Kosovo: The Forgotten Ones

Author(s): Zoran Culafic / Language(s): English Issue: 03/21/2006

As Serbs and Albanians discuss the province’s future, Kosovo’s smaller minorities are left out in the cold.

Serbia: Pavane for a Dead Dictator

Author(s): Igor Jovanović / Language(s): English Issue: 03/21/2006

The wrangling over Milosevic's funeral highlights the precarious position of Serbia’s government and the fragility of its democratic institutions.

Serbia: Burying the Dictator

Author(s): Igor Jovanović / Language(s): English Issue: 03/21/2006

The funeral of former president Milosevic turns into a show of force by the Socialists and Radicals, which some fear could bring down the government.

Contra-episteme: Adevăratul agent iranian

Author(s): Slavoj Žižek / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04+05/2007

Your Excellencies! Recent SEEMO Protest Letters

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2006

Poland: The Price of Victory

Author(s): Wojciech Kosc / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

The Polish president's trip to Moscow for Victory Day may do little to heal wounds still painful after 60 years.

Poland: The Political Impotence of Statistics

Author(s): Krzysztof Burnetko,Jarosław Makowski / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

A good first year in the EU is having too little impact on Polish politics.

Uzbekistan: Keeping the Peace

Author(s): Azamat Alikov / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

Why will Uzbek cinemas and television be showing no war films on Victory Day, or after?

Macedonia: A Capital Name

Author(s): Biljana Stavrova,Robert Alagjozovski / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

Will a new proposal for Macedonia’s name break the deadlock with Greece?

Bosnia: A House of Cards?

Author(s): Mirna Skrbic / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

The controversial election of the Croatian member of the country’s tripartite presidency shows the cracks in the construction of today’s Bosnia.

Russia: Memorial Day

Author(s): Dmitry Litvinovich / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

One in every four Russians apparently visited war memorials on a day described as Russia’s “most sincere” celebration.

Victory Day: A Debate Too Far

Author(s): Tihomir Loza,Ky Krauthamer ,Andrew Gardner,Jeremy Druker / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

The overheated political debate about Victory Day proves just one thing – that historians should be left to write history.

Armenia & Turkey: Overtures

Author(s): Anna Hakobyan / Language(s): English Issue: 05/10/2005

With the prospect of EU membership ahead for Turkey, Ankara and Yerevan may be inching towards common ground on the most vexed question in their shared history.

Slovakia: How to Overcook Cabbage Soup

Author(s): Martin Ehl / Language(s): English Issue: 10/06/2009

New parties and old quarrels emerge in early maneuvers ahead of next year’s Slovak elections.

Serbia: Ruin or Reform

Author(s): Igor Jovanović / Language(s): English Issue: 10/06/2009

Changes in the law could bring some decorum to Belgrade’s raucous media scene. Or kill it.

Macedonia: ‘Enough is Enough’

Author(s): Timothy Spence / Language(s): English Issue: 10/06/2009

In a border town where Greece means business, there is hope for a compromise on Macedonia’s name.

Kazakhstan: Assault on ‘Republic’

Author(s): Alyaksandr Yanusik / Language(s): English Issue: 10/06/2009

A critical voice in the Kazakh media is paralyzed in a standoff with a state-owned bank.

Georgia: The War – Our Fault? Their Fault? Who Cares?

Author(s): Jeremy Druker / Language(s): English Issue: 10/06/2009

Mikheil Saakashvili can rest assured that the new, critical report on Georgia’s role in the Ossetian war will have almost no domestic repercussions.

Czech Republic: Tarnished Silver

Author(s): Jan Macháček / Language(s): English Issue: 10/06/2009

Behind the scenes, the EU powers are losing patience with Prague’s aimless – or is it obstructive? – behavior.

Crimea: Talking Past Each Other

Author(s): Ksenia Pasechnik / Language(s): English Issue: 10/06/2009

As Kyiv steps up efforts to promote the use of Ukrainian in schools in Crimea, local complaints grow.