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Today, almost a quarter of a century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Germans view Russia completely differently. Public opinion polls carried out in spring 2013 show that the attitude of the average German towards Russia is very critical, and the picture of the Russian society isn’t much better.
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Comrades! Have you ever wondered what became of the socialist dream? What happened to the society of equals? Where all those Red Army generals and KGB colonels went when they retired? It – and they – live on in Transnistria. Sort of.
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U doba kada su putovanja po Zapadnoj Evropi obično odlikovala modus vivendi intelektualca Aleksandar Blok nije bio sklon da često i dugo napušta Peterburg; izuzetak je bilo samo selo Šahmatovo u Klinskom okrugu Moskovske gubernije, kuda je svake godine, sve do 1917, putovao na leto. Nekoliko odlazaka u Moskvu i Revel, nedelja u Kijevu, tri nedelje u Varšavi zbog očeve sahrane, sedam meseci vojnog roka na području Pinskih močvara – to je karta pesnikovog kretanja po Rusiji. Tu se može dodati poseta Saratovskoj guberniji kada je imao devet godina i okolina Peterburga koju je obilazio u razno doba dana i godine.
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Little has changed in Russia in the last century. Despite the abolition of serfdom, people today have become accustomed to having a substantial part of their problems resolved by someone else. Because of the lack of necessity to make a choice, we have all become extremely lazy.
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Human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of Romanian women to Europe continue to be a serious problem, despite Romania’s accession to the European Union in 2007. Many non-governmental organisations in Romania are working to address this problem, but despite their dedication and hard work, the availability of funding is still too low.
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From the very beginning of its independence, Kazakhstan has declared to be building a society of Kazakhstanis. However, with 120 ethnicities living in Kazakhstan, this is a long process. The dominant position of the Russian media, which maintains the strong influence of the Russian language in the state, also hinders this process.
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An analysis of the biography of Aleksander Lednicki – a Polish lawyer, publicist, social activist and politician who died in 1934 –sheds new light on Polish-Russian cooperation at the beginning of the 20th century. Lednicki’s intellectual path shows that this lawyer argued that a policy of “isolating” Russia by Poland would be fatal.
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Plava linija podzemne željeznice u Chicagu vozi direktno prema groblju na kojem je pokopana Emma Goldman, velika anarhistica. Nedjeljno prije podne. Ulazimo u vlak, koji juri brzo prema Forrest Parku. To je posljednja stanica. Nedjeljom vlak je gotovo prazan, pokraj mene sjedi djevojčica koja puše balone od žvakaće gume.
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International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna – Contact and Conflict in the Dual Monarchy – Women in the Culture of Medieval Europe – Curtain Rise for Multimedia – Movie Making at ELTE – Ten Years of the Soros Foundation – ABOUT TOWN – Euro-Woodstock in Budapest
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Portrait of the Egghead as a Civil Servant - Zsófia Zachár in Conversation with András Török
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Five Years of Revolutionary History – Foreign Cultural Institutes in Budapest – Le Pont des Arts – International Book Festival – ABOUT TOWN – Cinema of Hard Times
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ABCD: An Interactive Magazine – From the Atelier to the École Doctorale Régiónak of Bucharest – The Romanian Cultural Institute – Criticism in the Open Society
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New Europe College – The Social History of Poverty – Women and Power in Medieval Europe – Peter Meller’s Lectures at Eötvös Loránd University – ABOUT TOWN – Rom Som Gypsy World Festival
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The BRB Guide to Budapest: Digital Budapest for Real Live Visitors and Cyberdandies, or any combination of the two
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