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From wild dingo children to the cannibal generation: the history of the disappearing East

The novel Sălbaticii Copii Dingo (The Wild Dingo Children, Polirom 2021) by Vasile Ernu was awarded the Observator Cultural 2022 prize for the best book in the memoir category. This text is a longer form of the award speech....

Thumbs up, thumbs down, part 2: Government breakdown in Bulgaria; The Summit of the Americas

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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This is the second instalment of this week's “On the Barricades” release. This episode is part of our regular series, which we co-produce and co-host with Youri Smouter of 1+1. Maria, Boyan, and Youri discuss:...

Thumbs up, thumbs down, part 1: The media’s harsh treatment as Romania becomes a grain corridor

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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This our thumbs up and thumbs down session with Youri Smouter of 1+1 (https://www.youtube.com/user/Yourismo...) 01:00 Maria Cernat on the meeting in Kiev of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis with leaders Macron, Schultz, Dragi to negotiate a...

Capitalist society, not just attitudes, are to blame for social exclusion of the Roma population.

Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
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The Roma population in Romania, 86% of whom live in appalling conditions that force children to beg and hunt through trash to survive, are the target of major, normalized racism by their non-Roma neighbors; similarly...

Fake feminism in Romania (and elsewhere)

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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In this episode of "On the Barricades," Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski talk about the phoniness that passes for feminism in Romania and is applauded by some progressives. They also discuss how dominant feminist trends...

Thumbs up and thumbs down: Ukraine’s war, militarism, and a failing left

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Democracy
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This our thumbs up and thumbs down session with Your Smouter of 1+1: 01:40 Slovenian elections - Youri Smouter (interview with Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat about Slovenian elections) 05:10 Your Smouter on censhorship in the internet and...

Is the Transnistrian provocation going to be effective?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Moldova
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The Ukrainian army has attacked some targets in Transnistria, a small strip of land between Moldova and Ukraine that rebelled against the Soviet Union's dissolution in the early 1990s and was left to operate as...

A new low in Romania! Police leaks journo’s intimate pics to threaten her?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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Boyan Stanislavski and Maria Cernat discuss the recent scandal in Romania in today's episode of "On the Barricades." Emilia Șercan, a well-known Romanian journalist, received numerous threats after revealing that the country's prime minister plagiarized...

During a war, the Romanian military and police will not care about civilians

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Human rights and civic liberties
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Romania is one of the countries that spends a lot of money on its security apparatus, and the costs of the military's lethal toys are rising every year. There is a lot of talk about...

Women’s day 2022. Do we fully know what we want?

Maria Cernat
Democracy
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Feminism has always been a movement for liberation and progress. Frequently confronted with hatred, violence, and general reluctance. Over the last two centuries, the same arguments have been used to oppose it. The most heinous...