Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-13 February
Today’s regional roundup: MH17 trial; a solitary voice in Baku; Romania warned over trees; Facebook purges fake pages; and a pay cut in Pristina.
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Today’s regional roundup: MH17 trial; a solitary voice in Baku; Romania warned over trees; Facebook purges fake pages; and a pay cut in Pristina.
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Preschool education is the foundation of mother tongue education, and is one of the main pillars of national identity. Effective planning of the kindergarten network requires knowledge of the future development of the number of preschool age groups. The paper presents the results of the projection of the number of Hungarian speaking 3–5 year-olds in Transcarpathia in the 2018–2022 period. This data may determine the demographic basis of the Hungarian kindergarten network in the near future. The number of Hungarians, ethnically mixed Hungarian-Ukrainians, and Hungarian-speaking Gypsy children were counted separately, because the extent and possibilities of inclusion of the three groups in Hungarian kindergarten education differ. The study also includes the categorization of Transcarpathian settlements based on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the Hungarian-speaking kindergarten children living there.
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The number of students in public education in Romania dropped overall by 39 percent, from 4.1 million students to 2.5 million, from 1990 to 2017. The decline in the number of students enrolled in Hungarian medium education was somewhat more moderate, involving a decrease from 188,000 to 122,000 students (35%). Changes in ratios show partially positive trends. After the share of participants in Hungarian education in the total school aged population in Romania hit a low of 4.6% in 1996, it embarked on a growing trend until the 2010s. A period of stagnation followed, with a 5.1-5.2% share of Hungarian students in the total population of students enrolled in the national education system. The ratio continues to remain short of the 6% share. Regions in Transylvania and various education levels show different dynamics compared to the general picture. The paper describes and analyzes these differences.
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The article is a critical review, systematization, comparison and summary of the views on the role of the consumption for the dynamics of the economy from Cantillon to Keynes. Emphasis is placed on the alternatives of ideas, explained by the different assumptions and suggestions of the authors, and the changes in the economic conjuncture. In the context of the global crisis, the debate is revived, and the increasing demand is again one of the main opportunities for the implementation of the macroeconomic policy.
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In the news: opposition party wins Slovak elections; predictable polls in Tajikistan; the Ukrainian PM quitting or not; Seto people divided by Estonian-Russia border; and Kadyrov’s daughter is the talk of Paris.
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Transitions Online-Around the Bloc-3 MarchToday’s regional roundup: more constitutional changes in Russia; Borisov stands by Erdogan; the Transdniester war, 28 years on; Armenians in Ethiopia; and Polish filmmaking.
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What will liberal politicians do after once again being left out in the cold, this time in Slovakia?
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The 20th anniversary of the NATO campaign in Kosovo, which led to the beginning of a long process of state-building, was recently commemorated. Yet it is worth recalling what led to the campaign and understanding the lessons of its aftermath which are very much relevant today.
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The Donbas conflict has been taking place for over five years now. Some significant steps have been achieved since the implementation of the 2015 Minsk Agreements, and with it the official war might have reached an end. Yet, peace remains elusive.
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Information aggressors, especially the Russian Federation, are not “reinventing the wheel”. They use existing mechanisms. Journalists and the media, regardless of the provenance, are the first on the “information front” in the war over people’s hearts and minds. They have a choice: ignore or refute this fact or accept their role as a key element in state security and the information space.
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Review of: Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, “The Compatriots. The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad.”, Publisher: Public Affairs, New York, 2019. Review by: Luke Harding
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Review of: „Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals.” Edited by Volodymyr Yermolenko. Publisher: Internews Ukraine / Ukraine World, Kyiv: 2019. Review by: Margarita Novikova
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Headlines from around the region: Coronavirus update; Russian athletes; Serbian Orthodoxy in Montenegro; the Nazarbaevs’ London real estate; and Romania’s fishy new citizens.
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The article addresses the issue of immediate termination of employent initated by the employer.Termination of employment by the employer is interpreted as a unilateral legal act, under whichthe employer can terminate employment with the employee solely on the basis of defined reasons. The main objective is to point to problematic aspects of the Slovak legislation and to clarify their application with reference to judicial practice. The authors summarized the current legal background, analyzed the relevant court decisions, and applied logical thinking, using deduction, induction and synthesis in order to draw the appropriate legal conclusions. The article contains the comparison of the Slovak and the Czech legislation in the affected field.
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States’ awareness and interest of its diaspora and co-ethnics abroad have become a widespread phenomenon all over the world. In the era of globalization and blurring of borders states’ support to its minorities abroad has become an important element of states foreign policies. This article focuses on the complex relationship between Romanian state and the Romanian diaspora and kin minority. For nearly 30 years Romania has been deploying different programs towards co-ethnics living in other states. The Romanian approach to Romanians abroad is based on the division of Romanians into two groups – Romanian historical/traditional communities, and the Romanian diaspora. The article attempts to ascertain what kind of population is considered to be the object of Romanian transnational policy and to reveal its principal mechanisms. The work also aims to unite the kin state and diaspora concept by illustrating their interconnectivity through the Romanian case study.
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the current problems and challenges of Hungarian language education policy in Romania. A part of the challenges connected to Transylvanian Hungarian higher education are identical to those characteristics that the Romanian, or more generally the entire European system of university education reflects. Therefore, we briefly present some of the consequences and challenges of the so-called “Bologna Process” regarding higher education. Simultaneously, the special features of Transylvanian Hungarian higher education receives the attention of the larger part of our study. It focuses on the Hungarian language university education system, connected to kin-state policy, demographics and minority rights. What does the Transylvanian Hungarian minority and the higher education institutional system offer? The analyses can obviously not ignore the “topos” of the independent, Hungarian language state university and its dilemmas and challenges are also briefly presented in the study.
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Our news roundup: cyberattacks in Czechia; Chernobyl smog in Kyiv; Russian dual citizenship; pandemic in Belarus; and inheriting the presidency in Tajikistan.
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Highlights from our coverage region: Tajikistan health minister fired; Russian veteran raises big bucks for Russian docs; Latvian drone on the loose; domestic violence up in Russia; and masked fashion week in Vilnius.
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News from around the bloc: Polish election delay; free travel in the Baltics; Belarus and coronavirus; Laura Codruta Kovesi; and from Russia, to Italy, with love.
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