welcome back you're watching our live from moscow and bees are the headlines the arab spring echoes in america u.s. police use force to disperse as you wall street protesters arresting more than seven hundred people taking part in a rally that's quickly gaining momentum across the country. and across the atlantic in the u.k. unions angry at budget cuts to bring thousands out to rally demanding a david cameron's coalition government resign. also in this week's top stories president medvedev explains his decision not to run for a second term

a citing body near putin's greater popularity at home his comments comment a surprise interview that stirred up debate about the country's political future. and garden about a terrorist situation in the besieged libyan town of sered where people are dying from a lack of vital supplies amid ongoing fighting something experts say makes nato's mission to protect civilians more questionable than ever. and next we have to the former soviet republic of estonia a country which twenty years ago sought out a peaceful succession and nowadays stands to reject any symbols of its soviet past our special report is next r.t. . this is the only place in the world where two ancient fortresses stand so close to each other. in the middle ages russia's border run along the shore with the newer

over was here that even border an old russian fortress was built opposite nanda a living room atrocity. in the mid twentieth century hysteria was part of the soviet union a friendship bridge look at some towns. and even go out in effect formed a single municipality with a common infrastructure and transport system a stone eons 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 forests to no one independence in one nine hundred ninety one the struggle for

secession from the save the union in this republic was exceptionally peaceful. country managed to avoid the bloodshed that was characteristic of its baltic neighbors if and when you are not fair. or that this is the historical wide stallion parliament. here in the late summer of ninety ninety one to declare recognition at all of the three baltic republics with yeltsin said here flanked by the chair in all their parliaments and off represented latvia lancer b.s. from lithuania in early chilled from a 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 he organized intraparty 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 the stonier formed a six hundred kilometer human chain linking the three capitals. on to reserve a new 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 mark clark was one of those responsible for instituting a new day for stony faces a there is marked in the european style on may eighth but celebrations on that date more of an entirely different kind. of what we care 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 and fought on the side of nazi germany the veterans have

been brought to the german cemetery on the outskirts. of talent with their brothers in arms a barrier. 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 stone yeah we're tired colonel vladimir matelot sir was making preparations for victory day kyra hello karl this is a matelot are 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 all 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 are at risk if they venture out into the streets wearing their medals on victory day you see you know it on previous occasions youngsters would come up to you and spit in your face there are cases like that. and but that's not the way the where the medals now that's the situation here. it's 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 mr mir 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 the more you can argue here is that.

up until two thousand and seven the memorial stood on thomas mighty square in central talim in two thousand and six there stone in government relocated the bronze soldier there was strong protests by the russophone population russian speakers account for one third of the republic spoken however since even a stone was trying to protest. what we called on the people to make legal protests without violating the constitution or laws of a stonier dimitry lynch is the organizer of the nightwatch movement a 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 drains it's it is drains it's a disgrace. to support us and it is there were five or six thousand people there it's not only with. the 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 the top of the building and said i better leave this place. sharpshooters were over there and there. and also in that tower where the windows were open. and all the following morning i was arrested in my home and put in prison for a period. i missed some of nightwatch activists didn't affect the situation in any radical way. the day after the dispersal of the first m stray ssion 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 some 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 in history as the bronze knights. dimitri winter was already in prison at the time because this is talon central prison which the war mysel 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 spend seven months in prison one bust a geisha is in progress in the end all charges against him were lifted. finish historian and head of the anti fascist censor and how saintly johann blackman 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 if this is the basis of the policy of our court hardiness tony i totally at this time in. your hand backman was deprived of the right to enter a stoner he had 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 if a story is 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 in their society and non-citizens are those towards a proud of those rights they hold great passports. only said in tones of minor television channel its programmes often show watch official dystonia north or at least ten thousand ignore. and two thousand nato led 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 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 and judging by the pictures they look like skinheads. the owner of the farm also is what is called the 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 mighty square in two thousand and seven the bronze soldier monument to the liberation of talon was moved to the city's

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 sashes and 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 thomas marquis square the former location of the bronze soldier. i'll. remind you the latest in science and technology from around for.

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obama is president of the talent 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 your is a. risky it doesn't the everything was done to make it seem that the budget had a very low deficit and prevent inflation low pensions expensive medical care growth of exercises and the like and is good that we became more attractive for investors study but actually the poorest sections of the population had to pay for all that. a. member of parliament 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 i lent 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 store you know was sixty four euros that comes down to two euro as the daily. beast research dollars central marketplace this morning the author both cost fifty euro cents you have the sense of i want us not up with these locally grown cabbages are the cheapest here i eat them from vitamins in here is the cheapest cheese for the world. nearly every day he posted reports on his expenditures on the internet by the end of the month the whole nation is following his daily reports he received hundreds of letters with people offering advice support. back at the idea

of my 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 urals to seventy seven. at this point don't forget a bit of this some could buy me neither soup nor toothpaste nothing about food reward oil. anastasio guy lucentio spends 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 how a crop is fairing. well i'm too old for walking. but my bike takes me there then got to have it. off we go my darling. that's a good boy. anastasio 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 and has a good command of this journey and language she received a blue passport after a problem free process of naturalization. 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 i thought it was a disgrace. so i gave up a stone in citizenship at the. novel as a child 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 sale. of ten lathes 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 the new products he 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 only able find a different job. billy fifty percent of novice population is jobless most of the stonies 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 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 jobs outside north or 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. history and government plans to introduce to 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. 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 pushkin high school which is more than one hundred years old. 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 school's teaching department and nine

hundred ninety four while she was in the post school acquired a distinctive atmosphere and a special style of teaching and moreover it became a center of russian culture in tartu in two thousand and three however the education ministry by the school's principal. misfire changed radically with the arrival of the new principal. 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 a little. if the first i didn't like the new principal saying that that all that democracy should be scaled down. that she would say the russians needed to be promoted all the time. it's

a pain to me to see my teachers losing their sense of dignity. you see. what's especially poland is that humiliated teachers had to face their pupils passionately about this but 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 the england is actively promoting relations with russia with each year the number of tourists visiting both countries grows. over a quiet when you know russian speaking drivers when they were tourists all to russia it's important that there are still dry was would

a good command of russian they find it easier to get around there if this be question like 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 all the cooler after he got employment with a finnish bus company in two thousand and nine it was a house his cherished dream the money here was enough to buy a thought of land pay for the design of the 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. 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 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 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 partner's 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 all start up a business and sterner instead he makes a living in russia on the monthly visits his home country to see his son. be careful there. where he was the ones a very shop. what your hands little boy's body was like your shop walking toward a very shop. after spending

a couple of days at home dmitri again goes abroad to earn money. his truth is that one day the people of a studio will no longer be divided into friends and foes but his energy and entrepreneurial talent will once again be required in his home country.

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