well, firstly, how to consolidate the space of central eastern europe, i, uh, have a bad idea how too it to a different extent. well, in which how, for example, uh, these states of central eastern europe can be serious, but independent factors in the common eu line. how can they, for example, dictate the agenda. and the same germany france or e. there, if we are talking about the europlant community as a state, well, let's see, but the czechs, right? well, to what extent, but there a year and a half ago, and the czech republic, which, uh, russian capital is seriously present, where economic cooperation is close, that's the extent to which it was interested in such a serious zeroing of relations with us, and up to the announcement of us terrorist state. on my own with from the point of view of its internal, as if we were talking about national interests. yes, in no way, yes, but nevertheless it happened, and it seems to me that a rather obvious question is a rather obvious answer to the question of how independent they are, how much they can a-a represent this radical, uh, common forc

well, firstly, how to consolidate the space of central eastern europe, i, uh, have a hard time imagininga different degree. well, in what way how, for example, uh, these states of central eastern europe can be serious, but independent factors in the general estonian line, as they, for example, can dictate rather than agenda. and the same germany , france, or uh, there, if we are talking about the europlant community as a state, let 's see, but the czech republic yes, well, to what extent, and there a year and a half ago? and the czech republic, which, uh, seriously has russian capital, where there is close economic cooperation, that's the extent to which it, but was interested in such a serious renewal of relations with us, and up to declaring us a terrorist state. by itself, from the point of view of its internal, how would we conspire national interests. yes, in no yes, but nevertheless it happened and it seems to me that a rather obvious question is a rather obvious answer to the question of how independent they are, how much they can represent this radical, uh, common force, but how

and people who use drugs are persecuted and marginalized, instead of being helped to fritz in eastern europe, is especially affected. russia has the highest infection rate on the european continent. high risk groups have little access to pre exposure prophylaxis. instead they are criminalized. prejudice is also a problem o h i v aids is often called a gay disease, including and ukraine. but the l g b to q plus community there is mobilizing against that stigma. the truth is that aids affects the whole of society. and in ukraine, the situation is deteriorated due to the war. people with h, i v aids need health care, and that includes ukrainian refugees in germany. that's why a portion of the proceeds from this years gala will go to aids projects for ukrainian refugees, 375000 euros and donations a records thumb. but it's still not enough to fight the disease causing my venture . toughest guns. what i wish for mentally i wish that we would finally get a vaccine one out of school with covered it took about a year because there was a lot of funding in public entrusted presser. and here with h, i.

that would be quite serious. figs forces in eastern europe. that would be quite serious.t. the _ would be quite serious. as you point out, the potential- would be quite serious. as you point out, the potential for- point out, the potentialfor escalation here is quite severe or a real possibility. we understand president biden has been speaking with the nato secretary general. what do you think the two will be trying to ascertain, ortry think the two will be trying to ascertain, or try to pin down, in terms of red lines here, in terms of what action they take next? , , ., ~ next? they will be talking about what _ next? they will be talking about what each - next? they will be talking about what each side - next? they will be talking about what each side has| about what each side has learned. i think they will be discussing about next steps, the best ways to coordinate a response, making sure that the us and nato are in sync of whatever they do, that there is no daylight between the two, and also that both of then would reassure the eastern europeans that they will be prote

and people who use drugs are persecuted and marginalized, instead of being helped to switzer eastern europe is especially affected. russia has the highest infection rate on the european continent. high risk groups have little access to pre exposure prophylaxis. instead they are criminalized. prejudice is also a problem. h i v aids is often called a gay disease, including and ukraine. but the l g b to q plus community there is mobilizing against that stigma. the truth is that aids affects the whole of society. and in ukraine the situation is deteriorated due to the war, people with h i v aids need health care and that includes ukrainian refugees in germany. busy that's why a portion of the proceeds from this years gala will go to aids projects for ukrainian refugees. $375000.00 euros and donations a record thumb. but it's still not enough to fight the disease. public melvin sher, toughest gun. what i wish for hindley, i wish that we would finally get a vaccine one out of school with covered it took about a year because there was a lot of funding in public untrusted presser. and here with h,

