they see the u.s.s.r. as a state that oppressed the people just as the putin led government does now. nonetheless they see their home city of st petersburg as a source of inspiration and they dream of a true democracy in russia. and i thought when i look out over my city it is clear to me that talented people live here who can build such beautiful cities with people who can make their lives better. so the hopes of the past do live on in today's russia now the anniversary of the revolution is definitely not a cause for celebration everywhere after the soviets occupied lithuania latvia under. the second world war starlin had hundreds of thousands of people deported to siberia it proved a death sentence for many such as members of di norris family she was deported to siberia from the few as a small girl and still today the memories are as painful as ever. they've made a grave for him in the cemetery of their home village of tilt a galley i in lithuania dianora or bunyan's father went missing somewhere in sibe

they see the u.s.s.r. as a state that oppressed the people just as the protein led government does now but. nonetheless they see their home city of st petersburg as a source of inspiration and they dream of a true democracy in russia. and i thought when i look out over my city it is clear to me that talented people live here who can build such beautiful cities with people who can make their lives better. so the hopes of the past do live on in today's russia. now the anniversary of the revolution is definitely not a cause for celebration everywhere after the soviets occupied lithuania latvia under stone during the second world war starlin had hundreds of thousands of people deported to siberia it proved a death sentence for many such as members of di norris family she was deported to siberia from the few ania as a small girl and still today the memories are as painful as ever. they've made a grave for him in the cemetery of their home village of tilt a galley eye in lithuania dianora or bunyan's father went

leading to communism was in itself a good one with that measures it going as long as i lived in the u.s.s.r. as i never as a thought it would cease to exist most only go to the u.s. but those. were nine other soviet republics joined the c.i.s. the soviet union was practically left as a state without territory. it is up to the because even just hoffer now before the deal was signed i didn't believe in the end of the soviet union as the serious good sales must because that's just on. monday summer twenty first one thousand nine hundred one mikhail gorbachev stood down and the end of the soviet union was officially declared. the dream of communism was now history. gorbachev's role in these events is still controversial even now. if you did that the belief that called the child did all this because he was such a good person is fundamentally wrong it would have been the very good a bunch of dolls. made freedom possible full stock. in the soviet union alone he gave freedom to two hundred eighty million people. taking the whole eastern bloc and gave freedom to around half a billion people. whether

today more than one hundred fifty million people in the u.s.s.r. as a successor states are members of the russian orthodox church. which is low ship days she said the numbers have risen from one thousand nine hundred percent to seventy five percent in the last twenty five years. and over forty percent of them do not believe in god or in the so or in the last judgment. they believe in none of these dogmas. to be seen as a believer it's sufficient to call yourself orthodox or russian. government. today's state is very closely connected to the church it's turned to the church and gained additional legitimacy as a result. the church on the other hand supports it and wraps up everything ideologically by saying the regime has been chosen as the patriarch kirill did when he declared putin's appearance and a sense of power to be a divine miracle children. i would say that the relationship between the church mander state today is like a symphony the church has not had so much freedom in its entire history. by this time bloody mary putin who claims he was ba

moldova for example was the vineyard of the soviet union moldovan wines were exported all over the u.s.s.r. from moscow to minsk from leningrad to kiev. but once moldova distanced itself from moscow business slumped and not entirely coincidentally. there is also the book says that the denies. it was difficult to sell our products as was. no longer had the option to export. moves in the way used to export to russia ukraine and belarus now this was no longer possible. the old planned economy the economic foundation of the soviet union crumbled and has hindered the development of free markets to this day. many of the new states trying to implement a free market economy but they had no experience of anything like it at the beginning of the ninety's everything ground to a halt. even in russia. i knew a couple of salute. if that i did not mean is that it was an incredibly difficult task he is and we wanted to move step by step from a systematically organized system to a market economy going i mean i thought. we and the whole thing was supposed to happen in keeping with people's lives it was. a m

