more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images seen from the streets and can actually. change before ations rule today. five thirty pm in moscow the zero g. headlines the world's top terrorist is down the u.s. president confirms osama bin ladin has been killed in a special operation but questions are already being asked over who initially supported the world's most wanted terrorist. libyan state television shows the bodies of colonel gadhafi son and grandchildren killed in the nato bombing in tripoli are raised government supporters respond by storming western embassies forcing the u.n. to withdraw its staff from the capital. and with nuclear safety again in the

spotlight following events at fukushima any anniversary of chernobyl russian power planes introduce a new levels of safety precautions to avoid disasters repeat. up next a series of reports looking at what happened to the former republics of the soviet union after gaining independence twenty years ago. kiev the capital of ukraine this square is called the my dam the hub of all political upheaval since you claim gained independence in one thousand nine hundred one translated from ukrainian my damn means marketplace here electoral votes are the most popular item on the for many is that each new president coming to power in ukraine against his presidency from stretch. several years ago thousands of people came to the my dam in an attempt to change the course of history during the so-called alright revolution my down has since become a symbol of shattered hopes that many. just was the only

leftover from the revolution is this orange jacket. ukrainian society is split that's the main outcome of the orange revolution among side as the country's pro russian east while in western ukraine hostile attitudes towards the entire soviet era a quite common. for you trying to raise her heroes for you. the race for heroes to fascism noble to fascism. over the twenty years of independence my down square has seen more demonstrations and rallies than some other capitals around that time and straight. from basque is an industrial area ukraine's east twentieth century people used to

come here from all over the city in search of jobs and work status of the coal mines is considered the most prestigious. in soviet times the most in a hundred coal mines and damascus all of them received government subsidies the most distinguished miners received popular acclaim pesticide. i. but you're of the bill when coal miners were regarded as the leader of the workforce they were paid higher wages than everyone else to be received between the seventh in the fourteenth place in terms of income but it's. gone bust real from a host of problems in the wake of the soviet union's collapse in one thousand nine hundred one coal miners did not get paid for months on end. many mines had to be shut down all hopes for a life of fortune after independence rapidly vanished into thin air that.

was the end up the road so when the campaign to privatized enterprises began they shouted from rooftops will put things right the upshot is that only nine percent of private sized enterprises have been shut down and that. this is the knowledge in sky of coal mines it's one of the few surviving enterprises in the bass that employs more than one hundred people each day coal miners looking for ships go down deep beneath the ground. it takes the cage a few minutes to take them to a depth of five hundred fifty five metres. is it possible we'll get trapped here. you know not now we've bypassed a dangerous section it's a bit damp there but that's no problem. time stand still on the ground it is little took the picture of coal miners going to work is roughly the same as it was half a century ago

a three kilometer walk along the tracks welcomes a paradise bed daily extreme reality show. spades and cole hamels with a good tools one shift lasts for six hours the teams job is to fill seven trolleys with coal during that time. this is hard working team especially for an all boys looking at the summer school you might think the job is easy but just try to move it all from one place to another using nothing but a speed look. it's very difficult to find a job with a wage like the one paid to coal miners the price the coal miners pay for that wages as sweat and sometimes. several of sergei shamrocks work mates dying here in two thousand and nine coal miners from all over ukraine came to the mine to help in the search for the holidays. for the recruits like this and passed cool from hand

to hand the use nothing but their hands to remove blockages there was no other option in that situation the job had to be done as quickly as possible their hope was that the miners were still alive but still we lost six men. relatives of the coal miners trapped underground enjoyed a hellish experience in those days of uncertainty of the miners to not quit their jobs even off of an accident they had to support their families in a situation where there were only a few vacancies in town. cool will save ukraine if ukraine saves goldberg. the coal industry was only given due attention after years of my unit nord which is why successive governments and ministers. in two thousand and four the then prime minister victory on a coach who comes from eastern ukraine won the presidential election

