markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a new look at the global financial headlines new kinds of reports. welcome back this is your life from moscow with me to the week's top stories now and the gloves are off in new york as protesters feel the strong arm of the law seven hundred people are arrested as authorities adopt a zero tolerance policy towards the rapidly escalating. wall street movement against greed and inequality. preelection grips russia with president here they're forced to clarify both his power plant. and sudden departure of the

country's long standing finance minister. greece on the brink. specter a scramble to secure more bailout cash for the crumbling economy with just a week to go until the meltdown this comes as the french president warns of a new global crisis. and an explosive standoff blockades of a disputed border post more than a hit hard by nato troops leaving at least several people. out of those are the main headlines of the past week here on our stick around next we head to the former soviet republic of estonia a country which twenty years ago sought out a peaceful succession and nowadays tends to reject any symbols of its soviet past a special report. this is the only place in the world where to name change call to sit stand so close

to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore with the over his head that even borders an old russian fortress was built opposite nanda a living room castle. in the mid twentieth century hysteria was part of the soviet union a friendship a look at some towns novel and even go out and effect forms a single newness and policy of the common infrastructure and transport system as stallions in russians lived here side by side when a sunni achieved independence in one thousand nine hundred one the border along another over liver 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 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 if and when you are not there. or that this is the historical wide hall of parliament. came here in. the late summer of one nine hundred ninety one to declare recognition of the three baltic republics with yeltsin sat here flanked by the cheering you know their parliaments off represented latvia landsberg is from

lithuania in the early chill from the stonier 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 both that 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 link in the three capitals. on which are going to be 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's 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 estonia thinks is a there is marked in the european style on may eighth but celebrations on the tapes are of an entirely different kind. of what 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 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. tallinn well they're brothers in arms of barry. 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 stony or retired colonel demian matelot sir was making preparations for victory day carolina 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 reef to

the bronze soldier monument some 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 were 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 spill in your face there are cases like that. you can't laughs 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 bronze soldier may the ninth is not a public holiday and sonja 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 and central talent in two thousand and six their stone in government relocated the ground soldier there were strong protests by the russophone population russian speakers account for one third of the republic's tokyo hundred six even a stone stone to protest. what we call on the people to make legal protests without violating the constitution or laws of a stonier dimitry linter is the organizer of the nightwatch 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 it is race. to support us and it is there were five or six thousand people there with this knowledge of. the march and 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 but it's the sharpshooters were over there and there. and also in their tower. the windows were open. and all of the following morning i was arrested in my home and put in prison for three of. 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 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 has since become known in history as the brahms night. dimitri linter was already in prison at the time of this is trial and central prison much of the world mysel was number five on the second floor. they kept may different cells but here we can see it. because i was charged with spreading lies and media interviews about tough police behavior and accused of spreading

anti-government sentiment to place them i mean 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 investigation was in progress and the end all charges against him were lifted. finish historian and head of the anti fascist center in house thinking johan back when 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 party hardiness tony it's a dream for those twenty. yo man back a man 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 enter east tanya because of what they described as anti historian activity is a stone used present 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 a minor television channel its programs often show watch official dystonia north origins tend to ignore. and 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. it 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 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 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. it never occurred to us that a public display of decorations awarded for the fight against fascism might be banned in europe that 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.

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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 konami problems and meeting the terms required for joining murals i'm. used to being here everything was done to make it seem live the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation all pensions expensive medical care growth and exercises 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 lovely. member of

parliament he malenko agreed to take part in an experiment suggested by journalists on a popular internet site this 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 to ford 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 i was sixty four euros that comes down to two euros the day i bought these pastries are telling central marketplace this morning for what 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 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 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 by pillaging urals seventy seven. of this but don't forget this some could buy me neither soup nor toothpaste nothing but food reward oil. anastasio guided chained 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 her crop is very. starry 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. and it's just here is a russian by nationality when a stone a 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 and has a good command of the stone in language she received a blue passport after a problem free process of naturalization. when the brown 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. i thought it was a disgrace. so i gave up a stone in citizenship. but there are.

no other as a turn on a stone is northwestern border. nearly all major industrial plants again closed down here in the past ten years. this tannery is the only left over from the so. of ten lays 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 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. nearly fifty percent of novice population is jobless most of us don't use russians our so-called norm citizens their great 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 should all six or seven times a day it's a small business you know half of the people in town live off it 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 and now over a 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 jobs outside nor 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 to me and government plan to

introduce school reform by two thousand and seven. it's project it 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. court about an amendment to the education law the abrupt change in legislation allows other languages to. me with the apparent liberalism of a sternly 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 in. 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 the children. torreon abreaction a mathematician was appointed head of the school's teaching moment in ninety four while she was in that post the school acquired a distinctive of sphere and a special style of teaching moreover it became a center of russian cultural untouchable in two thousand and three however the education ministry fired the school's principal. but a professional their spirit changed radically with the arrival of and your principal. changed so much through the teachers were afraid of talking to me all they didn't want the principal to see that they were still in good terms with me thinking that per year victoria tried to keep the spirit of the school alive but in the end she gave up and quit lit up. with a poor that i didn't like the new principal saying that the all that democracy

should be scaled down. the usa russians needed to be prodded all the time. it's a pain to me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. when they were there that you see. what's especially appalling is that humiliating teachers had to face their pupils or their craft for ever this many years have passed but i still recall those things with tears in my eyes. many ethnic estonians seek employment abroad precisely because they speak russian penland is actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. quiet when russian speaking

drivers when they were tourists going to russia it's important that there are still 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 and waterhouse his cherished dream the money here was enough to buy a 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. 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 when 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. but she is my partners gave in to pressure by special services and brought contracts with me because they were quite open about it. today dimitri cannot find even a job with this false start of a business in the stone instead he makes a living in russia once a month he visits his home country to see his son. it would be careful there was total we was the ones a very shop full bore what you hands little bubbles but it was like you were

thinking shop was thinking before the very shop. after spending a couple of days at home dimitri limbs goes abroad to earn money. is proof is that one day the people of the 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.

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