Georgia

5 April 2013
Georgia’s Free, Albeit Non-Existent, Preschools

A move intended to make preschool available to all could have the opposite effect.

By Tamar Kikacheishvili
 
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3 April 2013
Filling in Georgia's Blanks

Two new books make notable additions to the small shelf of works in English on the intricate history of Georgia.

By Lincoln A. Mitchell
 
28 March 2013
Russian Diplomats Called on Carpet, Uzbek Leader Surfaces
Plus, Latvian ‘non-citizens’ call an election and two Bosnian Serbs get 22 years for ethnic ‘cleansing.’
By Erik N. Nelson, Joshua Boissevain, and Connor Zickgraf
 
21 March 2013
Brussels Issues Report Cards, Tajik Fugitive Vanishes Premium

Plus, trapped Polish miners are rescued and Slovenia gets a new, young government.

By Erik N. Nelson, Joshua Boissevain, Ioana Caloianu, and Connor Zickgraf
 
18 March 2013
Saakashvili’s Admission of Failure Premium
If, as the Georgian president says, big money from outside bought the elections, then what kind of democracy did he build?
By Zaal Anjaparidze
 
12 March 2013
Hungarian Lawmakers Vote to Weaken High Court, Bulgaria Admits Holocaust Role Premium

Plus, Russia and the EU again talk of easing visa rules and Uzbek pundits see an Islamist threat to Central Asia.

By Joshua Boissevain, Ioana Caloianu, Ky Krauthamer, Richard Parrish, and Connor Zickgraf
 
12 March 2013
Fifty Shades of Stalin
Love him? Hate him? Throw paint on him?
By D. Garrison Golubock and Barbara Frye
 
6 March 2013
Out in the Street

TOL slide show: After getting thousands of disadvantaged kids out of Soviet-era institutions, Georgia faces an increasingly visible tribe of children living largely on the street.

By Onnik Krikorian
 
5 March 2013
Czech Senate Impeaches Klaus, EU Wary of Expanding Schengen Zone Premium

Plus, North Caucasus republics face off over a border dispute and Latvia makes a bid for euro adoption.

By Joshua Boissevain, Ioana Caloianu, Ky Krauthamer, and Connor Zickgraf
 
28 February 2013
Coke-Free Uzbekistan, All-Electric Estonia Premium

Plus, crisis-battered Slovenia and Bulgaria try to pick up the political pieces and Saakashvili admits he flubbed an attack on Russian banks.

By Nirvana Bhatia, Ioana Caloianu, Ky Krauthamer, Richard Parrish, and Connor Zickgraf
 

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