a population of gum basket support that compadre it for supporters of his rival and the. plane that the election had been rigged subsequent events in central kiev have gone down in history as the orange revolution the result was the fusion cahow the presidency for five years. because a step joke was a college student at the to. of the orange revolution victor took part in the demo and wrote in the column of the post office situated in the my down square. just a few words there was no empty space here at the time of the revolution where they had written all over it people were everywhere when the revolution was over his column became an open air museum and. he wholeheartedly supported it he and his friends spent several days in the my down tent set up in the square house of them during the night of the time he and many others thought they were making history this is a very large and massive platform a student with

a large poster stood here the square was packed with people and the noise was deafening. you know new music was blaring out of the loudspeakers when you schenkel showed up on the platform the people were so happy they screen throughout a speech or they were inspired by the mere fact of their presence there is this. western ukraine. an outpouring of anti russian sentiment took place here soon after the orange revolution. and there's a restaurant resembling a secret bunker in the center of the ball of such bunkers were used by the nationalists of the so-called ukrainian insurgent army fighting against the red army reserve sign has been replaced with mock ups of wartime submachine guns and pistols waiters wear the uniform of nationalist fighters the menu is in june but the surroundings for instance one of the items is called the everyday life of the vem out and if guests feel like cheating they're free to do so without leaving that tables. the walls of the restaurant feature posters dating back

to world war two they call on ukrainians to join the s.s. going to china division made up of nationalists and fight against soviet troops together with the germans. this information could be displayed in a museum too but it's dull in the museum you come you look you read but you don't. remember much and you can come to a living museum not the mine and become a participant in events. when fashion is just the soviet union in june twenty second and one hundred forty one kring in the town it's enough to go and roll and cross the border together with german troops a week later they paraded through the streets of love of the unofficial capital of western ukraine immediately afterwards a wave of ethnic cleansing swept the city. ukrainian state profer mission the organization of ukrainian nationalists led by stefan bundled up there by proclaims the creation of

a ukrainian state the new state will cooperate closely with greats germany which is imposing its new order in europe under the leadership of the field. that is helping your brain to free itself from soviet occupation. during the asian cup presidency a monument to stoke on sunday arabs unfiled in the fall of the opening ceremony it was described as an outstanding find to signal kremlin independence he's a hero in western ukraine to the country's east and there is a symbol of the ideology of political talent. move many of those banned their supporters when the soviets declared an amnesty they surrendered and their fate was decided in accordance with a new full procedure some were convicted others rehabilitated the fullness of the prison terms unless the forces members of the red on me at the end of the war as a smaller part couldn't have been rehabilitated because that is what elbow high in blood. such

a gay step untrue course thirteen years old when the nationalists entered the village of god himself and the holy region soon afterwards and saw his father and another fifteen villages being brutally murdered their only crime was that they had signed up for membership of soviet collective farms before the war the nationalist regarded them as enemies of ukraine and you believe we are bandits were afraid of stage. an open execution after they threw the farmers into the basement in one of the houses they did as follows the bandits took seats and placed sixteen on roads before than they were hitting the roads in a study of the nationalists who are those people one by one from the basement and burn them with hot iron cut them with knives and strangle them with cords some of the nutshell while they were killing the whole not he'll need. the dead villagers were buried at the local cemetery the nationalist to murdered more than one hundred thousand people in western ukraine during world war two and in the first postwar

years. after the breakup of the soviet union the slums of the ukrainian insurgent army openly the surfaced in the streets this torchlight procession took place in the city of the valve in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. a re for the nation death to enemies or a for the nation to enemies. cultures that so much as i can recall right on it so here it is the donald donald trump he says he may or may not run for the us presidency irrespective of the final answer what does all this trump. will. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realm of russia. we've got the future covered.

