u.s. special forces killed osama bin laden after almost a decade of trying to find him but the terror threat alert remains at an all time high. this is to a friend and leaders that. the international contact group on libya agreed to set up a fund for supporting some of fighting the regime of. moscow has criticized the decision saying taking sides in the conflict goes against the u.n. resolution. and all in place for victory day celebrations in russia thousands of

troops all knowledge across moscow's red square and a final rehearsal before monday's grand military parade. look for now in our special report here out so you will look back at the post soviet history of russian ukrainian relations and why the two countries have such different views of the common past. kiev the capital of ukraine this square is called the my down the pub of old political upheaval since ukraine gained independence in one thousand nine hundred one translated from ukrainian my done means marketplace here electoral votes are the most popular item on for many is that each new president coming to power in ukraine leniencies presidency from stretch. several years ago thousands of people came to the my damp in an attempt to change the course of history during the so-called alright and revolution my down has since become

a symbol of shouted hopes that many. just as the only left over from the revolution is this orange jacket. ukrainian society is split that's the main outcome of the orange revolution among the 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 their road right for you the race for their roads to fascism no to fascism. over the twenty years of independence my down square has seen more demonstrations and rallies in some other capitals around that time in history. and. come back as an industrial area in crane's east twentieth century people used to

come here from all over the soviet union in search of jobs and work states of the coal mining is considered the most prestigious. in soviet times the more than one hundred coal mines in damascus all of them received government subsidies the most distinguished miners receive popular acclaim just the same. i. know if you were covered up at the border when coal miners were regarded as the illegal of the workforce who are they were paid higher wages than everyone else. we see between the seventh in the fourteenth place in terms of income but it. don't bounce real from a host of problems in the wake of the soviet union's collapse indicting large warm 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. wisteria nobody would say when the campaign to privatized enterprises began they shout it from the rooftops will put things right the upshot is that forty nine percent of privatized enterprises have been shut down and found that. this is the knowledge in sky of coal mines it's one of the few surviving enterprises in tom 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 and twenty five from tours. is it possible will get trapped here. no 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 at least 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 welcome to a paradise bed daily extreme reality show. spades and cole hamels with a work tools one shift lasts for six hours the teams job is to fill seven trolleys with coal during that time. this is hard work indeed especially for an all boys who king at the smallest pool you might think the job is easy we just try to move it all from one place to no other using nothing but his speed but. it's very difficult to find a job with a wage like the one paid to coal miners for the price the coal miners pay for their wages isn't sweat and sometimes blood several of sergei sherman's work mates dying to hear in two thousand and nine coal miners from all over ukraine came to the mine to help with the search for that these. recruits like this and past pool 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 did not quit their jobs even often an accident they had to support their families in a situation where there were only a few vacancies in town. or through a cool save ukraine if ukraine saves school or nearly the coal industry was only given due attention after years of wine ignored them with and by successive governments and ministers. in two thousand and four the then prime minister viktor gonna come from eastern ukraine on the presidential election the

population of donbass a supporter that come after it the supporters of his rival victory claim that the election had been rigged subsequent events in central kiev have gone down in history as the orange revolution the result was that you show how the presidency the fighting is. picked up joke was a call. to the time of the orange revolution viktor took part in the demo and wrote in the column of the post office situated in the my down square. footage to fill with 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 but this column became an open air museum. he wholeheartedly support it he and his friends spent several days in the my down ten sets up in the square house of them during the night of the time he and many others thought they were making history this a very large and massive platform quits tuned with orange posters stood here. the

square was packed with people and the noise was deafening. only music was blaring out of the loudspeakers when you schenkel showed up on the platform the people were so happy they scream throughout a speech or they were inspired by the mere fact of their presence there is this. western ukraine love of an outpouring of anti russian sense and took place here soon after the orange revolution. and there's a restaurant resembling a secret bunker in the center of live off such bunkers we 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 with the surroundings for instance one of the items is called the everyday life of them out and if guests feel like shooting their friends or 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 join our division made up of nationalists and fight against soviet troops together with the germans. this information could be displayed in a museum to this doll in the museum you come you look you really. but you don't remember much and you can come to a living museum not the mine and become a participant in the events. when fashion is just the soviet union punching the twenty second one hundred forty one ukrainian battalions to go and roland crossed 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 pro from asia the organization of ukrainian nationalists led by step down bundled up here by pro

