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Vol 2, No 32
25 September 2000
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Free Filipović
Serb journalist convicted of "espionage"
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Bad Luck and Bananas
Mark Preskett
Moldova may have plenty of wine, but that's about it. Perhaps it was doomed from the start.

Structures Set in SteelStructures
Set in Steel

Andrew Kotas
With the restructuring of the region's steel giants at a halt, who is in the driver's seat?
Spectres of Anti-CapitalismSpectres of
Anti-Capitalism

Seán Hanley
Three recent books examine Central and Eastern Europe's transition to capitalism.
this week's theme articles
As Czechs host the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, CER looks behind the scenes.
Global Front,
Local Depression

Jan Čulík
Czechs are unhappy about the new economic order, but the reasons
are mostly local, not global.
Pictures of Protest
Štěfán Kotrba and
Luboš Wišniewski Jr

Unique images from the streets of Prague last weekend.
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After the Rain
Sam Vaknin
Has "transition" all been for nought?
Damaging Discourse
Delia Dumitrica
Romania's media and Euro-Atlantic integration.
Greasing the Wheels
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
Hungary's scandal of the decade.
The Celluloid Tinderbox
Andrew James Horton (ed)
An explosive decade of Yugoslav film.
The Failure of a New History
Andrew Stroehlein
Czechs and Germans attempt to make amends.
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Cinema in Exile
Benjamin Halligan
Are Miloš Forman's American films a radical departure or a continuation?

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Grave Diving
Mel Huang
Six years after the ferry Estonia went down, the waters have still not settled around her.

No Slip-ups
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
Orbán's prudence in the fuel crisis seems to have helped Hungary weather the storm better than the rest of Europe.

A Difficult Season
Sarah Whitmore
Autumn promises, now more than ever, to be a season marked by constitutional and political uncertainty for the Ukrainian parliament.

Wired Service
Andrew Stroehlein
Online journalism faces the same challenges as traditional journalism in the new Europe.

Prophet and Loss
Wojtek Kość
Jerzy Giedroyc, political editor and advocate of a sensible minorities policy for Poland, has passed on.

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Dreamworld and Catastrophe
Susan Buck-Morss
Reviewed by Sam Vaknin
A cry of anguish disguised as the interdisciplinary analysis of a neo-Marxist scholar.

...jak Češi jednají
Jan Čulík on Czech public debate in the new Europe.

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