exuding promise is exceptional of the treaties debility fuel business in russia will come to the similar regions for more information log on to the book invest in some of the all you. it is half past the hour here in moscow this is a president meeting with that it has suggested russia's finance ministers stetson down to the hoover and said on sunday he would not serve on the new government following the switch on top of russian policy this. year is a media scramble for an agent rescue plan to stave off the year a collapse under a new wave of global recession the international monetary fund the queues of not treating countries equally out of squads more cots for europe while doing and that because it's. on the un's most powerful body who has the tools and the palestinian

statehood bid which president mahmoud abbas handed in last week the u.s. and israel are being blamed for the dawning to be stalling. out i'll be about with the all things at around a minute's time right now the aussies special report on a story you need a soviet palsson it's radically anti soviet presence. and. this is the only place in the world where two main sheet four to six stand so close to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore and with the newer over his head that even borders an old russian fortress was built opposite nanda a living human concept. in the mid twentieth century eastern india was part of the soviet union a friendship bridge look at some towns novel and even go out in effect formed

a single municipality the common infrastructure and transport system a stone eons in russians lived here side by side when a studio achieved independence in one thousand nine hundred one of the border along the rover river was reinstated the so-called friendship fridge 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.

country managed to avoid the bloodshed that was characteristic of its baltic neighbors if and when you're not feeling. well that this is literally story corps wide hall of parliament. came here in. the late summer of one thousand nine hundred 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 original from astronomy and he also made a speech here he signed three treaties with the baltic states. estonian historian mark lara began his struggle for his country's independence in the mid 1980's they organized and took part in numerous acts of protest. the most high profile of them was the famous both that way. on august the twenty third

one thousand eight hundred nine people in the three soviet baltic republics of lithuania latvia and the stonier 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 independence which was a logical thing to do and if not 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 a stone europe tamed independence now he is the country's defense minister. in the soviet union victory in world war two was celebrated on may the ninth. was one of those responsible for instituting a new day for stern and they see day there is marked in the european style on may

eighth but celebrations on that date or of an entirely different kind. of what we care freedom fighters. sixty six years ago today. on may eighth one thousand nine hundred forty five. at a world war two. officially came to an animal. by freedom fighters the defense minister means the few surviving veterans of the twentieth estonian s.s. division and all those in fort on the side of nazi germany veterans have been brought to the german cemetery on the outskirts of tyler where their brothers in arms are buried. and i am. was. and. the police band speeches by representatives of public organizations and

wreaths from the government and other official agencies. on the same evening chairman of the anti fascist coalition of a stoney a retired colonel demian matelot was making preparations for victory day. l o karl this is mattel it's a speaking how are you remember what we have agreed to do you're wearing order medals right past because you you and i are going to be taking the main reef to the bronze soldier monument a saga that public displays of soviet symbols are banned in stone yet even though an exception has been made for veterans on may the eighth and ninth they were at risk if they venture out into the streets wearing their medals on victory day you said you know it on previous occasions youngsters would come up to you and spit in your face there are occasions like that. you but that's not the way the where the

medals now that's the situation here. is 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 mr mir thousands of people seek to obtain permission to be absent from work in order to come to the monument and greet the germans. thank you thank you you are you sure are your heroes. up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on thomas mighty square in central talent in two thousand and six this tony and government relocated the bronze soldier there was strong protests by the russophone population russian

speakers account for one third of the republic's total inhabitants even a stone stone to protest. what we call on the people to make legal protests without violating the constitution or laws of us donia dimitri linter is the organizer of the night watch movement a new public organization sought to have the government repeal its decision to relocate the bomb soldier activists organized around the clock vigil near the monument when it was dismantled people came to protest. though. it's it is grace it's it is drinks it's it is race. with the past and it is that there were five or six thousand people there it's not only.

the national i had two kids with me. and police launched a special operation to push the crowd back plain clothes men came up to me pointed to the snipers or the top of the building and said i better leave this place but it's sharpshooters were over there and there. and also in that tower. the windows were open. and i was the following morning i was arrested in my home and put in prison if there. was a list similar nightwatch activist didn't affect the situation in iraq the way. through the day after the dispersal of the first i'm strace and thousands of people came to the hmong to get this time police used tough and methods to break up the crowds with flash bang grenades and take. more than one hundred fifty people were injured in ten 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 history as the drums night. any tree limbs that was already in prison that time because this is talon central prison. my cell was number five on the second floor. they kept me different cells 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 to place them during it all came under article two three eight of the criminal code concerning the organization of mass protests. dimitri spent seven months in prison one best occasion was in progress in the end all charges against him were lifted to.

