Conflict & Diplomacy

16 March 2010
Grozny: Rebuilt on Fear

Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralyzing fear remains. From openDemocracy.

By Tanya Lokshina
 
15 March 2010
Exchanging Words

Skopje’s enthusiastic push for Macedonian language classes for Albanian first-graders leads to a schools boycott. Part one of a series.

By Ljubica Grozdanovska Dimishkovska
 
12 March 2010
Feed the Grass Roots

Rising frustration among Romani activists may help seed much-needed new ideas.

By TOL
 
26 February 2010
The Cruelest Month Premium

Four years ago, one commentator chronicled a particularly brutal April for minorities in Russia.

By Nickolai Butkevich
 
23 February 2010
Bad Behavior Premium

TOL podcast: Freedom House’s Christopher Walker on Kazakhstan’s OSCE missteps and their meaning.

By Jeremy Druker
 
19 February 2010
A Message to the Wavering Middle Premium

By taking on a neo-Nazi party in the courtroom and winning, the Czech government may have set a precedent for the entire region.

By TOL
 
19 February 2010
Faint Echoes of 1919 Premium

Most Czechs and Poles share this border town peaceably, but apparently for some, bilingual signs were a step too far.

By Lubos Palata
 
18 February 2010
No Borders Here Premium

TOL podcast: An Armenian journalist and an Azeri activist use new media to breach the region’s information barrier.

By Onnik Krikorian
 

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