Latest posts by Veronica Khokhlova from July, 2011
Ukraine: Changes to Disability Laws
Odessablog writes about changes to Ukraine's legislation on the rights of people with disabilities and describes the current situation.
Russia: Bloggers Discuss Nashi and Navalny on Al Jazeera
Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog and Kevin Rothrock of A Good Treaty talked on Al Jazeera‘s The Steam show about the Russian pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi and anti-corruption activist...
Russia: Anglophone Russia Watchers’ Blogs
The Kremlin Stooge reviews and ranks “Russia watchers'” English-language blogs; Sublime Oblivion interviews Mark Chapman, the blogger writing The Kremlin Stooge.
Russia, U.S.: RT and American Media
Mark Adomanis of Forbes’ The Russia Hand writes about RT, a Russian TV news network previously known as Russia Today, and the American media.
Russia: Fewer Conscripts From North Caucasus?
On Jamestown Foundation Blog, Valery Dzutsev writes about what appears to be a decrease in North Caucasian draftees in the Russian army: “It thus seems that a separation of Russia...
Russia: Chechnya's Police Bosses; al-Zawahiri and North Caucasus
In Moscow's Shadows writes about changes in the leadership of Chechnya's interior ministry, and about changes in al-Qaeda's leadership and the little if any impact it may have on the...
Russia: Women's Rights
Miriam Elder writes about the situation with women's rights in Chechnya.
Russia: Interviews With Author Daniel Treisman and Filmmaker Maria Yatskova
For New Books in Russia and Eurasia, Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog interviews author Daniel Treisman on his book The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev and filmmaker...
Serbia: “Interesting Buildings” of Kragujevac and Majdanpek.
Nothing Against Serbia: A Virtual Notebook writes about “interesting buildings” in Kragujevac and Majdanpek.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Photos of Sarajevo
Piran Café has visited Sarajevo and is now beginning to post photos from the trip: a series of timelapses is here, more photos – at Flickr.
Serbia: A Documentary on Belgrade's 1990s Rock Scene
Belgraded.com posts a subtitled version of Ghetto – the Secret Life of the City, a documentary about Belgrade's alternative rock scene “of the worst period in the nineties, when turbo-folk...
Belarus: An Overview of Political Situation
At OpenDemocracy.net, an overview of the situation in Belarus, by Janek Lasocki.
Russia: Prison System
Svetlana Reiter's text on Russia's “dead end prison system” -at OpenDemocracy.net.
Russia: Orenburg Migrant Workers
On OpenDemocracy.net, Elena Strelnikova writes about Central Asian migrant workers of Orenburg, Russia.
Slovenia: No Early Elections
Sleeping With Pengovsky explains the current political situation in Slovenia and concludes that the early elections aren't likely in the near future.
Hungary: A Roundup on Politics
Belatedly, links to some of Hungarian Spectrum‘s posts: on the Hungarian “oligarch” and PM's ally Sándor Demján; on the opposition rally and gay pride parade that took place in mid-June;...
Ukraine: Yanukovych's Foreign, Domestic Policies; Mezhyhirye Residence
Ukrainiana and Foreign Notes comment on the news that Ukraine's President Victor Yanukovych has finally shown some of his Mezhyhirya residence to a few select journalists from major Ukrainian TV...
