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President of the breakaway republics of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh (left). On the photo, along with the de facto President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity. Source: www.ossetians.com

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Local conflicts or a real war threat? The current state of peace process in Abkhazia

According to the statement of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at the beginning of September 2007, the properties purchased from illegitimate owners of the properties belonging to Georgian refugees from Abkhazia will be confiscated (1). On September 8, 2007, it was stated that the Ministry of Refugees and Accommodation of Georgia is preparing a complaint against the Russian edition…

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Saudi Arabian regime and religion

Several months ago, women’s suffrage was on public agenda in Saudi Arabia. According to the ruling dynasty this issue wasn’t tackled in the last municipal elections (for instance, men and women have to vote in separate polling stations). Thus the dynasty promised that the next elections will make up for this.This bottleneck, which seems to be a harmless technical one at first glance, however, only illustrates…

Head Office of the Czech company CEZ in Prague. Source: www.financninoviny.cz

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Strategic alliance CEZ – MOL

At the end of August 2007, the Czech Energy Company CEZ and the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company MOL proved, that even two (in the world scale) middle-sized companies from Central Europe can raise some excitement in the world media and among analysts. According to the capital value two times bigger Czech company agreed on a strategic alliance with the smaller partner, with the possibility…

Montenegrin Prime Minister Zeljko Sturanovic. Source: www.gom.cg.yu

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Podgorica speaks Montenegrin „political“ language

The EU Commisioner for enlargement Olli Rehn and the Montenegrin Prime Minister Zelko Sturanovic have recently signed the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between Montenegro and the EU in Podgorica. Thus the official Podgorica gained a perspective of membership; however, its realization depends on their own ability to implement the contents of the adopted document. Negotiations concerning…

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin. Source: http://www.postimes.ee

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Energy (in)security of Moldova

The disintegration of the USSR caused economic collapse in Moldova as well as in other Soviet republics. After 1991, the energy prices reached the world level, which affected also changes in trade relations. Economic crisis even deepened after the separation of Transnistria in 1992, when Moldova lost a large part of its industrial capacity. In the USSR era, Transnistria was considered the most developed region of Moldova…

Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga (Law and Justice. PiS). Source: http://www.nato.int

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The development alternatives of Polish foreign policy after early parliamentary elections

In the period after 1989, Polish society has been marked by a high degree of consensus in terms of foreign policy for a long time. This has applied particularly to the Polish NATO entry, but also to the country’s EU membership to a certain extent which was objected above all by agrarian blocs (Polish People’s Party and Self-Defence) as well as a part of clerical-national right gathered predominantly within…

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. Source: www.gazeta.lviv.ua

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Establishment of a new government after the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan

The governmental system in Kazakhstan is a presidential one. In recent past, the role of the House of Representatives (Majilis) was formally strengthened at the expense of the authority of the president. The parliament is fully loyal to the person of the President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the governing party is the National Democratic Party “Nur Otan” headed by the President. Considering the restricted…

Ethnical structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The Dayton System crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot exist without burning political issues. The Constitutional Court of this country has outraged the public opinion by the statement that the national or in fact state symbols of both entities comprising this state, namely the Republic of Serbia and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, are unconstitutional, because they promote the predominance of one, or rather, two ethnic groups…

Lech Kaszinski opening military parade in Warsaw in 1989

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Poland: Moral revolution eats away at its children, or a controlled doom of the Fourth Republic?

Although it is pretty clear that the Polish Sejm will meet on September 7th for the last time in order to enable the early elections in October, the prospects of post-election development in Poland remain blurry. Only one thing is positive, namely that the Fourth Republic project in such a shape the Polish left presented prior to the 2005 elections went awry. Political scandals disclosing the real essence of the regime…

The building of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Source: www.nashavlast.ru

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In the run-up to general elections

The parliamentary elections to the State Duma will be held at the beginning of December 2007. Political parties need at least 7 per cent of the vote to qualify for the seats in the lower chamber of the parliament. All seats are elected by proportional representation. Federal Registration Service keeps 15 political parties eligible for the vote on file, namely Social Democratic Party of Russia, United Russia…

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Valach s geletami na salaši. Malatiná, okr. Dolný Kubín. Archív negatívov Ústav etnológie SAV. Foto N. Siegelová, 1973. Zdroj: ludovakultura.sk

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Валашская колонизация в позднем Средневековье и Новом времени и ее значение для словацкой культурной идентичности

Слово „валах“ (влах, волох) германского происхождения; его первичное значение было галл, а позже романизированный кельт, римлянин, иностранец. Сербы первоначально называли влахами не только румынских пастухов, но и романских горожан, итальянцев; в польском языке слово „Włochy“ имеет значение „Италия“…

Ľudovít Štúr. Zdroj: www.teraz.sk

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Национальная философия Людовита Штура на оси Запад – Словакия – Восток

Автор анализирует взгляды идеолога словацкого национального возрождения Людовита Штура в области национальной философии, философии истории, нации, языка и частично эстетики. Эволюция взглядов Штура на ось Запад – Восток изучается на материале всего его творчества с точки зрения характера и происхождения их идейных источников…