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View ArticleThe wry that came in from the cold
The Russian-Ukrainian dispute over gas is a mess of economical, political and geostrategical conflicts between Russia, Ukraine, the EU, and larger and smaller EU member states. But in the meantime,...
View ArticleAnnals of the global financial crisis, Eurasian edition (or why the Kazakhs...
"Last year," Leopolis notes, "if one said that Kazakhstan was the Iceland of Central Asia it would have been a compliment." Now, not so much, as the economic crisis engulfs Eastern Europe and Central...
View ArticleBudapest riots: not what they used to be anymore
– Crossposted from Cogitamus – It’s March 15, a national holiday, and police was duly out in massive numbers to guard the some twenty different, mostly oppositional, manifestations that took place....
View ArticlePhoto fragments from communist Hungary
This post was originally published in April 2009 on a blog that’s now dead, where it’s no longer online. Turns out I still had a draft saved here, so I thought I might as well republish it. Or: a...
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