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corinthian escape plan is reticent to say isreal convinced he might go twenty two platoon because come on. now so it's. one thirty pm in moscow the zero r.t. headlines kremlin comeback the world reacts to the news of blood in europe who is running for the russian presidency again next year with an internet bet now threatening to replace him as head of government while some are skeptical about the move the tandem continues enjoying high approval ratings among the russian people and. european leaders repairing a rescue plan as they battle to stave off a double dip recession and the prospect of greek default while the i.m.f. wards it may not be able to help out a bigger economy but the fund is being accused of being too tough on some countries while taking a soft stance on others including the u.s.
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where the crisis began in two thousand and eight. a clamp down 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 was required to prevent violence and disorder planned by far right groups. more news coming your way in about half an hour first though when incited to modernise tonia 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 sheet fortresses stand so close to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore with another over his head that even borders an old russian fortress was built opposite now that a living human concept. in the mid twentieth century eastern india was part of the soviet union a friendship that the two towns nama and even go around in effect forms
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a single municipality with a common infrastructure and transport system as jillian's and russians lived here side by side when the stoney achieved independence in one thousand nine hundred one the border along another over river was reinstated to the so-called friendship bridge and came a checkpoint with flags of two different states once again flying over the old fortresses. before a studio won independence in one thousand nine hundred one the struggle for secession from the soviet union in this republic was exceptionally peaceful.
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the country managed to avoid the bloodshed that was characteristic of its baltic neighbors lithuania and latvia. this is the historical wide hall of fame parliament. came here in. the late summer of one thousand nine hundred ninety one to declare recognition of the three baltic republics with yeltsin sat here flanked by the chairmen of their parliaments garman off represented latvia last previous from lithuania in oriental from a store near yeltsin made a speech here he signed three trillion with the baltic states. estonian historian mark lara his struggle for his country's independence in the mid 1980's he organized and took part in memory sats of protest. almost highprofile of them
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was the famous bolton away. on august twenty third nine hundred eighty 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 i began my struggle against communism when i was still a college student at the same time i campaigned for a stony as independents 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 markel our twice held the post of premier after estonia obtained independence now he is the country's defense minister. in the soviet union victory in world war two was celebrated on may the ninth mark lara was one of those responsible for instituting a new date for a stony thinks is
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a there is marked in a european style on may eighth but celebrations on that date or of an entirely different kind. of get. their freedom fighters. sixty six years ago today. on may eighth one thousand nine hundred forty five. a world war two. officially came to an analyst day. by freedom fighters the defense 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 tallinn where their brothers in arms are very. violent i am. god.
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and. 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 stoney a retired colonel demian matelot so was making preparations for victory day kyra hello karl this is mattel it's a speaking how are you remember what we have agreed to do you're wearing all your medals right that's because here you and i are going to be taking the main reef to the bronze soldier monument saga that public displays of soviet symbols are banned in stone yet even though an exception has been made for veterans on maybe eighth and ninth they are at risk if they venture out into the streets wearing their medals on victory day you see you on previous occasions youngsters would come up to you and spill in your face their accusers like that.
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you can't laughs not the way the wear the medals now that's the situation here. and 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 or 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 your joy yours. was. up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on thomas maggie square in central talent in two thousand and six history and government
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relocated the bronze soldier there was strong protests by the russophone population russian speakers account for one third of the republic's tocome hundreds even a stone stone to protest. what we call on the people to make a legal protests without violating the constitution or laws of a stony or dmitri linter is the organizer of the night watch movement and the public organizations sought to have the government repeal its decision to relocate the german soldier activists organized around the clock vigil near the monument when it was dismantled people came to protest. oh. it's it is grace it's it is drinks it's it is grace. with a put out some of this and there were five or six thousand people there but it's
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not only if. you were 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 or at the top of the building and said i 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 prison after me. the rest some all night why. chapped wrist didn't affect the situation in any radical way. the day after the dispersal of the first i'm straight 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. more than one
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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 are since become known as syria as the drums night. dimitri winter was already in prison at the time the bombs but this is talon central prison much of the world mysel was number five on the second floor of they kept main difference els but here we can see it. because i was charged with spreading lies in media interviews about tough police behavior and accused of spreading anti-government sentiment across the. 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 in one investigation was in progress in the end all charges against him were lifted.
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finish historian and head of the anti fascist center in helsinki johan back when has published a work which he says proves the soviet troops didn't occupy estonia. so i reject the occupation myth and regrettably this is me it is the basis of the policy of our guard hiding as tanya to deal with those twenty. hillman back when was deprived of the right to enter estonia he had visited on many occasions before and 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 interest tanya because of what they describe is anti as tony an activity is based on years present policies are indicative of an i pod hydrazine people there are divided into two groups citizens and non-citizens
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citizens are those who have all political and other rights in their society non-citizens are those who are deprived of those rights they hold great passports. only said in tones of minor television channel and programmes often show watch official a stone in your thirties tend to ignore. in two thousand and eight was able to worm his way into the confidence of the farm owner and the village a valid legal. i met with the farm owner that's him. invites friends who fought on the side of the third reich to his place in vegas. 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 him judging by the pictures they look like skinheads. the owner of the farm also a 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. your thirties 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 there. on victory day may the ninth people still bring flowers not only to the military cemetery but also to thomas from the square the former location of the bronze soldier. culture is that so much of me is getting a lot of play here yeah but look at is it time to rethink capitalism as we know it today should the world still rely on markets to generate wealth in the rich only get richer and.
