advanced internet access was declared a basic human right in a stony at twenty years ago when others were just learning the meaning of connectivity. our next stop is talent a stoniest capital. back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine a stone eons couldn't have imagined that alan would one day have a burgeoning skyline fairy shuttling to scandinavia every hour and cruise boats from all over the world docking in the port today estonia is connected to the world . by just the three baltic states had to basically reinvent themselves as the west was far away and they didn't have any role models within their borders marta lara stone his first prime minister once said his country needed young leaders because they don't know their own limits they can achieve the impossible. today mark dar

works at the bank of a stone here but we first met him fifteen years ago as stone iau was about to join the e.u. and the world wanted to know what kind of people lived within the soon to be member state smart lars considered the father of modern a stony that's relatively low tax rate internet for all and e.u. and nato membership so we made it. and it went much spread of any never suspected. why because although we told to join the e.u. and nato we didn't quite believe we could manage it well not seen it but here we are. his entry into political office wasn't easy in the early nineties estonia had just regained its independence from the soviet union lara was twenty seven then and became an activist figure he always ran the risk of being locked up until he actually became the country's prime minister when he was just thirty two he was almost denied entry to the o.e.c.d.

summit in vienna in one thousand nine hundred three on there in. that i said oh not them yet and this is you stone him prime minister all the woman looked at me and it's all me and she said your the a stone your prime minister needs to with you and if. composers a new and country tali are further examples of europe's model citizens the twins also had no role models to look up to we met them their tolerance opera house where they began their careers. we only had one chance and nobody to talk to is the basis i missed i was just an everything a person you knew by the name the person you probably met more than once in your life and it was new century heaven and. income to some from that some on letting

the young people you know think out over the old tree so just be experience i think you have to have something to believe and that is all i've done for this experience and so on so that you don't start from zero and bring it up and into biking as they say. where else in the world could two thirty year olds have conducted their own symphony orchestra. the ninety musicians used to meet up in tal and only a few times a year the symphony orchestra lived from goodwill and donations it wasn't financed from taxes. we have a supporting group which is basically we don't have an. state's help and i think it would ever happen anyway because i assume now youngest any of us crazy enough to accept it's and in a situation where you kind of you have to accept new comers to accept new ideas to see you have the patience to see what happens because normally in

a more settled countries like germany and england you are very conservative. we are not opposed to. leave the stage and we some i think now it's becoming a little bit more hands on and lots more sense of mixing different cultures around and i think it's a good thing. it's. another a study and pioneer from the ninety's is banker ryan left most. just after estonia as independents in two friends founded what was to become the biggest bank in the baltic region. their recipe for success was both simple and strict. most they would hire the people.

straight from schools because they had. better education and know no wrong attitude was. that close used to live on the outskirts of tollund where the city's nouveau riche all had their residences back then. he was one of the country's ten richest men. he tells us about the wild beasts transformation. so let's say ten years ago. i had bodyguards today that's much more legislation and dollars i would say that. you will need but it's mall more of me and we need to go south the fifth highflyer is. a judge you often meet people in a stony a in their forty's who came into positions of power in their twenty's when

charles became the head of tollens district court. to. the. school so experience. actually grew into the new system. it's hard to believe but this young man once led court proceedings and had the final say. estonian saw many changes within a short space of time there were new laws and new faces the former leaders were pushed aside and the old legal system was turned on its head. of who spoke three languages and had several years' experience as a lawyer worked his way up the legal ladder. the only thing that didn't change was the old soviet style courtroom. well the previous story is that i've

been working for for the prosecution for six years for six years. i've been working as a judge before for one year so i think that's this experience of working as a prosecutor and as a judge give me. give me. experience in soviet times people didn't get into positions of power through competence and experience but in public on charles managed to flip the age pyramid when people got totenkinder he likes nice experience. but we don't doubt his technical expertise with him so there was a lot of money. as head of the court the young judge was entitled to an official limousine and driver. but he turned them down and stuck to his compact car. i think this is nuts this is not freud's. but he would you know.

a tax payers money for. just you know using this purpose this is not fright. our next stop is rica lotfi as capital. these singers have been rehearsing for five years only the best are selected to perform. me. me close to. me. just think. what bia is celebrating its one hundredth birthday. with songs and music performed by the diplomatic choir and reka.

singing is more than a hobby here or people grow up with song books. and see at the at the moment the ed the elect i'll go. beyond into petra was barely three when she started singing at her kindergarten was the who. they need and they need i was born singing i grew up singing thing i spent my life singing oh i love the procession snakes twenty kilometers through downtown riga. their repertoire of folk songs is simply past i. think. i.

