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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...

Who gets isolated by the anti-Iranian sanctions – Tehran or Trump?

Vladimir Mitev
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”Our revolution was not a fundamentalist revolution advocating a return to the past... The progress we are familiar with was the modernity we experienced before the revolution and we saw that it did not lead...

The protests in France and their future

Maria Cernat
Global affairs
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Bruno Drwęski is a historian, a political scientist, the director of the Polish section of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), and a member of Sorbonne University. He is also general secretary...

Alina Bârgăoanu: Phenomenon of fake news shows how the West falls prey to extreme moods and emotions

Maria Cernat
Global affairs
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Professor Alina Bârgăoanu is Dean of the College of Communication and Public Relations at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Romania. She was appointed in the spring of 2018 to be...

David Hazinski: The public’s lost faith in media opened the door for trolls

Maria Cernat
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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David Hazinski is one of the most important media specialists in the world. He worked for six years as a foreign correspondent for the well-known American TV station, NBC News; for over 30 years, he...

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...

Valer Simion Cosma: The Summer School at Telciu stirs up interest beyond the politicised circles o..

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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Valer Simion Cosma (b. 1986) has a doctorate in History from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, with a thesis on the role of the clergy in the rural world of Transylvania in the XIX century. He...

Young Polish social-democrats: not radical enough to succeed?

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
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Three years ago, a new political party called Razem (Together) stunned public opinion in Poland. A circle of young people, most, but not all of them previously active in the Young Socialists group, not only...

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...

Democracy in the age of technology

Bogdan Gradinaru
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The driving force behind this article was the lack of a critical approach and the intellectual marasmus of the "tech-elite" in Romania towards the unfair global business practices of the Silicon Valley oligopolistic sector, but...

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