Multimedia

Pulling Up the Roots

For Georgia’s few remaining Roma, traditional music goes out of fashion.

By Eka Chitanava and Temo Bardzimashvili

29 July 2010

Conflict & Diplomacy

Moldova: The Ties That Don’t Bind

A presidential decree recalls uncomfortable truths about Russian-Moldovan history, angering Moscow and home “pragmatists.” By Dumitru Minzarari

28 July 2010

Economy & Business

Georgia Plans to Open Tax-Free IT Zones

Tbilisi hopes to lure foreign high-tech companies through tax breaks and cheap labor. From EurasiaNet.

By Nino Patsuria

28 July 2010

Changing Cities

The Tide Turns for the Vltava

After decades of neglect and abuse, Prague's river begins to attract developers and residents.

By Lucie Kavanova

27 July 2010

Society

The Other Side of the Latvian Coin

Latvian politicians who misinterpret the Soviet past risk falling into the same trap as Ukraine’s Yushchenko, a Russian-Latvian commentary argues.

By BBC Monitoring

27 July 2010

From the Archives

The Spirit of Ceausescu

The strange tale of how the 20th century’s “most sinister monument to the absurd” still possesses transformative power in the Romanian capital.

By Razvan Amariei

26 July 2010

Changing Cities

The Maker of a Modern Magyar City

Jozsef Finta, one of the creators of contemporary Budapest, has been called many things. Timid is not one of them.

By Peter Murphy

23 July 2010

Changing Cities

From Frog to Prince

A bold plan aims to take Sofia from a car-choked city starved of major meeting points to a pedestrian-friendly social hub.

By Boryana Dzhambazova

22 July 2010

COLUMNS

Balkan Eye

A Very Expensive Academic Exercise

A court tells us that an independence declaration is not illegal. But does that make Kosovo a state?By TIHOMIR LOZA

29 July 2010

The Fourth Estate

Swan Song of a Loyal Public Servant?

The Czech public service broadcaster has been a model for its peers. But politics may kill it.By MARIUS DRAGOMIR

26 July 2010

Our Take

All Too Quiet on the Karabakh Front

The status quo is bad for all parties interested in resolving the Azeri-Armenian conflict, but the will to change it is lacking.

By TOL

23 July 2010

Russian Unorthodox

Fine the Messenger

A recent court decision gives a chilling glimpse into how Russian society handles the most provocative art.

By GALINA STOLYAROVA

22 July 2010

The New EU

Underwater Adventures and Other Summer Fun in Hungary

You could put it down to sunstroke, but, no, for Hungarians, credulous paranoia is a year-round affliction.

By BALINT SZLANKO

21 July 2010

Our Take

You Just Don’t Understand 

Is a reset possible when Moscow and Washington continue to have profoundly different ideas about a fundamental issue?

By TOL

16 July 2010

Balkan Eye

Conflicts of Interests 

When your When your team’s not in the World Cup, picking a favorite is a witch’s brew of politics, prejudice, pride, and play.

By BOYKO VASSILEV

15 July 2010