clings to creation of a ukrainian state the new state will cooperate closely with grace 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 you should go presidency a monument to step down bundled up was unfolding the fall of the opening ceremony he was described as an outstanding find to figure crane in independence he's a hero in western ukraine for the country's east and there is a symbol of the ideology of political talent. many of those banded are supporters when the soviets declared an amnesty they surrendered and their fate was decided in accordance with a lawful procedure some were convicted others rehabilitated the fullness of the prison terms and later 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. so gazed up unsure of course thirteen years old when the nationalist center of the village of god himself and the saloon region soon afterwards he saw his father and another fifteen villages being come clean murdered their only crime was that they had signed up for membership with soviet collective farms before the war the nationalists regarded them as enemies of ukraine and you pull your band is worth. freighted staging 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 them they were heating the roads in a state of the nationalist court those people one by one from the basement and burn them with hot oil and cut them with knives and strangled them with cords some of the nut shell they were killing the whole months he'll need each. the dead villagers were buried at the local cemetery the nationalists 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 ukrainian insurgent army openly the surfaced in the streets this torchlight procession took place in the city of the gulf in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. a re for the nation death to enemies a raid for the nation to enemy. wealthy british soil samples of. markets finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cause a report on r.t. . fixed for. the fish.

fished. ukraine's 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 divided it between themselves plays an important role in the city's economics. justice. belay just in the middle. of this guided missile cruiser the most for is the flagship of russia's black sea fleet. it has a cruise control on the planet most of her live on the ship. that this mighty vessel is more than just a fighting unit that we're the neutral to where we ship is not only a battle unit it is our home what it provides is we shelter and food. at

all and we clean it every day we scrub unpainted. as necessary in the crimea is not as much of a burning issue as it is in western ukraine warrant officer viktor plissken off married arena a ukrainian citizen after they fell in love in sevastopol their son your penny 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 buy toys for his son instead he wins them at a fair ground should be hillary look at studies dealing. with thank you. they go old it's not quite that is one feeling. let's go. there but no that's how russians see shoot.

irina and victor don't get involved in politics they don't take part in rallies or protests they have little to squabble about. is the politicians up there the cause the divide is here people are on friendly terms no one draws border lines between the ukrainians and russians. what you get out you fascists passions in the crimea often run high when nationalists from western ukraine 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 our home we principle or no to hear ourselves. kill to you create hail to the heroes run shock shock shock in the sea easy condor let's do it quietly. demonstrations by ukrainian nationalists

always end the same way the nationalists are a score 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 living in a simeonoff was a veteran of the soviet black sea fleet. here at the dock at inkerman the ships would paint on ukraine following with the vision 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 were fit for further service as a ship was just a ship where there is also a crew on it even with this craft 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 tess of crimean vineyards. you know the cut twenty year old greek finds it a very things like he does look. he's pains me very much to see so. drink weinstein like count it was devastating. later government officials conceded that the prohibition had been a mistake but many people in the crimea still cannot forgive gorbachev 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 my child's

