during the last two years as have many media outlets in the world, i guess, and meduza is based in rigatvia, but it is a russian—speaking media outlet and probably the biggest russian independent media so far. and we work from so many cities, you know, from different countries. so, it is possible, yes. and in the week that has passed since this invasion happened, have you still been able to reach your audience in russia? yes. we are ok. unlike many of our colleagues. but we think that we are about to be blocked on the territory of russian federation so we've seen a lot of bad signs during this week. right after the invasion, russian authorities said that the media outlets cannot use actually the word �*war�*. they have to use this �*special operation�* phrase to describe what's going on in ukraine. also they said that the media has to cover the events in ukraine based on the official sources, and those official sources are state agencies that are lying and manipulating the russian audience or the russian ministry of defence, which also do not disclose trustful information. crosstalk. an

in the past — if you met me in riga in the past but. _ if you met me in riga in the past but, obviouslyo in line with what ivan said. and — in line with what ivan said. and that _ in line with what ivan said. and that is something.... and and that is something. . .. and as we listened _ and that is something. . .. and as we listened to _ and that is something. . .. and as we listened to ivan - and that is something.... fific as we listened to ivan painting as we listened to ivan painting a particularly bleak picture of independent media in russia, luke, can i bring you when, you talk to us from ukraine russia is a country you know well and you have are a great deal. how does the severity of the restrictions we're seeing in over the last 2a hours in russia compare to previous eras either the early days of russia in the 19905 and 2000 or the soviet union before that? in the 1990s and 2000 or the soviet union before that? well, i think it soviet union before that? well, i think it is _ soviet union before that? well, i think it is as _ soviet union before that? well, i think it is as bad _

yes, i don’t know, honestly, i don’t know, one of them has a bomb for the riga bandits. iron from me okay, by the nickname, major. everything is warm let's be bro yes, turn off you're the bomb already. well, please, only the timer works here. well, the methods you guys have are fast and efficient in no time. sometimes it's just that in the offices there, people are in danger with them. the major will be handed over to the local emperors. and we report bagiri to our dana. i myself heard from this side, max's brain is true it is not discussed what you want money we will pay. just tell me how much. what is your stupid money compared to the great idea of ​​the destruction of communism. yes, we did everything, our hostages are captured requests have been submitted to the authorities. well done to you, negotiators will appear in a few minutes end of communication. there is a picture comrade admiral i display on the screen. ready so ​​exactly from this side of the island dead zone to review the first operas. i tiger closes got ready. let's go here quickly, let's go faster, let'

he joins me align from riga old armed forces. he left the stony poland. we are fully ready to defend our country and we have a very small motivation. how far does he think will go? could it extend beyond ukraine borders might put and use nuclear weapons and are lucky as nato allies doing enough to shore up the eastern flag. join me for all that more on conflict. so, i mean, if they're public, welcome to conflict. thank you. ukrainian president lensky has said this week if we are no more than god forbid, lot be lithuania. stony out will be next. are due next. well, i believe that you agree until with this war, so there will be no next. hopefully. but of course, we understand that if ukraine falls, then as a pressure on the old border, countries with russia will increase. that's kind of clear from analysis. but we are ready for this and be very much hope that you're creating this hall. i'm wondering how you think the ukrainians will win the war. they've called on nato, for example, to execute a no fly zone. and it appears that that has indeed been ruled out

i don’t have enough fuel, not to riga, not this leningrad. prepare moscow.y the way, i dreamed of enrolling in medicine . i wouldn’t fly now. but i graduated from medicine and am flying. you can't deceive fate, it will deceive you. it's growing, isn't it? andrey vasilyevich yes definitely growing. i 85 131 crack is increasing. rain shower i 'm telling you, go to the first salon, the commander ordered. we will break. well, that's what? with them. think go. dear passengers, i ask you to fasten your seat belts to remove, piercing and cutting objects. bow your heads to the deer. wrap them in blankets. and like this cover them with your hands two centimeters reverse, you can not turn it on. wake up, please, wake up, please wake up. put likes. we're already on our way, right? i didn't believe you. i alone knew that everything would be ok. i alone knew what would happen. everything in yours is not for the sake of it, and i know that everything will be all right. can i give you a kiss, thank you. i live alive, i'm alive you have a reverse reflex before you had to cr

he joins me align from riga and forces. he left the stony poland. we are fully ready to defend our country, and we have a very small motivation. how far does he think? we'll go, could it extend beyond the ukraine borders? might put and use nuclear weapons and are lucky as nato allies doing enough to shore up the eastern flag. joined me for all that more on conflict, so i minister public welcome to conflict. thank you. ukrainian president lensky has said this week if we are no more than god forbid, lot be lithuania. stony out will be next. are due next. well, i believe that you agree until with this war, so there will be no next. hopefully. but of course, we understand that if you green falls, then there's a pressure on the old border. countries with russia will increase that's kind of clear from analysis. but we are ready for this and be very much hope that you're creating this hall. i'm wondering how you think the ukrainians will win the war. they've called on nato, for example, to execute a no fly zone. and it appears that that has indeed been rul

