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Ten years ago: Drumming Up Foreign Investment

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 Islamic Terror and the Balkans

 Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe

 Gender and Housing in Soviet Russia

1: Economy & Business: Going Private

A hidebound public health system and a favorable legal environment help a new breed of clinics to thrive in Poland.

By Marynia Kruk

17 May 2010

http://tol.org/client/article/21453-going-private.html

2: From the Archives: Coal Fires Burning Twelve years ago, Russia’s miners, expert survivors underground, took their fight to the surface.

By Matt Taibbi

17 May 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21458-coal-fires-burning.html

3: Books: A Belarusian Writer Exposes Minsk’s Dark Places A dystopian love story brings out the rampant paranoia in Belarusian society.

By Alyaksandr Yanusik

14 May 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21452-a-belarusian-writer-exposes-minsks-dark-places.html

4: Our Take: Local Semi-Heroes

Saakashvili’s growing unpopularity won’t stop his party dominating the upcoming local elections in Georgia.

By TOL

14 May 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21449-local-semi-heroes.html

- From the Archive:

* Five years ago: Mind the Generation Gap

We wanted it all but had to compromise to stay alive, say the first generation of post-communist Poles. We wanted it all too, but we got nothing, rejoin their younger siblings.

By Colin Graham

26 May 2005

http://www.tol.org/client/article/14076-mind-the-generation-gap.html

* Ten years ago: Drumming Up Foreign Investment The Czech Republic has quickly become the darling of foreign investors.

By Petra Breyerova

15 May 2000

http://www.tol.org/client/article/8225-drumming-up-foreign-investment.html

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