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lose you cherry warner, colina. oh huh. a ukrainian folks are in 1914 has to come to new protest anthem and ukraine. it tells of the ukrainian military unit that fought against czarist russia in world war one. ah, a marquis, a with the wave of patriotism has brought ukrainians together footing

a powerful sense of determination in the face of russia's invasion. national sentiments also growing in other posts of the at states. culture and language play key role here. singer songwriter, jerry hale and wrapper, a loaner, a loaner travel to berlin at the end of june to give a concert for their homeland even before the war. the pairs sang exclusively in ukrainian. boy with a thing in my own language, just natural worth. it petri audit by it just natural. it is just like elemental mean ukrainian if your brain in your, in your brain, you speak ukrainian, you st. ukrainian with russian president vladimir putin denying ukraine statehood. the issue of language has become hugely political. it's considered

a key component to national identity. so ukraine is fighting back on this front to banning some russian music. russian musicians who don't explicitly condemn the war can no longer perform in ukraine or have their music played on the radio. a decision that jerry hale and a loaner and now now support i have the lease and them and be with them an interest in that they are. * volunteer, why are they not so nice to me? not friendly to me to listen to their music. a painful excavator, she rosky publishing their vladimir dantes grew up speaking mostly russian and rose to feign with russian language songs. now he is trying to write ukrainian there as well and more true, tara, no, others have continues singing in russian face criticism. oh, people are always pointing people like me for example, who still has rational language. busy songs in my in my least,

ah, hello, my name is one book. i'm a musician. you great. even dorn is one of ukraine's most successful pop stars is mix of house disco, jazz and funk has broad appeal and also includes many russian numbers. ah, even dorn is not affected by the law banning russian music, he's the ukrainian citizen and clearly opposes the war. but he's still not ready to switch languages. mom performing. ready marshlin sauce, i don't want to get rid of them, doesn't matter. which language is it because i'm full of ukrainian mentality and dna, russian culture and the story, the new city, the music could a lot of us. ready i heard in the, in the child who the anguish i'm hearing every,

every day it. busy all printing the dna in my, in my music, grinding noise, mainly it aimed at russian artists who take post inclusions, public and anything with my tea and publishing that paulina gardena had older events and ukraine cancelled immediately. we needed long so 10 years ago musical station ukraine was very, very sharply. ready russia with the grand a lead wish. ready it was really a really problem to get to. ready right, and our next trip, or to know he's considered iraq legend and a pioneer of ukraine in music. a

. even back in the soviet era, he wrote his songs in ukrainian. and in 1986, he formed the country's 1st rock band. in 2021. he and his son hosty and recorded a patriotic boy scout song that was more than a 100 years old when the war broke out. it went by, well let me know some people. busy for russia, russian culture, but. ready russia they changed their mind. ah,

hello, my name is ashley young. i'm before the 24th of february, february, i was a singer or crated director of a political party. democratic now, on medic, if you see me on the streets and the piece time to you never said that i is someone who can be identified that resume should always ah, i train my soldiers, my guys and girls on well just huh. and pray that they will be enough goods not to be wanted. oh anastasia, a woo veteran in the don bus region performs under the name statistic. has songs

blend techno with traditional ukrainian folk music. oh, no, we get our unique national identity, but it, well, it's not new. you won, which huge history and huge culture we held before and how much it was totally destroyed by now it's only showing at uni, i mean by but by your i share age is by i just, it's not being used, corey. ah, well, try to get back. i'm not bringing my good bush,

little guy in the bus with you guys, then you would you, would you this way? wouldn't in the missile distance, fortune is ridiculous because like, you know, ukraine and russia are the countries been created in the same year in 1991. so like if russia exists, it means that you, grain, oh, ukraine's buddhist internationally recognized. so do ordinary russian supports patients, narrative, hello, gus and them fennel. i met with joseph horse and 20. let me put the sale you. a quick introduction will be stopping as russians if they think that ukraine is so that a state i and i person to fee that of course it's sort of in state, you know, in the ninety's ration as a well soviet conference. i believe they signed on the agreement that the board there's are, is it these right? no, i do you believe ukraine is

a sovereign state? oh yes. they have their own constitution, their own symbols of power, the so it's an independent state. it's not up to one person to decide. yet, boomers, i don't think expanding our board as will serve our country well. known was not so good on youth. especially not when it comes to regions that many would like to see as part of the russian federation. which so many people have family ties and friends there for the past 70 years. we've been so closely tied and now we're just cutting everything off and, and saying we no longer know each other. with over 3 decades ago, some 2000000 people took to the streets in former soviet countries to demand independence. in august 1989 protestors in estonia, lithuania and latvia formed

a human chain stretching over 600 kilometers. it was dubbed the baltic way. since then, questions of national identity have been central in the baltic states to russia's war and ukraine has reopened old wounds. in latvia, an age old conflict has resurfaced between the countries ethnic russian minority and the lat. be a majority. i'm david romanovs ski. i have polish roots and i'm on my way to the latvian capital rica. i want to find out what defines latvian identity today after more than 30 years of independence. and what impact the ukraine war has had a a with

