· November, 2009

Stories about History from November, 2009

Barbados: Whipping Boy

  4 November 2009

“We seem determined to deny our history, rather than learn from it. Why else would we, who have been so wounded by the whip, venerate it?” B.C. Pires puts in his two cents’ worth on the recent flogging of schoolchildren in Barbados.

Russia: Potential for Rebellion in Toliatti

  3 November 2009

Window on Eurasia reports that “Russian government plans to lay off 50,000 autoworkers in Toliatti […] have sparked rumors that Moscow plans to introduce interior ministry troops to keep order and that at least some of the workers plan to use arms to defend their jobs.”

Russia: The Cossack Factor

  3 November 2009

Window on Eurasia writes that “articles in the Russian blogosphere suggest both that an increasing number of Cossacks view themselves as victims and are prepared to act as an independent force and that the Russian government is increasingly concerned about that possibility, something that could undermine Moscow’s control of the...

U.S.: Blogger Invited to Reception at Czech Embassy

  3 November 2009

Czechmatediary has been invited to a reception with Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, at the Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C.: “The reception is held in honor of not only the Czech president himself but also because of the celebration of the National Czech Day as well as...

CEE: A Travel Roundup

  2 November 2009

A selection of travel posts – Belgraded: travel from Belgrade to Sarajevo by train for the first time in 17 years, ‘Red Star’ stadium possibly to be renamed ‘Gazprom Arena’, the Avala TV Tower rebuilt; Croatia-Expert.com: travel to Trogir; MoldovAnn: Ukrainian village museums; The Czech Daily Word: industrial architecture and...

Lithuania: National Identities

  2 November 2009

“Everyone is a historian here, everyone is preoccupied arguing who Vilnius belonged to in the past, whose it should be now, and whether true Lithuanians were of Slavic or Baltic origin. It almost seems as if Lithuanian modernity was nonexistent,” writes Andrei Khrapavitski about online and offline debates in Lithuania....