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"Politics, history, religion, and all things geek"
That’s the name of our latest class. Credit for the title goes to Doug, one of my three awesome co-teachers, who agree that we must subject our 65 students to a crash course on Mongolian politic… more →
Silk Road Freeways
After the Berlin Wall, Nostalgia for Communism Creeps Back
michaeljjordan wrote 3 weeks ago: An archivist at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague files some of the 280 … more →
Dead Soles
michaeljjordan wrote 1 month ago: Topiary on Partizanske's main square pays homage to the product upon which the town was founded. … more →
Countryside
viatorofbalamb wrote 1 month ago: My Vermieterin (in German, the person – in this case female - from which I rent my room) has a … more →
Moldovan wells – between tradition and wild capitalism
victoriastoiciu wrote 3 months ago: From ancient times, digging the wells was not an occupation like any other. A new well is a new … more →
Outhouse
zoyapepel wrote 7 months ago: My Creative Writing portfolio is due and this was the first assignment – a poem about childhoo … more →
Across Eastern Europe: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine
Vitaliy wrote 1 year ago: After the Fall is a Worldfocus signature series exploring four post-communist countries two decades … more →
Call for papers on Romania and Bulgaria
Vitaliy wrote 1 year ago: If you specialize on Bulgaria and Romania, this may be a good publishing opportunity (via ISA blog): … more →
Linkage and Leverage: A recipe for Autocracy?
orderemerges wrote 1 year ago: Having had a chance to read the article “Linkage, Leverage and the Post-Communist Divide … more →
"Politics, history, religion, and all things geek"
silkroadfreeways wrote 1 year ago: That’s the name of our latest class. Credit for the title goes to Doug, one of my three awesom … more →
From Russia With Hate
range wrote 1 year ago: Current’s Christof Putzel investigates a growing movement in Russia where neo-Nazi groups are … more →
New Cold War? I don't think so.
renovatio wrote 1 year ago: Lately there’s been a lot of news covering what the media calls ‘The New Cold War. … more →
So Javhlan was a red-diaper baby?
silkroadfreeways wrote 1 year ago: Thank you, Temur, for translating a bit of the Ahan Dvvsin Duu: Tertee Moskvagiin tsetserlegees Oros … more →
Why does Javhlan love Big Brother?
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silkroadfreeways wrote 1 year ago: What a weird music video. It’s about the Eternal Friendship of Russia and Mongolia — still a b … more →
I'll take the toilet paper, some tomatoes, and that 5 foot tall bust of Lenin
silkroadfreeways wrote 2 years ago: When the Soviets came to Mongolia, they established universal literacy and killed thirty thousand la … more →
In support of the teacher’s strike in Bulgaria.
renovatio wrote 2 years ago: I’m very proud of what’s going on in Bulgaria right now. Right now, the country’s … more →
The Russian gamble for a European sphere of influence
renovatio wrote 2 years ago: One of the things that has been bugging me lately is Russia’s vehement opposition to America … more →
