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starts march twenty g.w. . the small island of kenya 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. kino is located off the stony as west coast. this is mari met us she has four children a lot agree and a husband who works out at sea. and she also has a soft spot for old soviet motorcycles with side cars and you can still smell the exhaust fumes and 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 very man of that's over cinematic and if it's driving then you never

know yes the we are talking about it a lot in this morning to sit next to face with kelley sad to say you know working if some positive things stop begging and if it be and aleph aquanauts say use a sidebar and use it is a mood and site car it convert those to scenes inside the car and you can and transport cheat and i know it family land ethics. breeding 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. daughter ani is the first to raise her hand to read aloud which she does without a mistake was what was. 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. which. you need to kick very soon. mark the fight. to go to. 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 bothers me because i'd prefer it to get a very good set up. here and kino it's internet first like in all schools in a stone. and you know unknown but if such and such schools are not all missing are about the kind of marks he gets. we know every. announcement that

teaches us ending and you get told 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. kenya is home to tradition but also emancipation. mari who studied law is especially skilled to getting money from brussels for her island. she wants as many people as possible to experience kenya's

colorful culture from its extended wedding ceremonies to the woven cloths. the e.u. financed this hotel once a portrait of lenin would have hung here but today it's young flawed younger brussels could learn a lot about minimizing bureaucracy from a stony i'm here you can register a company during a coffee break my. dress is start the coffee is. it is very honest when i say find me it takes five minutes. 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 stoning at twenty years ago when others were just learning the meaning of connectivity. our next stop is talon estonia's capital.

back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the stone ians couldn't have imagined that tolland 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 in time 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 model lara stone his first prime minister once said his country needed young leaders because they don't know their own limits make can achieve the impossible. today martin are works at the bank of a stone here but we first met him fifteen years ago as stoney oh 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 better than interviewers expect it. why because although we toke to join the e.u. and nato we didn't quite believe we could manage it well we'll see it but here we owe her seemed to. 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 nine hundred ninety three down there in. the open i said hello i ma not there yet and this is the stone in prime minister all the woman looked at me in the small me and she said your the a stone your prime minister needs to think and if.

composers anew and contrie 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 you would have been told to his face this time instead was just an everything a person you knew by a name has a new family met more than once in your life and you must name such a heaven and earth and come to some from that some on letting the only people you know think out over the old tree so to speak and experience i think you have to have something to believe and that is how wonderful this experience and so on so that you don't stop from zero on bringing up and going to bike 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 in only a few times a year the symphony orchestra live. from goodwill and donations it wasn't financed from taxes. we have a supporting group which is basically we don't have any estates and i think it would ever happen anywhere because i assume now youngest any of us crazy enough to accept it's and in a situation where you can you have to accept new comers to help except 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 some i think now it's

becoming a little bit more hands on and lots more sense of mixing different cultures and i think it's a good but. it's. another a study and pioneer from the ninety's is banker ryan left it was. just after estonia as independence 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 were hard at people people straight from schools because they had. better education and no no wrong attitude was. that most of used to live on the outskirts of tal and where the city's nouveau reach 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 it was not so on your. body thoughts today yeah well that's much more legislation and rollers i will say that it's not what you will need but that it's a mall more of your meat and we need to take this out of. the fifth highflyer is public on charge of 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. sue. the. school suit experience. actually be grouped into the new system

just this you know. it's hard to believe but this young man once led court proceedings and had the final say. dystonia and 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 of the public on charles managed to flip the age pyramid and bill got the room going if he likes life experience. but we don't doubt just technical expertise with him to have the most amount of money. as head of the court the young judge was entitle 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 trying to. but he would you know. a taxpayers' money for. just you know using this purpose this is not fright. our next stop is riga latvia as capital.

