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mind. would be soon which bryson if you knew moon about sun moon from one stuporous shoes. for instance on t.v. dot com. that's a recap our top stories for you gov not the russian foreign minister is set to hold talks with the doing the rebels and palestinian officials and must come to us with our problem of continues to push israel to neutral territory the premier weapons finance. knowledge or stop and think government protesting the year it's got to sprint think through hundred of the oppositional promising to send the president out by brains that thousands have been rallying in the capital tbilisi over the weekend on one front sensibly to step down. plus the e.u.
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turns up the heat on greece for not doing enough to stop cracking down near it or athens or lashes that it's really pushing itself to the limits there are fears that greece may opt out of the euro together. that's all for me with a star so there will bring you all it is world news in just under half an hour's time but first a special report on post soviet life and moved over next to nothing. a country where some take pride in our wine. french wines are the world's best but most of the warnings are not much different from down. others have to select kidneys to support the families but i need good morning now because of the money my health is going on in the first year of independence the country went through a civil war. nobody believes
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a war was possible at the end of the twentieth century moldova could have yet to come another former soviet republic to experience the color revolution. what will be the outcome of the contract and crisis in the country what future course will it choose for itself many inside and outside moldova are eager to know the answer to those questions. i. think for the seventh two thousand and nine central kitchen now the capital of moldova several young people made their way to the rooftop of the presidential residence took down the national flag and in its place raise the european union's flag protest has announced that the revolution had taken place in moldova and the president and fled the country. president vladimir voronin was addressing the
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nation from his second floor office other presidential residence i don't model the civilizational in two thousand and seven the ones behind these barbaric weak so-called demonstrations just whose interests they serve. and who benefit from them are only too obvious leur. we will certainly find out who is planned and masterminded these disturbances store shelves that obama did indeed. how much for the moldovan like place. under a student to the kitchen now polytechnic was among those who stormed government buildings he joined a rally without any idea of how it might work out in the end of the time the young man was sure the police deliberately allowed protesters to seize the parliament building and set it on fine. as you can see now police are well
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equipped. but at the time they were ill prepared to deal with such things. they were only twenty or thirty policemen on hand they certainly couldn't have coped but i'm sure there was a special purpose unit nearby. if they had used force everybody would have gone home right away. meanwhile preparations for widespread unrest were underway throughout commissioner slavonic university only russian language institution of higher learning was the source of greatest concern it was feared the crowds might go on the rampage there by midday a large amount of nationalists but gathered in front of the university students were determined to defend the university and by any means possible thanks. to the start worrying of the learning that a crowd was heading here said about getting the hoses up as we intended to use them
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as a last resort they came here. the fact is that high school children as well as university students come here to study. on not today april the seventh many believe that another so-called color revolution was unfolding in downtown kitchener several former soviet republics had already shared the same fate everybody expected pro western politicians to come to power on the back of protests against. communist president vladimir voronin but the following morning everything fell into place ronan had emerged victorious this is top of the bush if that evening news of a new vision of somebody had resulted us gangsters in the crowd why and furze sake they had come there so below and what they knew about the outcome of the election. historically i'm certain that ninety nine percent could not have answered those questions for duty the nature would. be better off with our
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discussion today will focus on what caused the events of april seventh two thousand and nine and their aftermath of joining our guest as we tally a public chant for leader of the national liberal party over the leader of the ultra right program anian party batali a cover chunka is rarely invited to speak over the radio the national liberal party's manifesto echoes the multitude of people who rampaged from parliament moldova and remain or are a single country. but if we want to join nato and the european union that's the position of the national liberal party but that's can only be achieved through a union with remain handy and this should be done with alderling as we do not hesitate to go it's what's on the minds of a very many people and else aside to let them do only. the town of several kerry two hundred kilometers from chris you know it is the informal capital of the romany
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people in moldova stands on the high bank of the tánaiste the river it's romany population is nearly twenty thousand. ah to maturity is a room in a barrel he needs to be in the know about the problems facing all run many families help them deal with them and add their grievances to the authorities even though good for their own although most people in so little keep change their old cars for plush german and japanese makes prefers to drive his old soviet made car. is a rocky is the maca whole room many of the former soviet union schools this fact affects