cranes crimean peninsula the city of sevastopol this is where russia's black sea fleet is stationed after the breakup of the soviet union russia and ukraine defined it between themselves it plays an important role in the city's economics. dress. be ready just in the middle. this guided missile cruiser the most for is the flagship of russia's black sea fleet. it has a crew of man most of her live on the ship. but this might invest all is more than just a fighting unit that with a new book is not only a battle of units it is our home it provides is good shelter and food and the building we clean it every day we scrub and painted but i think just. as necessity in the crimea is not as much of a burning issue as it is in western ukraine warrant officer viktor plissken off married irina

a ukrainian citizen after they fell in love in sevastopol the sun yevgeny is now eleven months old because wages a sale is eight hundred u.s. dollars which is good money in sevastopol but victor does not buying toys for his son instead he wins them a fairground she calorie. is dealing. with thank you. they go cold it's not quite that is one feeling. let's go. to that but now that's how russian sailors shoot. irina invicta don't get involved in politics they don't take part in rallies or protests they have little to swarm about. it's the politicians of that accrues that

have died as here people are on friendly sounds good no one draws borderlines between the ukrainians and russians that. get out so you think passions in the crimea often run high when nationalists from western ukraine a visit. the city in two thousand and seven the nationalists demanded that russian sailors need the headquarters of the black sea fleet in sevastopol. you fascist modes we live here it's a home we present the renault to hear ourselves. hilti you create a hill to the heroes run shock shock run a shut in see easy come down let's do it quietly. demonstrations by ukrainian nationalists always end the same way the nationalist serous courted to a bus and taken outside the city under police protection. in soviet times sevastopol was off limits to outsiders only locals with special passes were

allowed into it. among them was lydia simeonoff who's a veteran of the soviet black sea fleet. here at the dock at inkerman the ships will paint on ukraine following the division of the soviet black sea fleet. scores of battle ships and submarines was scrapped in a matter of years ukraine could not put them to any use of those ships worth it for further service as a ship is just a ship where there is also a crew on it this crap not just ships but also people souls. social and economic problems first surfaced in the crimea even before the breakup of the soviet union. during the whole band in one thousand nine hundred five the crimea almost lost its revered wine industry under the reign of a pick grapes for thirty seven years in the mid one nine hundred eighty s.

she bore witness to the wanton destruction of excess of crimean vineyards. and you know the cut twenty year old greek finds it very think it's like she has a look. it's pains me very much to see said. great feinstein like count it was devastating it is. later government officials conceded that the prohibition had been a mistake but many people in the crimea still cannot forgive go patrol for it. through a twist of fate it was in the crimea that an attempt was made to topple the soviet president from power in august one thousand nine hundred one. one of man i'll go but child's residence is being built and for us only a few years before those fateful events. but their work with their country house as a secret object was a complete failure take

a look at the place is in full view from all sides as you can see your residence is clearly visible from everywhere because the hills the mountains and so on it seems like gorbachev's resilience had been built here deliberately in order to isolate him which are. k.g.b. colonel leo tolstoy was involved in those events he's a direct descendant of the famous russian writer of the same name. for more than twenty years he served as a bodyguard for every soviet leader coming to the crimea from version of the gorbachev. on august the nineteenth one thousand nine hundred ninety one colonel tolstoy received an order from top k.g.b. officials instructing him to block all exits from the residence both to the mountains and to the sea. for which i was under orders not to look at anyone out what about the president i inquired the reply was that he too was not to be let out

. was completely isolated all communications in t.v. broadcasts were cut. this footage was shown around. the basement of the cellar residence of the child dictates a stinking mess of the summer. and unconstitutional has taken place. meanwhile your volved your of an employee of photos post office was receiving scores of telegrams addressed to mikhail gorbachev they included both official telegrams and telegrams from people all over the country urging him to hold out to the bitter end but it was impossible to pass them on to the soviet leader. we had no idea how the situation would work out in the end whether we would be allowed to go home if we would be arrested

and. no effective measures were taken they simply let things slide. in the end the coup failed and gorbachev return to moscow of the soviet union was already doomed less than six months later needers of former soviet republics meant to establish a new union the commonwealth of independent states. nearly craft took the first president of independent ukraine was among the. kid being an active communist but he. quickly changed his views on your ordeal from william rydberg when you during the soviet years i would often tell you koreans that soon we would live under communism some people responded to my words with a smile others would ask a very naive questions like what is communism suppose i want to have two suits will i be entitled to two suits or only one under communism this means it's unlikely that they believed in communism they were simply pulling my leg or uneasy while it