know and one of those questions is the involvement of the former soviet now so former soviet union u.s.s.r. and cuba some back in sixty three and even today there are people still trying to tie the killing of kennedy to the soviet union in cuba what in these documents either proves or refute that claim. i would say so far it raises a lot of questions and indicates that this certainly was not the case even though it was made to look that way by certain people in other words the question that arises from these files is was oswald set up or was he setting up a scenario where the blame would fall on the russians and the cubans and this is all through a trip that he made to mexico city or allegedly made we're not even sure it was him at the end of september one thousand nine hundred sixty three little less than two months before the assassination supposedly he went to the huge. an embassy seeking a visa to go to cuba and to the russian embassy where he met with among other people a man named kostikov who turns out to be part of the department thirteen or assassinations unit of at the time of th

today more than one hundred fifty million people in the u.s.s.r. as a successor states are members of the russian orthodox church. the numbers have risen from nineteen percent to seventy five percent in the last twenty five years. and over forty percent of them do not believe in god or in the so or in the last judgment. they believe in none of these dogmas. to be seen as a believer it's sufficient to call yourself orthodox russian. government. today state is very closely connected to the church it's turned to the church and gained additional legitimacy as a result. the church on the other hand supports it and wraps up everything ideologically by saying the regime has been chosen as the patriarch kirill did when he declared putin's appearance and a sense of power to be a divine miracle. i would say that the relationship between the church mander state today is like a symphony the church has not had so much freedom in its entire history. by this time bloody mary putin who claims he was baptized in secrecy back in the soviet era was firmly in the sadd

know and one of those questions is the involvement of the former soviet now so former soviet union u.s.s.r. and cuba some back in sixty three and even today there are people still trying to tie the killing of kennedy to the soviet union in cuba what in these documents either proves or refute that claim. i would say so far it raises a lot of questions and indicates that this certainly was not the case even though it was made to look that way by certain people in other words the question that arises from these files is was oswald set up or was he setting up a scenario where the blame would fall on the russians and the cubans and this is all through a trip that he made to mexico city or allegedly made we're not even sure it was him at the end of september one thousand nine hundred sixty three little less than two months before the assassination supposedly he went to the cuban embassy seeking a visa to go to cuba and to the russian embassy where he met with among other people a man named kostikov who turns out to be part of the department thirteen or assassinations unit of at the time of the k

seventh and that does mark the hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. well throughout the day we are running a real time news feed on twitter and you can look up the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were actually unfolding back then for example the winter palace in petrograd is right now still at the center of the uprising but counter revolutionaries they're not putting up much of a fight meanwhile here in moscow the reds have also managed to turn the revolutionary tide in their favor is more against the effort more on our project. there's never been a revolution quite like it the world of today was shaped by reddit tobar one hundred years ago on the one hand it borders socialism international borders as they are now racial and class equality women's rights universal health care and education on the other hand it led to a bloody civil war nato and the cold war imagine living through such a pivotal moment in human history well you can almost feel ever dreamed of time travel and he brings you a digital time machine that sexy ba

have been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and we've been running a real time line news feed on twitter for you you can follow all the latest by searching for the hash tag nineteen seventeen live and that will show you how events were unfolding minute by minute back then on the timeline right now the revolution has taken a dramatic turn the cruiser a ruler has fired at the winter palace the last holdout of the counter revolutionary forces the provisional government has surrendered to the red guards under the revolutionary leadership of guests he fled a mere lenine power is now officially in the hands of the soviets so that is what was happening exactly one hundred years ago tonight with more on our project is not against the. yeah the russian revolution did a hundred years ago now. wracked with that log on to twitter. thank information. and to vent events floundered in a cold and of anarchy pieing the russian monex main residency constitution then but in reality. and vladimir lenin. it must be explained to the masses that the

