are moving between july, you know, like a bamboo swinging in the wind, but not really lean on one side or the out there in practice, that means the country accepts security assistance including votes from the us, its former war time. so, but the, and i'm also regularly conducts joint patrols with china close to their common border but unlike the philippines, vietnam says it would not accept a foreign military presence on its soil, or be part of the military alliance. good now has been trying to walk a really fine line. they used to be upon a z z or political struggle between the soviet union and china and the other states . and it was caught up really badly, a meetings, a cold war. and i don't think we used to be them is literacy one to really relieve that, that the experience any more china shows no signs of backing down

the philippines and vietnam have different strategies in dealing with beijing. the future of the us, china rivalry will also shape the south china sea disputes and how the countries in the region will navigate these travel waters. the so shock disaster and inside the and tara, he's robust, clean the room. i'm even though the very last moment we thought they'd reach an agreement, that's typically hard and nothing bad would happen in your brain as a joke. busy trista, i got a call from a friend at 6 am saying, tonight, russia attacked your father's homeland. so my 1st thought was good. and uh not any more of the swell table not experienced.

let's go to the 24th of february 2022. got them 2 hours later, i was outside the embassy of the russian federation with the plank count that said, stop the war. why no gravy. so it's becomes northeast and all the compo sends we own and very soon that optical leaps to do some to, to kind of rushes. invasion of ukraine has left live via is russian speaking minority, emotionally profoundly torn up the 1900000 people in e, u. and nato member lafayette, one and 4 have russian roots, the invasion, reawakened old fears and prejudices, as well as growing hostility towards ethnic russians associated with the former soviet occupiers, the

following, it's annexation of latvia. in the 1940s, the soviet union encouraged russian migration in order to speed up industrialization and the country lat, via re gained independence in 1991. but relations between the russians, speaking minority and loudly and majority have been increasingly strange. the, the standard slots grew up in a typical soviet era housing estates. the russian invasion has brought untold suffering to ukraine and has had an indirect impact on the russian speaking minority. in lafayette, we want to just go through, but i know from the the 24th of february 2022 means above all, deep disappointments. thing with the cult of the courageous russian people. in the bravery i associated with my russian routes, they put on the rest of that fall and i had,

has i hope now being destroyed for handling a lot. and i'm just missing that as an ocean at the gl. uh, more than an hour, which is good when i had to recognize that the coverage i had believed in was just an illusion. after a long period of being a reflection, i concluded that i am left the end of russian to send to the post the let the shortest couple of days, cuz then you use the default of a pro. some you never gave any thought to who i was until i got older and realize there was a late fee and majority society, which russian speak is like may will not console just for a lot to be. so yeah, it was cuz i went in, came the doubts about my identity of approval and my russian. should i go to russia at the boy? am i actually live in? yeah, that's what i see. perhaps a russian speaking land fee in minneapolis can go, but actually let this goes to move this to us just we have symbol at you of my friends in the that we know such questions. when i was younger,

we'd go to the made the 9th celebrations when schools were closed. them at home, we watched russian tv in new old, the russian celebrities, the rules. we had no idea about lab fee and culture. we were living in a bubble wheel. uh that goes really slow, you know? because they do the freaking out. i see what could i iananda? no clock. those will really changing even before the russian invasion of ukraine. look on yours, but they weren't as pronounced on the moon. your costs are still go for the bush. the world was a trigger, the feeling of symbols. and by then there was this, the negative attitude towards anything russian, russian identity and nationality or whatever with, with silk. but what it feels as if every single russian is automatically considered bad or evil. so it will square the blue with duck woke up with and that's why usually you get the good because i don't want to lease in with me for the don't see

any controls yet to to do it. reno was born and bred in latvia. her mother, a 2nd world war veteran move to lab, be after the war in search of a better life. there. many russians speakers have fond memories of when latvia was part of the soviet union until its sudden collapse changed everything. now kind of giving us what was it like in 1991 and you know, yeah, for me i remember when they took said independence. the now let me show mostly made what was happening in this. it was a fact. so there's not much you can say shows that i'm ready. so that's what this is. so nothing changed left remained the same. so you look up when you put me, nothing changed. of course things changed. i lost my job because my university was close down in 91. no, not really. yes. right off to independence. maybe some sort of equity. my was

finishing up with a very serious couple me in life. and the soviet era was very good, even though steve, but then came the ninety's when everything was turned upside down, you view on the post, the keep, you know, they've been moments when we didn't know how we were going to survive and how we were supposed to behave with duckworth on the 6th of september 1991, the soviet union formerly recognized black v as declaration of independence before itself becoming history a few months later, following the final stages of its collapse the prior to the events of the early 19 ninety's version to soviet rule had led to the emergence of a new national awakening movement, and a peaceful struggle to regain independence. on the 23rd of august 1989 over