was. the collapse of the soviet single financial banking systems deprive hundreds of thousands of people of their savings. these are activists of the ukrainian socialist party demonstrating against nato ships entering ukrainian ports they have their own version of what course the break up of the soviet union and the subsequent economic and social problems is that yes the economic model and the system of governance when perfect but that could have been prevented it i love however at the highest echelons of the soviet communist party chose to strike a deal with the west but they wanted the children to inherit the property and it was necessary to dismantle the soviet constitution and reject the soviet system of government just because it looks like that's exactly what's going on in ukraine the media will carry. this is a new form of protest a protest against ukraine's image that has taken shape in the west in recent years

young women from the feminist movement of protesting against sex tourism the scientists kiev central streets and squares the main slogan is ukraine is not a brothel that's mighty few young women from ukraine and both in the sex industry of the european countries many of them believe that if they come here they will be able to get any woman and keeps main street therefore we decided to buy this horrible image of ukraine where not prostitutes and we don't launch other people to see as as such. another famine protested. in my down in central kiev ends in failure the police to not allow famine activists to enter the country's main square for the situation does not degenerate into scandal protest actions are a common occurrence here. the police and passers by unlike have grown tired of the spectacle many of those who gathered at the my down in two thousand and four to support the orange revolution were very much like to forget about it. when you

people started to understand that they became a part of a political game here that the revolution was orchestrated by bialik arcs money was invested in it because those people were friends of using go completely ripped off the country. most of the opponents of the orange revolution world war two veterans kiev victory day may the ninth two thousand and six in a public address president you shimko praises ukrainian nationalists for their service to the ukrainian people red army veterans were deeply insulted six soldiers of the ukrainian insurgent army also fought against the fascist invaders ukrainians have fought in different armies. the presidency was marked by a vigorous campaign to rehabilitate ukrainian nationalists in one of his last decrees he noted what he described as a nationalist leader stepan been there as a service to ukraine. it was slow to hear by award the title of hero of ukraine

to stand and there are. under the crew sparked a wave of protest among supporters of the new president of ukraine viktor yanukovych who took over in january twenty ten a local government deputy burned his passport and sevastopol central square to publicly demonstrate against stepan bandera being awarded hero of ukraine your thoughts for the years earlier i don't regret what i did done at all. there was an inspiring response it was a symbolic event and i think the fact that i burnt my passport was my contribution to the court decision to revoke the cream no matter how tiny that contribution might mean. the first months a victim and a covert his presidency were multiplying yet another event with far reaching implications for the crimea presidency on

a covert agreed that russia's black sea fleet will stay in sevastopol for at least another thirty two years. there is nothing in the crimea no industry no minerals but the russian fleet has been around for two hundred and twenty seven years what is most important is that it inspires us with confidence in the future. a new era is producing new heroes in ukraine in summer twenty ten said geisha move the coal miner from dawn bass was awarded the hero of ukraine's gold star for bringing a raechel dating back to the soviet era in one hundred thirty five a coal mine a coastal town of extracted one hundred ten tons of coal in just one shift in twenty ten so they should move against connell by several towns and settling new records using the same type of coal from a panel produced before and. i simply want to ensure that there is a new generation of coal miners going to want to work they want to mine coal into

a decent life just the way it was in so you can years. on medication a three man team filled one hundred seventy such trolleys with coal after that shift foreman said geisha was given two weeks vacation and then he was back down the line people and on bass like to say that more than anyone else coal miners rejoice in the sunshine especially after a six hour shift five hundred meters on the ground. i'd say you've seen. blue sky the greatest pleasures for miners for well we don't always see the sun because when work night shifts to put you know human sense to fresh air on the surface is good enough. for most people in the city of jesuits quests again lives with his family work in mines all related facilities at thirty seven so gay is one of the youngest people to be awarded the hero of ukraine's gold stop because it's

a hazardous job and miners can become pension as a thirty five percent gay intends to continue for this enormous and face. i still want to work in a coal mine what happens later is anyone's guess life goes on regardless the ship i hope there is a long life ahead of me or my. life in ukraine is gradually returning to normal populist promises of things of the past ukrainians are becoming aware of the fact that that country will have to go a long way before it identifies its own path of development even at the age of twenty this state is still very young.

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