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- 31 August 2010
- A Tale of Two Bakus
A threatened old building and a striking new one symbolize the split personality of development in Azerbaijan’s booming capital.
- By Khanim Javadova
- 9 August 2010
- Not Over Yet
TOL Talk: Kyrgyzstan’s crisis is no longer in the headlines, but it continues nonetheless, with mass round-ups, beatings, and torture.
- By Barbara Frye
- 6 August 2010
- Home of the Booze
TOL audio slide show: A supposedly liberalizing law on private production of Hungary’s national drink hasn’t convinced many home distillers to go straight.
- By Anita Komuves
- 29 July 2010
- Pulling Up the Roots
For Georgia’s few remaining Roma, traditional music goes out of fashion.
- By Eka Chitanava and Temo Bardzimashvili
- 20 July 2010
- Poles Apart
TOL slide show: Polish cities large and small grapple with the challenges of revitalization that strengthens rather than separates urban communities.
- By Maciej Czarnecki
- 1 July 2010
- Black Water
TOL slide show: On Baku’s outskirts, one of the most polluted places on earth, residents live with the legacy of oil.
- By Abbas Atilay
- 17 June 2010
- Signs of the Times
- TOL slide show: Young Praguers put their political views in writing for a visiting photographer.
- By Alla Maximova
- 16 June 2010
- The Waiting Room
A photographer documents a decade of Belarus’ tentative search for a post-Soviet national identity.
- By Bill Crandall
- 15 June 2010
- A Match That Was Waiting for a Strike
TOL Talk: One analyst says pent up frustrations and wrong-headed policies made the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan inevitable.
- By Barbara Frye
- 14 June 2010
- 'My Homeland Is Here'
- TOL slide show: Two elderly Azeri women reflect on coming to – and staying in – Nagorno-Karabakh.
- By Kristine Khanumian
TOL PROMOTION
Minority Coverage in Focus
With the recent events in Kyrgyzstan, the need to improve coverage of ethnic and other minorities was again thrown into stark relief. Toward that end, TOL has launched a call for applications for a distance-learning course on the subject for media professionals and bloggers from Central Asia. Deadline: September 20th, 2010
For more information or to apply, click here.
NEWS FILTER
- A Desperate Homecoming for Deported Roma
- Der Spiegel
- Poland: Afghan Costs Crimping Force Modernization, Leader Says
- The New York Times
- Will Russia's Bloggers Survive Censorship Push?
- Der Spiegel
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Can This Union Be Saved?Thomas Geoghegan, a labor lawyer in Chicago, observed this today in the New York Times: Ireland was poor and helpless until the European Union came along like a fairy godmother. ..In EU Next in Line
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