it's not what you saw five thirty pm here in moscow you with see a quick summary of the headlines now notorious american security firm blackwater goes on trial but thought over billing the government not for killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using most contractors on foreign missions. in the region intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted deadly terrorist attacks that claimed seventy six lives did act alone but europe's

a growing and nationalist movements and feeding fears of more violence elsewhere. britain is officially recognizing in libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leader and is stepping up the diplomatic offensive against colonel gadhafi it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels. oh i see now it takes you to a corner of the baltics that spent the past two decades tackling its soviet and i can see you without saying thank you much. the alias is the capital of live u.a.e. the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century of the world war one the poles were in charge then during the second world war nazi germany took control when the soviet army drove the fascists out of the baltics the city became if you a nice capital most again of the country joined the soviet union where they like

saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that see germany. i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards to do with. it when perestroika got under way in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you any it was one of the first soviet republics to demand independence. was far as we're concerned only uses the capital notes moscow does the way it has been arms will it be in the future. the confrontation between the soviet empire is weakening center of the rebellious baltic republic resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds wounded. that the town came to hold to when my leg was called between the caterpillar tracks i realized then that there was no escape other than death. if you are a neo won its independence in one thousand nine hundred one small baltic republics

then desperately try to join european structures and leave its soviet past behind as fast as possible. if you any in business one of the humans will announce because lives in the village a group has one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a lucrative business selling the mushrooms and berries that grow on his land but another source of income is also his hobby. if you walk around the whole park you'll cover two color matters the park contains one hundred thirteen different open air sculptures.

in soviet times the sculptures held pride of place and if you end in cities and towns. after the fall of the soviet union they were taken down and fell into neglect. that prompted volume us to set up a park dedicated to let you in his sunday history. this open and museum welcomes visitors only around and there's no shortage of them in the. foreigners and lithuanians and large come here to get a glimpse into the country's relatively recent past. here people learn something about socialism and what we went through in those times . they are encouraging weighed down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one thousand nine hundred if you decided to split from the soviet union if you as parliament led by the tout as landsburg

has declared the republics independence have thousands packed the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius these demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize this you and you stated that. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom. then the craze began singing literally as anthem many people how to reason their eyes they couldn't sing along because they were so overcome with emotion they saw that something was indeed changing they felt they could no speak up with direct fear. moscow saw the developments in this way as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to the list. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the gumption of the republican to backing down.

we told them we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we had not been elected to do that you think. a massacre followed. the television center until news was assaulted on the night of january fourteenth thank you thank you for. the building the seats within a short time is when his independent television. i don't mock you know we are being attacked. i can hear shots thermal science and they have seized the sweeney a stranger center. is an anchor for a state run t.v. channel. but live report was a moment of triumph for the young journalist but her moment of glory came with a price. i knew. and they used accents to break the dogs

in their lease patch has been left here is a reminder of those events. that night thousands of people resolve to stop the troops by acting as a human shield. in order for moscow said the troops were to fire blank shells. and galley apologies it was among the residents who protected the television center when the troops began firing and galileo was injured. yeah i think i managed to crawl away i thought that i had been able to get away from that town after all and that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks let's turn came to holt. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant i mean freedom was worth at sacrifice and i have no

regrets i believe it's my destiny that i read him and i have. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives full if you ania's independence in one thousand nine hundred one. a new stage government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a lot was built in that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays may the ninth the date not by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most live un eons. in lithuania may the ninth floor is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for the. way it has nothing to do with it russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the little indian people from let's see germany goodbye responses the following yes you did but then you didn't bother to leave afterwards one

occupation had given way to another. the fall if you a new got its independence war veterans used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday as a military cemetery. government has created an atmosphere where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slimes is that lithuania was a second time in one nine hundred forty four when soviet troops entered the country to try for germans i. know that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok priors if it trends don't feel like demonstrating in the streets yet. may the month twenty ten each of the fifteen veterans here for the sake of victory in not.

despite each of them being over eighty years old they've decided to march to the city center just as they used to in the old days. a band of enthusiastic musicians accompany them as they marched through the streets most applause comes from relatives holding flowers and colorful believe. people with nationalistic slogans lining the streets but sometimes. the words came to an end when the last soviet soldiers left the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. those soviet veterans can mark their victory and commemorate fallen heroes at a cemetery their tombstones their people a lot of flowers at them. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only things affected by the campaign against left un he is soviet legacy. it's it you know they call this

number thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty free ten so it's pm that was when the first power generating unit was officially linked to the country's power grid. this footage is from the film marking the anniversary of the eight million a nuclear power plant. the station metals the electrical needs of miss you and two neighboring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans for more powerful and advanced than any other reactors of the time in the same that this technological model inherited from the soviet union might stand here in good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others as a premium. gas supply still etherial we're cutting in those years because of an economic slump like this nuclear power plants provided of uninterrupted supplies of electricity to customers in lithuania

valorous i'm glad to. be in consumers at the lowest prices we pretty much build our utility and economy during that period of transition in fact we pave the way for the country's further economic development it's. off to lift you in your left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union. if you a new was told that it could acquire a u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the signal in a nuclear power plant. and even received funds to help dismantle the plant's equipment and build storage for nuclear waste. the first reactor was closed in two thousand and four the other in two thousand and nine if you any of them join the e.u. . we were in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be