2000000 people in estonia, latvia and lithuania, formed a 650 kilometer long human chain connecting the country's capitals. on the 50th anniversary of the hitler, stalin, non aggression pact which had divided north eastern europe into german and soviets spears of influence. a demonstration of solidarity and to call for freedom and independence from the soviet union. i'll be in the nor lily. it was one of the popular friends biggest protest events. oboski serge, it's as simple to play also includes the idea of a return to europe in all all the way towards nato membership on the heads of a balding stage, which is why the baltic way no longer belongs to our people. tom sondra calling, it was a key figure in the movement and a leading member of the popular front of lafayette, a political group committed to latvian independence, that she's now

a member of the european parliament. it's not the same cotton. no, i think i remember exactly when i had my personal awakening for you to source the. it was the 14th of june, 1987 when the helsinki, 86 movement called on people to leave flowers by the freedom monument expanding in remembrance of the large scale deportations on the 14th of june. 1941 who got the the, the but i didn't have the courage to do it. despite 3 of my grand parents subsequently dying, my parents being deported and die myself being born in their symbols on fish, dogs. and it was then that i experienced a profound change. i've got a cool positive stand in the wake of the hitler, stalin packed, also known as the muller top ribbon. trump packed the soviet union, occupied latvia in 1940 and deported tens of thousands of innocent people,

decided syria, several 1000 kilometers east, taken away from their homeland. and in many cases, their very lives taken away. the will to be the the, the war began in 1941. so they did. ortiz faced and extreme struggle to survive being foxes because of the guns they were left with practically no food, a mom or father loved defense to look at medicament missing office. ma'am, to my mother always dropped off on an uninhabited island ex, together with $200.00 other people. underneath it, they had to dig their own earth huts, housing, and somehow find something to eat. the 3 so events in ukraine are bringing all of that back up the, the not own fear of history repeating itself. miles come off to the cock, a fear that is very strong. give me the

system very, to slowly. the beads look good. i love being russian rider money, no cost. and yet scott was one of the co founders of the popular front of latvia along side. so i ended up calling you to and one of its most active members, even of kimberly email to do both of the in the kremlin parliamentarians from lithuania, lunch via estonia, fortunately demanded that the mother, tough ribbon, trump packed and secret protocols declared no and void, said yet you will bring it to the stage reminds practically paced the way for the independence of the baltic states who affords me similar to both. this gives police for me to come to best buy's fish on the 4th of may. 1990 is a very special day in my life and my new and i think for

a lot of other lesbians to auto sawgrass mills. and there was this wave of joy and happiness on the streets of, of the political hill. it was not to be adopted. our declaration of independence is declared. i'll say yes, soon, what you will and nobody i was on the barricade all night. if it got there everywhere i went. i could hear a lot of people speaking russian move to the there were widespread fears that moscow might respond to the declaration of independence with the military invasion and re occupation following attacks on rica by a lead soviet units in january 1991, the latvian government called on the population to erect barricades for protection at the blue. you just, it was the only time when we stood shoulder to shoulder and join tends to go to school. there were lots of russians, manning the barricades,

but they were betrayed. they will offer to stand with us and they will promise citizenship and all other privileges. and people believed that lou, that's when the division happened, that was still paying for today, but it didn't work as live via became an independent state. everyone would move there since 1940, and their families were denied citizenship and the right to vote almost a 3rd of the population. it would be many years until they were able to become citizens in the country of their birth the as well. so it's important to look back at history, luckily, because the 1st major step taken by lot via was to re establish the community of lucky and citizens as it was in 1940 the cause of meeting, the inclusion of all lot fee and citizens, and their descendants went to bed stage door, they do, but in that included, many minorities russians pull his gun juice and others got

a but a one take. the next step was the low lang down clear rules for becoming a locked in citizens like cool guy. this little cock of this bar blue with a lot of these bill. so you'll see it essentially required 3 things, you know, speaking the language of and understanding the country's history and swearing allegiance and loyalty to the state governors. that could be of why did a section of the russian minority choose not to apply for citizenship. is, is you'll have to ask them yourself, been blocked with go. so america say all about is because of the, all the venue with this is from the outset. the laptop and one to the official language to be that fee and money. or you may have this idea of all the russian schools now teaching classes and that fee and still back then in the ninety's. nobody dad to push the issue. it was simply too dangerous to give us a good looking to book a music costa will as there's come up us with the

