New Eastern Europe - November-December 2017

119 some way, to create spheres of influence, with even some talk of a “Yalta 2.0” to decide the fate of third countries behind ...

120 The social situation is largely due to the Russian system. The system wants to continue to exist and wants to develop, but t ...

121 officials, including Zatulin, who was the incendiary of the situation in Crimea. He was one of the creators of Russia’s reva ...

Stories from Russia’s coal country GIOVANNI PIGNI The Russian region of Kuzbass is one that is entirely dependent on the extract ...

123 The region also has the highest rate of occupational disease, especially respiratory illness, in the Russian Federation. A d ...

124 pany would have been sanctioned”. Activists dismiss these statements, condemning the alleged collusion between the coal comp ...

125 residents. “We are not negotiating the land’s price, we do not want to sell anything,” adds Anisimova’s neighbour, Marina Sa ...

126 bank of the Mrass-Su River. “It almost looks like as if the village never existed,” says Aleksandr Tokmagashev, a former res ...

127 In August this year an organisation called the “Revival of Kazas and the Shor people” submitted to the United Nation CERD (C ...

128 number of monotowns in a difficult social and economic situation. What is worse, the price of coal has been steadily decreas ...

The curse of Ján Ľupták’s duck DARIUSZ KAŁAN Rimavská Sobota is a small town in the south of Slovakia, not far from the Hungaria ...

130 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War he became a citizen of Czechoslovakia, a democratic island in a se ...

131 For the Ľuptáks, trouble began after the war. In March 1946 the provisional National Assembly of Czechoslovakia ratified dec ...

132 Jew cannot go to a brothel, but he has no problem seducing a housemaid. Emilia denies this, but Ján knew better. The duck is ...

133 Branislav had not visited Tomášova. If he saw his family it was at Kurinec, a lake on the outskirts of Rimavská. The surroun ...

134 plant, the main employer in town, went bankrupt. The owner sold it to a private investment fund, called Eco Invest, and buil ...

135 is a tavern. In the former brothel is a fine dining restaurant. The old cemetery is now a park. Michal knows every corner of ...

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