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24-11 Transitions online Tashkent Holds Key to New Afghan Supply Route NATO strategists are looking into a new, safer route to Afghanistan via the Caucasus.
24-11 Transitions online Rural Idyll A Romanian village school affected by “white flight” tries to adjust.
21-11 Transitions online Europe’s Gas Sclerosis Russia isn’t the obstacle to a secure gas future for Europe. The EU’s lack of vision is.
20-11 Transitions online Democracy is Such a Bother Unlike in the United States, Russia's rulers' approach to elections has spared their people the hassle of getting involved.
20-11 Transitions online Banking Havoc Drives Builders Out of Business Why Central Asia’s biggest economy was hit early and hard by the credit crunch.
19-11 Transitions online The Showman No one should expect the new coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s football team to stay on the sidelines.
19-11 Transitions online The Aftermath Both sides are guilty of lies and miscalculations, but a mix of vision and realism could still help stabilize the region.
18-11 Transitions online Fixing the Game While the EU looks the other way, opponents of reform in Romania are about to have their day at the polls.
18-11 Transitions online Cotton Harvest Down Harvest time brings economic, environmental and human-rights issues into the spotlight. From EurasiaNet.
17-11 Transitions online The Ride Comes to an End The global downturn makes clear the perils of relying too much on one industry.
14-11 Transitions online Martin Kacur TOL SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT: An episode from a significant Slovene novel soon to appear in English translation.
14-11 Transitions online Eurasian Epidemic Ordinary Russians are beginning to feel the sting of the slowing economy, and Central Asians are next in line.
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13-11 Transitions online Lost in Economic Space The financial crisis highlights how dearly Hungarians are paying for an unreformed welfare state – and a childish, parochial political class.
13-11 Transitions online On the Periphery of the New World Order
12-11 Transitions online Far More Than an Academic Publisher TOL SPECIAL REPORT: Startling allegations about Lech Walesa’s past have Poles scrutinizing a body that is both research institution and prosecutor.
12-11 Transitions online Cultural Vacuum TOL SPECIAL REPORT: Why one of Russia’s boldest publishers found favor neither with readers nor the authorities.
11-11 Transitions online Guitar Diplomacy Once the coolest ambassador from the former Eastern bloc, Andras Simonyi wants to light a fire under the Hungarian film industry.
10-11 Transitions online Out in the Street, Out of Power Will the August war give Georgia’s fractious opposition a fighting chance to gain power?
10-11 Transitions online Tensions Rise, On and Off the Pitch Violence mars a football match and nationalists on both sides of the Danube talk tough.
07-11 Transitions online Georgia’s Harassed Media Postwar conditions have only worsened a Georgian media climate devoid of real debate on the most pressing issues.
07-11 Transitions online Economic Challenges TOL SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT: Despite, or because of, past bonds, the countries around the Black Sea have failed to forge strong economic ties.
06-11 Transitions online Why Bother Counting the Dead? A desperate Russian military uses lies and intimidation to keep soldiers, even though it seems to care nothing about their welfare.
06-11 Transitions online Poverty Snapshot Wages are rising, but so are prices in Montenegro – and the government is cagey on its poverty-fighting program.
05-11 Transitions online In Any Language, Ukrainian Publishing Success is Elusive TOL SPECIAL REPORT: In a marketplace divided along language lines, books struggle for the consumer hryvnia.
05-11 Transitions online Teaching Diversity by the Book A schoolbook becomes popular with a message that the majority is just one among many cultures living in Romania.
05-11 Transitions online Romania & Ukraine Facts and prognoses on two potentially profitable book markets.
04-11 Transitions online Who Gets the Sofia Vote? Barack Obama and John McCain get the once-over in Bulgaria’s capital city.
04-11 Transitions online Lots of White and Blue, but no Red A rough survey of TOL’s region tilts toward Barack Obama, but Don’t Know also makes a strong showing. Whether it matters remains an open question.
04-11 Transitions online ‘Da’ to Obama, ‘Nyet’ to McCain One of the Duma’s foreign affairs experts says Russia just wants someone it can talk to.
03-11 Transitions online The Contagion Spreads Eastward Some Central and Eastern European economies are already in the emergency room, but others will likely just catch cold.
03-11 Transitions online Turkmenistan Sidesteps Trouble, for Now But an ailing Russian economy could have a profound impact on energy-dependent Turkmenistan. From EurasiaNet.
31-10 Transitions online Last Defender of Belarusian Statehood TOL SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT: Detractors fail to understand the reasons for the Belarusian leader’s popularity and success.
31-10 Transitions online Barack Obama for President It has been at times painful to spotlight undemocratic and abusive practices throughout Eurasia while seeing versions of them committed in the States.
30-10 Transitions online Costly Illusions Diplomats and war-planners have bought into false notions about Georgia and its breakaway regions.
29-10 Transitions online Bosnian Transits TOL SPECIAL REPORT: An interview with the young Bosnian novelist, journalist and translator Muharem Bazdulj.
29-10 Transitions online Feudal Lords, Dirt and Doppelgangers TOL SPECIAL REPORT: Political writing in Russia runs the gamut from the scholarly to the seriously deranged. We review five noteworthy recent releases.
29-10 Transitions online Russian Publishing Trends TOL SPECIAL REPORT: Russia’s book people are chattering about marketing and the rise of pulp fiction, while some industry sectors pull in big profits.
27-10 Transitions online Opening the Lid Investigators plan to exhume the body of a Polish general in order to lay to rest an enduring World War II mystery.
27-10 Transitions online Who’s Sticking to the Union Now? The EU’s most hallowed word, it seems, is little more than a sound bite for sunshine patriots.
24-10 Transitions online Wrong Time for NATO Western allies come to the rescue, but they should resist calls to open the door to membership in the military alliance.
23-10 Transitions online Crisis? What Crisis? All those bad finance things? Not a problem in Russia.
22-10 Transitions online Arguing Over a Ghost On the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Enver Hoxha, some Albanians defend his legacy.
22-10 Transitions online Growing a Kindergarten Elderly people helped start a preschool in a Kyrgyz village where most adults are working abroad.
21-10 Transitions online The Anti-Gore On a U.S. trip, the Czech president steps into the role of crusader and fund-raiser for the climate change deniers.
21-10 Transitions online Groping for Groupthink A lack of results at the summit of former Soviet states raises questions about the organization’s future. From EurasiaNet.
20-10 Transitions online Who's Your Daddy Now? Iceland’s request for a loan gives the Kremlin one more arena to show off its new-found strength.
17-10 Transitions online Rough Patch Ahead Municipal elections in Bosnia have only tightened the grip of nationalist parties. What, then, becomes of constitutional reform and eventual EU membership?
17-10 Transitions online The Past Is Not a Different Country The way Central Europeans scrutinize their totalitarian past is changing. The Kundera affair shows how.
16-10 Transitions online Lowering the Bar The EU’s move to lift some sanctions on Tashkent is more about natural gas than political prisoners.