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commission free accreditation free transport charges free. range month free risk free. child free. download free broadcast quality video for your media project and a free media dog party dot com. this is the only place in the world went to an ancient school to system so close to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore and with the pool the rover was headed given gore's an old russian fortress was built opposite nanda a little human castle. in the mid twentieth century estonia was part of the soviet union a friendship that some towns nama and even go out in

a french film to single municipality the common infrastructure and transport system a stone eons in russians lived his side by side when a sunni 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 fool to seize. the forests to no one independence in one thousand nine hundred one the struggle for secession from the save the union in this republic was exceptionally peaceful. group.

the country managed to avoid the bloodshed that was characteristic of its baltic neighbors lithuania and latvia. this is the historical whitehall all of these tony and parliament. came here in the late summer of ninety ninety one to declare recognition at all the three baltic republics but yeltsin said here flanked by the chair in all their parliaments garman off represented latvia last previous from lithuania in early till from the store nia 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 baltic way. on august the twenty third one thousand eight 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. under germany i began my struggle against communism when i was still a college student at the same time i campaigned for a stony as independents 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 estonia obtained independence now he's 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 stern and 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. after. their freedom fighters. sixty six years ago today. on may eighth one thousand nine hundred forty five. a 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 fort on the side of nazi germany the veterans have been brought to the german cemetery on the outskirts. of taliban but their brothers in arms about.

the police bans 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 yeah we're tired colonel vladimir matelot so that's 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 they you and i are going to be taking the main wreaths to the ground soldier monument saw that all that public displays of soviet symbols are banned in a stern year even though an exception has been made for veterans on may the eighth the 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. and you can't laughs not the way the where the medals now that 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 stone yet 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 morry to all your hearers. up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on tone is mighty square in central italian and two thousand and six there stony and government relocated from

soldier there was strong protests by the russophone population russian speakers account for one third of the republic's token inhabitants even a stone stone to protest. what we call on the people to make legal protests without violating the constitution or laws of the stonier dimitri lim is the organizer of the nightwatch 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. though. it's it is trace it's it is drains it's it is trace. it's a pass under this that there were five or six thousand people there is now only.

one 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 who are 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 prisons of. a list some on 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 morning to get in 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 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 in history as the bronze knights. dmitri winter was already in prison that time but this is talon central prison much of the world 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 to place the story 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 censor in helsinki johan blackman has published a work which he says proves the soviet troops didn't occupy stonier. so i reject the occupation myth regrettably this me thing is the basis of the policy of our current hardiness tony it's a team of. your hand back man was deprived of the right to enter a stone you have 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 tanya because of what they describe is anti stoning activity the story is prison 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 their society non-citizens are those hordes of proud of those rights they hold great passports. only said in tones of minor television channel its programmes often show watch official a stone you know authorities can can ignore. and two thousand and eight i like was able to worm his way into the confidence of the farmer 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 r.v. . 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 that very many young people visit him and judging by the pictures they look like skinheads. the owner of the farm also is what is called a pizza rear and in there by a 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 fountains of protesters who gathered on thomas mighty square in two thousand and seven the bronze soldier the monuments 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. never occurred to us that

a public display of decorations awarded for the fight against sashes and 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 square the formal location of the bronze soldier. admission free cretaceous free in-store charges free. range month three. three stooges free. zone free broadcast flooding video for your media projects for free media r t v dot com. wealthy british stock.

market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. a report on. estonia 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 per overcoming economic problems and meeting the terms required for joining euro's are. risky p.c.

as with 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 exercises 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. 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 between to afford to spend even one cent above his budget because otherwise he would have ruined the experiment. last restored a minimum

a subsistence wage in a store nia was sixty four euros that comes down to two euros the day. these pastries are telling the central marketplace this morning what the both cost fifty euro cents of i want these lot only grown cabbages are the cheapest here i eat them for 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 of people offering advice support. the idea of my experiment was even reported by the international media i think that's why all the sudden the story and government living wage white through to europe was seventy seven.

of 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 so 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 her crop is fairing. that area well i'm too old for walking. but my bike takes me there thing gotta have it. off we go my darling i think of that said good boy. but mr c. 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 the stone in 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 a 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. nover is a town on 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 leftover from the soviet union of ten lays only one is to the 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 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 won't be able to find a different job. nearly fifty percent of the novice population is jobless most of a stone is russians are so-called normal citizens they grade passports given the rights and to 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 office 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 no other old women standing outside shops all day long sell them at double the price expensive cigarettes are not brought in there is almost no demand for them 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. dystonia government plan to introduce coal reform by two thousand and seven. its prime jet it 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. 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 push in high school which is more than one hundred years old in. the high school named after the russian north of pushkin 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 torreon abreaction 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 atmosphere and the special style of teaching moreover it became a center of russian culture in touch and two thousand and three however the education ministry fired the school's principal. and the priest there was fear

changed radically with the arrival of the new principal. but it changed so much through the teachers were afraid of talking to me. they didn't want to 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 a little. with the poor but i didn't like the new principal saying that the all that democracy should be scaled down. she would say the russians needed to be provided all the time. it's pains me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. points available you see. what's especially appalling is that humiliated teachers

had to face their pupils or crash or many years have passed but i still recall those things with tears in my eyes. many ethnic a stern in seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian then lynn is actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. over. russian speaking drivers when our tourists go to russia it's important that they're skilled drivers 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 one week at home this is the operating schedule of the estonian

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 here and was enough to buy a thought of land pay for the design of 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 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 of thriving business in talent selling exotic goods from india but in a surprise move estonian police began putting pressure on his business in the

aftermath of his active participation in the two thousand and seven protests. which really is my partners gave in to pressure by special services and broke contracts with me as well there were quite open about it. today dimitri cannot find either a job or this false start up a business in stone yet instead he makes a living in russia once a monthly visits his home country to see his son. it'll be careful the hospital or use the as a very shop job or what your hands little bubbles of the usual think shop walk into before the most very shop. after spending a couple of days at home and the tree limb goes abroad to earn money. the stroke was the one day the people of the studio will no longer be divided into friends and foes and his energy and entrepreneurial talent once again the

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