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Piano Player
Over at TOL, we’ve been following developments rather closely of the Slovakia-born online paywall system known as Piano. This is a highly unusual story of a media-related innovation originating in our...
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In Belarus, Dissent Your Father’s Activism
TOLS’s executive director, Jeremy Druker, asked in a blog post back in February, “What is it about Belarus that brings out the best in photojournalists?” I’ve been wondering what it is about Belarus...
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We Aren’t The Only Ones
Over the years, we at TOL have had to listen to “advice” that we stop covering the new member states of the EU because these countries had now become part of a united Europe and thus, the suggestion...
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A Win for All Whistleblowers
Amid the disturbing results of the recent Czech senate and regional elections, which included massive success for the Communist Party, there was at least a slimmer of hope. While many Czechs...
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Poland Leads World’s Business Reformers
At Transitions Online, we often cover the bumps in the road for post-communist Europe and the former Soviet Union. Today’s feature, Ukraine’s Democratic U-Turn, is on the very real threat that vote...
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Is it Safe to Go Home Now?
German jitters over the spiking asylum claims by Roma from Serbia and Macedonia has got some in the EU talking about reinstating the visa requirement for those countries. This would be a major blow...
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Punching out Saakashvili’s Lights
This is a guest post by TOL intern Nino Tsintsadze. After Georgia’s parliamentary elections in October, the confrontation between the winners and losers is moving into another arena. Last week the new...
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The Austerity Argument
Back in June, the economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a blog post effectively mocking the argument that Estonia’s strong post-financial crisis recovery proved the merits of...
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Those of us who reside in Prague live a pretty shielded life, especially when it comes toward attitudes about the Roma. We read and watch the national media, which generally display tolerance toward...
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Bad Parents?
In the late ’90s and early oughts, western banks like Erste began buying up local outfits in post-communist Europe, eventually winding up with most of the banking assets in the Czech Republic,...
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