i'm from the city of riga, latvia , so straight up got very nervous, straight up excitement it was that to get very, very. i am very happy that i am here, in principle, unfortunately, polina and i have already recruited a full team. we don't take part, but we couldn't help but turn around because the important mentor made the right choice. and we join and want to congratulate you. volkan, i had the last vacant place, and you took it. congratulations congratulations. thank you stop blind auditions completed teams formed our squad of young brave talents is sent to the next stage led by well-known counselors. in a week we are waiting for a new stage of the duel, a serious struggle begins. after all, according to the results of this test, the first finalists of the season will be determined. now you see how the votes of the viewers for the best mentor were distributed. in the first stage, we will finally sum up the results in the final. at the same time, the best audience will be awarded all performances with the best moments. watch on 1tv.ru. with you was the main vocal project of the coun

jeff paul has more, he's in the capital city of riga.ff. >> sandra, pretty incredible to witness the joint nato exercise outside of riga, latvia, we are the capital city of the country. we were about 100 yards away from some of the action, seeing some armored vehicles up close and some tanks firing off at targets, and being that close we had to wear helmets and armored vests, and so close to the action gives you an idea how strong the unity is between these 13 countries that were involved in this military exercise, and the fact that they could all essentially work as one and do their part. one by one these different countries played their part, whether it was rolling out trucks, tanks, helicopters, and even two jets at one point to display a small fraction of their defense capabilities. we should point out this exercise are somewhat frequent and scheduled before the invasion, but what happens now makes the training even more important in a timeline. >> when you go to these exercises, you always have to make sure that you are staying focu

let's go to efforts to the diplomatic front, nbc's josh lederman is joining us from riga. what do we know about emanuel macron, the french president's, long phone call with vladimir putin yesterday? >> reporter: it was about an hour and 45 minutes, alex. macron expressed his deep concerns about nuclear power plants in ukraine after the harrowing incident a few days ago. he tried to convince putin there must be no further efforts to seize nuclear power plants in ukraine. putin said it was ukrainian radicals who provoked that incident of violence around that ukrainian power plant. of course that's completely at odds with what ukrainian officials on the ground have been saying. both leaders are now looking to the iaea, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog agency, to see how they can better assure safety at these vital sites in ukraine, as macron insisted to putin that there needs to be cease-fires to allow citizen evacuation. president putin has also been speaking with the israeli prime minister who is also in turn speaking with the germans and the brits and the ukrainians. you see th

abramovich personally met the shipment, - and using forged documents, had it re—routed to riga, - whereold. mr abramovich was arrested, but never charged. his lawyers have told us it was all a misunderstanding and the matter was resolved. but the secret document suggests he was detained in police custody. when we put this to mr abramovich, he didn't deny it. translation: mr abramovich already had — a big conflict with the law. a criminal case was launched. the deputy prosecutor of moscow issued a warrant to arrest abramovich. but later, this case disappeared without a trace. this is siberia, 1,500 miles east of moscow. it's where roman abramovich made his serious money. in the mid—1990s, russia was a pretty lawless place. the government owned the vast oil industry here. but roman abramovich came up with a plan to get control of it himself. the idea was simple — persuade the russian government to combine some of the vast state oil facilities, create a giant new company, and then sell it off. the price — and the sale — would be agreed in advance. and the lucky buyer would be roman abramov

operation, and so the actor planned this, of course, he does not advertise that it would be a series of riga review that alexander semchev left 4 years ago on the website of the samara clinic, specializing in gastric resection operations. i began to get up with pleasure not libra and i admire when the numbers become every day less and less and less i began to walk. i started buying new clothes. i began to eat differently , people had a lot of questions, how can i be silent, however, the surgeons ask alexander sem what not to relax and keep his mouth shut because the kilograms can return. i will read 25 thousand rubles. lena nadia thank you very much. we are accompanying you. thank you let's continue our conversation. the theme of tabakov's tears sash you are one of the few actors who could touch tabakov himself did not admit, but his close people told me that he i loved. this was a person for me, the authority of the tours certainly were. i'm calling carrying a watermelon. let's help, sanyok let's go. let's go eat.