these singers have been rehearsing for five years only the best are selected to perform. let me. cut to the me. me me me. me me think i must. be a is celebrating its one hundredth birthday. with songs and music performed by the diplomatic choir and rico. singing is more than a hobby here for people grow up with song books. and see at the same moment the well i. go into petra was barely three when she started singing at her kindergarten was the

who was. the saint and mini i was born singing i grew up singing thing i spent my life singing. the procession snakes twenty kilometers through downtown riga. their repertoire of folk songs is simply vast. but i. must do it and something happens inside you when you're seeing 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 one people were better at organizing themselves back than. even though they had no incident emails or messaging or anything emails messages nothing makes. it's been almost

three decades since the baltic way but carpenter yana scope money's 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 decried the baltic way as national hysteria we need to know that none of this would rightly i wasn't scared to toll i could sense the unity of the three baltic countries removed 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 today 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 like laos we listen to radio on which 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 at e bay but at the amount of data that we all listened intently was many things we was spellbound and excited to be and we felt such patriotism or so use that patio at this new business model you would. not be as popular front was based in this townhouse and reka one of its leaders was the physicist eve ours got monies later lockin prime minister from the popular front wanted to get lafayette out of the soviet union. to see to it so and so if you knew the lengths that.

the situation in the final years of the soviet union economy was terrible. cobb absolute deeks the schools are empty. of labor dispute we had these russian cots again because like they had been during the war weeks yeah it's not the greek it was fifty years later and people were having to use those russian cots again to get food that's what it was until the flag still here that was full on soviet union with everything that went with it you never would 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 no i. it was not that they saying we are lucky as we were a lot fans and we will always be locked in this was to not leave the room strewn

like he was saying i was candles and prayers instead of riots was the chain stretched from tolland in the north to bill nelson the south. it was the beginning of the end of the soviet union. was was. was. was. was. was he so freedom on the hob probably a try stopping that many people for. everyone was peaceful that they held nothing in their hands except when i was making. you try stopping something like that you could meet violence with violence but what can you do to stop peace. that was all way from the very start and the parliamentary way. peaceful revolution of an

audition for the least it would 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 than one hundred demonstrators were killed by 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 presidents vajra. 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.

his office and this is so 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 i'm now in the house of one of them. and i said mr president that's not the tool i said indeed for many of our inhabitants not only did the need any possible step last but certainly in the way they've been three rides to siberia in rather uncomfortable conditions and how did president putin react and was he was he silent for a moment. no he. turned of age and came with the next pope lead.

there 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 the central market. it's huge halls were originally constructed to house zeppelin airships. singer mario goes to the market often not the ins and russians normally have little contact with each other but here they meet face to face lothian lamp rays are on display next to cark in a russian cabbie are here everyone's equal although lafayette 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 lafayette but aga for alexei is lothian to but his mother tongue is russian. yet the two have no problem communicating just. let him but maybe that's because it's tied to

this life things that i started that when alan says was good enough to continue to let in for us no no three languages it's just a. must have you know. we've been. it's normal patient when i go in the shop that try to buy something that you know that i'm not on there is to. me and asked says he can rest and that's the situation when i feel this is this it will. mar and counters that sort of situation often because she lives on moscow's street. 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 you could think of then it's never too late to push back. but we waited twenty five years before we introduced our own russian television programming said of us we're already predisposed for the moment and it's not easy for us to get through each of them in a nice easy and 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 into 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 to call. his medusa 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 in the guys in present administration felt you know that 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 then about headlines like lafayette is on the brink of collapse or fake news about nato. right no the russia has much

better infrastructure then you are for the usa 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 that viewpoint echoed in morrow's most famous song. this is part of my record of this on a piecing rico where new things are growing. for 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 broad 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 groningen 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. the anxiety amongst russia's small neighbors is mounting. so they're putting up benson's to marc. our country's frontiers even where there was once