no longer shining almost a decade after the collapse of the soviet empire the old republics of the u.s.s.r. had gone their separate ways. the baltic states of estonia latvia and lithuania and decisively turned their backs on moscow and were on their way to becoming members of the e.u. and nato. the other successor states are often referred to by moscow as the near abroad reflecting an ardent desire for them to somehow still belong to russia but many of them were also now looking to the west. in most of the newly independent states the hoped for economic upturn hadn't materialized in russia reform had largely failed a few people had made themselves very rich while many went on great but it wasn't only social divisions that rocked the country ranch. this is where we used to live . there was an apartment block here. there was a table underneath this tree and the men were always playing dominoes there. the windows of my apartment directly face this intersection. you have to cry now. we were all really friendly and had good relations our children grew up here and suddenly this disaster befell o

tuesday russia marked the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and throughout the week r.t. has been running a real time historical news feed on twitter you can follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute exactly one hundred years ago and on the field right now the demise of the provisional government has socialist parties scrambling for power but the disagreements are many and it seems that neither side mincha cobol she is willing to enter a coalition government. now you may be wondering why we are talking about the october revolution in november well that's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen now that november the seventh according to the calendar this used in most of the world is a short recap of what happened in russia by exile in siberia with the station in the state bank at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot from cruz a rural signaling the start of the storming of the winter pa

seventh and that does mark the hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and throughout the day and evening we are running a real time use feet on twitter for you can look it up by looking at the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding exactly back then on the timeline right now the revolution is coming close to its dramatic end because the cruiser has just fired at the winter palace the last holdout of the counter revolutionary forces and that's after the provisional government refused to give in to an ultimatum issued by the reds or the remaining loyal forces are also fleeing some petersburg then called petrograd leaving the city open for the taking so that will that's what was happening exactly one hundred years ago his murder against the every more on our project. there has never been how racial and class at the education on the other hand it led to our blood letting in nicholas the second and dozens of the big players of the revolution live tweeting as though the revolution was happening. now. r t no not us but the

tuesday russia marked the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and throughout the week he's been running a real time historical new speed on twitter you can follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago on the feed right now some petersburg then called petrograd has become the epicenter of revolutionary tensions as opposite sides wage a fierce battle both inside and outside the city have been efforts to call a truce but it's undermined by what the reds insist is fake propaganda. now you may be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november well that's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october nine hundred seventy november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world here's a short recap of what happened in russia back then. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventy and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history

tuesday at russia mock the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of u.s.s.r. and alex he's been running a real time historical news feed on twitter you can still follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out exactly how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago on the field right now clashes continue with revolutionary forces now controlling the main streets around the kremlin wall in the event in the capital since petersburg the anti bolshevik press says well shut down for fear mongering with fake news. now you may be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november that's because soviet russia or adopted a new calendar off to the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen that's november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar used by most of the world has a short recap of exactly what happened in russia back then. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the c

seventh and for russia that marks the one hundredth anniversary revolution led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and forever changed. now you may be wondering why we're talking about what you know possibly as the october revolution in november it's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october at nine hundred seventeen which is november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar which is now used in most of the world here's how events unfolded on that fateful day. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the country had been turned upside down by the february revolution and exhausted by the first world war the whole country floundered in a cold and of anarchy enormous russia bearing the new world rived in pain zonday calista second living in exile in siberia with his family following his abdication seven months ago the provisional government occupying the russian monex main residency the winter palace moderately liberal and aiming to cre

have been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and we have been running a real time news feed on twitter you can follow all the latest by searching the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live that will show you how events were unfolding minute by minute back then now on the timeline right now things are still evolving rapidly and revolution has taken a dramatic turn revolutionaries have breached of the. winter palace and heard of the nearby hermitage museum as well meanwhile the members of the provisional government have been placed under arrest and the winter palace is now under the full control of the revolutionaries so that's what was happening exactly one hundred years ago tonight. now with more on our part. there's never been a revolution quite like it the world of today was shaped by reddit tobar one hundred years ago in the one hand it borders socialism international borders as they are now racial and class equality woman's rights universal health care and education on the other hand it led to a bloody civil war nato and the

