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THAT’S INCREDIBLE
(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))
MOSCOW PROTESTS
Russia has a new symbol of “me-first” power that’s beginning to produce widespread protest. They’re called “migalki,” flashing blue and red lights with a siren added for effect. Increasingly, ...
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Soli Ozel
(Curriculum vitae/Curriculum vitae - English (United Kingdom))
Soli Ozel
Teaches at Istanbul Bilgi University's Department of International Relations and Political Science. He is a column ist for the national daily Sabah and is senior advisor to the chairman of ...
Kees Kooning and Dirk Kruijt Megacities World Health Organization
Megacities and urban health (in English) reviewed by Vittorio Borelli
Statistically speaking, the world’s most populous ...
PEACE WINE In Eran Riklis’ 2008 move “Lemon Tree,” a Palestinian woman defends her lemon tree grove against a new Israeli defense minister who wants it fenced off because it could become a hiding ...
The Eurozone Still Has Life
Given the extensive degree of European integration, in particular the sin-
gle market, withdrawing from the EU would have almost incalculable legal and economic implications ...
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Political risk
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))
The international economic do wnturn that struck most of the world in 2009 represented a good example of how political and economic risks are entwined. Monitoring possible political risks is vital to understanding ...
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By the Numbers
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))
BABY BOOM In 2009, a total of 1,859 Italian families , up 12.6 percent compared to 2008. Of the total, 336 came from Russia (top of the list for adoptions) and 284 from Ukraine, which ranked second. The ...
THE FIRSTPARTOF THE YEAR HAS SEEN Central and Eastern Europe begin to consolidate signs of economic recovery. Butt’s very much a two-speed revival. While renewed exports have helped ...
Barbara Pietrasanta
L’ideogramma al neon
(Neon Ideograms)
Reviewed by Cristina Bombelli The globalization process now touches all forms of communication. It’s systematic and spreads laterally, transcending ...
In the course of helping to organize the conference “Italian Identity and Media in Southeast Europe” I visited Albania a number of times over a period of years, stopping in Tirana and Durres but also getting ...
GANDHI: SAINT OR MISOGYNIST?
More than 60 years after his death, Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy is still being debated.
Writing in The Guardian newspaper, New Delhi-based British author Michael Connellan ...
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By the Numbers
(2010/east 29 - Dmitri's Toughest game - English (United Kingdom))
DIASPORA BRAIN
Although only .2 percent of the world’s population is Jewish: 54 percent are world chess champions; 27 percent have won the Nobel Prize in physics; 31 percent have won the Nobel Prize ...
JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, THE ECONOMIES of Eastern and Central Europe were under siege. Some compared the regional downturn to the 1997 Asian economic crash. The month of March 2009 marked both a high point ...
Subject
The organised recruitment of East European labour to work in Western Europe.
Significance A number of recruitment agencies now specialise in recruiting East European workers for West European ...
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Soli Ozel
(Writers/Writers - English (United Kingdom))
is a lecturer in the International Relations and Political Science Department of Istanbul’s Bilgi university. He’s a column ist for the Sabah newspaper and editor of the magazine Tüsiad. ...
... Honking cars and trucks are backed up in a snarled column that fills the air with noxious exhaust fumes. Gradually, I make it to the old city located a top a hill. Slipping through narrow alleys I then ...
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RECOMMENDED READING
(2010/east 28 - The Agony of a Dictatorship - English (United Kingdom))
While Zhang’s autobiography has the power of a popular novel, it’s in fact a highly personal memoir with a deeply political edge. Her Mao-era story focuses on how people come to their convictions and won’t ...
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By the Numbers
(2010/east 28 - The Agony of a Dictatorship - English (United Kingdom))
GARBAGE 500 kilos: The per capita amount of urban waste produced annually by European citizens. Czech citizens were 294 kilos a head while Danes came in at 801. Here’s where all that waste went: 43 percent ...
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THAT’S INCREDIBLE
(2010/east 28 - The Agony of a Dictatorship - English (United Kingdom))
BEDEVILED RABBIS “Surf the web and you’ll be lost.” That’s the message Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox rabbis are spreading to their followers, most notably youths mesmerized by potential of new technology. ...
SO FAR, THE 2010IS OFF TO A GOOD START, quite the opposite from last year. Thanks to the overall global economic recovery and specific measures intended to rein the deepening crisis (including intervention ...