and to be honest about the fact that the former soviet union tried to dominate not only in eastern europein many other parts of the world. this did not benefit the non-russian people. moreover, it could not cause positive reactions among our quasi-partners. i am glad that we just still have a lot of people who not only do not understand russian, but speak russian and they are also very close to your culture, your literature historically, looking and looking into the future , we need this, to be good neighbors. and as we will be good neighbors, and so we will be good friends. i noticed one of signs on the street and uh, i read it like that in broken polish. i say listen, alexander, look, you have knowledge here, as we also have the palace bridge in st. petersburg. he says, yes, there is a palace bridge, but only in polish, this word means not a palace, but a station and the fact that we have a palace. but, if we do not want our palaces to look like train stations, but, on the contrary, we want our stations to look like palaces. we need to work together, i agree. there are we on the axis kn

as we head through the second half of the week, it's a dominant area of high pressure across eastern europets influence over us. we also start to pick up an east or a southeasterly wind and that will start to push some slightly colder air across not not slightly colder air across not as cold as it is across eastern europe, but it will be feeling colder compared to recently. but for the week ahead with high pressure, things are looking mostly dry. lighter winds, but some problems with fog and things this is bbc news. i'm ben boulos. the headlines. anti—government protests in china against strict covid restrictions are spreading, with some demonstrators calling for the country's leader, president xi, to go. with rail workers and nurses among the public sector workers voting to take strike action in the run—up to christmas, politicians are coming under pressure to promise pay deals which match the cost of living. energy suppliers are being asked by the business secretary to make sure direct debit payments reflect customers' actual energy use and don't become inflated when people are cutting ba

this is what i think is a medical tandem for the future of eastern europe. ole. britain as part of this union is not yet discussed. or rather, what we started with and what we actively discussed in february and in january, there is a nuance here, well , it happened that great britain left the european union, but the same macron that you mentioned, he also initiated an interesting idea of ​​creating a european political community which should unite the countries of the european union and those countries of europe that are not part of the european union, and here are the countries of eastern europe that have european aspirations, such as ukraine, georgia, moldova, but are not yet part of the eu . to the topic of poland, which is building a cooperation mechanism, a country that is a member of the european union and which is only a candidate, and cooperation is already very active, and we are gaining some experience here, and the main thing is that we are thus demonstrating the possibilities of effective cooperation because there was a program. well, it remains a

one must say frankly and honestly that the former soviet union tried to dominate not only in eastern europe but also in many other parts of the world. this did not benefit, and the russian people, all the more, could not cause positive reactions from our quasi-partners. i am glad that we still have a lot of people who not only do not understand russian, they speak russian , and they are also very close in your culture to your literature, they have looked historically and looking into the future, we need it to be good neighbors. and as we will be good neighbors, so we will be good friends, i turn. attention to one of the signs on the street and read it like this in broken polish. i say, listen, alexander, look, you have knowledge here, like we have in st. petersburg too there is a palace bridge. he says, yes, there is a palace bridge, but only in polish, uh, this word means not a palace. and the station. listen, well, how rich the poles are, that we have a palace more than just a train station. if we do not want our palaces to look like train stations, but, on the contrary, we want our stati

and what is your leadership of eastern europe based on and the answer would probably be such a desire why because leadership in europe is me i understand what vanya said about what is definitely in ukraine if we take europe yes, well, the most combat-ready army that took part has experience in hostilities, but for a person that this is completely lacking, you understand, and ukraine has its economy no, and poland has enough economy to qualify. will you be in eastern europe third third moment? well, the idea is nova how do you understand the world from the sea to the sea? yes, listen, which countries in eastern europe are which well, the opinions of brussels for which are not as important as the opinion of the americans, this is the same poland is the same beam countries and so on. say for the sake of the octopus. why do the americans need to unite these countries into some kind of large military-political union? why do they need it? they have always acted according to the principle, share power. no need to make a call to warsaw, they are not lazy guys. they will make five calls to fiv

