In words and pictures, Georgian students express their feelings about Russia and the 2008 war. A TOL/Liberali multimedia production.
By Eka Chitanava and Temo BardzimashviliRussian endings on Azeri family names may soon be a thing of the past. From EurasiaNet.
By Mina MiradovaPublic service or vote-buying? Tbilisi residents debate the motives behind Mayor Gigi Ugulava’s pre-election largess. A TOL/Liberali multimedia project.
By Iago Kurashvili and Nino Kakhishvili
Love in the Time of Post-CommunismConstantin and Elena is a testament of enduring love and its young director's perseverance.
By Theodore SchwinkeIn the fourth of a series of video reports, Georgians debate whether the statue of Josef Stalin in his birthplace of Gori should stay in the city center or be moved to a museum. A TOL/Liberali multimedia project.
By Nia Kurtishvili and Maka MachavarianiMany Kazakhs fear the new Russian-led customs union will be a very unequal partnership.
By Kenjali TinibaiA payout program for having babies is upping the birth rate in Nagorno-Karabakh. From EurasiaNet.
By Marianna Grigoryan
Big financial groups are betting on growth in the Czech and Slovak media. Or are they just looking to buy good press?
By MARIUS DRAGOMIRFor Serbia’s sake, the Karadzic trial cannot become the sideshow that Milosevic’s was.
By TOL
Martians, purple flames, black magic – it must be election season in Eastern Europe.
By KATERINA SAFARIKOVA
Although deeply flawed, Medvedev’s strategy for dragging Russia into the 21st century is not to be dismissed out of hand.
By TOL
When Athens’ financial mismanagement blew up, Sofia’s euro dreams receded into the distance.
By BOYKO VASSILEV
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The Limits of PragmatismI just read a commentary on openDemocracy by Rein Mullerson, an expert in international law and the rector of Tallinn University Nord. In it, Mullerson argues that cooler heads w..In Between Brussels and Gazprom
He Gives, and He Gives, and He Give ..Spotted this recently on BBC Monitoring. I think if I had private chefs and jets and the enforced adulation of a captive populace, I might be a "Good Natured Angel of Peace," too. ..In Between Brussels and Gazprom
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