a green border like it make misty's. mother 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 often. 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 just in that i think when was the passage closed so no question that they close the border when lithuania became sophron state that was over twenty years ago now that. the food but nothing on the radio kidnapping and. anyone living this close to the border is either very scared or not scared at all every fall russia stages large scale maneuvers the bill clinton 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 to get us at mario'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. one may 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. and. if you look at this how impressive is that to you it's impressive but not the much you know because i saw a high of how much more higher a few hungry. threw me it was i would say if we made this up 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 months for. oh it's new to you fred how to control of a country whole russia is a. regime reach does not know where its borders thoughts in the main its border it's a dilemma for us is thought to go the level. 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 knock out the bum rush and sometimes train over there knowing something out of sense in all foams. and i know the two years ago there was an explosion that was so loud all windows. up at a venue knows what can happen with or without a fence thanks i don't take offense well hell i could just drive through it if they wanted to heavy a load is to. put us a little with 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 thanks. our last port of call is bill meus with the way he has capital. it's

a beautiful city. the sort that wasn't planned but instead grew naturally so a person can get lost in it winding streets. building us is a bastion of catholicism this monument was blown up by soviets but once the occupation ended with the way to rebuilt it funny old man in best you have the best view overbill me is from up here on the hill of three crosses 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. i mean it's been mill year 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 the stones could talk we'd be back in the middle ages. the summit she that was here in the fifteenth century and you know that twentieth century enjoined us of

the church and the swans were taken away and they respond different types of don't things that you know like stairs like enjoy a house where people where you know every day 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 by those whom i'm literally like this. actually i've got the impression that the like many people like lord of the koran for example he has an influence he was not so much interested in his roots fall for many years but some hold for 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 come to the scene. though the many people from bloomberg family they're more interested than him so if you will focus them move like intensive love bug books but he knows about that than i think he will find some opportunity to come to syria 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 a one hundred years you can see these people you know they're smiling they're had you know you can see that you know there was a glorious five that will 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 a. villain has used to be called the jerusalem of the north. back then we were two hundred fifty thousand people given all the cream almost

every second president of failures was jewish. but we had one hundred synagogues. now where only two thousand five hundred people. just suppose even if we all come together today the ten thousand seat arena would still be practically empty. because. it was that well with the machine. 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 debbie the record says bagels actually originated in lithuania. the notion of how you know really wild life was like i did did you come because of the bagels or do you want to learn about them and just love the i'll use it in the till i still have it let me get you some gloves she showed them out of bagel was

invented in the sixteenth century in the grand duchy of lithuania which belonged to poland back then the jews allow jews to sell bread which was the main food for both christians and jews bought there was a conspiracy and church authorities claimed that bagels were poisoned bread he never saw them at the low in his was so to scotch that evil room we began boiling our bread first the one that. i supposed to follow decision this was good yes this is good doing the show up but that was your first it was a bit shit but then if that was the on this album. but you missed it i think shortly you up the big way he didn't appreciate what. it is there for the better to see the shit that's. the way.

the ship should. revert you boil the bagels and then you bake them what is the capital good didn't they of course you have to bake them that's how they get to be so good everything in jewish cuisine is made with a lot of soul like this is it type lexers come amity let's show him the good shit ration. to calculus when granny used to bake should close all the windows much to my grandmother did that too i wasn't even allowed to come into the kitchen so good luck to me my going to the kids until i just want you to sit. it ends at the see the tiniest drops can make them collapse i wasn't allowed into the kitchen in the 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 burned offices yes

they're all members of jewish families that originally came from lithuania which. is about sixty you think monocular vacant looks nice to see this but this for. sure they don't write about it so i think you look like barbara streisand was shaking. when she. says. harrison ford amos oz barbra streisand bob dylan and the dean gordimer all have lithuanian roots in the backgrounds he didn't even come to the floor of the house i'm not sure he seemed to buy the snake in the films but even if you could just automatically see this is new to him i need to in the morning and want to hear more when you think oh yeah. i'm meets 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 things from my mother her friend on the first

generation cousin someone living you know not that far you know away and also people over how you know their last names i knew their last names for example never known who did actually our first one 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 who are just following also and you have to listen to me here fascinating songs on how people you know write like that you know how you know birds and all over the water. and you know there's trouble a lot of hungry all the people they meet you know. often relatives i think it's 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 that there's a generation that holds its future in its own hands. international talk show before journalists discuss the topic of the week. is not is so necessary as today nor so endangered says french president. will his vision for a new european renaissance to mobilize support for the. that's our topic today on.

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