Yet nobody in the West is asking why Latvia has suffered this fate, so typical of the Baltics and other post-Soviet economies but only slightly more extreme. Nearly twenty years since these countries achieved freedom from the old USSR in 1991, the...
Goldman Sachs, the giant investment bank, is today at the centre of the row over the Greek governments finances, amid recriminations over complex financial deals that allowed the eurozone nation to skirt its debt limits.
The researchers state that the modern Czechs, glorifying the national history and the Czech spirit, think small beer of themselves at the same time. Czech society, having preserved itself via the identity of the family, turned out to be disunited from...
Western non-governmental organizations, media and officials accuse Russia of «impairment of rights of sexual minorities», as well as of being totalitarian, suppressing freedom of speech, persecuting the sectarians and violating the fundamental values...