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1: Balkan Eye: The Motherland’s Talented but Prodigal Children

2: Politics: Signs of the Times

3: Multimedia: The Waiting Room

4: Society: Fawning Over the Grandson

5: Conflict & Diplomacy: Attackers Target Efforts to Help Victims of Violence

6: Conflict & Diplomacy: A Match That Was Waiting for a Strike

- From the Archive:

Five years ago: Ghosts From the Past

Ten years ago: Rebels and Refugees: Central Asian Dilemma

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1: Balkan Eye: The Motherland’s Talented but Prodigal Children Bulgaria has given the world a huge pool of artists, writers, and other creative folk. But why do they all have to leave the country? By Boyko Vassilev 17 June 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21549-the-motherlands-talented-but-prodigal-children.html

2: Politics: Signs of the Times

TOL slide show: Young Praguers put their political views in writing for a visiting photographer. By Alla Maximova 17 June 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21550-signs-of-the-times.html

3: Multimedia: The Waiting Room

A photographer documents a decade of Belarus’ tentative search for a post-Soviet national identity. By Bill Crandall 16 June 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21546-the-waiting-room.html

4: Society: Fawning Over the Grandson

A new book can’t praise enough the extraordinary accomplishments of Turkmenistan’s president. From openDemocracy. By Maria Yanovskaya 16 June 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21542-fawning-over-the-grandson.html

5: Conflict & Diplomacy: Attackers Target Efforts to Help Victims of Violence As the brutality continues in southern Kyrgyzstan, aid workers and firefighters find themselves at risk. From EurasiaNet. By Alisher Khamidov 15 June 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21541-attackers-target-efforts-to-help-victims-of-violence.html

6: Conflict & Diplomacy: A Match That Was Waiting for a Strike TOL Talk: One analyst says pent up frustrations and wrong-headed policies made the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan inevitable. By Barbara Frye 15 June 2010

http://www.tol.org/client/article/21543-a-match-that-was-waiting-for-a-strike.html

- From the Archive:

Five years ago: Ghosts From the Past

The leader of Romania’s notorious miner-rioters is freed following a controversial pardon by ex-President Iliescu. By Razvan Amariei 20 June 2005

http://www.tol.org/client/article/14170-ghosts-from-the-past.html

Ten years ago: Rebels and Refugees: Central Asian Dilemma The rebels are gone and many refugees have returned to their mountain villages in southern Kyrgyzstan-but they live in fear of another guerrilla incursion. By Alisher Khamidov 26 June 2000

http://www.tol.org/client/article/8238-rebels-and-refugees-central-asian-dilemma.html

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