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their culture civilization and traditions. the cradle of the room many people use here. were many traditions on it and so rocky the baron enjoys public respect ronnie seek advice from him on any matter of importance whether they intend to build a house will give a name to a baby hello. hello. it's going to be fifty whether or not i let a few notes like the american. actor. yes that is as they did nice tr is in the shape of a horseshoe you know saroj here there were when we settled on this last night in a sacred land more than five hundred years ago it may. be many of. the large been very forest is two hundred kilometers downstream the denise to river
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. yuri outpost a lucky a business woman is the most important person here during three talks the ex president of moldova and big time businessmen have been known to join him on hunting expeditions in the forest but nobody has offered help in resolving his main problem his hopes are in one country but his office in the forest area he ministers is another. look at this road here was a dividing line between the two warring policies. and the moldovan volunteers way here are the trends mr once ruled that saw. the part of the most damien republic on the left bank of it's nice to declare its independence even before the breakup of the soviet union was officially recognized the fact of the matter is that what is now called trans denice to became part of
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moldavia when it was a soviet republic because you now did not recognize a self proclaimed trans the nice to republic after moldavia achieved independence tense political standoff degenerated into an armed conflict the first shots were fired in the spring of one thousand nine hundred two. by the summer of ninety ninety two massive. hostilities had already broken out the richest fighting took place in the transom eastern town of been derry an enclave on the right bank of the nice to river. in that small forest over there they set fire to the military hardware. and by that monument in the distance i remember about there were two bus loads of dead bodies before from mosul college for a gift which is love mulch
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a call from his mother often come to the bridge if there's an easter it was on this patch that the bloodiest clashes between moldova and troops and trends in east of volunteers took place which is slabs served in the russian fourteenth army deployed in france to nice to his father served in the cossacks and then derek the russian soldiers had to maintain neutrality even though moldova and troops constantly front on the positions it was then the transplant decided to join his father's unit where i told him i was going to take part in your i said if you don't allow me to join your unit i will sign up for another so he took me on because he knew that i would at least be close at hand. moldova's leaders insisted they were not at war with the self-proclaimed republic rather they were trying to establish law and order in reality what happened in the summer of one nine hundred ninety two was a full blown military standoff on the verge of becoming the bloodiest conflict in the territory of the former soviet union everybody waited to see which side the
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a no holds barred look of the global financial headline news shouldn't do cause a report on r.t. . lineage of cucumber is a kitchen house suburb. moldova's principal treasure is tucked away on the ground. some forty million liters of wine was kept to mature here demand generates supply now you can find for ancient carrion erminie and moldovan barrels here each contains up to one tonne a wine. one likes barrels made of oh white wines are normally aged for eighteen months or two years some are kept from least six months red wines are kept here for two three or four years the labyrinth is
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a hundred and twenty kilometers long this winery looks like a town complete with streets and avenues it's the only place of its kind in the world people here were not prone to modesty when talking about the miles upon miles of tunnels hiding fountains of barrels of resin white wine they said well i would say that it's the eighth wonder of the world. but there was a time when winemaking was an important part of the moldavian economy and first came under attack by soviet leader mikhail gorbachev declared war on hard drinking then yards over the total area of thousands of factors to cut down after holdover achieved independence the industry could not be restored to previous levels either in terms of quantity or more importantly quality. moldova's biggest customer russia stopped importing its projects at the turn of the century. and why no longer
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conforms to strict russian senator standards moreover the russian market was drowned in four g.'s and the european one because. family ranch warrants are the world's best but moldovan warrants are not much different from down old always situated at the same latitude as france and this sees only a short distance away so russia certainly lost out on the streets. placing its goes your way steak sometimes this is the post-surgery war on the stitch and the scar of bits you but you don't care at this hospital in the village of ninja has catered to several patients like grigori people in the surrounding villages might report about a hundred cases of this kind they share
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a common fate some have sold one of their kidneys for money others would you put into selling them criminal gangs would spot potential donors in moldova and take them to turkey for back alley surgery we had thirteen people in our village who went through this. and one of them has already died of kidney failure patients. selling their kidneys for money in order to be able to support their families was the only option open to most of the employment in moldova's regions is hard to come by the villagers were paid from one thousand five hundred to three thousand dollars for the operation but. i heard that one kidney is worth ninety five thousand dollars around one hundred thousand they just cheated us if you were . going to take heat but i needed more now because of the money my health is gone there's nothing i can do i can't go back and change it all i can do is go on.