since the turn of the millennium, the authorities have been gradually increasing the proportion of latvian language classes at minority schools. leading to repeated protests from the russian community. as of the 20252026 school year old children are set to be taught exclusively in latvia and the shame. fuck i assure you missed it, but that most of the pads we've only just begun the transitional phase. so i mean there's still difficulties us to throughout the course. children initially have a bilingual language curriculum, and from 5 grade it's all at the end to coordinate that we're gradually getting used to it. but so far the transition isn't without its problems. see me,

it's and i've got some parents find it annoying. well, for others, it's not a big deal here and was putting your mind there adapting to the new situation and helping their children do that to you to build forward assignments on the piano of support. uh, to pushes to thoughts doesn't know that i know some families who is saying we're going to leave because we want our kids to preserve the russian language. we want them to be told the name of the time music, you know, putting the money on my boss. he's like, yeah, i know. so you processed in the national languages, right. size they did should have happened sooner. costa but a bulging russian is. the 2nd language in schools is expensive. um and you said would be nice for them to be able to study the language that they speak at home i believe which are 26 i can put them in. if i could talk kind of divided with them a little bit because they are still behind me and my goodness would be great if

they could talk about the books that the parents are giving them to read it. and if they aren't, then it would be the only way of guessing to know the insight that the total that they just said was more of a staples and acquirements the democrats to send. the apple started down the reserve. the national identity is more of the job of families than of the schools. that's i don't think the children will suffer that much. well, it's not being able to study their mother tongue at state schools, holidays in the spring. you might, those funding is still probably find other options for doing that. austin, the score a little smaller because if they show, if they feel that strongly about it would look i'm losing them was a decimal with this which has because if the show us the whole, vince is a romanian member of the european parliament and president of an umbrella

organization that advocates for national minorities and regional languages on the continent. the human rights court said that basically locked up was rights when they tried to stop the russian language education in, in the, in the schools and to close down to the restaurant schools. because the role of the, or the obligation of the state is only to offer education and public education a not in one language unfortunately. so use the vote on ukraine. there is a stigma on, on, on the russians. and yes, there are problems. certainly there is a russian profile, gotten the money police are not even individuals from the community who have a $2.00 tied to relation uh with their i signed out on the one i sent you for this month. we are speaking about individuals and you should speak about the community here and then the community is the support. it's a hor,

it's fine sending for everybody, but the shark media states i'm supporting you even though and, and i making sure you will have your school. you will have your, maybe i, in the minority language, you will have you keep your cards for the institutions that song live via has accuse russia of using language and culture to so discord and conflict. meanwhile, the war in ukraine has seen memories of the 2nd world war, deepening the divide into piety, and less the russian minority struggling to reconcile its identity with loyalty to lafayette. nama extended time. do you remember when we went to the memorial on the 9th of may begin the slopes? do you remember when the kids came to congratulate you and give you flowers to be restored? she gets a good to enjoy that. didn't you know that it was to be that there the official, the name of the war. a vine. you're,

i'm just not sure you seem here. so nonsense may was the most important holiday in our family. seem here a safe way for me because my mother served in the will through through june, but almost with the 5 minutes a day when we remember, for soldiers who gave their lives defending latvia. and the other player allows you to show you the game is the so loosely easy for decades during the soviet era victory parking riga hosted annual celebrations on the 9th of may. but while for some, the day marked victory and the great patriotic war over nazi germany for others, that was the beginning of an occupation that mind. we came here on the 9th of may. my grandma said these are the songs we used to sing back then up. the 9th of may has become so politicized. but i don't go to the celebrations anymore. what did i feel? so i was just being herded alone to show that 35000 people had gathered that that was only for them to say this has been use it. you ation with the okay, what we did here in 2022. the lab being government now declared the 9th of may

a day of remembrance for the victims of the war and ukraine started by russia 3 months earlier. it called on people to refrain from laying flowers at memorials, which it said glorified the soviet occupation. many still that their flowers were removed the very next morning, instead of previously several days afterwards, prompting out rage and some people to come back and lay more flowers the next day. that you end up shipping a love of a slightly. why would people even allowed to lay flowers in a time of war and such attention? according to police, they are allowed then removing the flowers. the next day is a direct attack on the russian speaking population. what i swore it was a signal of the government's relationship with them, at least it'll still go right. ask you a lot to be. and if i could, and you mean what kinds of a plusher administrating your can you or some of the flower layers expressed pro russian sentiment that i see. yes. you're right. that's pretty vers throw. not

