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CEE: The Berlin Wall

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 16/11/2009

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: How To Marry a Bulgarian hosts a series of readers' personal reflections: Biliana Velkova, Alexandra Grashkina-Hristova, Maria Vassileva; Hungarian Spectrum writes that “for Hungary and the Hungarians the whole thing started much earlier ...

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Hungary: Flu Vaccination as “the Great Hungarian Experiment”

Posted by Marietta Le on 13/11/2009

The vaccination campaign of the Hungarian National Public Health and Medical Officer Service has inspired a public debate among the institution itself, doctors, politicians and ordinary people who are just not sure whether the Hungarian-made swine flu vaccine is good or not.

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Ukraine: Flu Stats, Panic, Gauze Masks (and Some Lingerie)

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 10/11/2009

According to Ukraine's Health Ministry, 1,031,597 people in Ukraine have fallen ill with "flu, acute respiratory illness and their complications (pneumonia, etc.)" between Oct. 29 and Nov. 9 - and 174 of them have died. In the Ukrainian blogosphere, much of the discussion of the current medical ...

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Kosovo, Hungary: More on the Tisza River Tragedy

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 06/11/2009

A Fistful of Euros discusses the story of tragic death of 15 Kosovo Albanian illegal immigrants, who were trying to cross the Tisza River into Hungary and the EU. More about it - in Marietta Le's Oct. 28 GV post.

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CEE: “20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall” - a Poll

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 05/11/2009

Foreign Policy Association's Russia blog writes about the results of a Pew Research Center's poll on poverty, wealth and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe “20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

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