Latest posts by Veronica Khokhlova from December, 2009
Russia: “Teaching the Rich in Moscow”
English Man In Moscow recounts a recent experience of doing “some teaching at a mega rich Russian family.”
Romania: Election Results
Updates on the results of the second round of Romania's presidential election – at Power&Politics World and Csíkszereda Musings.
Ukraine: Morality Commission vs Writer Oles Ulyanenko
IZO highlights an “example of the new Ukrainian morality committee (NEK) at work” by translating LJ user dadakinder‘s post (RUS) on the “compromise” reached between NEK and the Ukrainian author...
Russia: A Blogger's Account of the Rescue Effort in Perm
At least 109 people died and more than 130 were injured Friday night in a fire and the resulting stampede at a nightclub in the city of Perm. A blogger who happened to be outside the nightclub when the fire broke out - and who ended up helping out with the rescue effort - recounts his experiences and observations.
Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia: Visa-Free Travel
Belgraded reports that, beginning Dec. 19, “there will be no more visa requirement for Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian citizens if they want to travel to the Schengen territory” – debunks...
Ukraine: Arts Updates
A few last month's updates at IZO: artist and writer Vagrich Bakhchanyan dies in NYC; Ukrainian artist Aleksandr Gnilitsky dies in Kyiv; a Ukrainian Euro-2012 icon.
Russia: Microsoft Loses $1 Billion to Pirates
Profy cites a report by the Russian division of Microsoft, which claims that the company has lost $1 billion to Russian pirates, but has earned the same amount from legal...
CEE: “Social Media and Social Memory”
Evgeny Morozov writes about “social media and social memory” – and a Facebook project involving a 22-year-old Lublin resident posing as a 7-year-old Jewish boy who was killed by the...
Russia: Law Enforcement and Crime
Robert Amsterdam's reports on the pre-trial detention center death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky last month – here and here; also, a note on the murder of Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist...
Ukraine: Charity
Stories of some Ukrainian street children who have received assistance at ChildRescue's rehabilitation center – at Scenes from the Sidewalk. Stories of some adults who have received humanitarian aid from...
Serbia: More on the Late Patriarch Pavle
More on the life of the late Serbian Patriarch Pavle: Again & Again; Anegdote; Belgraded – here and here.
Romania: Presidential Election, Round One
Posts on the first round of the presidential election in Romania last month: Csíkszereda Musings – here, here, and here; and Power&Politics World – here.
Hungary: A News Roundup
Some of the posts that have appeared on Hungarian Spectrum in the past ten days: “corruption and the unfriendly attitude toward foreign investors“; the Hungarian opposition leader's meeting with the...
Ukraine: Road Safety
Foreign Notes writes about Ukraine's “awful” road safety statistics.
Ukraine: “We Remember”
Ukrainiana, Kyiv Scoop, and LJ user igordaily (UKR) write and post photos and video from this year's commemoration of Holodomor, the famine of 1932-33; Nash Holos writes about the National...
Kosovo: Coal Imports
A Fistful of Euros writes about Kosovo's need to import coal from elsewhere, despite having “the world’s fifth largest reserve” itself.
