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Around the Bloc – 25 November
In the news today: Romania’s new-old president; Holodormor commemorations; embryos in Poland; Bulgaria’s missing “cryptoqueen”; and Slovenia’s budget.

Around the Bloc – 25 November
In the news today: Romania’s new-old president; Holodormor commemorations; embryos in Poland; Bulgaria’s missing “cryptoqueen”; and Slovenia’s budget.

Around the Bloc – 22 November
Headlines from around the region: Ukrainian ships limp home; Bosnia’s new prime minister; Russian doping; abortion in Slovakia; and hazelnut trees in Azerbaijan.

When Desire Falls Short of Achievement
What did the OSCE’s Freedom of the Media and Safety of Journalists conference in Moscow really achieve?
22 November 2019

Conflict & Diplomacy: Casting a Deep Shadow
How the Armenian diaspora forged coalitions to push for genocide
recognition. From the Conversation.
By Maria Koinova
21 November 2019

Around the Bloc – 21 November
TOL’s news roundup: A Serbo-Russian spy scandal; Ukrainian Orthodox
churches in Crimea; the Russian-Estonian border; bears under threat in
Romania; and cash shortages in Turkmenistan. 

30 Years After: Border in the Head
The barbed wire has vanished, but three decades on from the
revolution, the “us/them” mindset still resonates with people on the
Czech borderlands. From Hospodarske noviny.

Around the Bloc – 20 November
TOL’s regional news roundup: independence of courts and schools in
Hungary; U.S. and Montenegro collaborate on cyberwarfare; Telegram
booming in Uzbekistan; Croatian farmers; and a spy returns to Russia.

Around the Bloc – 19 November
Today’s regional roundup: Lukashenka marches on; FSB accused of
massive crypto theft; Ukrainian ships head home; a doctor in South Ossetia;
and Uzbekistan’s building frenzy.

The Keys Ring for Change, Again
On the eve of the 30-year anniversary of the Velvet Revolution protests,
an estimated 200,000 Czechs gathered in Prague’s Letna Park and demanded
the resignations of top officials.
19 November 2019

FROM THE TOL ARCHIVE – EDITORS’ PICK

Kyiv Protests Kerch Strait Closure
The project to link Russia to Crimea is on schedule, Russian engineers say.
16 August 2017

Russian Doping Whistleblower Polarizes Opinions
Praised abroad, runner’s decision to expose state-sponsored program have often met with an angry reaction in Russia.
2 January 2017

Velvet Memories Slipping Through Our Fingers?
As the 30th anniversary of 1989’s anti-communist revolution approaches
later this year, many young Czechs will likely wonder what all the
commotion is about.
12 February 2019

Divide and Be Conquered
Autocracy survives in Belarus in part because its citizens cannot agree
on who they really are.
29 November 2010