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May travels: Den' Pobedy in Odessa

chanteuse428 wrote 3 weeks ago: I left Metsudah early to do some touring of Odessa proper. I stayed with Sol and Dina, the JDC volun … more →

Tags: Excursions, den pobedy, JdC, Metsudah, Odessa, photos, Sol and Dina, Soviet Union, World War II

JOB POST: Program Officer, Disability Rights Fund1 comment

Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 month ago: Disability Rights Fund seeks Program Officer About the position The Program Officer position offers … more →

Tags: Announcements, Human Rights, Jobs & Internships, Opportunities, Community Capacity, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, Developing Countries, Diana Samarasan

It is a mistake to pretend that Kosova is unique

Marko Attila Hoare wrote 1 month ago: Most of us can probably remember, at least once in our lives, asking some apparatchik something alon … more →

Tags: Balkans, former yugoslavia, Kosovo, Serbia, Bangladesh, Caucasus, Chechnya, Cyprus, Darfur

Conceptions and misconceptions: Are you misinformed?

qglenda wrote 2 months ago: This post analyzes the deterioration of “Free Press” in the world and questions whether … more →

Tags: II. Analysis, Free Press, Partly Free Press, Not Free Press, Foxification, Fox Effect, Press Freedoms, East Asia, North Africa

The ugliness on the EU's eastern flank is dangerous to ignore

Marko Attila Hoare wrote 2 months ago: It’s official – Serbs are the agents of Western imperialism ! This, at least, is what th … more →

Tags: Balkans, Caucasus, Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Transnistria

Two Tales on TB

dshesgreen wrote 3 months ago: Two troubling TB stories this morning: First, a study in the Lancet reports that MDR-TB is an increa … more →

Tags: Global Fund, TB, MDR-TB, Burma, China, TB drugs

Small but Significant3 comments

Bonnie wrote 3 months ago: Life in rural Ukraine Since my husband and I are back in Ukraine–the birthplace of the MJBI a … more →

Tags: Faith, Travel, Missionary Stories, Odessa, Photography, Ukraine, World Missions

Russian Influence Increases in Former Soviet Territories

ipinfo2 wrote 3 months ago: Last month Russia announced new military initiatives. One involves the U.S. air base near Bishkek th … more →

Tags: World, March Volume 2009, Russia

our slavic neighbors

myconey wrote 4 months ago: brighton beach babushka brighton beach: the slavic neighborhood due east of coney island.  home to n … more →

Tags: coney tuesday, National, National Dance Club, primorski, primorski restaurant, Brighton, Brighton Beach, Cyrillic Alphabet, babushka

Chechnya needs a fair political settlement

Marko Attila Hoare wrote 4 months ago: The following letter appeared in today’s Guardian: Today is World Chechnya Day. On this day i … more →

Tags: Caucasus, Chechnya, genocide, Russia

Popular protest in South East Europe bolsters the democratic world1 comment

Marko Attila Hoare wrote 5 months ago: Idealism is the new realism, it has been said. Nowhere has the adage proved more pertinent than in S … more →

Tags: Balkans, Cyprus, former yugoslavia, Georgia, Greece, Kurds, MACEDÓNIA, NATO, Russia

Due Diligence for Russia and Central Asia

RADA LLC wrote 6 months ago: http://www.russianduediligence.com … more →

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Business Intelligence, Caucasus, Central Asia, cis, Due Diligence, Georgia

Asian guy Winston scores hot girls in Russia / Europe!

ggjake wrote 6 months ago: Here’s Winston Wu on Youtube; a Taiwanese American who went to Russia and other Former Soviet … more →

Tags: Eastern Europe, foreign women, Happier Abroad, Russia, Russian Women, winston, winston wu, YouTube

NEWS: Disability Rights Fund Receives $1.3 Million from DFID1 comment

Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 7 months ago: PRESS RELEASE: Disability Rights Fund Receives $1.3 Million from DFID December 3, 2008 FOR IMMEDIAT … more →

Tags: News, Human Rights, Cross-Disability, UK, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Uganda, United Nations, CRPD, Perú

Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva

rehcruz wrote 7 months ago: Gabriel Allon is back and this time gunning for a Russian drug and arms dealer who will stop at noth … more →

Tags: Fiction/Literature, Books, character, daniel silva, espionage, Fiction, Gabriel Allon, Moscow Rules, Plot twists

Greater Surbiton first birthday post1 comment

Marko Attila Hoare wrote 7 months ago: ‘Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the cau … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Anti-Semitism, Armenians, Balkans, Bosnia, Caucasus, Croatia, Cyprus, former yugoslavia

Limmud FSU 2008

chanteuse428 wrote 8 months ago: The beautiful Swallow’s Nest in Yalta, as photographed by Lena. Hotel Yalta, the site of Li … more →

Tags: Excursions, Yalta, limmud, taglit, Neshama Carlebach, israeli dancing, Kharkov, Odessa, Varontzovski Palace

Weighing Obama versus McCain4 comments

Marko Attila Hoare wrote 8 months ago: It may be that I have spent too much time living in Serbia and studying it, and that some of that fa … more →

Tags: Balkans, Caucasus, former yugoslavia, genocide, Georgia, Greece, Iran, iraq, Kurds

Day Twenty-two2 comments

ukrainemom wrote 8 months ago:  “Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was excellent in every way.  This all hap … more →

Tags: Down Syndrome, Ukraine, Dreams, Prayer, Grief, Russian, hospital stays, 31 for 21, Kiev


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