residences had been built and for us only a few years before those fateful events. but there were the country house as a secret object was a complete failure take a look the place is in full view from all sides as you can see your residence is clearly visible from everywhere it heals the mountains and so on it seems like gorbachev's residence that had been built here deliberately in order to isolate him which are. then. k.g.b. colonel leo tolstoy was involved in those events he's a direct descendant of a 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 britain have to go. on august the nineteenth one thousand nine hundred 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. well we're still i was under orders not to let anyone out what about the president line quired their reply was that he too was not to be let out. was completely isolated all communications in t.v. broadcasts were cut i was this footage was around. the basement of the saudi residence of the child dictates a sticker is a concern that was an unconstitutional has taken place. meanwhile your balls should avail an employee at the photos post office was receiving scores of telegrams addressed to me. 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 do home either would be a resistant and you know if that is measures were taken they simply let things slide. in the end the coup failed and return to moscow but 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. neonate craft took the first president of independent ukraine was among the. kid being an active communist but he later quickly changed his views. from william republican when you during the soviet years i would often tell you cranes that soon we would live under communism some people responded so 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. title two suits are on we're one under communism this means it's unlikely that they believed in communism they were simply pulling my leg and easy what was before. the collapse of the soviet single financial and banking systems deprived 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 breakup of the soviet union and the subsequent economic and social problems is that he has the economic model and the system of governance when perfect but that could have been granted it not that 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 that that's exactly what's going on in ukraine was 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 feminine movement protesting against sex tourism the site is kiev central streets and squares the main slogan is ukraine is not a brothel that's mighty few young women probably a crane on boats in the sex industry of the european countries many of them believe that if they can here they will be able to get any woman and keeps the main street therefore we decided to buy this horrible image of ukraine where not prostitutes and we don't want other people to see us as such. another famine protested the my down in central kiev ends in fake the police to not allow famine activists to enter the country's main square but the situation does not degenerate into scandal protest actions are

a common occurrence here. the police and passers by and mike have grown tired of the spectacle many of those who gathered at the my down into the. thousand and four to support the orange revolution would very much like to forget about it is that when you people started to understand that they became a part of the political game here that the revolution was orchestrated by bialik arcs and the money was invested in it because those people were friends of using go completely wrecked 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 the soldiers of the ukrainian insurgent army also fought against the fascist invaders ukrainians and fought in different armies.

the presidency was marked by a vigorous campaign to rehabilitate ukrainian nationalist in one of his last decrees he noted what he described as a nationalist leader step under arrest service to ukraine. was the order i hereby award the title of hero of ukraine to mr pond and there are. under the decrees sparked a wave of protest among supporters of the new president of ukraine viktor yushchenko bitch the took over in january twenty ten a local government deputy burned his passport in sevastopol central square to publicly demonstrate against i'm done tara being awarded hero of ukraine. as earlier i don't regret what i did done at all. there was an inspiring response it was a symbolic event i think the fact that i burnt my passport was my contribution to the court decision to revoke usually because decree no matter how tiny the

contribution might be we were going to give the first months a victory and a cause. which is presidency were marked by yet another event with far reaching implications for the crimea presidency on a covert medvedev agreed that russia's black sea fleet will stay in sevastopol for at least another thirty two years with the. there is nothing in the crimea no industry no minerals but the russian fleet has been around for two hundred and twenty seven years but they all do what is most important is that it inspires us with confidence in the future. for a new era is producing new haven's in ukraine in summer twenty ten said gay should move the coal miner from gone past was awarded the hero of ukraine's gold star for beating a record dating back to the soviet era in one hundred thirty five a coal miner calls the final extracted one hundred two tons of coal in just one shift in twenty ten so they should move against the colonel by several tons he set

a new record using the same type of coal from a kind of a huge before and. i simply wanted to show that there is a new generation of coal miners to want to work they want to mine coal and have a decent life just the way it was in the soviet years. on that occasion a three man team filled one hundred seventy such trolleys with coal after that shift foreman said geisha move was given two weeks vacation and then he was back down the mine people and on bass like to say that more than anyone else coal miners were joyce in the sunshine especially after a six hour shift five hundred meters on the ground. the i.c.u. seeing the blue sky used to be great is the worst years for miners so well we don't always see the sun because when work night shifts to put you know human sense to fresh air and the service is good enough. for most people in the city of jesuits

quest's again lives with his family work in mine. the related facilities of thirty seven sergei is one of the youngest people to be awarded the hero of ukraine's gold star because it's a hazardous job and miners can become pensioners of thirty five percent gay intends to continue for as long as he's fit. i still want to work in a coal mine what happens later is anyone's guess life goes on regardless sure i hope there is a long life ahead of me of. 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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