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100 days of Yanukovych – the path to total power The new government is moving towards taking control over the informational sphere and the mass media. Meanwhile the opposition, which is divided internally and lacks a plan of action, has shown itself incapable of resisting the government, including in those cases where the latter has [...]

The Meanings of Jazz under State Socialism Public Conference of the Project “Jazz in the Eastern Bloc” Berlin, Freie Universität, Institute for East European Studies Director: Prof. Dr. Gertrud Pickhan – Coordinator: Dr. Rüdiger Ritter Project and conference are sponsored by the German Volkswagen-Stiftung Friday, June 11, 2010 18:00 Gertrud Pickhan: Conference Opening 18:15 Siegfried [...]

The pictures of old people sitting in court – when their fragile health actually allows them to appear in court – are truly sad. However this is not about persecuting old people but about establishing historical truth.  … We should not remain caught up in the past but the events need to be clarified… Totalitarian [...]

The evolution of Russia’s historical policy Russia is modifying its historical policy; it is giving up its vindications of Stalin, while at the same time defending the concept of the USSR’s role as liberator during the Second World War. Vedi anche il dossier pdf

The West and the Rest in the International Economic Order The international economic order has changed in the last 40 years and will no doubt go on changing, as leading economist, Angus Maddison (OECD Observer, ) explains. NB – This article is an adapted extract from Angus Maddison’s chapter, “The West and the Rest in the [...]

RUSSIA: PUBBLICATI DOCUMENTI SEGRETI SU MASSACRO POLACCHI A KATYN di Francesco Maria Cannatà, Corrispondente a Mosca dell’ AGI – Agenzia Giornalistica Italia Mosca, 28 apr. 2010 – A pochi giorni dal 65.mo anniversario del 9 maggio 1945, data della vittoria nella “grande guerra patriottica”, il Cremlino ha messo on-line il “dossier N°1″. I documenti sulla strage [...]

- finlandizzazione dell’Ucraina?  Ukraina – na własne życzenie – może się upodobnić do sąsiedniej Białorusi. Gospodarczo jest ona tak zależna od Rosji, do tego stopnia przyjęła rosyjskie standardy, że nie może wybić się na pełną samodzielność. Nie wiadomo, czy Ukraina jest od wczoraj sfinlandyzowana. Ale na pewno wykonała krok w tę stronę + Suwerenność Ukrainy [...]

… just arrived in Tallinn from Lemberg via Munich, Berlin, Warsaw. 13-hours in the car with delightful Swedish ambassadorial company. Best answer to my question asking for advice on how best to get from Warsaw to Tallinn was a laconic “skype”… Edward Lucas pdf

Putin e  Tusk insieme a Katyn in aprile: ecco una grande novità! Katyn su europa feb 2010 Putin to Attend Katyn Massacre Memorial Reuters, 04 February 2010 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, will attend a memorial service in April to commemorate the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by Soviet forces [...]

VEDI: Poland: Reliable Source? by Marynia Kruk, TRANSITIONS ONLINE, 12 November 2009 While paying lip service to diversifying its supply of natural gas, Warsaw inks a long-term deal with Gazprom. WARSAW | In late October, nearly a year after the Russian-Ukrainian crisis left Poland with a 2.5 billion cubic meter shortfall of natural gas for [...]

1989 en vidéos. Quelques liens vers des vidéos qui ont marqué l’année 1989. alcune segnalazioni dal sito La Chute du Mur – Churchill sulla Cortina di ferro a Fulton – The Iron Curtain Diaries: il trailer * Discours de Ronald Reagan à Berlin, « Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall », Berlin, 12 juin 1987 * Discours [...]

The Guarini Institute for Public Affairs, in cooperation with Accademia d’Ungheria, Ambasciata di Polonia, Ambasciata della Repubblica Slovacca and Istituto Culturale Ceco, cordially invites you to attend the film presentations and conference: Guarini Institute for Public Affairs – Fall 2009 20 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL Monday, November 9, 2009 – 8:15 [...]

Klaus signs, Lisbon Treaty fully ratified EurActiv.com, Tuesday 3 November 2009 Czech President Václav Klaus again surprised friends and foes alike by signing his country’s Lisbon Treaty ratification today (3 November) at 15.00 CET, just hours after the Czech Constitutional Court had given the text its green light. The EU’s reform treaty is now fully [...]

Segnalato da Euro-topics, 03/11/2009 Postimees – Estonia – Marked differences between Baltic economies In its autumn reports on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrives at widely diverging conclusions, the Estonian daily Postimees notes: “The material on Estonia takes up only four pages, for Lithuania it’s only one and a half, but [...]

Debata “Europe talks to Europe” Breaking the bonds of national mythology Warsaw debate on memory and European citizenship 21-10-2009 The second debate in Eurozine’s series “Europe talks to Europe” takes place on 27 October in Warsaw. On a panel entitled “Breaking the bonds of national mythology”, Arne Ruth and Danuta Glondys will discuss politics of [...]

Germany: Controversies over the Nazi laws regarding the Polish minority ANALYTICAL NEWSLETTER FOR CENTRAL EUROPE, GERMANY, THE BALkANS & THE BALTIC STATES – OŚRODEK STUDIÓW WSCHODNICH IM. MARKA KARPIA – CENTRE FOR EASTERN STUDIES – issue 36(48) – 21.10.2009 On 15 October, the Germany Ministry of Justice refused to make voida Nazi decree of 1940. [...]

Political divide remains over Molotov-Ribbentrop pact [de]  EurActiv, Published: Thursday 15 October 2009    Members of the European Parliament continue to oppose each other over the significance of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which divided Eastern Europe between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Background: 2009 marks two important events: the 20th anniversary of democratic change in Central [...]

1939 – Hitler, Stalin and Eastern Europe. Geschichtswerkstatt Europa  The international Forum will take place on 16 – 20 September 2009 in Wroclaw / Poland. The thematic focus is the year 1939 and, in particular, the „Hitler-Stalin-Pact“. The pact had far-reaching consequences which are still firmly embedded in the remembrance landscapes of Germany and Poland. [...]

Unoccupied Britain. It looks simpler from across the Channel Dal BLOG di Edward Lucas, From Economist.com, Oct 15th 2009 TWEAK history a bit. Imagine that in 1940 Hitler and Stalin divide Britain between them. Both occupying powers behave abominably but in different ways. After a rigged election, Scotland is declared part of the Soviet Union. [...]

Segnalati da Euro-topics A historical treaty – with major obstacles – El País, Spain (13/10/2009) – The foreign ministers of Turkey and Armenia have signed a treaty that aims to regulate the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The left-liberal daily El País describes this as an important step but remains sceptical: “The [...]

Segnalato da Euro-topics Rainer Bieling on the brave virtual world of the GDR The German Democratic Republic (GDR) ceased to exist on October 3, 1990. Rainer Bieling writes in the conservative daily Die Welt that after its demise as a state, communist East Germany continued its existence as a virtual project by preserving its intellectual [...]