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· July, 2006

Stories about Eastern & Central Europe from July, 2006

Albania: Reactions to the Sunday Times Article

  31 July 2006

annabengan of annasblog reposts the Sunday Times Magazine's article on Albania, and the “official reply/explanation from the chief editor of Sunday Times.” annabengan's Albanian friends thought the article was “fair”...

Serbia: Talks of War

  31 July 2006

Eric Gordy of East Ethnia writes on the talks of war and the pains of forming a viable democratic coalition in Serbia.

Russia: “Mystery Illness” in Chechnya

  31 July 2006

David McDuff of A Step At A Time has translated a Prague Watchdog/Radio Free Liberty broadcast on the “mystery illness” that affected more than 100 children in Shelkovsky district.

Russia: “List of 17″

  31 July 2006

Sean's Russia Blog writes about groups present on (and missing from) the FSB's Terrorist Organizations list.

Ukraine: Universal of the National Unity

  31 July 2006

LEvko of Foreign Notes writes about the Universal of National Unity that president Yushchenko expects the leading Ukrainian politicians to sign, and some of the problems that surround the negotiation...

Latvia: Baltica Festival

  31 July 2006

Dykun posts footage from the Baltica Festival in Latvia: “More specifically, this is footage of two groups from Latgale. Latgale is a region of Latvia that has long fascinated me;...

Czech Republic: Moravian Folklore

  31 July 2006

Bored in Brno posts a report from the 49th “annual celebration of local music and folklore in the town of Velka nad Velickou in South Moravia”: “Being a Czech festival,...

Russia: Brian Grover & Matthias Rust

  31 July 2006

Copydude writes about two men who became (in)famous after they flew their light planes into Russia illegally: Brian Grover (1938) and Matthias Rust (1987).

Food Blog Report #26

  30 July 2006

#1: From Denmark, KristianPetersen.com and his original "Peach, chili and garlic soup with chicken" It´s essensial for a starter to have a great, not to spicy taste, to be light,...

Russia: Kaliningrad Travel Restrictions

  28 July 2006

Copydude writes about travel restrictions for Kaliningrad residents: “As fast the Berlin Wall came down, the EU has been building it back up. You can’t paint nice murals on the...

Russia, Ukraine: Stories About Words

  28 July 2006

Below is the translation of three stories about words: in the first one, they are being banned; in the second, they offend; in the third, there aren't enough of them....

Croatia: Dubrovnik Now and Then

  27 July 2006

Edward Lucas, Central and East European correspondent of The Economist, writes about his two visits to Croatia's seaside town Dubrovnik: in 1985 and this year.

Albania: Little Progress in Anti-Corruption

  27 July 2006

Our Man in Tirana cites a World Bank study, which declares that in terms of instituting anti-corruption reforms, “Albania remains the worst performer among all transition countries.”

Russia: Kremlin's Big Fish Fishing

  27 July 2006

Yuri Mamchur of Russia Blog writes about the current regime's idea of fishing: the “big fish” are Mikhail Khodrkovsky's former business partner Leonid Nevzlin, currently based in Israel, and two...

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