ah, my name is autumn, fall through. i focused on to qualify for aka i'm interested in latvia, latin history, latin intensity, in kind of things that you know, i feel related to the things i love and hate on the same time. so i missed my country's, my and my and so as for my artistic, artistic breakfast, think of the latin nation entities pretty much based from the suffering youth that recent past and of soviet path is kind of very significant elements. course always we being seeing ourselves as victims. this is missouri, the patients. this is the all part. and then that isn't you bought. it symbolizes

that. we can get rid of all history. instead of like, you know, let's have another page now history, let's, let's leave it, let's forget it. you know, movable. the like, why brides, you know, a new likes car. you know, hey, we want to keep suffering. we want to keep talking about our pain. you know, i'm familiar with this kind of past from poland, this collective trauma. in latvia, it still shapes relations with russia and with lat, be as russian speaking minority which make up a quarter of the population. the soviet era victory monument was one focal point for tensions ethnic russians used to gather here to commemorate soldiers who fought against nazi germany in the 2nd world war. in august 2022, the latvian government had demolished and protest over the ukraine war for years are nice bow shoots, documented the russian commemorations that took place here. ah, that was not for demolishing because i don't think that change is anything but

linda, what is the ukraine start? if we tell that this is our enemy and on the monument and i've help okay, let's just do it in our spontaneously. let's go there, demolish. it was our hands, you know, like berlin wall it, this is, oh my be way of like relieving some kind of dis, whatever pain or suffering that we have jalap day and neither. i should have said i was going to drop by and thanks show that i the i think i think it's a bit different with young people because i think that i don't think in these kind of categories and all that fans, russian, soul, whatever else i was like let me can i not even look on the stakes. this is ashley. why like i'm on. deuce young people, most of the ones that i take pictures of the day i'm kind of free. i'd be there on

the eve. maybe they are more of like natural is because they are not yet part of the system with in both young and old are now taking to the streets to protest rushes war in ukraine. i'm wondering what this all means for the russian speaking minority in latvia. both of them maybe don't feel very comfortable. i'm not talking about the signal so cult 5th colony that they always felt ok. they live in a brown country talk about kind of reasonable like russians. natasha. they've been seen as a kind of local enemy in a way, and they have to pull once again themselves. okay. you know, we are, we're not,

we don't agree was put in all the way we want this to be the independent states. so our russian latvians feeling the pressure i decide to visit the russian theater enrica, to find out more. mm hm. martian brochure i, my name is maxine bosom. i come from reger in latvia, and i work as an actor in theater and television for yucca little school, which is a russian speaking person in latvia. i've always felt that i have to make more of an effort to own people's attention and respect to remind you of him. when the war started, he broke off all his theater commitments in russia. okay. victors are looking to have some corner. there's a double stand and, and there are 2 sides to everything. certainly not. on the one hand, our country has not sought to integrate russian speakers into latvian culture. but on the other, many russian speak is in our country, have themselves failed to integrate for many years or per song. or could i'm

talking about people who think that ukraine is bombing itself out. people who think that russia is a great power and does everything right? 0. so that's really what these people think. i'm ninfa chaverra with global la floor. it's difficult globally because our society is divided nealus. that's why we're seeing these radical measures to cut off everything associated with russian politics as much as possible. so we can finally move forward to serving us, but it's most complicated for people who are in the public eye because some way constantly being asked to express an opinion. and thankfully, or my opinion is, is of just said if i can browse for books of history for gretel b, whether russian or latvian speaking, the vast majority of the population is strongly opposed to the war and ukraine. could this create a new collective sense of national identity among lack v as young people?

patriotism also has a dog site. in the serbian city of navisites residence awoke one morning to find a number of house facades painted in the colors of the national flag. who was behind it, and what did it mean? lou village, i grew up in the leman neighbourhood of novi, sad through the 2nd largest city in serbia. it's a manly middle class and upper class neighborhood at leim and as close to the city center through the university is here easily. and the river danube yard. some lane . ugh, i'm nina, acrobat. i'm 21 years old and studying journalism, i've spent my entire life in layman valley madison rosella taps, where she uh huh.

we met him and has always been known friends, open culture punk and rock'n'roll and good fruits, graffiti cut the woods at the when you look at the names in the mail, but this is in the apartment plot. if you'll soon notice that it's a multi national neighborhood already quite multi, not good . they bought it. when you get savvy, it slaps. so politics became central in our lives. you are not at the new authorities brought nationalism into this multi ethnic setting them law due to the governing. you ha, she controls all aspects of life off pressuring every one in one way or another. you talk with been that way through 30 years with

islands, sebastian. mm hm. and then the unsinkable happened right here in my neighborhood to mass please and local elections. the residents of lima didn't vote for the governing party. they voted for independent candidates from the neighbourhood. dark launched, yet, most of them women between them. janet the vulgar epilepsy because our society is so politicized. we are aware that party members don't act in the interests of the people. or it's certainly not guaranteed that instead they serve the agenda of their political party. but that's why we have so many problems and corruption, it could, i, would, i rather to part the governing heart. he couldn't let that stand and decided to

punish us using the tools i know best thought nationalism mccoy. so all the key cavity matina, lisa dot com over night, lima was painted in the colors of the serbian flag. or this is really, it was done by the people who lost the election to show us whose boss around here when it was from out there have done better to set up a few trash cans. instead even we have none here any more said the but the summers that i will change, the order of the color is and add a symbol. it may be a heart that it so that would remind me of the past of the days of yugoslavia. none more, but a man are you with slab hearing this said the noise austin, when the worst thing about these flags was that they're trying to enforce patriotism. it's desecrating the city. what can you say either which wall nation, honestly i think president booted did this because we didn't vote for him or me.