fox news jeff paul has the latest now from riga, latvia. they speak different languages, fly different flags and use different machinery. nato forces from 13 different countries all recognize what's happening in ukraine is far from normal. everybody is very aware of what's on the world and we have to make sure that we're ready. us army major general jeff broadwater spoke with us from the adachi military base in latvia. a baltic country that borders russia, he says. while firepower demonstrations are somewhat frequent, and this one was planned well before russia attacked ukraine, the invasion has changed the tone of the joint nato exercise. it could just makes it more real than invitation from nato. they put our crew right in the middle of the military demonstration. anti tank weapons were fired artillery blasted distant targets and then in rolled the tanks. after a show of force on the ground attention turned to the sky. apache helicopters buzzed our position, followed by two jets roaring through the sky . these troops say the exercises onl

estate - a luxurious apartment on kotelnicheskaya embankment in moscow, a two-story mansion in new riga four-story house in the northern capital. well, for some reason, no one thinks about what it cost nagiyev to earn all this, and now also to maintain, by and large , it took exactly eighty percent of his life. to fill holes, where to live, uh, what to ride? what, what to wear sister nagieva hopes the actor will come to her in the summer to replenish his strength and feed on energy from horses, kopeechka helps. evgenia dobrovolskaya’s third divorce i’m probably too faithful and for the first time on the screen, dobrovolskaya’s husband will he claim a house and a three-room apartment worth more than 40 million rubles, good mood and a good working day forty, four-year-old cameramen, dmitry monakodnikov is embarrassed, he is used to be on the other side of the camera, and here all the attention is directed to him. i'm just actually the husband of dobrovolskaya assures. he did not know that the actress filed for divorce. all time free together. you still have a seal to show you your passpor

he was speaking short time ago in the latvian capital, riga. preston pertains war on ukraine, has shattered peace in europe. it has shaken the national order, and it continues to take devastating toll on the ukrainian people. but to didn't see it is under estimated ukraine, and he's seriously under estimated that strength and the unity of nato and our friends and partners around the world. man, a quick look at some other news, a south korean naval ship is fired warning shorts or the north korean patrol boat that's briefly crossed the country's disputed western sea boundary. the north korean boat was chasing an unarmed vessel but retreated after wanting shots were fired. south korean military officials seized the vessel and questioned its 7 crew members. mama bryant has more from sole this incident apparently took place near bank young island. this is the west and most island of south career. it's out in the yellow sea that separates the korean peninsula from china, and it's right on the de facto maritime border between north and south. it is an

whether that's here in jerusalem and washington in riga and many other places we, we meet around the world. and if you'll indulge me for just a minute, i haven't had a chance to talk to some of our colleagues since the trip that we took with the president to europe. so i'm going to say a few words about that before focusing in on some of the things that we talked about in more detail. but i have just come from the president's trip to europe, where we saw the clearest demonstration, yet of the unity and determination among our allies of partners when it comes to ending russia's aggression against ukraine and standing with the people of ukraine . we have the nato summit, where allies agreed to further reinforce nero's eastern flight, so that we can defend every inch of nato territory. united states, our allies and partners, committed also to provide ukraine with the military assistance that it needs to defend against the onslaught. plains and tanks, including any aircraft systems, any armor, weapons, drones, and many more. in meetings with the g 7 and the european union, we committed t

that's all i can say, there really is a genocide of musicians with a coin another smc is preparing in rigarld with the proceeds , they promise to send assistance to the fund that helps the ukrainian refugees in organizing performances, which is indicatively provided by the meduza publication, recognized in russia as an foreign agent and blocked. we consider it our duty not only to openly declare our disagreement, but also to help those whose lives were crossed out by the rapper war. face, tried harder than the rest and at a concert in warsaw got down on his knee with an apology for what he said russian, that she is no longer going to pay taxes in russia, she left there and will never return. and i would like to once again personally in front of each of you to ask for forgiveness. i probably could do. i tried to really do something in russia , i probably could have done more. that's probably, i could take more, probably, i could give up my comfort somewhere and leave the country earlier. thanks a lot. i love you. wauman , in addition, properly walked through the russians in a new interview.

use the last letter of the latin alphabet if there are no others around it and if tallinn , after riga, is just preparing to ban the st. wearing the symbol provided for up to 3 years, imprisonment or a fine frightened even germany's neighbors swiss flagship insurance. zurich insurance is urgently changing the brand logo. scandalous louis collection vuitton, where zet ev is not a joke, is angry about a new bill banning three letters at once on american tv - this literalism is supported by the disparagingly called z-zi and hints that russia has invaded other people's letters. no, it does not exist in the russian alphabet. the truth is that even before the claims of the states to the latin alphabet, the alphabet was sequestered more than once, it happened not 26 a 21 symbols and sanctions against the letter z introduced it long before the proposal of the kiva in the 4th century bc, they tried to remove it by reading the extra one. germany today looked at the problem of ukrainian refugees not only from the point of view of their placement and employment in schools, but also in connection w

