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People: Stateless No More: Kyrgyzstan Shows Central Asia the Path to Citizenship 
A practical approach to the problem of statelessness, pioneered in Kyrgyzstan, offers hope across Central Asia.
15 August 2019

News: Around the Bloc – 15 August 
Today’s highlights: Russian doping; brain drain in North Macedonia; a new Albanian media law; and a Ukrainian bribery scandal.
15 August 2019

Society: Banned From the Beach: Excluding Syrians from Public Spaces
A clash over access to public beaches has become the latest battle this summer, in ongoing tensions between the Turkish public and Syrian refugees.
14 August 2019 

News: Around the Bloc – 14 August
In the news today: Azerbaijan and U.S. arms; Slovak castles; a Hungarian-Finnish spat; a kindergarten in Serbia; and Moscow city elections.
14 August 2019 

Economy & Business: Russia Intensifies De-Dollarization Drive
Buying gold, dumping U.S. assets – many countries are doing it, but Moscow’s reasons are as much political as financial.

News: Around the Bloc – 13 August
Today’s highlights: a Tajik IS leader; a Ukrainian wunderkind; a controversial Croatian movie; graffiti in Moscow; and money for Chisinau.
13 August 2019 

FROM THE TOL ARCHIVE – EDITORS’ PICK
Syrian Refugees Search for New Homes in Turkey
Turkey has taken in 3.5 million refugees from the Syrian conflict. After an often perilous journey, the newcomers must still find a place to live – sometimes in the face of hostility.
16 November 2018

For Estonia’s Russian Speakers, Two Decades with a Gray Passport  
The fall of the Soviet Union meant that some who had been citizens of the largest country on earth were now citizens of nowhere.
5 August 2011
13 August 2019