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grigori spend the five hundred dollars he was paid for his kidney in turkey a long time ago the money was just about enough to mine a house repairs and clothes for his family despite protests by his doctor to go is again toying with the idea of going abroad to look for temporary employment he sees no other way to get money for his family according to various estimates the money moldovans of earned in foreign countries accounts for approximately one fourth of the republic's g.d.p. up to one million citizens of moldova permanently reside outside the country. my older daughter wanted to go to college and i had no money i had to get some money for her education. eventually she did not go and. the romany baron has his hands full now holdovers romany have been increasingly involved in the country's political life. cheerily even run for president but he
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says it was more a showy political gesture than anything else nowadays the romany people take politics seriously they have founded a political party and they expect to get several seats in parliament after the election. we're only always understood the meaning of politics. when you much about it immediately did he but we never tried to get involved in it no more than you did. this is what the political campaigning of the newly founded romany party looks like folk songs and dances in front of government headquarters of the best progressive system of the new political association however the deputies a session of the moldovan parliament nearby paid no attention to the romany fresh from. the
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country has been in a state of political crisis for a long time communist president vladimir voronin did retain power after the events of april the seventh two thousand and nine but his party lost subsequent elections deputies in the republic's parliament have so far failed to agree on a future course for the country because none of the column and three parties has the necessary majority of votes. of the people of moldova want to hear nothing of any merger with anybody. sovereignty is increasingly becoming an integral part of the normal life of moldova in society and the maldives and state for the ship the businessman yuri opposed to lucky has been a member of parliament for some time in modern day moldova it is impossible to do business of any significance without political assistance yury opposed to lucky runs a small enterprise but he is a rare example of a successful businessman in moldova during breeds hogs creates jobs can protect the
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natural environment things would be even better for him were it not for a border crossing his forest into. their new promoters nearly all may find it hard to draw a dividing line between in derry and old over all between the left bank and the right bank and i still believe this is one country and i regret what has been going on in those banks. the narrow denise the river divides moldova from the unrecognized republic of the political and economic gap between the two countries is much wider kitchen now until last fall have no diplomatic relations there are no direct telephone communications between. mr has its own currency economy and political system. no there we just look at him coming here. for.
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a treats me as one of his own. egos near north has been at the helm of the unrecognized republic for more than twenty years he is unwilling to talk about the one nine hundred ninety two war and prefers to demonstrate the republic's economic progress. resistant there will always be an adequate supply of food there was a moody because they don't know how to work this land is they can support themselves without outside help but the problem is where can we sell what we produce reasonable. despite all efforts the population of the unrecognized republic has dropped from seven hundred thousand to four hundred thousand since the armed conflict in trans nice to twenty years ago some have moved to moldova others to ukraine still more to russia this is the result of widespread unemployment most of the leading industrial plants built in the serbian union have been shut down the
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bend area is over there. is beyond venturi that is where the fighting took place. reminders of those dreadful days are still evident and the enclave town on the right bank of the denise to the pockmarked walls of the administration building but traces of bullets locals take people on going to tours to show the positions of moldova and sharpshooters. the snipers killed off civilians because they couldn't help but troops. but it didn't matter if it was friend or foe the only thing they cared about was the body count. the more people they killed the higher their pay was. telling and nobody at the russian fourteenth army stationed in france nice stuff could stop the bloodshed the army's commander general you. declared ben derry a demilitarized zone today the russian peacekeeping force is about the only ground
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toll of peace the more than two thousand people on both sides lost their lives trying not to conflict. with the thing as a bell nobody expected any hostilities to kick off air nobody believes a war was possible at the end of the twentieth century but if you're. on the other side of the border a former trans needs to volunteer to just laugh mulch a cause to flex on what cools down pretty full on his way to his mother's house will be. russian armed people entering your home triggers your self defense reflex people were defending their homes. but there is no hostility now that we need many moldovans overclass of wine they are normal people like anyone else. in the autumn of one nine hundred ninety two virtuous love not a cause father went missing that was when heavy fighting had already come to an end . we were clearly my husband was abducted when he and another man went to inspect
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the territory. and there was a law in fighting at the time. for us not the routine it was clear that it would soon stop altogether. for you they abducted both of them i tried to find my husband for a year and three months. each summer war veterans and bullets halves of the fallen come to cemeteries on both sides of the new stuff to light candles. scores of people have gathered in central kitchen now for the anniversary of the raid on the parliament building they tell it come to us. it is noteworthy though there's only a few of those who would be involved in those events turned up.
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in april two thousand and seven dmitri was poised to defend his university from a crowd of thugs today he takes his first steps into show business he writes songs up and coming moldavian singers after quitting university essentially a year in europe then he realized that his country is his home here for the record in this area the other patrons of my country my friends and relatives and if this is my land there is no point to linger in europe what can we give europe apart from weinberg with those terrible incidents died down a long time ago but the feeling of resentment is still with me today i still can't . figure out what's going on that society has become insensitive to politics and aged option of sublists with what is. under a was among those who retired in the parliament building two years ago today he is
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of a much more peaceful disposition since then he has graduated from university and given up politics now he has other priorities. my friend and i have founded a small organization in our town it is called eco shame. we are in the business of making minor ecological projects you know but they are only small projects because we are still in the initial stages. a group of young people gathering in the center of the moldovan capital call their act the hyde park project a reference to the british tradition of open air public debates anyone can add their views on the political situation in the country speaking for microphone the project was launched hot on the heels of the events of april two thousand and nine initially people choose for
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a chance to speak up but their enthusiasm rapidly petered out nowadays passes by a more likely to ignore the speaker. download the official antti obligation to your i phone or i pod touch from the i.q. saps to. jollity life on the go. video on demand policies my fuel costs and already says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the call.
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