thank you very much, myroslava gongad, for being the head of the voice of america office in eastern europe was currently working live on the espresso tv channel . thank you, myroslava, for always providing high-quality analytics and for keeping your finger on the pulse of the most important events, let's move on. well, the final results of the elections in the usa will be known in a few days. maybe even weeks will take a lot of time to count the votes of more than 46 million americans who voted on the eve of the election day by mail or in person . how americans voted further in the story the equator of the presidency of the democrat joseph biden and this means that america votes in the midterm elections blue or red get the majority in the senate and the house of representatives polls for washington revenge abc news showed that the intentions of the voters were divided almost equally 49% for the republicans 48 for the democrats poklahoma is a state that almost always votes for candidates of one party, but there are states such as arizona, ohio, pennsylvania, florida and others that sometime

what do you think, will our friends from eastern central europe be able to convince western europeansw produced? the problem is not only us ukrainians or you poles , this problem affects everyone, after all, for them , moscow is much further from them than from warsaw to moscow or from kiev to moscow, we suffer more, we know more, and some frenchman does not understand beautiful russian at all, good ballet excellent tolstoy good culture let's be friends and not understand and not time we explained to our friends for at least two years and that is another 30 years that they have a wrong strategy that they are trying to work with russia in the mode of convergence of russian and european friendship models it will not work because these models are not compatible, they are completely competitive alternative, they did not understand how it ended in the case of, for example, the energy strategy of germany and, accordingly, the entire european union, i have seen it in recent months . so, explain our point of view to people who have never lived near russia er, to whose country russia has never

what he meant to say is i will not accept any soviet domination of eastern europe. >> governor carter you a response? >> charitably that was a momentary slip. uncharitably it was a loss of touch with reality. >> clearly a huge moment where the country makes the judgment, you know, that maybe we do need to go in a different direction and replace the president. [ indiscernible ] >> ford had never lost an election in his life. won 15 straight terms in the house. here he is beaten by a one-term governor of georgia. he was crushed. >> my voice isn't up to par. let me call on the real spokesperson for the family. peggy. >> it's been the greatest honor of my husband's life to have served his fellow americans during two of the most difficult years in our history. >> i think the real test comes now. will these people who have taken apart the old system can somehow translate politics into power and make a government work. that's their real test. we are on the threshold possibly of the greatest change since the new deal in 1932 . ♪ >>> the parade has started. he is out of the car. >> this is a c

welcome to this new edition of cheque in this time a reporters have set their sights on central and eastern europe. they're off to lithuania, to check republic and poland. lucas steak begins his travels. in lithuania, capital, vilnius, the largest city in the baltic states. the co froelich heads to prague in the czech republic, where she wants to see how tourism has changed. since the pandemic began, and later lucas degas goes to condense the port city in northern poland, where the solid artist movement played a significant role in what led to the fall of the iron curtain. but 1st, to vilnius the symbol of vilios stance. 140 meters above the city, the giddiness tower, a remnant of what was once the city's most powerful defense system. the giddiness castle. hello, from vilios. in lithuania, have you ever heard of it? well, lithuania is one of the 3 baltic states in eastern europe, russia, and bella roost our direct neighbors. and, well, the war in ukraine is not that far away. and i want to know, is it still safe to travel here in these types? let's find out the russian born ukraine is viewed with

cold air across eastern europe. cold air across eastern europe.ello, this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines... anti—government protests in china against strict covid restrictions are spreading with some demonstrators calling for the country's leader, president xi, to go. people who use social media posts to encourage self—harm will face criminal prosecution under new government proposals. two 16—year—old boys have died after being stabbed about a mile apart in south—east london. police say they are trying to establish if the two incidents are linked. rescue efforts are under way to find survivors after a mudslide triggered by heavy rains swept away homes on the italian island of ischia. now on bbc news, click.

