he is trying to. say. one thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines greece's prime minister says he's confident his hundred can pull out of crisis ahead of talks with the german chancellor in the meantime the government often says preparing to approve more unpopular taxes as he tries to convince european lenders to hand over another piece of the bailout drover a looming default. the u.n. security council prepares to submit the palestinian statehood bid for recognition and despite fierce objections from israel and the u.s. which is about to be told to move the palestinians could still gain partial recognition from the general assembly where they already have

a majority of support. nine out of ten your jobs in the u.k. being taken by immigrants this comes as the country struggles to create new work on that a start rising unemployment partially fueled by spending cuts. up next r.g.s. special insight into modern a stony a and it's uncomfortable relationship with its past the baltic state is now in the european union twenty years after being part of the soviet one stay with us. and. this is the only place in the world where two main she's cool to sit stand so close from each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore with the rover was here that even borders an old russian fortress was built opposite nanda a living human tussle. in the mid twentieth century hysteria was part of the soviet

union a friendship bridge look at some towns novel and even go out in effect formed a single municipality with a common infrastructure and transport system a stone ians and russians lived here side by side when a studio achieved independence in one thousand nine hundred one the border along another over liver was reinstated to the so-called friendship bridge a came a checkpoint with flags of two different states once again flying over the old fortresses. the forests to no one 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 when you are not feel. that this is the historical 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 said here flanked by the chairmen of their parliaments garman off represented latvia landsberg is from lithuania in early till from most tonia 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 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 bolton way up on august twenty third in one nine hundred eighty 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 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 clark

was one of those responsible for instituting a new day for stern and thinks is a there is not in the european style on may eighth but celebrations on that date more of an entirely different kind. after what we hear 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 end. 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. tali where their brothers in arms are buried. and.

the police banned 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 your retired colonel demian matelot sir was making preparations for victory day that allowed hello karl this is a motel it's a speaking how are you remember what we have agreed to do you're wearing all your medals right first because he you and i are going to be taking the main wreaths to the bronze soldier monument saw that all their. 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 littles on victory day you see you on previous occasions

youngsters will come up to you and spit in your face there are cases like that. you got laughs not the way the wear the medals now that's the situation here. then you 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 and sonya 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 carr your hearers. up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on time is

a mighty square and central talent and two thousand and six there stone in government relocated from soldier there was strong protests by the russophone population russian speakers account for one third of the republic's token 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 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 grace it's it is dreams it's it is grace. it's a put us under this that there were five or six thousand people there. was

. 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 who were at the top of the building and said i'd 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 me . was the rest some of the night watch activists 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

hundred fifty people were injured in ten days of clashes with police and 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 in history as the drums might. dimitri lin so it was already in prison at that time but this is talon central prison which was my cell was number five on the second floor. they could have made 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 the spring hill came under article two three eight of the criminal code concerning the organization of mass protests. in dimitri spend seven months in prison mon vesta gay should was in progress in the end all charges against him were lifted.

finnish 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. i reject the occupation myth regrettably this is me it is the basis of the policy of our guard hardiness twenty or thirty of those twenty year. view from backman was deprived of the right to enter a stone year 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 introduce tanya because of what they described as anti stone in activities like stone used prison 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 and other rights and that society non-citizens are those who are deprived of those rights they hold great passports. only for certain owns of minor television channels its programs often show watch official dystonia north or at least tend to ignore. and two thousand nato led 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 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

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 which is called a pizza rear 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 thirties does not heed the thousands of protesters who gathered on thomas ninety square in two thousand and seven the bronze soldier a monument to the liberation of talent was moved to the city's outskirts today there is nothing but 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 that our system 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 thomas marquis square the former location of the bronze soldier. wealthy british science. is not the type of.

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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 to overcoming economic problems and meeting the terms required for joining me here is a. risky p.c. everything was done to make it seem that the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation all pensions expensive medical care growth and exercises in 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. 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 he 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 story i was sixty four euros that comes down to euro as the daily. beast 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 plate full of. 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. and the experiment was even reported by the international media i think that's why all the sudden the story and government choked up a living wage by thirteen urals seventy seven. but don't forget that this son could buy me neither soup nor toothpaste nothing but food reward oil. anastasio guy looking throw stones 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 her crop is fairing more. well i'm too old for walking.

but my bike takes me there thing gotta have it off we go my darling my. that's a good boy. and it's just here 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. when the brown soldier affair broke out they expose themselves as a people harboring ill will. i am no longer wanted to be a citizen or support such policies as i knew that i thought that it was a disgrace. so i gave up estonian citizenship.

no that is a tile on a stone years northwestern border. nearly all major industrial plants have been closed down here in the past ten years. this channel 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 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 want people find a different job. nearly fifty percent of novice population is jobless most of a stone is russians are so-called norm citizens they break 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 a living here people avoid bringing in more than 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 narva old 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 not to take. 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. this story 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 but pressure from the e.u. brought about an amendment to the education law the abrupt change in legislation allows other languages to. me 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 and. the high school named after the russian author in the town of tar two is the pride of the stone is russian language schools even parents from neighboring population centers have sort

of mission for their children. and julian abreaction a mathematician was appointed head of the school's teaching with international to four while she was in that post school acquired a distinctive sphere and the special style of teaching and moreover it became a center of russian culture in tartu in two thousand and three however the education ministry filed the school's principal. of the. miss fear changed radically with the arrival of the new principal it. changed so much so that the teachers were afraid of talking to me or they didn't want the principal to see that they were still on good terms with me that three year victoria tried to keep the spirit of the school alive because in the end she gave up quite a little. if and where the special i didn't like the new principal saying that

all that democracy should be scaled down the marker. she would say russians needed to be provided all the time all the children in. it pains me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. why didn't you see. especially poland is that humiliated teachers had to face their pupils are perfectly evident many years have passed but i still recall those things with tears in my eyes. many ethnic aslan in seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian women is actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of

tourists visiting both countries grows. when you know russian speaking drivers when they were tourists or 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 plays and give advice. to weeks in finland when we can home this is the operating schedule of their stoney and 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 here was enough to buy a lot 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 lim so one of thriving business in talent selling exotic goods from india but in a surprise move as tony and police began putting pressure on his business in the aftermath of his active participation in the two thousand and seven protests. which is my partner's 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 false start up a business and dystonia instead he makes a living in russia once a monthly visits his home country to see his son. regular be careful there it was close to where he was the ones

a very shop full bore what your hands little boy was about it was a cool thing to shop with and people for the most very shop but. after spending a couple of days at home and again goes abroad so the money. his friend has 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 required in his home country. world to. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world.

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