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Vol 2, No 24
19 June 2000
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Joanna Rohozińska
Poland's ruling coalition is teetering on the brink of collapse, while EU accession hangs in the balance. What happened to Central Europe's front runner?

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Alexei Monroe
Serbian Turbofolk generates paramilitarism and porno-nationalism, but is it just another face of Western pop culture?
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The Crescent and the Cross
Sam Vaknin
Part I of a series of articles examining the Balkans through their axes of friction; Islam vs Christianity and nationalism vs liberalism.

More Mayhem
Jan Čulík
In the ongoing soap opera that is Czech television, Roman Prorok takes centre stage.

Go East!
Židas Daskalovski
EU expansion eastward is an exercise in subtle racism with colonialist undertones.

Hitting Back at the Bottle
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
Dr Mária Holzberger of the National Alcoholism Institute is fighting substance abuse in Hungary with a steady hand.

Political Football
Oliver Craske
Football and Central and Eastern Europe face off for column inches in the British media.

Media Demythtified, Part III
Darja Zajícová
In the last part of this series, we examine two telling examples of poltical influence on Czech media coverage.

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