simple. my god. yeah, i'm giving you the new york. we're on the do you want to put my guys you want? oh no problem on guys you do you want the new model? we're just starting. you put that move on you for. she's good. you know what you do you, you might get, but i've done zillow's go see any it was i spinning nickel we. we never cared about the victory memorial if it hadn't been instrumental ice by moscow. lucky's cream to create a vision and not be as russian community now. and then i'll take the thought out this to this, you appear to me. nobody used to go there in the 1st few years after independence of you know, putting, i'm not after coupon came to power and started reviving this old colt. the place gradually became this huge and extremely distasteful stage for rallies from the dog mills and sold to our dignity. newark. and they put the into our state to be satisfied and almost busty. and you know, besides, basically it's

a symbol of colonial rule bio to say the colonial. i lost a lot of singles here in august 2022. the obelisk in the heart of victory park was torn down of the the most just the court and set up a mr. this is where the monument deliberations every guy used to be a real loan of contention between the latvians and russians. yeah. for numa, i understand the russians to whom the 2nd world war is a wounds that never heal if an inbuilt memory passed on from generation to generation religion. yes, it's a good, good fun. i also understand the lesbians to whom the liberation of rico from the

german occupies did not mean liberation from all the pious it was getting near the good or the work of cook to go with you all. most is. we also have deliberate ourselves visually from these memories of the most trying times in our history. the last today you will get will that the when you, when you mom for a long time, i couldn't understand why there was so much antagonism on that day. yeah. postpone with the peninsula when i started giving it most tools, i did understand the lack fans why this celebration was so alien to them. but then with this just give a local body because of the occupation and then the deportations to siberia and other things. so they, so i emphasize to sort of that to the,

we would like to create a uniform europe there. everybody can enjoy at least some standard, some on minority rights. and the has a lots of discussions with sounds like on youth and other friends from the baltic states, no the reserves, but they, they supported the this initiative to the fact that so many minorities can cool, ave tates in a peaceful and constructive way like our minorities are doing here in law to yeah, i think that is something which could be of great use for those members states who are not experiencing probably for the 1st time. there's a real difficulties of integration. if there's not other states who has to say, oh, i did everything for my minorities, they, they're not ok. no, as the minority,

if they are happy with the situation they are living in the field watching through, it's become really difficult for russians here. but it's difficult to see yourself as representing a nation, that is the aggressor who to acknowledge the blame. well, also preserving your own sense of dignity. it's difficult to accept and understand all of that. today i'm a shame to be russian, but will never renounce my russian roots cutting me. know if someone asks me what nationality i am. i'll say i'm a lot to be in a tree at

a russian defense junior college. and just a lot of people now have a very black and white view of thing. and you know, the, that's understandable. given that there's a war going on not far away. the last the ends of finding it difficult to distinguish russian russians from russian speakers in lot. seattle is that i send to understand that 30 years of independence might seem like a brief moment, but he's in fact a pretty long time watching kind of with the competitors, with the company. i'm gonna send it in. you have to click on what the key. so when you see a little skew, we're not the same russians, we are lapse. the russians who show that the people have incorporated a lot of politics, the rest of the culture and a lot of like the nationality. because i sure the identity of lab, the as russians speaking minority is changing, especially in the wake of the war and ukraine. the key question for the country now is whether society will put the shadow of the soviet legacy behind it and overcome any remaining differences. i would say that i still believe that the majority of

the lottery is russian speaking. good citizens, they are loyal to luxury, but there are those who still are under the influence of what is profound. and let's say on take social ideas, the perfect you. okay. bye to, to both lab fee ends and russians and have noticed how any conflict between us is becoming less of an issue with each new generation. the ups of nights, i mean, she mentions custom for kind of in the near 20 or 30 years time. yeah. i don't think it will be a problem anymore and, but i sort of still some already moved just disappear of the time, cutting switches, felicia from them. but you, elizabeth, i would love to see society moving closer together. i move full friendship between peoples. i'd love to be friends with

a lot of it and i really hope that happens. i love life feelings and last year. yeah. for us to do a new generation has grown up over the last 30 years. so i firmly believe that they and i young lot to be in speaking russian generation, will find a way of getting along with each other and sort of plan that we in the older generation will consign all historical different says to the part story. the suit is story to the

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