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In search of traces of the Belarusian diaspora in the West after 1945, the poet Volha Hapeyeva considers how language and literature provide a sense of belonging away from home. From dekoder / Eurozine. Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton Imagine using the same word for “yesterday” and “tomorrow.” Difficult? Strange?

Rumen Radev’s sympathy for Moscow invites comparisons with Viktor Orban. But his record suggests a more cautious approach to challenging the EU. From the Jordan Center. Will Rumen Radev assume Viktor Orban’s role and become Russia’s Trojan horse in Europe? Many pundits asked this question back in April 2026, when the Hungarian leader lost his general election while, a week later, the Bulgarian politician emerged triumphant at his country’s polls.

Often downplayed by Western historians, the buildup to and course of World War I in the east laid the foundation for even more traumatic events to come. When I chanced upon a prominently displayed copy of The Blood-Dimmed Tide in the small bookshop of the small town of Sisters, Oregon, my hopes grew large.

The nationalists’ victory at the polls comes as no surprise, while the record-low turnout reflects a sense of resignation. From Respekt. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, people voted in general elections over the weekend. They turned out – with a few minor exceptions – just as they always do. Nationalist parties (each representing one of the country’s three constituent nations: Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks) consolidated their positions at all levels of the country’s political system.

The notorious agreement was a disgrace. But some of the story is misunderstood. From Based in Bohemia. You have reached a premium content area of Transitions. To read this entire article please login if you are already a Transitions subscriber. Not a subscriber?

Ratko Mladic’s glorification exposes Serbia’s failure to confront its wartime past — and raises the stakes for a student movement challenging Aleksandar Vucic’s rule. For those who have spent the past 30 years piecing together the truth about the wars in the former Yugoslavia – lest those horrors be repeated – the scenes in Serbia and Republika Srpska following the death of Ratko Mladic were unnerving.

With the long conflict with Armenia over, many are questioning the traditional role of military service as a rite of manhood. From OC Media. When the second Nagorno-Karabakh War broke out in 2020, Ravan (not his real name) was not afraid of joining the Azerbaijani army. Even though he was still in school, like many of his peers, he was eager to go to war and even tried to volunteer. Six years later, Ravan looks back on that period, admitting that he was afraid of being left out.

The Graham Act protects U.S. sanctions from White House meddling, but Ukraine’s strikes on Russian oil may still be the stronger bargaining chip. On 18 September, Donald Trump . That same week, Washington pressed Kyiv to stop striking Russian refineries because of , while the Kremlin named its price for an “energy truce”: . All these storylines point to one question: when will Russia’s budget crack badly enough for Moscow to sit down and negotiate?

The first generation of Vietnamese immigrants survived; the second generation is figuring out who they are now that survival isn’t the end goal. Nearly 70 years ago, a group of approximately 100 Vietnamese children came to Chrastava, Czechoslovakia, as part of an exchange program between Czechoslovakia and North Vietnam. This marked the beginning of what would become one of the most significant immigrant communities in the Czech Republic.

After the fall of communism, journalists gained freedoms but faced a harder task: building a profession able to withstand political pressure, economic insecurity, and divisions within its own ranks. More than three decades after the fall of communism, what became of the journalism that emerged in Central and Eastern Europe? In this excerpt from Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems, Christopher Karadjov, Dren Gerguri, and Ioana A.