we lithuania is one of the 3 baltic states in eastern europe, russia, and bell roost our direct neighbors. and, well, the war in ukraine is not that far away. and i want to know, is it still safe to travel here in these times? let's find out. the russian warrens ukraine is viewed with concerning lithuania. no wonder because the length of the lithuanian border separating the russian ex clave of coline grat from bill a ruse is only some 100 kilometers. many lithuanians fear that it could be putin's next target. of course, this also worries tourists like neat. is it the same for other holiday makers and vilios even how safety you feel as if you me to ties the i feel complaint, a site a mix and i didn't even think that we will be traveling to some dangerous area or something like that. he's no the only his it's, it's you up. so if ever sucking up her ear, i think europe kendra ricks jamante about his situation. ukraine weekly. give it a 2nd thought that decided it was all the more recent again crashed. hardly any other country has condemned the war in ukraine as vehemently as lithuania. they'

they transferred resources from afghanistan to eastern europe ; now we from eastern europe need to beestion arises of somehow negotiating, but this issue is not only a chance for the world, but also a trap because russia, first of all, can be drawn into this trap, create a frozen conflict, further pump up this neo-fascist regime that was formed in kiev and for russia and for us this will pose a threat to national security. there is very little time left on this, but enough to draw conclusions, and returning to this question, how was the question your country on the right track and asked the question to the europeans. so we asked what they represent as the wrong way. let's rephrase, and what is the right path in this case today, both for them and, first of all, for us, and how can we not stray from this path yury yuryevich the right path in belarus to ensure macroeconomic stability is the basis for ensuring that e is not drawn into a special military operation . eh, as a result. here are many meetings. we travel around belarus other experts. of course, people are little interested in o

the russian branch of the society have been accused of involvement in espionage activities in eastern europed reshetnikov was a general in the kgb. 's now purported to be retired, but mr. putin has said that there's no such thing as a retired kgb officer. now, that's the context, it seems to me, in which one should view what we're seeing in australia, the prosecution of that information war in australia, clearly designed to try toet the australian government to change its policies towards reforming those policies so that they would be perceived as serving russia's interests and not being hostile to russia. alexey: we need to recognize that russia doesn't look at australia as a friendly country. russia looks at australia rough the prism of our security and defense alliance with the united states. by ignoring russia's weight, russia's influence, and russia's international status, we allow ourselves to be caught off guard every time russia can pull the card out of its sleeve and wants to play a game against australia. sean: russia's interest in australia is not just political. australia has bec

eastern europe must go through a deep crisis.e now spread in eastern europe are primarily anti-russian nationalism. they're really powerful, and they have um external funding. that's when that funding decreased. here, as we see now, there are crisis-friendly statements. to russia, but i agree with you. here, of course, the only way out is through the crisis. maybe until the darsis of purification. yes, you have to give what the people they want what they want to their choice. let them do it, live with it, it's very difficult to imagine what china can stop because today china is the second largest economy on the planet in terms of volume since 2009, starting in the thirtieth year. they really should become the first economy of the planet. i don't know what can stop. just a big war. and we all need to prepare for the fact that, most likely, uh, already in 10 years. uh, the most powerful economy on the planet will most likely be the chinese one. not american. now let's take a little break. after that, we will return to our studio ag

here in red, we can see the regents that are losing the most inhabitants. mainly in eastern europe, people are moving to more prosperous areas with more promising job markets. in blue on the map it's especially agreement bulgaria, which has lost 15 percent of its population in the last 20 years. and it's predicted that by 2040 over 30 per cent of bulgarians will have left their country, making it the fastest population decline of any country during peacetime, as you'll to soon i met over for a loser. somebody got it. so this village is located in southeastern bulgaria, if we know to show too near the bulgaria turkey border, she had a in the past she, there were 1200 inhabitants in you. but as of now, unfortunately, showed, there are just 35 people left. article 3, she pitched tv, movies, yellows, home, only room. unfortunately, for villages located far from the city center, but that's what happens with it. it's the great migration. people die, that's it. but no babies are born generally, that's all there is to it. that's good to me unless you order the bit of good brag of there was a pop w

