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The Russian protests — some reason to the passionate media plot

After the incredible events that have been taking place in the USA recently, we thought it was about time we saw a new chapter in the online political show: this time, it came from Russia....

Erdogan has no influence over Bulgarian Turks

Yuliana Metodieva
Bulgaria
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Mehmet Űmer is a former correspondent in Bulgaria for the Turkish newspaper Zaman, which was banned after the failed coup d’etat of 2016. Before that he was a professor of Turkish language in the high...

Lithuania’s failed social-democracy. Was the 2020 election LSDP’s funeral?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Baltic states
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Something is rotten in the state of Lithuania. Clearly. Not necessarily in a Shakespearean way, but things are serious when the alcoholism and suicides rates have been the highest in Europe for the last years....

Moldova goes West? Are any changes possible after Sandu’s election?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Elections
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Pro-EU opposition candidate Maia Sandu won Moldova's presidential runoff with 57.75% of the vote, according to the country's central election commission. Incumbent President Igor Dodon, who is said to be backed by the Kremlin ahead...

Romania – illusions turning Into nightmares

The Barricade
History
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Maria Cernat was invited by Belgian-based journalist Youri Smouter to appear on his podcast, 1+1, to share with an international audience what Romania was like during communist times and also to talk about the past...

Bleak prospects for feminism in Russia

Maria Cernat
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Combating hate speech and extremism are two notions very seriously embed in the federal law in Russia. The legal framework evolved over the course of the past two decades. Here is how. The article 282...

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...

Saakashvili in the center of yet another grotesque event

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The right-wing madness in Ukraine is mostly dangerous and sad, but thanks to personages like the infamous 'Eurasian Berlusconi' it sometimes appears comically pathetic. The former president of Georgia who used to be the great...

New Year’s winds of war

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Another record of New Year’s pyrotechnical goods consumption was probably beaten this year. It is a pity though, that no one thought that we could spend one of the upcoming New Year’s Eves in nuclear...

The Russian protests — some reason to the passionate media plot

Erdogan has no influence over Bulgarian Turks

Moldova goes West? Are any changes possible after Sandu’s election?

Romania – illusions turning Into nightmares

Bleak prospects for feminism in Russia

Independent media, social networks and conspiracy theories

Saakashvili in the center of yet another grotesque event

New Year’s winds of war

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