they juno, new glossy. and that must mean we're not serbians. if we don't vote for him called the municipal should of the are call glosson isn't your i haven't noticed the flag regular. there's one right behind you. oh, will justice dash, it was pretty scary because it gives you a feeling of helplessness tie off it. you know, it's a demonstration of the howard that says, or we can do whatever we want to. you probably can paint a flag over your face whether we can spit in your face, thought to me, this is the problem. and this is the general mode in our society to again art my federal national sylvester, back on the pseudo valley on after that teenagers were brought from other parts of the city to protest on the main street down to intimidate us. we mantis from the people of lemon responded

by adding red stars to the flags that turned the serbian flies into yugoslavian won the albert florence nguyen with some one graffiti word to crying nationalism. yet the next one activists went further, right in the names of unresolved state scandals on the flags iroquois that double blast for the sum be. so knock this affair letter. i wrote the names of the scandals in broad daylight. so because i didn't want to be like them go hiding in the night, jamal group or bill and on. and i think truth is the greatest form of patriotism up and burn. i rich, but there is a misty was that a steamer moist brand, but hello everyone. yes, i'm brian brockovich is good. i'm a civil rights activist fighting for the common good. what is those an act goldstein, fitness bob or nick? this analogy, well, we're shoulders. this place here is called shaudra us. well, morgan garage,

anyone all saw the many people see it as the grain long of novi. sad was of course of as, as all a god, the platform where camping he had to protest look sad because they want to shut down this forest. ology more. he spoke jagger. com. where more to it. they want to cover this entire area. some concrete, shlomo e, double donita, fuji model flock. jenny gust, ronald blace. i've been called the surveyed armika, a croatian mercenary mac, and a traitor to the country of june. it was 3rd she. they claimed that i have millions in my bank accounts, which isn't true problem, bro. yet for the nationalists, i become public enemy number one are not soon alone, but i did any. i think the russian influence in serbia is pretty strong because we are russia supports the nationalist policy here. anyone who tries to address a real problem get stigmatized, dynamic would be, we'd pick up. i've encountered real difficulties below below problem osbee. bottom it thought kirk is through the red stars were painted, i fancy our bits,

but once again, the police didn't intervene. it's a good although the whole thing was captured on surveillance cameras. after that, they put stickers with opposition, party slogans at the entrances to our buildings, to denounce as sako bellas. jacko. sympathies there any who if bleached kick brought in is i think that i also changed the name of the main street in li, manually billy to radical melodic boulevard library. he's a convicted war, criminal general grappling, locked in, owned and then someone to painted hearts on the flags. it's not clear who or which side painted the hearts. the fights of a national symbols in navisites continues. sh. oh

oh. we return now to ukraine several years ago, an artist embarked on a journey across the country to see if you could spot any changes as he headed east . he wanted to find out what unites you, crane, and its people will work for an artist 2 based in give you credit. so i started from graffiti a very important part of my development. nearly in the late nineties, i was born in the west in western ukraine in their mining town on the rocks on the pollution. so the border in 1979. ah,

i brought a piece of gold from my area and i brought it like by you walk by feet or 2 of us, you know, it worked for $1000.00 plus to see took with me one month with the western new queen was under the australian buyer before i was under the books and then if you are slowly walked to the area we, she was part of the empire. you immediately know to some cultural tradition that said, oh i basically, at the same time you not his no changes. ah,

august. heritage is in way more powerful away more powerful it any narratives on ukrainian territory before. so like in the west wing, the east you just realized that you're in the pacific country. so is ukrainian identity still shaped by the days of a soviet union? those of us me off noted that although the architecture changed, the people's mindset remained the same across the country. or look simply, i felt like i went to if i went back home, i'd been bust is because nobody knows that the people thing like old don't boss is broke. busy russian whatever, and west desert mo, like west, more similar to europe. no. at the entire embassies or european project, this industry was in the 1st place, created by the western business like by the belgium, by french, by english capital to ukraine. yes. are different to russians because they are european i,

we like deeply believed that we are part of europe. it's our, like a heritage. so he was with us with white people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. warner i for these correct only is we let administrative people mean extreme ross getting 200 people from the june around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge as to

why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d w. made for mines ah, this week and world stories the bloody drug war in the philippines. germany's humboldt forum opens up to the public. we begin in ukraine where residents are rejoicing after taking back control of russian occupied territories. but they're also report.