for years, people from countries bordering eastern europe have immigrated to the e. u. but until now, for other reasons. destroyed it was shot in the summer of 2021. at the bottom yes. checkpoint on the ukraine. poland border every day, thousands of ukrainians lined up to go to work and poland. it shows, even before the war broke out, how close ties were between the 2 countries. 6 months later, ukrainians were lining up again. this time to flee putin's army and to regained their last freedoms and safety. things can change incredibly quickly, ah, within the e u. people move from one country to the next without giving it much thought. it's easy to forget that this freedom is an achievement. and that the free movement of peoples is one of the pillars of the european ideal. one that's also foster decades of economic growth than this, you know, in 1999, the erasmus program finally arrived in romania. i'm county that i applied for it and managed to get a scholarship also wanna book done. a romanian architect, living in belgium is one of those who benefited from the idea of a

to defeat the fate of the wall, decided soviet perestroika collapsed the communist regimes in eastern europen the evening of november 9, 1989, all border crossing bans in berlin were lifted, the head of the east german government announced this. residents. the gdr rushed to the wall, smashed it and pulled apart the fences, and the western side drove bulldozers, excavators, and tractors. the border guards opened the checkpoint in a few days, 2 million people crossed into west berlin, then the berlin wall was dismantled. some have been preserved in memory of the past. that was the day in history. dear friends, i want to offer you a mini-series of very small films that we shot almost 30 years ago. i thought about what, probably, they should talk about painting, that is, the idea arose to try to hear what the artist could hear when he painted a portrait or landscape? it seems to me that it makes sense to recall who all the same is, russian culture, in particular, that russian painting, which shook. time world watching to spend time with children russian cartoons and children's programs, watch fo

central-eastern europe, but now she's lost that soft power, popularity there amongns and i think also among the french , it's more difficult in some southern countries there in greece, in italy, there. i guess it’s more difficult there , but here, now, already in germany, the candidates there in russia are no longer popular, as far as ukraine can occupy that niche, so to speak . well, for now, it’s open for me. did good tip i will be here now if i were to promote the replacement of e-e russia and ukraine in the un security council a great idea thank you for the address and we will be transferred to vadim pozniakova co-founder of the project decommunization of ukraine and good health mr. volodymyr, i'm glad you found time on sunday don't drink beer and to talk means about serious matters, and look at decommunization. i just watched all the steps even before independence. there in 1989, 1990, 1991, and i came to the conclusion that only now it has become organic, organic is when society understands why that monument is necessary demolish and the other one put up. and

economy and train the ukrainian military together with nato to create the best armed forces in eastern europermed by standards over goes into a double game on the facts. turned on and the west of moscow there loudly demanded to fulfill the minsk agreements, while they themselves were preparing ukraine for a completely different setting equipping and training, that is, the real plan was completely different. hit the donbass and solve the issue of strength. by the end of february, everything was ready . once again. i needed these minsk agreements to get at least 4.5 years to form the ukrainian armed forces, build the ukrainian economy and train the ukrainian military together with nato to create the best armed forces in eastern europe that were formed according to standards. why is nato surprised that zelensky is now lying about being weeded and the west is even encouraging him in this, then there is no europeanization. ukraine is coming, and the ukrainization of the west is downright a plant. this is how russia does not want to live. for free love and for war why are our liberal intellectuals

they can't do it with afghan resources have been transferred to eastern europe , now we need to transferean and the question arises of somehow negotiating, but this issue is not only a chance for peace, but also a trap, because russia, first of all, can be drawn into this trap to create a frozen the conflict will continue to pump up this neo-fascist regime, which was formed in kiev and for russia and for us, this will pose a threat to national security. there is very little time left on this, but enough to to draw conclusions, and returning to this question, how did your country sound on the right way asked questions to the europeans. so we asked what they provide as the wrong way. let's rephrase, and what is the right way today for them and, first of all, for us, and how can we not stray from this path yury vladimirovich the right way in belarus to ensure macroeconomic stability is the basis of the foundations and provision. uh, not being drawn into a special military operation. eh, as a result. here many meetings. we travel around belarus other experts. of course, people are little int