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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images seen from the streets of canada after. chunks of racial today. estonia was the first former soviet republic to join the euro zone. someone bought a bonnet as president of the talent institute for economics and management he knows only too well the price the a student in government how to pay for overcoming economy problems and meeting the terms required for joining mira was a. risky p.c. it was like everything was done to make it seem that the budget had
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a very low deficit and prevent inflation all pensions are expensive medical care growth and exercises and the like it is a good thing that we became more attractive for investors started with but actually there are the poorer sections of the population had to pay for all that. member of parliament human lenk 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 chopping 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. or lost restored a minimum a subsistence wage in a story a was sixty four euros that comes down to two euros the day i bought these pastries
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are telling central marketplace this morning but both cost them fifty euro cents. i want us not only grown cabbages are the cheapest here i eat them from vitamins any here is the cheapest cheese at least for a 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. back at the idea of my experiment was even reported by the international media i think that's why i was certain the story and government checked up living wage by thirteen yours to seventy seven because of this but don't forget that this son could buy me a nuclear soup nor toothpaste nothing but food reward oil at the leonore.
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anastasio guy will change though spends almost all of a pension to pay for utilities now she can only rely on a small plot of land ten kilometers from town she cycles there several times a week to see how a crop is fairing. well i'm too old for walk in the me i would show much of my bike takes me there thing gotta have it. after we go my darling i think of that said good boy. and it's just see here is a russian by nationality when a stoner declared independence in one thousand nine hundred one she backed the idea and even voted for secession in the referendum she has lived in a stone year for many years as a good command of the stony language she received a blue passport after a problem free process of naturalization. when the bronze soldier affair broke out
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they expose themselves as a people harboring ill will remain i am no longer wanted to be a citizen or support such a policy as i knew that i thought that it was a disgrace of war so i gave up a stone in citizenship but the thought of. no other is a town on a stone years north western border. nearly all major industrial plants have been closed down here in the past ten years. this channel really is the only leftover from the soviet union of ten lays only one still in operation one 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
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that you won't be able to find anywhere else in the stonier. 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 will be able find a different job. nearly fifty percent of novice population is jobless most of us attorneys 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 at a 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 cigarettes costs less than fifty euro cents in russia and no other old women
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standing outside shops all day long sell them at double the price expensive cigarettes are not brought in there was almost no demand for the 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. dystonia and government plan to introduce school reform by two thousand and seven. its prime objective was to make sure that all of the country's high schools including russian language ones used as stony and in the classroom put pressure from the e.u. about an amendment to the education law the abrupt change in legislation allows other languages to. when you when the apparent liberalism of a study in school legislation has been handsomely made up for by the severity of
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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 push in high school which is more than one hundred years old in. the high school named after the russian author pushkin the town of tar two is the pride of the stone years russian language schools even parents from neighboring population centers of sort of mission for their children. to be in your briac and a mathematician was appointed head of the school's teaching department in one thousand and four while she was in that post the school acquired a distinctive sphere and the special style of teaching moreover became a center of russian culture in touch in two thousand and three however the education ministry filed the school's principal. of the exam a spirit changed radically with the arrival of the new principal. that it changed
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so much through the teachers were afraid of talking to me. that they didn't want to the principal to see that they were still on good terms with me their three year victoria tried to keep the spirit of the school alive as in the end she gave up and quit her job. if the. i didn't like the new principal saying that the all that democracy should be scaled down. that she was say russians needed to be promoted all the time but. it's pains me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. you see. what's especially polling is that simulated teacher is head to face their
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pupils at a craft royalties many years have passed but i still recall those things with tears in the ice. many ethnic a stand in seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian then lin is actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. of a choir when you know russian speaking drivers when our tourists go to russia it's important that there are still drivers with a good command of russian they find it easier to get around there if they speak russian or when russian tourists come to finland they always get a russian speaking driver who can tell them about the plays and give advice. two weeks in finland one 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 is cherished dream the money he earned was enough to buy a plot of land pay for the design the building process takes all his free time all the cooler must finish everything before winter to settle down with his family and a new house. no 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 lim said one a thriving business in talent selling exotic goods from india but in a surprise move the stone in police began putting pressure on his business in the aftermath of his active participation in the two thousand and seven protests. that
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she is my partners gave in to pressure by special services and broke contracts with me as well they 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 month even if it's his home country to see his son. be careful there are photos of where he was the one is a very sharp well bore what your hands little of both of you take your shot or thank you before the very shop. after spending a couple of days at home dimitri limbs again goes abroad to earn money. is fruitless that one day the people of hysteria will no longer be divided into friends and foes but his energy and entrepreneurial talent once again be required in his home country.
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