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is the only place in the world went to my ancient school to sit stand so close to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore with the rover was heaven even burridge an old russian fortress was built opposite now that the living room concept. in the mid twentieth century hysteria was part of the soviet union a friendship which linked the two towns nama and even go out and affect the single municipality 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 liver was reinstated the so-called friendship bridge came a checkpoint with flags of two different states once again flying over the old fortresses .

the former studio 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 lithuania and latvia. this is the historical wide hollow face tony and parliament. came here in the late summer of one nine hundred 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 rachel from a store near the also made a speech here he signed three treaties with the baltic states. estonian historian mark lara forgotten his struggle for his country's independence in the mid 1980's he organized and took part in numerous acts of protest. the most high profile of them was the famous baltic way. on august twenty third one thousand nine hundred nine people in the three soviet baltic republics of lithuania latvia and estonia formed a six hundred kilometer human chain linking the three capitals. and 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 after 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 claimed 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 stone it thinks is a there is marked a new european. style on may eighth but celebrations on the tapes are of an entirely different kind. after we are 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 tal and when their brothers in arms a barrier. that. was. 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 bloody me a 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 he you and i are going to be taking the main wreaths to

the bronze soldier monument saw that 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 but today you see you on previous occasions youngsters would come up to you and tell your face there are cases like that. but that's not the way the 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 bronze 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 lori to our north yours. up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on thomas maggie square and central talent in two thousand and six this tony and government relocated the ground soldier there were strong protests by the russophone population russian speakers account for one third of the republics tocome hundreds even a stone stronger protests. what 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 bronze 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. it's a put out some of this there were five or six thousand people there but 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 the over the building and said i better leave this place. sharpshooters were over there and there. and also in that tower. up 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 and

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 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 has since become known history as the drums mixed. to me trillin so it was already in prison that time the but this is talon central prison. my cell was number five on the second floor. they kept me in different cells but here we can see it. i was charged with spreading lies in media interviews

about tough police behavior and accused of spreading anti-government sentiment bring 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 vest a geisha 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 reject the occupation myth regrettably this is me that is the basis of the policy of our current hardiness tonia to be near. you man back when was deprived of the right to enter estonia i have visited it 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 described as antis tony an activity based on years present policies are indicative of an i pod hydrazine 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 who are deprived of those rights they hold great passports. only seven ohms of minor television channel and programmes often show watch official dystonia north origins tend to ignore. and two thousand and eight was able to worm his way into the confidence of the farm owner and the village of the individual. 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 him judging by the pictures they look like skinheads. the owner of the farm also as what is called a pizza rear and in the 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 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 the 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 bashes them was responsible for the loss of so many lives their position. on 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 ground soldier.

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stone it 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 the moment problems and meeting the terms required for joining the euro zone. easy everything was done to make it seem like the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation pensions expensive medical care

growth and excises and the like it is good that we became more attractive for investors will stay but actually there are the poorest sections of the population had to pay for all that. a. member of parliament he malenko 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. restore the minimum a substance wage in a story i 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 the sense of i want these locally grown cabbages are the cheapest here i eat them from vitamins in here is the cheapest cheese or 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. and the experiment was even reported by the international media i think that's why all the sudden the story and government jerked up a living wage by thirteen euro's to seventy seven. but don't forget that this son could buy i mean either a soup nor toothpaste nothing but food reward oil.

and instead 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 area well i'm too old for walking. but my bike takes me there thank god i have it. off we go my darling. that's a good boy. anastasio is a russian by nationality when a stone is declared independence and nine hundred ninety one she backed the idea and even voted for secession in the referendum she has lived in a stone here for many years has a good command of the stone and language she received a blue passport after a problem for the process of naturalization. and that when the bronze soldier

affair broke out they expose themselves as a 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. so i gave up estonian citizenship. 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 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 the stonier. 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. really 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 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 was almost no demand for them people holding great passports have difficulty finding a job outside north 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 cool reform by two thousand and seven. this project 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. about an amendment to the education law the abrupt change in legislation allows other languages to. money 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 in. the high school named after the russian orthopod skin the town of tar two is the pride of the stone years russian language schools even parents from neighboring population centers have sort of mission for their children. and truly a new briac in a mathematician was appointed head of the schools teaching the parliament in ninety ninety four while she was in that post school acquired a distinctive a sphere and a special style of teaching moreover it became a center of russian culture in tar two in two thousand and three however the education ministry by the school's principal. that they have my spirit changed radically with the arrival of the new principal. that it changed so much so that

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 the first one i didn't like the new principal saying that the all that democracy should be scaled down. that 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. right over there you see everything of course especially pollan is that humiliated teacher and had to face their pupils are powerful evidence but many years have

passed by just to recall those things with tears in my eyes. many ethnic this turn in seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian fenlon is actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. when you know russian speaking drivers when there were tourists all 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 could home this is the operating schedule of their stoney and driver olvey 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 thought of land pay for the design of building process takes all his free time all the color must finish everything before winter to settle down with his family in a new house. over 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 lynsay run a thriving business in tallinn 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 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 stonier instead he makes a living in russia once the monthly visits his home country to see his son. good luck be careful they're profitable for you as the ones a very shop full bore what you hands little baubles about the usual thing to shop with enjoyable ornaments very shop. after spending a couple of days at home to meet again those a pool of money. i was from chris that one day the people of the studio will no longer be divided into friends and foes and his energy and entrepreneurial talents were once again being quiet in his home country.

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