and as we saw today, in constant preparation, and riga, latvia.news san francisco man who founded a silicon valley startup is in ukraine, fighting what he calls the quote. biggest fight for freedom in my lifetime and quote white crow is a uc berkeley graduate and co founder of whisper palo alto startup that uses artificial intelligence to develop hearing aids. in an interview with cnn on friday, crow said, the situation in ukraine is scary and a little bit out of his comfort zone, but not enough to deter him from helping the ukrainian people get out safely. crow says he booked a flight from california immediately after the russian invasion began and headed to the capital city of keith. everyone i saw it. i honestly i booked a flight from california and came here as fast as i could. if this isn't the fight of democracy and freedom against autocracy of our generation, i don't know what is the u. n. refugee agency says more than 2.5 million people have fled ukraine since russia invaded the country more than two weeks ago. time is now 4 34 happening t

some of those service members are in latvia, a nation bordering russia in riga they're running militaryxercises with nato allies nbc's josh lederman is there at camp adazy. >> reporter: tonight american troops barely a 100 miles from the russian border, ready to take on any threat, running through drills in latvia, alongside nato allies preparing for a range of battlefield scenarios. >> i never thought i would be able to train with nato allies like this. >> reporter: it's a decades-old mission with fresh purpose, these troops training on russia's doorstep in a country that some fear could become putin's next target. >> it certainly gives us a sense of urgency all of the training we're conducting right now is very focused on what we would have to do to defend latvia. >> reporter: the u.s. has deployed another 800 troops to the baltics. there are roughly 100,000 u.s. troops in europe. >> the experience gets your heart pumping. >> reporter: after the russians invaded ukraine, the u.s. moved 20 of these apache attack helicopters from germany to latvia to shore up nato's defenses paratrooper

strategic research at the national defense academy of latvia. joining us now from lack of his capital of riga, janice bearskin burdens welcome to the program. it said this has been going on and clear what nearly 4 weeks now at the russia, so called special military operation. what is your assessment of where we stand right now? where the russians planted wrong, leading thigh ow, variation they were convinced that probably because of fault intelligence, that the entire operation would be solved in for 5 days. and because of these faulty or data janice, they had the operational right now is that they are unable to move forward very quickly to accomplish the objectives that they have. and as a result, we can divide what's happening in ukraine into france. the sovereign front ended in norfolk front and indian norfolk front. they are really stuck. and in this softened fraud, right now, they are trying to take control over mario poll. and though that's where we are unfortunately seeing the great as a human law sees. and uh, since it is great, and we're actually on that warfare. yeah. right. on the

i stayed in a hotel in riga in which there were bullet holes in the walls from the russians. just recently senator wicker and congressman cohen and i and others have been to estonia. just this past july we had a chance to visit the city on the russian border. and we saw firsthand how the baltic states are dealing with representative government protecting the rights of all of its citizens. i mentioned that because you all understand the risk of where you are and what russia has done in the past. and its risk to your sovereignty. so i want you to understand that when russia invaded ukraine in 2014, we stood with the ukrainians. never recognizing the takeover of crimea. and we will continue to stand with the ukrainian people. in regards to the baltic states, it is different today than it was in 1991. you are now nato members and you , are helping secure the defense of europe by your contributions. i am particularly proud of the partnership of my state of maryland, our national guard, with estonia and our defense that we have since 1993, if i remember correctly. we understand our

a quick drive around the capital city we are here in riga, and you will see flags of ukraine flying more so than you do of latvian flags. and many buildings are lit up in blue and yellow, ministry of foreign affairs, trying to show solidarity. and the russian embassy, a demonstration is growing, locals could show up and show their opposition to the russian invasion of ukraine and a big part of the reason why people here in latvia feel so strongly about what's going on there, is a shared historical struggle involving russian influence, occupation, and aggression. only 30 years ago when latvia restored its independence from the then soviet union, and a border with russia, so many who call latvia home are worried there is a chance what's happening in ukraine could develop here. >> and like for all my life there has been that fear that russia can invade or something like that. it's not going anywhere. it's getting worse. that's the main issue. >> of course there are some steps we already decided to take in our family. we have like our car is full of gasoline, we already made documents for ou

generaljens stoltenberg is holding a news conference with latvian president egils levits after a meeting in rigag heavily bombarded by russian artillery. there is a complete lack of basics like water, electricity, any kind of food or communications, so people are desperate to get hold of their relatives. 200,000 people are trapped in mariupol. president zelensky said he was sending a convoy of buses to mariupol to try to get people out. we will print you all the latest on the crisis in ukraine coming up on bbc news. hello, again. we have some thicker cloud and rain coming in through the day and look out close those isobars are, telling you it is going to be windy wherever you are. a lot of sunshine through the afternoon with the cloud thickening, introducing rain through the day, preceded by a few showers and gusty winds, as well. the black circles telling you what to expect where you are. in the northern and western africa that gusts up to 65 miles an hour. we are looking between seven and 12 degrees, so temperatures up on some from yesterday, but will be tempered by the wind. through this even

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