Belgium’s “safe country of origin” list includes just seven countries, six from the Balkans.

Modernizing history textbooks is a Herculean job for a group of dedicated educators.

In the 1990s Tatarstan carved out a special role within the Russian Federation. In the 2000s much of that progress was rolled back by a resurgent Moscow, starting with an assault on the Latin alphabet.

A group of 30 intellectuals, Protestant ministers, and theologians even released a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn, saying it would turn Christ’s teachings on their head.

A newspaper owned by the ruling Nur Otan party won $23 million in state tenders from 2009 to 2011.

The converse of immunity, of course, is that the more of it you have, the more impunity you enjoy.

“Their horizon has opened. Then they will not need our efforts to desegregate their children; they will do it for themselves.”

The fatal flaw of “Balkan Benelux” is the brutal fact that wider Europe doesn’t need these four countries.

“Belarusian public opinion is actually a pretty good judge of what is going on. Lukashenka’s poll ratings collapsed along with the economy in 2011 to the 20s. They have now recovered, but not to massively high levels.”

The history of Belarus is fogged with “what ifs”

“Three out of five managers of Czech SMEs believe it is impossible to win a public contract without resorting to bribery, a kickback or some other ‘incentive.’ “

“The EU hovers between politics and diplomacy, between states and markets, and between government and governance”

“I can understand the politicians who sympathize with Yulia Tymoshenko, but nothing stands in their way to express this sympathy in a clear way during the championships.”

“Our staff felt like its personal safety was in jeopardy. For this reason we were forced to cancel our participation”

Enter, from behind the rusted iron curtain, a man wearing the rear end of a car.

To tackle deep-rooted anti-Gypsyism, it is necessary to increase public awareness about the past mass atrocities against the Roma people

“Far from leading to a retreat from collective commitments, remittances can play an important role in keeping other family members together and in reproducing the village as a social and moral unit.”

Russians are not unhappy people but neither could you say that they have a lot of fun. Russians do not want to live in Russia.

Statistical analysis can be a powerful tool against crime, but it must be used with care.