finish historian and head of the anti fascist center in helsinki johan blackman has published a work which he says proves the soviet troops didn't occupiers tonia. so i rejected the occupation myth you regrettably disown me if there's a basis of the policy of our guard hardiness twenty or thirty at this time here. you come back a man was deprived of the right to enter a stone year he had visited 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 interest on it because of what they described as antis tony an activity if the story is present policies are indicative of an armed guard hydrazine people there are divided into two groups of citizens and non-citizens 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 passports. only said in tones of minor television channel its programmes often show watch official estonian north or at least one can ignore. and two thousand nato led was able to worm his way into the confidence of the farm owner in the village of van of eagle. i met with a farm owner that's him. he invites friends who fought on the side of the third reich to his place in van and. 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 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 pizza rear in a nearby village nobody has ever seen it open all guests enter it. its windows display a picture of a soldier of nazi germany. he also receives does not heed the thousands of protesters who gathered on thomas mighty square in two thousand and seven the bronze soldier monument to the liberation of tallinn was moved to the city's outskirts today there is nothing good law but it's old spot. 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 a public display of decorations awarded for the fight against fascism might be

banned in europe fascism 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 thomas might be square the former location of the bronze soldier. culture is the so much it made me i'm going to make a lot of people here yeah but is it time to rethink capitalism is we know today should the world still rely on markets to generate wealth when the rich only get richer and. the.

man. from the muck. i. assume here 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 the euro zone. risky p.c. everything was done to make it seem like the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation all pensions expensive medical care growth of exercisers and the like it is good that we became more attractive for investors study but actually there are the poorest sections of the population had to pay for all that they were. a. member of parliament hema 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 big couldn't afford to spend even one cent above his budget because

otherwise he would have ruined the experiment. will not restore the minimum a subsistence wage in a stoney i was sixty four euros that comes down to two euros the day i bought these pastries are telling central market place this morning but both cost fifty euro cents worth of i want these locally grown cabbages are the cheapest here i eat them from 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 experiment was even reported by the international media i think that's why all the sudden the story and government checked out living wage white thirteen euro's to seventy seven

he said this but don't forget that this son could buy me neither soup nor toothpaste nothing but food reward oil. and it's just see a guy who changed though spends almost all of her 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. that well i'm too old for walking me i would watch my to my bike takes me there then gotta have it. off we go my darling. 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 secession in the referendum she has lived in

a stone here for many years as a good command of this journey and language she received a blue passport after a problem free process of naturalization. and that when the bronze soldier affair broke out they expose themselves as people harboring ill will. i no longer wanted to be a citizen or support such policies as i knew that i thought it was a disgrace. so i gave up estonian citizenship at the thought of. no other as a town a stone years northwestern border. nearly all major industrial plants have been closed down here in the past ten years. this tannery is the only left over 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 won't be able to find anywhere else in a stony or. being a production manager i wont 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 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 cigarettes costs less than fifty euro cents in russia in over a woman standing outside shops all day long sell them at double the price expensive cigarettes are not brought in there is 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. disturb me and government plan to introduce to reform by two thousand and seven. as 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 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 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. and totally unable yacc and a mathematician was appointed head of the school's teaching accountant in one thousand and four while she was in that post the school acquired distinctive out of sphere and the special style of teaching moreover it became a center of russian culture in town and two thousand and three however the

education ministry fired the school's principal. but the exam misfired changed radically with the arrival of the new principal. it changed to march through 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 there for a year victoria tried to keep the spirit of the school alive but in the end she gave up and quit her job. if that person 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. it pains me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity.

point of the book you see. what's especially appalling is that simulated teachers had to face their pupils at a country about this many years have passed but i still recall those things with tears in my eyes. many ethnic or stern 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. ever. when russian speaking drivers when they were tourists go to russia it's important that their skill dry was 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 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 a finnish bus company in two thousand and nine he bought a house his cherished dream the money he earned was enough to buy a lot of land pay for the design a 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. no for wages in western countries are three to four times higher than a stone i quit my job of my own accord to earn a little money while i was still a young man with many of my friends work in finland summer drivers others are construction workers still others work in norway. there was a time when dimitri lim said when 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. it sure 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 even a job with a small start up a business in the stone instead he makes a living in russia once a month he was it's his home country to see his son. be careful there. where he was though is a very sharp. what's your hands little of both of you speaking with sharp well thank you before the very shop. after spending a couple of days at home dimitri again goes abroad to earn money.

this truth is that one day the people of a story you will no longer be divided into friends and foes and his energy and entrepreneurial talent once again be required in his home country. to. bring you the latest in science and technology from the ground and. we are going to the future covered.

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