Stories about Eastern & Central Europe from April, 2007
Russia: Dissenters’ March Photos by Dmitry Shubin
Forty-eight pages of photographs from the Dissenters’ March in St. Petersburg this past Sunday – in a .pdf album (available for download here) created by LJ user studio204 (St. Petersburg-based Russian photographer Dmitry Shubin).
Russia: Letter to Putin
La Russophobe‘s guest-translator translates a Novaya Gazeta story about a man who wrote a letter to president Putin and, instead of receiving a reply, was summoned to a psychiatric clinic.
The Balkans: Journalists
Bosnia Vault reports on BBC journalist Martin Bell's return to Bosnia and on the attack on Serbian journalist Dejan Anastasijevic.
Hungary: Euro-2012 Bid
Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar and Pestcentric look at the chances that Hungary/Croatia's bid has in tomorrow's Euro-2012 vote in Cardiff.
Serbia: Peter Handke
At Belgrade 2.0, a discussion of writer Peter Handke's relationship with Serbia.
Russia: Dissenters’ March in Moscow (1)
The volume of blog coverage of the weekend's opposition rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg is truly overwhelming - as overwhelming, perhaps, as the number of riot police deployed from all over Russia to disperse these rallies - but nowhere near as shocking.
Poland: Splitting Parties
“… Splitting tendency has been evident in Polish politics ever since the fall of communism. It even happened to the Beer Drinkers Party,” the beatroot reports.
Ukraine: Family History
Wu Wei resumes writing about her father's life: “No wonder his nationality was not so clear. And no wonder he could apparently speak Polish, Romanian, Hungarian and Ukrainian when he arrived in Brussels.”
Ukraine: Orthodox Easter Photos
Michael Forster Rothbart posts photos from an Orthodox Christian Easter service held at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
Russia, Latvia: April 16 in History
April 16 in history – at De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis: a failed attempt to kill the Russian emperor in 1866; the first Russian trade union is created in 1905; the museum of the red Latvian riflemen opened in Riga in 1970.
Russia: Talking With “Dissenters”
Following the Dissenters’ March in Moscow this past Saturday, Robert Amsterdam talks on the phone with Eduard Limonov, Garry Kasparov and Karinna Moskalenko, and other friends in Russia. More – here and here.
Russia: Coverage of the Rallies
Two roundups of coverage of this weekend's opposition rallies in Russia – at Scraps of Moscow, here and here.
Russia: Why April 14?
Four rallies are scheduled to take place in Moscow on Saturday, April 14. Despite the unprecedented security measures, the opposition, the opposition's opponents, law enforcement officials, and even the U.S. embassy, do not exclude the possibility of violence taking place, in one form or another. But while there are still a few hours left before the action begins, bloggers discuss why no other date but April 14 seemed to work for the protesters.
Ukraine: Kyiv Photos
Michael Forster Rothbart photographs one of the Kyiv neighborhoods to which evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were relocated two decades ago – and gets his camera bag with 41 items in it stolen. (There are many more photos and stories on the blog, including a few from the...
Russia: Moscow
“But what makes Moscow that special?” asks The Turkish Invasion. (Definitely not its housing options.)
Czech Rebublic: Tribute to Egon Bondy (and Kurt Vonnegut)
Deleted by Tomorrow posts tributes to Kurt Vonnegut – and to the “Czech philosopher, writer, poet and professional dissident Egon Bondy” who died two days before Vonnegut.
Romania: Old Cars
Romerican‘s dream of a Trabant has been replaced with something else: “There may not be a lot of nostalgia for old cars in Romania right now, but as more time passes the wounds get healed, average incomes rise, and the number of wealthy people grow.”
Bulgaria: A D-Type Visa Question
Petya is collecting answers to this “seemingly simple and straightforward question”: “Does one need a D-type visa when applying for a long-term Bulgarian residence permit?” Here's why: “Every person or institution we've asked has provided us with a different answer. So, I am thinking, we might as well come up...
Romania: More Bucharest Pics
More pictures of Bucharest at Novala, Europa.
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia: Concert Controversy
Illyrian Gazette writes about the controversy surrounding a Croatian patriotic singer's intention to perform in Sarajevo to mark the 10th anniversary of the papal visit.
Latvia: Corruption Scandal
All About Latvia reports on the newest corruption scandal and writes about how poverty forces many Latvians to violate the laws: “For a trolleybus conductor I met on my recent trip to Latvia, this was a matter of survival. Instead of a normal fee, she charged me less without giving...
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