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Colonial Era Anxiety Still Drives the Representation of China in Western Media

Lucian Ţion
Global affairs
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It’s not only the Coronavirus. China has been making headlines in Western media for the past couple of decades, and, just like today, it hasn’t been framed in a very flattering light. Whether it is...

Bulgaria and Russia – what do Romanians misunderstand?

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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The elections of presidents Rumen Radev in Bulgaria and Igor Dodon in the Republic of Moldova coincided with the publication of an article and map in Romanian media, which was widely read all over Romania...

AfD is a liberal party

Bogdan Gradinaru
Nationalists
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AfD (from German abbreviation ”Alternativ für Deutschland” – ”Alternative for Germany” ), though having at European level and in international media a reputation of far-right party, caused mainly by islamophobic, nationalist and deeply Eurosceptic stances,...

Traian Băsescu has fallen victim to the forces he unleashed

On 20 September the Court of Appeals in Bucharest came out with the decision that the former Romanian president Traian Băsescu was a collaborator with the communist secret service “Securitate”. Băsescu rejects this accusation and...

The murder which shook Romania – a story from Caracal

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Romania has been in a state of shock for more than a week, after a 15-year old girl – Alexandra Măceşanu, from the centrally-located southern city of Caracal, was killed on July 25th. Alexandra had...

Nur für Heterosexuelle? Major Polish pro-government media outlet launches a shocking Nazi-esque ca..

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The masks have dropped: Dr Goebbels, the infamous Nazi propagandist-in-chief of the Third Reich must be cheering in his grave. The most recent instigation by Gazeta Polska (Polish Gazette) smells of hitlerite intention. #StrefaWolnaOdLGBT #naklejka...

Op-ed: The banana outrage in Poland

Boyan Stanislavski
Art & culture
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There is no limit to the perverted prudery and hypocrisy of the current Polish government. One of my favorite ministers, the one in charge of culture, Piotr Gliński, has however elevated it all to a...

What is behind the murder in Gdansk?

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Certainly the mayor of Gdansk is not a random person and his death had to provoke a major disturbance in the public sphere. The collective reaction however is fairly disappointing. Considering how willingly this tragic...

A new episode: Romanians against the political system

This article was first published on 8 October 2018 in the Romanian section of "The Barricade" website. The Romanian referendum through which traditionalists had hoped to define the family in the Constitution as the union...

Independent media, social networks and conspiracy theories

Maria Cernat
Global affairs
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The mass media have evolved beyond our imagination. We are communicating, at least in one part of the world, more easily than ever. Still, as the technology evolved, the quality of journalism did not. Journalists...