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seeing from the streets of canada. trying to hope for asians to rule the day. nine thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines from one comeback the world reacts to news a lot of your putin is running for the russian presidency again next year with dimitri medvedev now planning to replace him as head of government while some are skeptical about the move the tandem continues to enjoy strong approval ratings among the russian people. european leaders preparing a rescue plan as they battle to stave off a double dip recession and the prospect of a greek default for all the i.m.f. warns it may not be able to help out bigger economy but the fund is being accused of being too tough on some countries while taking the soft debts on others
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including the u.s. where the crisis began in two thousand and eight and. a clampdown on freedom of expression in the u.k. as a historic precedent is set over a ban on marching in parts of london police say it was required to prevent violence and disorder planned by far right groups. more news coming your way in half an hour first though an insight into modernist stone ia and its radical moves to distance itself from its soviet past stay with us. this is the only place in the world where two main she'd call to sit stand so close to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore with the narrow over his head that even boards an old russian fortress was built opposite nanda the living room the castle. in the mid twentieth century eastern india was part of the soviet union
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a friendship bridge linked the two towns novel and even go out in effect for the single municipality of the common infrastructure and transport system a stone eons in russians lived here side by side when the stony achieved independence in one thousand nine hundred one the border along another over river was reinstated the so-called friendship bridge became a checkpoint with flags of two different states once again flying over the old fortresses. before a studio won independence in one nine hundred ninety one a struggle for secession from the soviet union in this republic was exceptionally peaceful.
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and the country managed to avoid the bloodshed that was characteristic of its baltic neighbors if you when you are not feeling. well that this is the historical whitehall faced parliament. came here in. the late summer of ninety ninety one to declare recognition of the three baltic republics but yeltsin said here flanked by the chairman of their parliaments garman off represented latvia last release from lithuania in early till from a story and he also made a speech here he signed three treaties with the baltic states. estonian historian mark lar forget his struggle for his country's independence in the mid 1980's he organized and took part in numerous acts of protest. the
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most high profile of them was the famous baltic way. on august twenty third one thousand nine hundred nine people in the three soviet baltic republics of lithuania latvia and estonia formed a six hundred kilometer human chain linking the three capitals. on the reserve and you and i began my struggle against communism when i was still a college student at the same time i campaigned for stony as independence which was a logical thing to do and if we had lost our freedom as a result of a pact between two regimes that ism and communism. as a staunch opponent of communism not clark twice held the post of premier after a stone europe claimed independence now he's the country's defense minister. in the soviet union victory in world war two was celebrated on may the ninth mark clark was one of those responsible for instituting
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a new date for stoning kids today there is march in the european style on may eighth but celebrations on that date or of an entirely different kind. of what we are freedom fighters. sixty six years ago today. on may eighth one thousand nine hundred forty five. a world war two. what officially came to an analyst. by freedom fighters and the french minister means the few surviving veterans of the twentieth estonian s.s. division and all those who fought on the side of nazi germany the veterans have been brought to the german cemetery on the outskirts of tal in where their brothers in arms are buried. and.
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the police band speeches by representatives of public organizations wreaths from the government and other official agencies. on the same evening the chairman of the anti fascist coalition of a stone year retired colonel vladimir matelot so was making preparations for victory day kyra hello karl this is matelot are speaking how are you remember what we have agreed to do you're wearing all your medals right that's because he you and i are going to be taking the main wreaths to the brand soldier monument saga that public displays of soviet symbols are banned in stone yet even though an exception has been made for that runs on may the eighth and ninth they are at risk if they venture out into the streets wearing their medals on victory day the signal is on previous occasions youngsters would come up to you and spill in your face
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there are cases like that. but let's not the way they wear the medals now that's the situation here. you know it's not an honor any longer. the russian military cemetery in tallinn this memorial symbolizes the country's liberation from fascist troops it is informally known as the bronze soldier may the ninth is not a public holiday and stonie and thousands of people seek to obtain permission to be absent from work in order to come to the monument and greet the veterans. thank you thank you laurie to all your theory. was. up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on tony's marquee square in central talent in two thousand and six this tony and government
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relocates of the drum soldier there was strong protests by the rest of phone population russian speakers account for one third of the republic's tocome hundred six even a stone stone to protest. what we call on the people to make legal protests without violating the constitution or laws of a stony or dmitri linter is the organizer of the night watch movement a new public organizations sought to have the government repeal its decision to relocate the german soldier activists open eyes around the clock vigil near the monument when it was dismantled people came to protest. oh. it's it is race it's it is drinks it's a disgrace. it's a put out some of this and there were five or six thousand people there but it's
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not only. the marching i had two kids with me when police launched a special operation to push the crowd back plainclothesmen came up to me pointed to the snipers who were at the top of the building and said i'd better leave this place and that's sharpshooters were over there and there. and also in that tower i put up with the windows were open. and i would do the following morning i was arrested in my home and put in prisons of kenya. the rest some of the night was. capitalists didn't affect the situation in any radical way. the day after the dispersal of the first m stray ssion thousands of people came to the monks again this time police used tougher methods to break up the crowds with flash bang grenades and take.