stored underneath. but it was used to generate heat and electricity and. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to dismantle it. i put a turbine together with my own hands after it went into service my job was to maintain and repair it but in the past seven years i've been taking all that apart again with my own hands it's a pity creating something is much better if you ask me help. you and valleri good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down there was no other work for them to go to where they were nice people working at the plants i enjoys working there we still keep in touch with them. to certificates a photo album and the film showing the jubilee celebrations and the only mementos

from those years. the european union funded the station's closure some of the money was earmarked for severance pay. says the allowance we were entitled to after decisions shark sighting was four hundred dollars is a political one the so-called price is set in this almost cut to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid no. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to higher utility costs although lift you any accused to sell electricity to other countries today it buys it from them energy bills grow with each passing month those who worked at the station have had to slash their family budgets. have you got the ratings yes put them down fifty to three hundred forty seven writes how about the water hot water

is ninety cold water is eighty four that's it that's quite a lot so i have to say still we have to pay five times as much as we did eat when we were fine it's back in december two thousand and nine it was. the former employees of the main a power plant will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is at over fifteen percent if you aim it officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a staff if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of hi-tech business what turns even science into i

judging products they don't understand oh hell which is kept we follow russian invaders to engineers and broady and their big breakthrough back home sunlight on start up on technology update here on on. we've got the future covered. if you're followed up on my death you're one of the. tenants on sort of a twelve pack and i can codified law. and it goes back to a time when people would write out of their forces in the wild last and pick up the speech it's important to mention bashir the prosecution there's no one thing like company man telling. him when they go out there he's got weapons. and we have to hope that nothing bad can. get good. or we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind of this it to me dollar

bill because the risk. would not superhero they can be killed too you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hunted man you and i will never go back on anything else. last time the close of team was in the cool gun region where men flock from all over the world to out a few centimeters to their self-confidence. if this time archie goes to the on the region. for the girls who are still gets people like joe. for a nation try to fight to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first dawn on official nature reserve. to the bridge of. russia close up on the marquee.

a restitution of gold was passed and if you offer it declared independence the collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former i would miss faith and j. andras cabbage received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father. on jay's an engineer his wife is an accountant they became farmers against their will. a severe economic slump began after lithuania declared independence unemployment had read its head for the first time in the post soviet region. we had to go into farming simply because we have no other source of income now i'm pretty certain our farm has no prospects. their farm could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin the least some of the crops and produce all of their efforts to nothing. there's no scope for the farm to grow the

reluctant farmers don't have the money to save for a rainy day. most small farms here face a similar bleak situation with. the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely wrong collective farms were raised to the ground and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production only large farms have real prospects. but to farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis and jay and his wife were on the brink of bankruptcy their farm survived only because they had been working on it without hired help they had also managed without bank loans.

the influence of international capital in our banking sector amounts to nearly ninety percent when the crease is came right into our banks were primarily concerns about parents banks and copenhagen or always lou this is rationing live you know was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exports in capital to help parents banks of course all that has an effect on the situation here. is two and a half years old but much of her life has passed without her father he's been working in germany to make a living meanwhile brother and elder sister live in this un near the top where is your daddy. no daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him oh here. well don i know nothing better than to

you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says his mom this is a man ad in daddy. she says that just in case the man responds. each friday off to work so gay visit an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call so that the questions we get at school are real mindblower it's ok you go with them yeah this five minutes of internet chatter keeps the family in contact until sergei can be with them for real again and that could be six months away. this is typical for. which is joining the club of leading suppliers of manpower to western european countries. i've noticed something more to the point have you sent us the money. and yesterday yes ok that'll

help they'll sign the rental agent. in january two thousand and nine fanzines of protesters crowded the main squares of most provincial towns and if you wait here as well as its capital since the start of the crisis the government has been raising taxes and cutting social benefits. found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. and retired people struggle for survival. for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars in winter they save extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it in fuel i have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension . when. are you know about government plans to tax pensions on top of other taxes he decided to join protesters despite his age and

poor health. generally the sixteenth to think. this. meeting took place in vilnius the apartment building. seven thousand people gathered. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators. when one of the bullets hit and seen us in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. after we were the bullets ruled out when they cut my trousers open it was a rubber bullets it's got stuck in a song i can't see it as a souvenir of sorts. but. the police brutality in dealing with the demonstrators spurred the public into action. an unprecedented number of people joining the opposition within

a short period of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held. with the people the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several unpopular measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit. and their mark of a new democracy will set in only after several generations those who once had any idea of democracy have become soviet people in spirit you know so have all of our politicians. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of so obviously a few ania says he's lucky that he's lived in a free country for the past twenty years but he notes the growing nostalgia for the soviet period will you mrs pessimistic about his country's future and he's skeptical about the government's political decisions. but i don't think the european union will last or even fifty years ago so it will break up in the same

way as the soviet union did the two are very similar in that they have both been a complete mass. of the. blue mrs plame with the idea of expanding his pocket modern day exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who won't was and will become a symbol of this un yes new era. we'll

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