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Vol 3, No 16
7 May 2001
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Viktor YushchenkoYushchenko Bites the Dust
Iryna Solonenko
Ukraine Premier Viktor Yushchenko has been prematurely voted out of office. Could President Leonid Kuchma have done more to save him?
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Safe Haven?Safe Haven?
G Kosztolányi
An interview with Prof Krisztina Morvai on domestic violence in Hungary.
Engineering the SoulEngineering the Soul
Nicholas Reyland
A recent conference proves there is more to Socialist Realism in music than one might think.
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Minorities Past and Present
CER takes a look at some of the minority issues facing—and haunting—Central Europe today.
Rusyn Review
Brian J Požun
A short summary of the situation of the small Rusyn communities in the Czech Republic, Croatia and Romania.
ACCEPTing the Future
Emelia Stere
CER interviews the executive director of the Romanian gay and lesbian NGO, ACCEPT, Adrian Coman.
Sudeten Dialogues
Martin D Brown and Eva Hahn
The histories of the Czechs and Germans are intimately intertwined. CER discusses contemporary historical relations from two differing perspectives.
The Rusyns of Hungary
Brian J Požun
Magyars finally give the Rusyns what they have demanded for a millennium: a degree of autonomy.
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Sow and ReapSow and Reap
Štěpán Kotrba
The Czech Social Democrats have been a success. Why is it the public can't stand them?

Slovenia: Shedding the Balkan SkinSlovenia's Success
Brian J Požun
How Slovenia went from the brink of war to star student of the EU in just a few short years.

Greasing the WheelsGreasing the Wheels
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
The bribes, the theft, the orgies... Hungary's incredible oil scandal fully explained.

Memory and ForgettingMemory and Forgetting
Martin D Brown
Historical amnesia and post-Cold War attitudes in the Czech Republic. FREE ebook for CER eBookclub members.

After the RainAfter the Rain
Sam Vaknin
Was transition for naught? Sam Vaknin studies the culture shock and the quagmire that transition has become.

The Celluloid Tinderbox
Andrew James Horton (ed)
An explosive decade of Yugo film. FREE!

The Failure of a New History
Andrew Stroehlein
Tense Czecho-German relations. FREE!

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The Patriarch of Industry
Interview by Sam Vaknin
Discussing a Balkan model for a market economy with Svetozar Janevski, Balkan business mogul, who explains why Southeastern Europe merits investment.

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Towards a New History
Martin D Brown
Similar histories between East and West are finally emerging.

Privatisation for Whom?
Mark Preskett
Calming Czech fear of foreign investment. Will next year's general elections restore a battered economy?

Constructing Boundaries
Sanda Farcaş
A new process of ethnic boundary construction is seemingly underway in Romania.

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The Great ManipulatorThe Great Manipulator
Andrew James Horton
Tom Tykwer heads in the opposite direction to the majority of European auteurs with Der Krieger und die Kaiserin.

Rostock PD BluesRostock PD Blues
Elke de Wit
Die Polizistin seeks to expose how unstable contemporary German society has become.

Yugoslavia's Young BunchYugoslavia's
Young Bunch

Nebojša Krivokuca & Andrei Milivojević
Normalni ljudi, one of the first Yugoslav films to be finished since the fall of Milošević, tries to grapple with violence.

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Serbia CallingCritical Frequency
Matthew Collin
This Is Serbia Calling
Reviewed by Alexei Monroe

The story of radio B92 and cultural resistance.