The economic crisis in Ukraine risks to leave behind only mud on the streets lined by colored ship containers that serve as a market for 22,000 merchants that provide jobs to 60,000 people.

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According to UNICEF there are 100,000 street kids in Ukraine,8,000 of which live in Odessa, a city of more than 1.2 million people on the Black Sea.

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«Le rêve est devenu réalité» déclarait le Président azéri Ilham Aliev en inaugurant en mai 2005 l’oléoduc Bakou-Ceyhan. Ce nouvel oléoduc garantit à terme une exportation de 1 million de barils par jour, soit un peu plus de 1 % des 84 millions de barils produits quotidiennement dans le monde, une manne de quelques 50 milliards de dollars pour son pays dans les trente ans à venir. Mais l’addition n’est-elle pas trop lourde pour la Mer Caspienne ? Le baromètre de brut promet, soit disant, un « avenir radieux » à la « Cité des Vents », qui se réveille d’un long cauchemar où le pétrole est synonyme de pollution, de rouille et d’abandon. Un second « boom » résonne sur les rives de la Caspienne. Mais on sait qu’un seul puit rejette dans la mer au cours de son exploitation entre 30 à 120 tonnes de pétrole soit 10 % de sa production. La Caspienne y résistera-t-elle ?

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In the suburb of Skopje, Shuto Orizari, is the single autonomous Roma city in the world, with a Roma mayor, some Roma medias, and romani language as official one. Here gypsies are at home. But this example,between ghetto and model of self-management, clarifies hopes and difficulties related to the evolution of the gypsies.

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Tremors from the August 2008 conflict keep the South Ossetia and Georgia in a state of war. Daily shootings are exchanged between them. Russia has re-enforced its troops at the Ossetia border this summer.

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As the world financial crisis buffets country after country, Russia has been caught out because of its unhealthy overdependence on oil, gas and metals, which account for more than three-quarters of export earnings. The collapse in energy and commodity prices since this summer is exposing the country’s fragility: Russia’s boom, it turns out, was built on expensive oil,and precious little else. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the threat of large-scale unemployment looms.This all amounts to the first serious test of « Putinomics » – the domestic policies put in place by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the two terms of his presidency from 2000 to 2008. If you want to take the pulse of Russia, as its economic progress of the past few years comes to a sudden and wrenching stop, leave behind Moscow and drive 354 km southwest to the small Russian town of Lyudinovo.There everything slows down.

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The  » NEWBORN  » monument, which thrones in the city center of Pristina,symbolizes by itself the situation of the country.Kosovo is a « newborn », it will be one year old on February 17th, 2009: it is the youngest country in the world.

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Living on the Yamal Peninsula in the far north of Siberia, above the Arctic Circle where the temperatures can goas low as -50°C, Man survives thanks to an animal: the reindeer. Breeders,the Nenets people, numbering approximately 10,000, continue to perpetuate a nomad way of life. They journey nearly 70 times a year overmore than 1000 km looking for pasture of white lichen, the main food sourcefor the herds. The Nenets people are the largest group of reindeer breeders on the planet, but for how much longer? What is the future for these peoples who live on top of a treasure coveted by the entire world: the biggest gasfield on Earth? Like all the indigenous populations of Siberia, the Nenets people are today threatened by adominant population, the Russians, and also by the intensive exploitation of the resource found on their territory.

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It’s the most extravagant and most expensive shoot of these last ten years. The star portrays, in front of Jean-Daniel Lorieux’s camera, the heroine from the novel « The Master and Margarita » by Bulgakov.
A dream come true for the Russian billionaire Eugene Yakovlev.

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From the ashes of the Soviet Union, Russia has again risen to world power status, flushed with money, oil and attitude. The country has embraced capitalism and flung its door wide open to all the luxuries money can buy. Yet dark forces remain. The country is dominated by one man, Vladimir Putin, and democracy is dead. This series looks at the winners and losers of Russia’s resurgence and asks why people are willing to support Putinism, and exchange freedom for wealth. From military brass to social elites, oligarchs to construction workers, this series looks at those participating in the modern Russia.

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