Central Europe & Baltics

4 January 2010

Scandal in Bohemia

A degree-granting affair opens the Czech public’s eyes to a burgeoning problem of university governance and financing.

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By Michael L. Smith

23 December 2009
Year of Populists and Nationalists: Many new EU members are gearing up for bruising political battles in 2010, and hoping the strife doesn’t spread to the streets.; By Martin Ehl

21 December 2009
Polish-Belarusian Border: Separate Lives: Joining the EU brought many benefits to Poles and much harder lives for those living just the other side of the bloc’s new eastern border.; By Gosia Wozniacka and Wojciech Kosc

17 December 2009
Nowhere to Hide: One of the backers of a proposed new whistleblowing law for Lithuania makes her case.; By Neringa Mickeviciute

16 December 2009
Street Theater: An American filmmaker who witnessed the fall of communism in Prague attempts to re-create the Velvet Revolution on screen.; By Daniela Ivanova

11 December 2009
Fast-Forward, Rewind: The past two decades have seen greater, if incomplete, media freedom in parts of the post-communist world, while the press in much of the former Soviet Union remains as handcuffed as ever.; By Christopher Walker

10 December 2009
Politics Killed the Radio Stars: A controversial awarding of two broadcasting licenses quiets popular radio stations and provokes roars of outrage.; By Peter Murphy

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