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more than one hundred fifty people were injured in two days of clashes with police one man died in hospital all that happened in the early hours of april twenty seventh two thousand and seven which has since become known as soon as the drums might. to me trillin said was already in prison at the time the bombs go this is talon central prison much of the world my cell was number five on the second floor. they kept main difference cells but here you can see it. i was charged with spreading lies and media interviews about tough police behavior and accused of spreading anti-government sentiment. it all came under article two three eight of the criminal code concerning the organization of mass protests in dimitri spend seven months in prison mon investigation was in progress in the end all charges against him were lifted.
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finnish historian and head of the anti fascist center in helsinki johan backman has published a work which he says proves the soviet troops didn't occupy stonier. so i reject the occupation myth regrettably this me thing is the basis of the policy of our current hardiness tanya to deal with australia. yohann back when it was deprived of the right to enter a stone year visitors on many occasions before but when he arrived at the port of talon by ferry he was immediately detained and led to the headquarters of the border service. there i was told that i was no longer allowed to enter a story and because of what they described as anti's tony an activity is just don't use present policies are indicative of an apartheid regime people there are divided into two groups citizens and non-citizens citizens are those who have all political
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and other rights in that society non-citizens are those who are deprived of those rights they hold great passports. only said in tones of minor television channel its programs often show watch official estonian or thirties tend to ignore. and two thousand and eight was able to worm his way into the confidence of the family and their village a valid legal. i met with a farm owner that's him and. he invites friends who fought on the side of the third reich to his place environment. they are always welcome in the farmer's home they can stay for the night there. he has a big collection of old german films he shows them to his guests telling them that
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if the other side had won the war maybe life would be better now it's very many young people visit them judging by the pictures they look like skinheads. the owner of the farm also is what is called a pizzeria in a nearby village nobody has ever seen it open all guests entering. its windows display a picture of a soldier of nazi germany. filth or she's does not heed the thousands of protesters who gathered on thomas ninety square in two thousand and seven the bronze soldier monument to the liberators of talent was moved to the city's outskirts today there is nothing but law but it's old sport. we never thought we would live to hear my grandfather asking for advice on whether he should wear his medals when he goes out on may ninth. and never occurred to us that
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a public display of decorations awarded for the fight against fascism might be banned in europe bashes them was responsible for the loss of so many lives their. own victory day may the ninth people still bring flowers not only to the military cemetery but also to the square the former location of the bronze soldier. question is that so much money is going to be made to get a lot of people a very unhappy look at is it time to rethink capitalism as we know it today should the world still rely on markets to generate wealth when the rich only get richer and. wealthy british style. sometimes.
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market finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r.t. . estonia was the first former soviet republic to join the euro zone. herman but obama is president of the talent institute for economics and management he knows only too well the price the a stone in government had to pay for overcoming economic problems and meeting the terms required for joining your resume. everything was done to
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make it seem that the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation all pensions expensive medical care growth and exercises and the like bill is good that we became more attractive for investors to study but actually the poorest sections of the population had to pay for all that. member of parliament him a length agreed to take part in an experiment suggested by journalists on a popular internet site his task was to see how he would survive on a subsistence wage for a month shopping was something of an ordeal for him a link he couldn't afford to spend even one cent above his budget because otherwise he would have ruined the experiment. restore the minimum a subsistence wage in a store nia was sixty four euros that comes down to two euros the daily. beast
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pastries are telling central marketplace this morning but both cost fifty euro cents. i want these locally grown cabbages are the cheapest here i eat them for vitamins and here is the cheapest cheese for the lot. nearly every day he posted reports on his expenditures on the internet by the end of the month the whole nation was following his daily reports he received hundreds of letters with people offering advice support. the idea of why experiment was even reported by the international media i think that's why all the sudden the story and government jacked up living wage by thirteen euro to seventy seven. that would be it but don't forget that this son could buy me neither soup nor
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toothpaste nothing but food reward oil. and instead see a guide to change though spends almost all of her pension to pay for utilities now she can only rely on a small part of land ten kilometers from town she cycles there several times a week to see how her crop is fairing. that area well i'm too old for walking. but my bike takes me there thank god i have it. off we go my darling my. that's a good boy. and it's just see a is a russian by nationality when a stone is declared independence in one thousand nine hundred one she backed the idea and even voted for succession in the referendum she has lived in a stone here for many years has a good command of the stony language she received a blue passport after a problem for the process of naturalization. and that when the bronze soldier
