dostoevsky live in a sea of colors if you visit. a low blow from moscow you're watching r t international top stories tonight the first fallout from. putin's presidential plans as russia's finance minister is by the bed of sacked and executed after the treasury treif said on sunday that he couldn't serve under a new government russia's lead in time to switch jobs or the credit. bureaus only to scramble for urgent rescue plan to stave off the euro collapse and the new wave of global recession the international monetary fund's accuse of not printing countries equally as it prescribes small cuts while doing a very big. on the u.s.

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a singleness of policy for the common infrastructure and transport system as jillian's in russians lived here side by side when the studio 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. the former stoner won independence in one nine hundred ninety one the struggle for secession from the soviet union in this republic was exceptionally peaceful.

the country managed to avoid the bloodshed that was characteristic of its baltic neighbors if it were a new and not feel. this is the historical whitehall of the parliament yeltsin came here and. the late summer of one thousand nine hundred ninety one to declare recognition of the three baltic republics yeltsin said here flanked by the chairmen of their parliaments garman off represented latvia last release from lithuania in oriental from a store near yeltsin 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 take away. on august twenty third one thousand nine 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. and reserve a new 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 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. as one of those responsible for instituting a new day for stern and thinks is

a there is marked in the european style on may eighth but celebrations on that date or of an entirely different kind. of what we hear 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 a burial. was. a

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 a matelot a 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 bronze soldier monument saw battle 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 are at risk if they venture out into the streets wearing their middles on victory day you see you know it on previous occasions youngsters would come up to you and spit in your face there are cases

like that. you got laughs not the way they wear the medals now but that's the situation here. it is not an honor any longer. the russian military cemetery entirely 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 still mia 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 lori to our north yours. up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on thomas mighty square in central talim in two thousand and six history and government relocated the bronze

soldier there were strong protests by the russophone population russian speakers account for one third of the republic spoken have a sense 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 the new public organizations 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. oh. it's it is race it's it is drains it's a disgrace. to support us and it is that there were five or six thousand people there with us now live.

in washington i had two kids with me. police launched a special operation to push the crowd back plain clothes men came up to me pointed to the snipers who were at the top of the building and said i better leave this place. sharpshooters were over there and there. and also in that tower. the windows were open. and all of the following morning i was arrested in my home and put in prison for a period. the rest some of the night watch activist 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 crowd with flash bang grenades and take. 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 are since become known in history as the brahms night. dmitri linter was already in prison that time the guns this is talon central prison which was my cell was number five on the second floor of a well 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. i mean it all came under article two three eight of the criminal code concerning the organization of mass protests in dimitri's spend seven months in prison one investigation was in progress in the end all charges against him were lifted.

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 stonier. so i rejected the occupation myth regrettably this is me this is the basis of the policy of our guard hardiness tonia to deal with this twenty year. deal ham backman was deprived of the right to enter a stone year i have 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 tony because of what they described his entire story and activity and story as present policies are indicative of an i-pod hydra regime people there are divided into two groups citizens and non-citizens citizens are those who have all political and

other rights in that society non-citizens are those towards the proud of those rights they hold great passports. only said in tones of minor television channel its programmes often show watch official estonian or thirties tend to ignore. in two thousand and eight zero leg was able to worm his way into the confidence of the farm owner in the village a valid legal. i met with the farm owner that's him and. he invites friends who fought on the side of the third reich to his place in van a. 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 him judging by the pictures they look like skinheads. the owner of the farm also is what is called a pizzeria and in nearby village nobody has ever seen it open all guests entering. its windows display a picture of a soldier of nazi germany. the authorities did not heed the thousands of protesters who gathered on thomas ninety square in two thousand and seven a bronze soldier monument to the liberation 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

a public display of decorations awarded for the fight against fascism might be banned in europe that some 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. culture is that so much of me is going to make it a lot of people a very complicated 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.

markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r g. estonia was the first former soviet republic to join the euro zone. herman but

obama is president of the talon institute for economics and management he knows only too well the price the a stallion government had to pay for overcoming the konami problems and meeting the terms required for joining neuros a. risky. everything was done to make it seem like the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation all pensions expensive medical care growth and exercisers and the like it is good that we became more attractive for investors to study but actually there are the poorest sections of the population had to pay for all that. a. member of parliament in my 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 chopping was something of an ordeal for him a link for to spend even one cent above his budget because otherwise he would have ruined the experiment. just all the minimum a subsistence wage in a story i was sixty four euros that comes down to two euro's the day i bought these pastries with dell and central market place this morning thought both cost fifty euro cents worth of i want these locally grown cabbages are good cheapest here i eat them for vitamins any here is the cheapest cheese at least for the. 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. living wage white thirds in europe was seventy seven. this year but don't forget this some could buy me neither soup nor toothpaste nothing but food reward oil. and it's just see a guy who can go 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 her crop is fairing. that well i'm too old for walking. but to my bike takes me there thing gotta have it. off we go my darling. that's a good boy. anastasio is

a russian by nationality when the stone clad independence in one thousand nine hundred one she backed the idea and even voted for secession in a referendum she has lived in a stone year for many years and has a good command of this tone and language she received a blue passport after a problem free process of naturalization. when the bronze soldier affair broke out and they expose themselves as people harboring ill will. i no longer wanted to be a citizen or support such policies as. i thought it was a disgrace. so i gave up estonian citizenship for this. novel as 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 tannery is the only left over from the

soviet union of ten lathes only one is to than 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 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 to be a. nearly 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 know six or seven times a day it's a small business you know half of the people in town live offered 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 a knob or a women standing outside shops all day long sell them at double the price expensive cigarettes and not brought in it was almost no demand for the people holding great passports have difficult job outside nodded to. the grey 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 this is no point in that we are slaves here that's all there is to it is. this to me and government plan to introduce to 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 sternly and in the classroom put 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 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 is 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 author pushkin the town of tar two is the pride of the stone is russian language schools even parents from neighboring population centers of sort of mission for their children. truly a 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 it became a center of russian culture in talking in two thousand and three however the education ministry fired the school's principal. but the professional they had my spirit changed radically with the arrival of and your principal. that changed so much through the teachers were afraid of talking to me. they didn't want the principal to see that they were still in good terms with me. 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. i didn't like the new principal saying that the all that democracy should be scaled down. the usa russians needed to be provided all the time. it's

a pain to me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. for that you see. what's especially appalling is that simulated teacher is had to face their pupils or their cash for evidence but many years have passed but i still recall those things with tears in my eyes. many ethnic a stone in seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian penland is actively promoting relations with russia each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. ever quiet when the russian speaking drivers when our tourists call to russia it's important that there are still drivers with

a good command of russia 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. to weeks in finland one week at home this is the operating schedule of the estonian driver told the caller after he got employment with a finnish bus company in two thousand and nine it was a house his cherished dream the money here was enough the vast 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 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 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 a stone in police began putting pressure on his business in the aftermath of his active participation in the two thousand and seven protests. and she was my partners gave in to pressure by special services and broke contracts with me 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 he visits his home country to see his son. be careful there. where he was the ones a very shop. what your hands of it was like your thinking. well thank you the order is very. good after spending

a couple of days at home dimitri again goes abroad to earn money. this proves that one day the people of a studio will no longer be divided into friends and foes and his energy and entrepreneurial talent will once again be required in his home country. download the official. i pod touch from the q saps to. life on the go. video on demand on cheese money food costs and says feed now in the palm of your.

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