for russia that marks the hundredth anniversary of the revolution which led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and forever changed the world. now you might well be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november well it's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one nine hundred seventeen which is november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar it used in most of the world you can follow a revolutionary times account on twitter to see in real time however some ravelled one hundred years ago today among the latest developments on this timeline the bolsheviks already taken control of the bridge connecting the residence of the country's leadership they already control all working class areas in the capital in next for your short recap of what happened in russia back in one nine hundred seventy. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the country had been turned upside down by the february revolution and exha

on tuesday russia the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. throughout the way county has been running a real time historical news feed on twitter you can follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago on the fate drawdown of the demise of the provisional government socialist party scrambling for power for the disagreements are many it seems neither side in chicago bolshevik is willing to enter into a coalition government. now you may be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november and that's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen that's november seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world is a short recap of what happened in russia back then. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the country had been turned upside down

tuesday russian marking the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. throughout the wake artie's preventing a real time historical news feed on twitter for they hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago some of the latest on our fate opposing sides on the revolution a coming face to face outside st petersburg known as petrograd counterrevolutionary forces have been pushed out of the city now trying to recapture holdouts in the suburbs. you may well be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november well it's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen november seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world is a recap of what happened in russia back then. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the country had been turned upside down by the februar

have been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and we have been running a real time news feed on twitter you can follow all of the latest by searching the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live that will show you how invents were unfolding minute by minute background on the timeline right now the seizure of power is nearly complete the numbers of the provisional government have been placed under arrest and the winter palace is now totally occupied by the revolutionary bolshevik leader vladimir lenin has given an address while those killed and injured in the takeover have been proclaimed heroes of the revolution all local press has been shut down except for socialist newspapers so that's what was happening exactly one hundred years ago tonight here is art is what i've done with more projects. there's never been a revolution quite. like it the world of today was shaped by reddit tobar one hundred years ago in the one hand it borders socialism international borders as they are now racial and class equality woman's rights universal hea

tuesday russia on the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and throughout the way county has been running a real time historical news feed on twitter you can follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago on the feed right now battle for moscow is underway as the sides in the revolution struggle to secure the strongholds for the reds have already taken over most of the city or loyalist forces hold on to the kremlin just like in st petersburg banco petrograd the lack of essential supplies due to the conflict is also being felt. well you might wonder why we're talking about the revolution in november well it's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october nineteenth seventeen that's november seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world is a recap of what happened in russia back then. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most rad

the groundbreaking talks after the second world war which brought together the leaders then of the u.s.s.r. britain and the u.s. but these days solving serious conflict is going to involve more than just political negotiations one sticking point is the ongoing presence of u.s. forces more on the jaclyn volga i thought has been losing territory in syria at breakneck speed and it's all a defeat looks to be on the horizon even the u.s. seems to agree on that front secretary tillerson has engaged a great deal of sort of personal diplomacy on syria the defeat of isis and now that isis in terms of as a physical caliphate will be gone by the end of the year syria has in fact already declared victory over eisel and issued a warning to the u.s. that it's high time they left as well the syrian arab republic again cools for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of u.s. forces from the territory of the syrian arab republic this presence is an aggression against syria's servants and independence and will be dealt with on this basis. and that shouldn't be a problem given that trump himself has said

pierre trischka was only twenty four when he fled poland for the u.s.s.r. in one nine hundred thirty nine. his parents i want to strangle brothers died in nazi death camps but his other brother voice managed to escape and such as later in russia. it's a miracle i never thought this would happen. and now having gone from complete strangers to the close is a family that you are about to make up for lost time. in the fate of a german film inspired by real advances theaters this week hollywood star diane kruger plays a woman who seeks revenge after her family is killed in a terrorist attack. and joining me to talk about the movie is deal hughes very own film guru scott roxboro get to say you scott the film premieres in germany but you of course already had the opportunity to see it before set it up first what's it about yeah you know it's really interesting i mean the director he's a very well known director here in germany but he's best known for really art house movies and this is probably his most mainstream film to date it's sort of part revenge thriller pa