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affair broke out they expose themselves as people harboring ill will. i no longer wanted to be a citizen or support such policies and. i knew that i thought it was a disgrace. so i gave up estonian citizenship at the thought of the. novel as a trial on a stone years north western border. nearly all major industrial plants have been closed down here in the past ten years. this tannery is the only leftover from the soviet union of ten lathes only one is still in operation on thousand three hundred jobs have been cut down to sixty. i'm lucky to see that this plant is still operational even turns out some new products that you
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won't be able to find anywhere else in a stony or. being a production manager i won't be able to find a job anywhere else this is the only tannery here and many other people also only able to find a different job. only fifty percent of novice population is jobless most of a stone is russians are so-called non-citizens they grade passports given the right to enter russia without a visa. selling cheaper russian goods on the black market mostly cigarettes and liquor is one of the most common forms of making living here people avoid bringing in more than a permitted amount of time so as not to be detained at the border. we shall all six or seven times a day it's a small business you know half of the people in town live off earth if the border were blocked i can't imagine how things would work out here. a pack of cheap
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cigarettes costs less than fifty euro cents in russia another old women standing outside shops all day long sell them a double the price expensive cigarettes are not brought in there was almost no demand for them people holding great passports have difficulty finding a job outside of the to. the great passport alone infringes upon my civil rights i was born here i am entitled to a citizens' passport nobody wants me to be able to vote they see no point in that we are slaves here that's all there is to it is. this tourney and government plan to introduce to reform by two thousand and seven. it's problem jetted was to make sure that all of the country's high schools including russian language ones used as stony and in the classroom but pressure from the e.u. court about an amendment to the education law the abrupt change in legislation allows other languages to. when you when the apparent liberalism of
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a study in school legislation has been handsomely made up for by the severity of municipal and government bureaucrats not one of the high schools has since been able to use its right to teach in another language not even such schools as pushkin high school which is more than one hundred years old. the high school named after the russian orthopedists came in the town of tar two is the pride of the stone years russian language schools even parents from neighboring population centers have sort of mission for their children. and surely a new briac in a mathematician was appointed head of the school's teaching apartment in one thousand and four while she was in that post school acquired a distinctive sphere and a special style of teaching moreover it became a center of russian culture in tartu in two thousand and three however the education ministry fired the school's principal. that. they have miss fear changed
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radically with the arrival of the new principal that. it changed so much so that the teachers were afraid of talking to me. they didn't want the principal to see that they were still on good terms with me their prey year victoria tried to keep the spirit of the school alive but in the end she gave up and quit her job. if the first one i didn't like the new principal saying that the old that democracy should be scaled down. that she would say russians need to be provided all the time . it pains me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. right over there you see everything of course especially poland is that humiliated
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teachers had to face their pupils really powerful evidence but many years have passed but i still recall those things with tears in my eyes. many ethnic is turn in seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian then when is actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. when you russian speaking drivers when there were tourists all to russia it's important that there are skilled driver with a good command of russian they find it easier to get around there if they speak russian when russian tourists come to finland they always get a russian speaking driver who can tell them about the place and give advice. two weeks in finland on week at home this is the operating schedule of the estonian driver all the cooler after he got employment with
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a finnish bus company in two thousand and nine he bought a house his cherished dream the money here was enough to buy a plot of land pay for the design and building process takes all his free time all the cooler must finish everything before winter to settle down with his family in a new house. for wages in western countries are three to four times higher than a stone here i quit my job of my own accord to earn a little money while i was still a young man many of my friends work in finland some are drivers others are construction workers still others work in norway. there was a time when dimitri lynsay one of thriving business in talent selling exotic goods from india but in a surprise move based only on police began putting pressure on his business in the aftermath of his active participation in the two thousand and seven protests. it
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sure is my partners gave in to pressure by special services and broke contracts with me because there were quite open about it. today dimitri cannot find either a job or this all start of a business in the stone year instead he makes a living in russia once a monthly visits his home country to see his son. regular be careful they're off total or use the ones a very shop full bore of what she hands little bubbles but it was a cool thing to shop with in her before the very shop but. after spending a couple of days at home and the tree limbs again goes a pool of money. this trip is that one day the people of the studio will no longer be divided into friends and foes and his energy and entrepreneurial talents will once again be
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required in his home country. home. mom.
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