Russia: Anti-Drug Activist Identifies Corrupt Moscow Police in Sverdlovsk
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Controversial activist Evgeny Roizman originally made a name for himself by establishing a non-profit fund called “A City without Drugs.” The fund both treats drug addiction and targets dealers, albeit using somewhat vigilante methods. Writing in...
Pollwatch: Sunday Times/Behaviour and Attitudes April 22nd
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Yet another poll! Thats the way I’m feeling at this point anyway, but back to this poll which does have some interesting details on the Referendum. The poll by Behaviour and Attitudes survey of 946 over seven days ending on Tuesday. The topline...
“The immigrant body is a gendered body” – The full interview with Flavia Dzodan
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Flavia Dzodan is a business developer, writer and public speaker, currently residing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her writing has been featured in The Guardian’s CIF, xoJane and on Gender Across Borders. She also frequently blogs at Tiger Beatdow...
Passion in the air…
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To Molenbeek this evening, to La Maison des Cultures et de la Cohension Sociale, for a series of performances closing the studies at the Conservatoire Royale of a number of singers, including the gifted daughter of a friend (in the picture as Sextus)...
Réforme de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme : un compromis prudent. Les Etats membres se décideront-ils à jouer , enfin ,le jeu loyalement ? Tout est là or ils sont 47 !
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L’appel du secrétaire général du Conseil de l’Europe, Thornbjorn Jagland, a été entendu (cf. autre article dans Nea say) et le pronostic esquissé dans le dernier éditorial (cf. N° 120) a été confirmé. Le Royaume-Uni s’est montré m...
Cengiz Aktar: Askerî zihniyetle topyekûn hesaplaşma vakti
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TweetShare via emailAskerî zihniyetle topyekûn hesaplaşma vakti 4 Nisan’da başlayan Evren-Şahinkaya davasının ardından gelen 28 Şubat darbe soruşturması ve mecliste kurulan 12 Mart ile 27 Mayıs darbeleri araştırma komisyonu sayesin...
While France Goes Berserk Because of 1 Lone Member of the American Nazi Party, French Extremists Promise to Win Most Votes in Sunday's Election
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Because a member of the American Nazi Party has become a lobbyist in Washington, according to Le Monde, this is the image that France's newspaper of reference is showing on its home page. The map is actually the symbol of the American Nazi Party itse...
Strange Expectations
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Three days after a man in Paris Metro line 13 near the garden-spot of Seine-Saint-Denis brandished a Colt 45 “demanding tolerance” of the universe, he was placed in preventative detention.The actual intolerance of the Metro passengers riding thro...
France and the New Balance of Power in a Crisis-Stricken Europe
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I’ve been neglecting my blogging duties of late as I’ve been preoccupied studying for an exam on International Relations theory and history. With the exam safely behind me I’m back to blogging, but still have academic IR debates on the …...
Was Russian Abstention from the Eastern Partnership Policy – a Mistake?
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Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy of the EU turns 3 years this May and it seems to be a sufficient term to draw some conclusions. In this post, as follows from the title, I explore the question: was Russian deliberate ab...
A Quixotic Quest to Mine Asteroids
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“A new company backed by two Google billionaires Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, film director James Cameron and other space exploration proponents is aiming high in the hunt for natural resources—with mining asteroids the possible target.” (Sourc...
Trying to scratch the surface in London
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Before Cafe Babel re-enable comments on blogs and update the blogging platform, all posts are cross-posted with my personal blog - feel free to comment here! London has become such a usual travel destination for Central and Eastern European people th...
Who will President Hollande’s Prime Minister be?
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It might seem presumptuous given that the first round of voting is tomorrow, and the second round...
GEMA vs YouTube - what the Hamburg court really said...
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Further to Tara's post on the GEMA vs. YouTube case (see here), please find below this Kat’s summary of the court’s press release of 20 April 2012 (which can be retrieved here) which should make matters much clearer, provided you can get your hea...
Russia: Liberal Democrats Join Opposition to Ulyanovsk NATO Hub
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In the last week, Vladislav Naganov and Aleksei Navalny, two of Russia's most prominent liberal democrat bloggers, entered the debate about a proposed NATO transit hub in Ulyanovsk. The transit hub (or "military base," as critics call it) is unlike m...
Portugal: ‘You Cannot Evict an Idea' Without Borders
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The violent eviction of a self-managed community center in Porto by the police, on April 19, triggered a wave of solidarity beyond the borders of the neighborhood of Fontinha, left to oblivion for years. Sympathy is coming from many cities in Portuga...
Seçil Altınışık: Baharda Kıyıköy
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TweetShare via email TweetShare via emailRelated posts: Seçil Altınışık: “kokular, çiçekler ve gökgürültüsü: bangkok” Seçil Altınışık: “bangkok’ta kazık tezgahı ve ihtişam iç içe” Seçil Altınışık:...
How the Front de Gauche has been winning the French working-class vote | David Hearst
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Whatever happens on Sunday, Jean Luc Mélenchon's alliance has made its mark on French politics – and is here to stayThe cherry blossom is out in force in a small street on Paris's southern outskirts. Well it might be, because it is here in an old...