must do it and something happens inside you when you see and when ten people a hundred or a thousand people sing together it creates incredible power and energy and i think the night of the. close visit for us if there's one thing they can do it's to sing loudly and beautifully for a long time and with such conviction that in one thousand nine hundred nine they sang the occupying soviet forces out of the country. from above this looked like a traffic jam but it was actually something the world had never seen before. more than a million people holding hands the chain they created stretched across three soviet republics. there were no speeches just fifteen minutes of silence at seven pm the

fact that everyone managed to find their place was a logistical masterpiece. even the almost the one people were better at organizing themselves back than. even though they had no incident emails or messaging or anything mails messages nothing makes. it's been almost three. decades since the baltic way but carpenter yana scope monice still has his old lot of from back then it's twenty seven years old now so he's pleased every time the engine starts without a hitch. today his wife ellen tina is in charge of the rolled up lothian flag on the back seat. a grandchild sabina's with them. back in one thousand nine hundred nine when half the country stood together sabina was also there she was just two years old. they're driving to cover a village around twenty miles from riga on the way to lithuania. it's

a sunday outing into the past to the day when they put their courage to the test. moscow to cry the baltic way as national hysteria we need to know that none of the right here i wasn't scared of told i could sense the unity of the three baltic countries removed the we had survived fifty years of occupation together and now we could see a ray of hope. for. a single family photo of that hot day in august one thousand nine hundred nine still exists a day when you're on a scope money is there to hold the law in flag for the very first time since the second world war he said i can honestly listen to radio on who time radio is the most important source of news for us newspapers didn't tell you much but radio covered everything must be a thing as he did but at the end of the unhappy we all listened intently as many as we was spellbound and excited would be and we felt such patriotism so use that

patio at this event it seems that i would. not be as popular front was based in this townhouse and reagan one of its leaders was the physicist eve ours god monice later lobby and prime minister the popular front wanted to get love via out of the soviet union. this into its own in soviet union relates to. the situation in the final years of the soviet union economy was terrible. cobb absolutely makes the stores were empty. of labor dispute we had these russian cars again load the car like they had been during the war weeks yeah it's no good it was fifty years later and people were having to use those russian cots again to get food. that was so uncool that's not there yet that was full on soviet union with everything that went with it you never would think if sabina was born in

a time of scarcity and shops were empty you couldn't buy anything not shoes no socks and certainly nothing for a baby now like. it was that was they saying we are lafayette's we were a lot fans and we will always be locked in this was to not leave blueness realize she was the singer was candles and prayers instead of riots it was a chain stretched from tolland in the north to build nests in the south. it was the beginning of the end of the soviet union. was and was the. i. was. in see so freakin on the hob probably in try stopping that many people for everyone was peaceful that they held

nothing in their hands except flowers make. you try stopping something like that you could meet violence with violence but what can you do to stop peace abouts that was our way from the very start and the parliamentary way of peaceful revolution eleven is shit for the delete it will assume. the demonstration it was one of the last to be held in the soviet union a few months later but the way he had declared independence closely followed by the other two baltic states moscow tried to send in tanks and more the. one hundred demonstrators were killed but the occupiers didn't stand a chance against the people who were at that united. the peace memorial is regas symbolic center. even the soviets didn't dare demolish it although they did rename the boulevard leading to it after lenin. today the street has its old

pre-war name again. liberty street. this is where a lot b.s. former long serving president. barrack now lives she has a clear view of the russian orthodox church from her window she tells us about her meetings with russian president vladimir putin. so mr clinton opens his. mouth and his phone number one. i find that it is an absolute tragedy that the soviet union comes down it is it is so sad that we used to be one big happy family and now there are these from tears and now any cost of one. mr mr president that's not the tool i said indeed for many of our inhabitants not only did the need any possible or said last

but certainly the way they had three heads of siberia and other uncomfortable nations and how does president putin react and was he was he silent for a moment. no he. turned the page and came in the next. day used to be a lenin memorial here now it's advertising space. but there is one place in riga that stayed the same under every form of government in the central market. it's huge halls were originally constructed to house zeppelin airships the singer mara goes to the market often not peons and russians normally have little contact with each other but here they meet face to face be in lampreys or on display next to carp in a russian cabbie are here everyone's equal although mafia is the official language

in riga the majority of people here are ethnic russians mara is a well known singer and mafias indie pop scene and proud to be lothian but aga for alexei is lothian too but his mother tongue is russian. yet the two have no problem communicating. let him but maybe the closest tied to his life savings and i started is that when alan says was good enough to continue his lead in for us you know the no three languages it's it's the. must have you know. we've been. it's normal this patient when i go in the shop that touched by something that you know that and i'm not saunders to . being asked to speak english and that's the situation when i feel this is the simple. mara encounters that sort of situation often because she lives on moscow st . despite its bad reputation she moved here twelve years ago to live as a lot b.

