Transitions Online_Around the Bloc - 7 October
In the news: elections in Kosovo; mortgages in Poland; farewell to composer Giya Kancheli; Mike Pompeo, China, and the Balkans; and Estonia's climate policy.
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In the news: elections in Kosovo; mortgages in Poland; farewell to composer Giya Kancheli; Mike Pompeo, China, and the Balkans; and Estonia's climate policy.
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Society: Enthusiasts of the “special relationship” are gathering in Sofia this autumn, to celebrate and renew a mutual admiration society.
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TOL’s regional news roundup: a Yazidi temple in Armenia; Putin and Greta Thunberg; a Belarusian nuclear plant; prisons in Russia; and the passing of Karel Gott.
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A recent decision to move a communist-era statue in Prague reveals the perils of reassessing the past. By James Duffy, Lachlan Hyatt and Emily Mason
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In the news today: eastern Ukraine; disinformation in Latvia; a Serbian church in Bosnia; North Macedonians and Bulgarians; and alcohol in Russia.
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Today’s headlines: Russia and Georgia; bribes in Romania; journalism training in Crimea; a murder in Bulgaria; and the upcoming Polish elections.
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Regional news roundup: anti-China protests in Kazakhstan; anti-abortion rallies in Slovakia; cannabis in North Macedonia; an environmental catastrophe in Siberia; and the garment industry in Southeast Europe.
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News: Kovesi’s EU job; a new art space in Tallinn; Georgian presidential pardons; the Moldovan laundromat; and anti-LGBT violence in Ukraine.
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Regional news roundup: Ukrainian farmland for sale; Russia vs. North Korea; Turkmen prisoners; a Tajik-Kyrgyz border feud; and an expensive Polish PR campaign.
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Media: RFE/RL has returned to Romania, and is already making an impact in its bid to improve media standards and satisfy local demand.
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Regional news roundup: Russian protesters; Turkey and Bosnia; Poles in Belarus; smoking in Russia; and a village in Armenia.
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In the news: Russia and NATO; Albania, North Macedonia, and the EU; Ursula von der Leyen’s commissioners; Armenia, Iran and the U.S.; and Polish coal.
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Regional roundup: Minsk and Moscow; polygamy in Russia; a new IMF head; money laundering in Estonia; and giant structures in ancient Ukraine.
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In promising to protect the prime minister from domestic prosecution, President Milos Zeman could be moving his country closer to Poland or Hungary.
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TOL’s regional news roundup: Pashinyan in LA; Thomas Cook in Bulgaria; street art in South Ossetia; and Udmurtia’s identity crisis.
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The inner discord between belonging and non-belonging has been the germ of many outstanding artistic achievements by authors who feel part of Polish culture.
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News highlights: Russia’s Olympic nightmare; Serbia’s unwelcome patriarch; tourism in Uzbekistan; Holocaust remembrance in Lithuania; and the Russian-Estonian border.
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Online media struggle to survive in a marketplace distorted by special interests. Next in a series on disinformation in the Balkans.
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When the coronavirus emptied streets and city centers, people found a retro solution to social isolation: drive-in theaters.
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This paper aims to review the transition to online teaching (that took place on 12th March 2020) carried out by the top 10 academic higher education institutions in Israel as a response to the COVID-19 crisis in Israel, and to present details on several aspects, such as: how did each university make the transition, what were the learning and teaching channels that were adopted, how did they organize to support students and academic staff, what was the official policy of the institution, etc. The paper shows the sharp systemic changes that took place at the universities in order to continue the learning process that began before the epidemic broke out. In addition, we present trends that, although initially considered as potential future processes, expected to take place in the next 10-20 years, become at once the immediate reality, and ushered the Israeli education system towards the next step in the evolution of future teaching methods in general, and transition to distance learning in particular.
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