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The night train east from Warsaw to Minsk, clickerty-clack, clackerty-click, eases to a dead stop somewhere, nowhere.
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A historical building in Kyiv’s city centre has become the heart of a new kind of civic protest in Ukraine. From the defence of architectural heritage to protests against electoral frauds, Hostynny Dvir has turned into a local epicentre of a renewed civic dynamism.
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In Latvia, former citizens of the USSR, who are neither citizens of Latvia or of any other country, can’t vote in elections or actively participate in Latvia’s political life. They can’t work as civil servants or in certain private business, and their pension rights are restricted.
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The shared history of two Paris-based émigré magazines, Polish Kultura and Russian Kontinent, shows that dialogue is possible even at times when everything seems to be paralysed and frozen. And the legacy they left behind is important even today.
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The key to Yiddish poet Itzik Manger’s works is his own colourful life. His hometown, Czernowitz, was once in the Habsburg Empire; today, it is the city of Chernivstsi, Ukraine.
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The world in which we live in is not particularly hospitable to solidarity. But this does not mean that the spirit of and hunger for solidarity will give up.
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Almost no country in the post-Yugoslav world is happy with its borders. Only the will of the West keeps the region in shape. But after the earthquake which shook the Balkans in the 1990s, there are still risks of aftershocks.
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Once at the crossroads between East and West, the Macedonian capital of Skopje is a city suffering from schizophrenia. Revealing itself in the tensions between the majority of citizens living in the city beyond the ethnic divide forced upon them by politics, Skopje is a battle of the traditional vanguards against the new reactionaries.
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In Belarus, the most vivid, original and interesting music is based solely below the surface of society. It is not supported by government institutions and is often completely ignored. Yet, dig a little deeper and a thriving underground music scene can be found, with bands that are more often recognised outside of Belarus than inside.
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Review: Jörg Schulte, Jan Kochanowski i Renesans Europejski. Osiem studiów, Wydawnictwo Neriton-Uniwersytet Opolski, Warszawa 2012
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