and among russians her two children were born here. the so-called moscow district doesn't really feel like it's arrived in the european union. but mara loves the neighborhood although she also sees its dark side too. there are few jobs and drug dealing is common. russian t.v. is on all day long and hardly anyone speaks a lot via. the country's own public broadcaster hasn't been able to reach most residents here but since the crisis in crimea lafayette's station has also been broadcasting news in russian as an alternative to putin's propaganda if you could think and then you it's never too late to push back you know that we waited twenty five years before we introduced our own russian television programming said of us we're already predisposed us we don't want and it's not easy for us to get through

to them even on us even national option us national authority. the station isn't alone in trying to push back against russian propaganda people in regas art nouveau neighborhood which has always considered self the european have joined in to since twenty fourteen russian intellectuals who opposed their current government have been living here in exile they include twenty employees of russia's most successful online platform. we meet with eve on call because of his medusa a media outlet offers critical day to day coverage of what's going on in russia and can be followed online around the world. it hopes that young people who are used to gathering their own news and information from online sources can help bring about an end to putin's rule. they don't watch television that's why the whole propaganda machine doesn't work with them this is what's right now i guess these

you know the specialists the guys in present administration felt you know the television doesn't work with a huge and very important and very active part of this is say what is what can be done about the propaganda them up. about headlines like lot fia is on the brink of collapse or fake news about nato. right now they have the russia has much better infrastructure then you are for the u.c. or any you know any western country this is the this is. unpleasant truth about the situation. alexei has long avoided propaganda he belongs to the new generation he knows he needs to form his own opinions viewpoint echoed in morrow's most famous song. this is part of rico my record of this on a piecing rico where new things are growing. her lyrics could be interpreted to mean that we're standing between russia and europe and that gives us

a great opportunity. lithuania borders on a part of russia the colleen and brought enclave that once belonged to prussia. the border runs straight through the corona and spit. to the left is the baltic sea to the right the crony and look good. and just beyond that russian territory. ever since russia began shifting its focus towards its borders with europe the baltic states have been especially alert. border guards on the dunes cover their tracks with sand when their shift is over.

it takes time but by eliminating their own tracks they can quickly see whether anyone else has been there. anxiety amongst russia's small. well neighbors is mounting. so they're putting up benson's to mark their country's frontiers even where there was once a green border like at lake christie tees. maar yonah has lived in the border town of his d.t.'s for eighty two years. the front here markers have changed colors more than once they used to be precious and so be it and she used to cross them off and. today that's no longer possible. you never know even if we wanted to we couldn't cross over they used to be lots of mushrooms over there. that i think when was the passage closed the low pressure

that they closed the border when lithuania became a sophron state that was over twenty years ago now that. the bit about you know the i don't think matt damon that anyone living this close to the border is either very scared or not scared at all every fall russia stages large scale maneuvers the list of them but i've gotten used to talk about danger coming from russia let them do their drills there is no concern to us if it's not those soldiers practicing it would be up as it's part of their job. get us about marianna's the border is blocked by planes but there are many crossing points and also plenty of gaps to sneak through. conservative m.p. very honest us says lithuania needs a fence that clearly shows its big neighbor where the border is. when we go to meet him construction there has temporarily ceased because the signal wire hasn't been delivered yet the twelve thousand posts will cost almost one and

a half million euros. if you look at this how impressive is that to you it's impressive but not the much of the because i saw a high of how much more high you hungry. through me it was i would say three made this of for me this with a bet that has shown us fears russia will send so-called green men over the border in unmarked uniforms as they did in ukraine two thousand and fourteen. so what are the green mines for. oh it's new to you fred how to control of a country how. regime reach does not know where its borders thoughts in the main its border it's a dilemma for us it's fun to call them. but in this quiet border region military incursions let alone a full blown invasion still seem

a long way off. at the end of our journey along the border we meet a man who openly admits his fears. this farmer has just finished a long day with his seventy dairy cows and is on his way to his favorite spot on the river where he can look over into russian territory. he doesn't actually feel under threat but he's still apprehensive. he knows what military maneuvers sound like. it here would look at this russian sometimes train over there knowing something out of a sense and off homes. in the woods and i know the two years ago there was an explosion that was so loud our windows shook. them to vote who knows what can happen with or without a fence. i don't think the fence will help we could just drive through it if they wanted to that we unloaded the buffalo to put us

a little of his father has always said that they would be the first to feel it if things heat up so he make sure to only swim on the lithuanian side thank you. our last port of call is bill meus with the way in his capital. it's a beautiful city. the sort that wasn't planned but instead grew naturally so a person can get lost in its winding streets. filming us is a bastion of catholicism this monument was blown up by soviets but once the occupation ended with the way he rebuilt it funny old and in best you have the best view overbill me is from up here on the hill of three crosses and it's a baroque masterpiece with rows of church towers but one thing is missing the city once had one hundred thirty senegal but only two survived the war in one.

