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we've done to the future of coverage. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule today. this is the only place in the world where to an ancient fortress it stuns so close to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore with the knurled it was here that even borders 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 a friendship bridge linked the two towns novel and even gold as an effect formed a single municipality with a common infrastructure and transport system a stone eons in russians lived his side by side when a stony achieved independence in one thousand nine hundred one of the along the not over live it was reinstated the so-called friendship bridge became a checkpoint with flags of two different states once again flying over the old fortresses. the forests to no won independence in one thousand nine hundred one the struggle to session 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 the historical whitehall all faced our lament. came here in. late summer of ninety ninety one to declare recognition of the three baltic republics but yeltsin said here flanked by the chairmen of their parliaments garman off represented latvia last previous from lithuania in order to chill from a story and he also made a speech here he signed three trees with the baltic states. estonian historian mark lara began his struggle for his country's independence in the mid

one nine hundred eighty s. he organized and took part in memory a sense of protest. the most high profile of them was the famous bowl takeaway. 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. 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 a 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 and that's islam and communism. as a staunch opponent of communism markel are 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 mark lerner was one of those responsible for instituting a new day for stoney i think c.j. 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. and world war two. officially came to an end. by freedom fighters the defense minister means the few surviving veterans of the twentieth estonian s.s. division and all those in force on the side of nazi germany the veterans have been brought to the german cemetery on the outskirts of tal and where their brothers in arms are very. i am. god.

and. the police vans 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 of dimia matelot 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 you and i are going to be taking the main wreaths to the bronze soldier monument saw that their. public displays of soviet symbols are banned in a 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 bill in your face there are cases like that. and you but that's not the way they wear the medals now that's the situation here. it 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 grown soldier may the ninth is not a public holiday in a stone year 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 you are your hearers.

up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on tony's mighty square in central talon in two thousand and six this tony and government relocated the ground 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. we call on the people to make legal protests without violating the constitution or laws of the stonier dimitri linter is the organizer of the night watch movement the 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. oh. it's it is race it's it is drinks it's a disgrace. but i also noticed that there

were five or six thousand people there and it's not only. the national 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 or that over the building and said i better leave this place and that's what it's 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. the rest some and 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 monkey again this time police used tougher 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 and as the drums mixed. dimitri linzer was already in prison at the time. this is talon central prison the walk my cell was number five on the second floor. they kept many 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. 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 one vest

a geisha was in progress in the end all charges against him were lifted. finnish 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 occupy stonier. so i rejected the occupation myth regretably this to me it is the basis of the policy of our current hiding is tanya to be because when. you hand back one was deprived of the right to enter a stone year they have visited it 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 because of what they describe is anti stoning activity the story is prison

policies are indicative of an apartheid regime people there are divided into two groups citizens and non-citizens citizens are those who have old political and other rights in that society non-citizens are those who are deprived of those rights they hold great passports a passport. only a surgeon owns a minor television channel its programs often show water official estonian or thirty's tend to move north. in two thousand and eight was able to worm his way into the confidence of the farm owner in the village of the individual. i met with the farm owner about him. invites friends who fought on the side of the third reich to his place in van. 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 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 entering. its windows display a picture of a soldier of nazi germany. filth or she's just not he 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 outskirts today there is nothing but long as its 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. never occurred to us that a public display of decorations awarded for the fight against dashes and 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 the square a former location of the bronze soldier. culture is that so much i'm going to make a lot of the place very high up 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

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i i assume it was the first former soviet republic to join the euro zone. herman van 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 economic problems and meeting the terms required for joining mirrors and. used it as like everything was done to make it seem that the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation all pensions expensive medical care growth of exercisers and the like enters a good that we became more attractive for investors will start but actually there

are 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 for to spend even one cent above his budget because otherwise he would have ruined the experiment. restore the minimum a subsistence wage in a story a was sixty four euros that comes down to two euros the day i bought these pastries are telling central marketplace this morning but both cost fifty euro cents you have a sense 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 i was certain the story and government checked out living wage by through june uro's seventy seven. of a dance for get this son could buy me neither soup nor toothpaste nothing but food reward oil. anastasio a guide to change though spends almost all of her pension to pay the 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 area well i'm too old for walking in. much my bike takes me there thing 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 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 here for many years there's a good command of this tone in language she received a blue passport after a problem free process of naturalization. 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 the new like i thought it was

a disgrace of war so i give up estonian citizenship but the. number 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 channeling is the only left over from soviet union of ten lathes only one is 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 that you 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 will be able find a different job. but. 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 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 in narva a women 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 is. this truly an government plan to introduce all 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. brought about an amendment to the education law the abrupt change in legislation allows other languages to. many with 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 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 stoniest russian language schools even parents from neighboring population centers have sort of mission for their children. and totally unable yaka a mathematician was appointed head of the school's teaching the parliament in one thousand and four while she was in the 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 fired the school's principal. but. they had missed your changed radically with the arrival of the new principal. it changed so much 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. three year victoria tried to keep the spirit

of the school alive but in the end she gave up and quit her job. with the poor but i didn't like the new principal saying that all that democracy should be scaled down. she would say the russians needed to be promoted all the time. it's pains me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. you see. what's especially paul then is that humiliated 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 a stone in seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian then listen actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. when you know russian speaking drivers when our tourists go to russia it's important that there are skilled driver 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 on week at home this is the operating schedule of the estonian driver all the color 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 via thought 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 and 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 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. the trees 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 up a business in the stone instead he makes

a living in russia once a monthly visits his home country to see his son. be careful there. where he was the is a very shop. what your hands. think. well think of the border is very shallow. but after spending a couple of days at home in the trillions again goes abroad to earn money. and. his front is that one day the people of a stallion will no longer be divided into friends and foes and his energy and entrepreneurial talent will once again be required in his home country.

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