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The anti-Putin promenade
Protests in Moscow before the presidential election...
Năstase nailed
A former prime minister is jailed for corruption...
Romania's winter of discontent
The protestors aren't ready to go home yet...
The multi-million euro gorilla
Leaked wiretaps implicate Slovakia's political elite in a bribery scandal...
Slouching towards Brussels
Croatia votes unethusiastically to join the European Union...
Budapest vs Brussels
The European Union begins proceedings against Hungary's government...
Putin is concentrating
The prime minister and president-to-be hones his tactics...
The battle of Bucharest
Romania sees its worst street violence in 20 years...
We'll always have Prague
Yulia Tymoshenko's husband becomes the latest Ukrainian to seek refuge in the Czech capital...
Down to earth
A corruption probe in Poland may lead to a more sober consideration of the country's shale-gas prospects...
A Washington wipe-out
Hungary's attempts to make nice with the IMF don't appear to have got very far...
Now it's Slovenia's turn
The troubled ranks of the euro zone welcome another member...
Not just a rap on the knuckles
The government is slammed in Brussels, and faces a challenge at home...
Singing for Kosovo
SIX years ago I made a radio programme for the BBC about the former Yugoslavia and the infamous Eurovision Song Contest. I noted two things. First, despite the devastating wars of the 1990s all the ex-Yugoslav constituent countries voted for one anot...
Worrying autocratic trends
Our Budapest correspondent discusses a new appointment to Hungary's central bank, opaque lawmaking and the country's emerging bunker mentality...
Cheers and jeers
Our lighthearted awards of brickbats and bouquets for 2011...
Hungary steps out
Tens of thousands of Hungarians take to the streets to demonstrate against the government's power grabs...
