Standing Up For “Parasites”
The anger in Belarus over a tax on the unemployed and other supposed freeloaders can be justified through the absurdity of the law itself. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Belarusian Nuke Plant Could Face Baltic Blockade
Lithuania seeks allies for plan to stop electricity generated by plant from entering European power market. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukrainian Famine Film Harvests Poor Reviews
Good marks for effort, poor to terrible ones for dialogue and drama. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The U.S. NATO Alliance Has Been a One-Way Street for Too Long
Doug Bandow Defense Secretary James Mattis made a splash on his visit to Europe. He ratcheted up Washington’s traditional request for the Europeans to spend more on their defense. And his demand resonated across the continent, because his boss, President Donald Trump, has spent years denouncing Washington’s feckless allies for...
Russian High Court Quashes Activist’s Conviction
Ildar Dadin is the only person punished so far under a law that criminalizes excess protesting. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Russian Revolution is not over
Politics Exactly one hundred years ago, soldiers and citizens marched through the streets of Petrograd and shouted “down with autocracy!” Women protesting the long bread queues that made their lives miserable while the aristocrats feasted in their palaces during Russia’s third year of war joined them. As news from the front was dire, public...
LGBT Activists Freed After Being Held in Eastern Ukraine
Last week, I heard news I feared might never come: two Russian activists detained in eastern Ukraine had been freed, unharmed. Seroe Fioletovoe (Grey Violet), a Russian transgender person, and Victoria Miroshnichenko arrived in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) on January 31 and were immediately detained by DNR security...
Moldovan Homecoming
After years of living and working abroad, can homeward-bound Moldovans make their entrepreneurial dreams come true? From Ziarul de Garda. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine Backs More Sanctions Against Russia in Passport Spat
February 22, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Like War?
Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war through sheer ignorance and dislike of the sanctimoniousness of the protesters, some of whom were surely making their way to Canada to live...