is that by february of 1945 the red army deep into eastern europe. and to get the red army out of eastern europe would have required a third world war. when the second world war had not even finished. and that brings up a second point and that is at the time one of fdr's main aims at this conference was to ensure that the soviets would enter the war against japan once hitler was defeated something that stalin could be very evasive about so it it again is one of those controversies at the end of the war that i think has probably a fairly, uh, well in retrospect in retrospective views of it have unfairly attacked both churchill and fdr. the war against hitler did end with the berlin with berlin falling to the red army and the allies in the west meeting the red army on the elb river. churchill in one of the anglo-americans to take berlin, uh, but eisenhower whitely as it turned out believed that the nazis would make the price of taking berlin bloody and they did by one estimate the red army lost over 360,000 soldiers in this last last battle of the war

a little bit i am already complicating the situation well, thank you lady historian expert on eastern europes what the poles think, what the situation is in poland, and we now know more than before the meeting with mr. lukasz

and according to our natal standards and that it should become the best in eastern europe. so perhaps they felt that it was ready, and that's why they were so careless about the violations towards the end, the beginning of february. and that's why we saw the numbers skyrockets. now are petro portion commotions? a lot of interesting things in this interview, which of course he had no idea that it was a prank. and so it's really evidence you can hear his does day disdain for vladimir putin. he constantly talks about how there is a need to weaken him and deeply denies a russia. and we've heard about his hatred for vladimir putin for many, many years, threw up his last 8 years, but also his disdain for russians as well. and that's something that's become very evident, and especially following clips like the following issue, national book is we will have jobs, they will not, we will have pensions, they will not, we will have care for our children, for people and retirees. they will not, our ukrainian children will go to school. he's in kindergarten, miss, there's will be hold up

good at technical propaganda, which means that under trump, american diplomats swept all over eastern europearting from poland, as a result, there were several dozen signings of agreements, but, firstly, not a single reactor was built and that’s all one specific customer in the usa where the launch of the first module is scheduled for no earlier than 29 years. in fact, no matter what the plans of the united states and ukraine are, there is no question of the imminent implementation of the project, even the prospect of years no less than five, counting from the expert. among other things , it is still necessary to obtain a permit from the iaea for construction, and while emergency power outages from resource companies continue almost throughout the country. spare parts for repairing the power system have simply run out and live with the last forces in kiev the day before. in the evening the lights went out again, meanwhile the calendar winter. doesn't make you wait. already on sunday night, real frosts are expected with the advent of cold weather, the load on the networks is significantly wil

well, there are countries such as, again, from eastern europe and like hungary.aid of this cold winter as well? i mean those who support us, and hungary is very afraid. what is the difference between these countries? why is it so? i think the answer lies in domestic politics, see in hungary, there is a leader and a party in power who have set themselves the goal of staying in power , including by any means and for any money, whether it will be money from the european union or loans from china or cheap oil and gas is from russia, but they are trying to combine this in their policy and it is not for nothing that hungary is already recognized as the least democratic ukraine within europe. and from this we have to draw a very important conclusion that it is non-democratic countries that tend to pursue aggressive policies and tend to neglect the interests of those closest to russia, and this means that in the end, the question of hungary's membership in the european union and nato may be raised in general, because someone can rely on such allies, so you know, to hunga

countermeasure against this threat at the expense of the support of the states of central and eastern europe ukraine, therefore, in principle, mr. sunok, as a representative of the conservative party, continues this paradigm, this foreign political strategy, and one can only congratulate his courage for the fact that in such difficult times, he comes to our country and conducts very fruitful negotiations. the fact that he reaffirms this foreign policy strategy , and secondly, he actually reaffirms the statement of the g7 , which was adopted in the summer with the direct participation of mr. josen, on the indefinite military , political and economic support of ukraine and with from the words of our president, it became obvious that mr. sonyakh came not just for the sake of a declaration, but brought a number of specific proposals that will be beneficial to our friendly relations and our strategic interests from the point of view of deterring the russians, and most importantly, if we analyze the press release of the two of leaders is that the range of issues is not only political or military ,