Politics

Kyiv’s Next Image Problem

Ukraine is today facing a dangerous anti-democratic challenge – from the new president’s authoritarian turn on the one hand and from a new right-radical movement on the other. From openDemocracy.

By Andreas Umland

13 October 2010

Education

The Canvas Schoolhouse

Their school destroyed in the June pogroms, hundreds of Uzbek children in southern Kyrgyzstan will study in tents this fall. By Bakyt Ibraimov and Talant Sadykov

12 October 2010

Society

Jury Trials Aim to Bolster Confidence in Georgian Courts

Georgia’s new jury system largely borrows from the American model, but also contains some major differences. From EurasiaNet.

By Giorgi Lomsadze

12 October 2010

From the Archives

Heavy Metal Rivers

A decade before Hungary’s toxic sludge spill, Romanian rivers were the victim of two catastrophic accidents.

By Catherine Lovatt

11 October 2010

Film

Shooting War

Competition between the Czech Republic and Hungary for international film productions heats up as Prague introduces an incentive designed to lure filmmakers back from Budapest.

By Theodore Schwinke

11 October 2010

Politics

Kyrgyz Democracy’s Narrowing Window of Opportunity

On 10 October Kyrgyzstan will elect a new parliament on a new constitutional basis. There may not be many more opportunities for the country to pull out of the cycle of violent regime change. By Bakyt Beshimov

8 October 2010

Education

A Furor Over an Hour of Sex

Parents send up a mighty roar over a manual for teachers on sex education. From Respekt.

By Hana Capova

7 October 2010

Education

Climate Change

Revisions to Ukraine’s educational system once again have some asking if it is a European or Russian country.

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By Ksenia Korzun

6 October 2010

COLUMNS

The New EU

Mad Men in the Castle

Visitors to Prague are told tales of the Castle’s strange and mysterious past. Czechs don’t need to be told of the weird things that go on there now.

By KATERINA SAFARIKOVA

13 October 2010

Our Take

Medvedev’s Big Brotherly Talk

With relations between Russia and Belarus at an all-time low, what lies behind Medvedev’s tongue-lashing to the leader of “our closest ally”?

By TOL

8 October 2010

Balkan Eye

God Studies

A debate about religious education in Bulgaria takes in children’s souls, the church’s prestige, and the country’s ethical standards.

By BOYKO VASSILEV

7 October 2010

Our Take

Tajikistan’s Cryptic Violence 

Gunfire in a former opposition stronghold, and flimsy explanations from the government, have led to another round of tea-leaf reading.

By TOL

1 October 2010

Russian Unorthodox

Power to the Who? 

If Luzhkov had to go, shouldn’t it have been Muscovites who made the call?

By GALINA STOLYAROVA

30 September 2010

The New Eu

Scenes From Eastern Highways and Byways 

Our intrepid reporter goes on the road in Slovakia, finding change and stasis in equal measure.

By MARTIN EHL

29 September 2010

Our Take

A Promising Treatment for Apathy 

Thanks to a few online efforts, politicians in Bosnia are finding that talk is no longer cheap.

By TOL

24 September 2010