i mean as familiar with the trail of destroyed jewish monuments left by soviet forces she takes us to the sports palace which is also like time traveling if these towns could talk we'd be back in the middle ages. the summit she was here in the fifteenth century and you know in that twentieth century enjoy and that's all that russian nationals were taken away and they respond different types of don't things that you know like stairs like into a house where people where you know have and you watching up and down. for younger generations of lithuanians future possibilities trump past pain. the stone slabs are currently being dug up and replaced from now on no one will be walking on jewish gravestones anymore. the city's mayor is busy trying to get jewish families who fled to visit bill in the us again. one could say hollywood enough of a mr bloom that also hasn't been yet not yet but that he was here and letterman

like this is. actually i've got the impression that the like many people like you are going to call him for example he wasn't in ruins he was not so much interested in his roots fall for many years but some whole like the fall like bussing way through us couple of years and two of his life he was actually interested in this and he plans to do to come to the scene. there though the many people from bloomberg family they're more interested than him so if you will focus them move like intensive life but but but you know the both of them and i think he will find some opportunity to come to this hearing and we're talking about those. i meet visits the former ghetto where a sense of melancholy and loss still hangs in the air. almost all the way in jews were killed by the german occupiers and their local collaborators.

i don't know who lived here exactly it could be people that were done by people who were killed. the photos hanging on the ghettos main road today were found among the ruins they recall better times when were they actually taken about the pre-work on because you can see these people you know they're smiling there had you known you can see that you know there was a glorious level maybe you know. will never you know be again in the city. this is the only synagogue still unused today the small jewish community in vilnius

only needs one. during the soviet era the building was used as a warehouse for medical supplies. of illnesses and of over doing almost shouted several. billion years used to be called the jerusalem of the north. back then we were two hundred fifty thousand people those. particular almost every second resident of fear in years was jewish. but we had one hundred synagogues. now where only two thousand five hundred people. to suppose even if we all come together today the ten thousand seat seaman's arena would still be practically empty. because the true suitable state was that it went with the studio. but jewish culture still exists in vilnius we visit a store that sells bagels as good as any you can get in new york. owner says

bagels actually originated in lithuania. so now i'm sure how you know. did you come because of the bagels or do you want to learn about . the city a little. let me get you some gloves just put them on the bagel was invented in the sixteenth century in the grand duchy of lithuania which belonged to poland back then allowed jews to sell bread which was the main food for both christians and jews there was a conspiracy and church authorities claimed that bagels with poison spread. in there and this is the in the so to scotch that evil room we began boiling our bread first. i thought this was dismissed and yes this is good yeah. but that was your post this is better than this if you. a

little off this album. but if you missed it i think shortly yes i'll leave the heathen appreciate when i. get a feel for that but it did seem a shit that's. the way. she should. be free but you boil the bagels and then you bake them out of the capital good to make of course you have to bake them that's how they get to be so good everything in jewish hussein is made with a lot of soul like this is it type lex has come and it let's show him the good looking chick the fashion and. think you'll notice when granny used to bake she'd close old windows too much to my grandmother did that too i wasn't even allowed to come into the kitchens this is so good as it looked to me a little bit of. what you want you to see get into the see the tiniest drops can

make them collapse i wasn't allowed into the kitchen when they did that you know next to the food there's also a collection of photos of famous people who left as well as their children. there's something in common all of these people have been just bombed i think is yes they're all members of jewish families that originally came from lithuania. which. is about sixty think manakin vacant looks nice see this and by the. ocean they don't bother so i think you look like barbra streisand in the way she. says. harrison ford amos oz barbra streisand bob dylan and the dean gordimer all have lithuanian roots in the back comes he didn't go for the house i'm not sure whether there's an ache in the feels but to me that's because just the many things you see that is new to him i need to in the morning and want to hear i don't want

to play with. oh yeah. i meet has found a way to expand her family. she once thought her grandmother and grandfather were the only relatives that had survived the war. this saturday i haven't seen most of them i found i remember her friend on the first generation close and someone living you know not the father you know away and also people over her you know their last names i knew their last names for example but i never known who they actually are i first learned that she strolls through her family tree or she finds a picture of her grandfather's sister she's only just found out that she passed away one year ago. the fellows were just following also and you know i like to listen to me here fascinating so how people you know write that i can know how you know birds and all over most of all the water and.

you know they're strong. alone hungry to hear all the people they need you know. over all of the relatives i think is absolutely you know fascinating and heartbreaking you know. it'll still be a while before the baltic states have come to terms with their checkered past they've often been at the mercy of their mighty neighbors but now there's a generation that holds its future in its own hands.

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