Language and War in Contemporary Ukraine
by Francis Scarr The author is a Research Assistant Intern at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. Since Ukraine’s declaration of independence in 1991, the country has grappled, at times clumsily, with the task of establishing consensus over the…
LGBT+ COMMUNITY IN CZECH REPUBLIC: Tolerance or Indifference?
by Gioia Zurzolo The Czech Republic is considered one of the most tolerant countries in CEE towards the LGBT+ community. For instance, it was the first post-communist country to legalize same-sex registered partnerships, preceding many other European countries in making some…
The shifting essence of Treptower Memorial, Berlin
by Vojtěch Jirásek World War II left many scars on the landscape of Berlin and in its aftermath. Soviets enjoyed building big memorials that were hard not to notice. I’ve studied one of them, the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower…
Lies & Provocations or Myths & Pretexts?: NATO Enlargement and the Origins of the Ukraine Crisis
by Anna Roininen In his address on 18 March 2014, in which President Putin justified the annexation of Crimea, he underlined the humiliation Russia had suffered due to a series of hostile actions and broken promises by the West, including…
Terrorists and pro-Russian militants: Depictions of the Enemy in the Ukrainian conflict
by David Rypel The text analyses a way in which Ukrainian official discourse –represented here by a spokesperson on matters related to the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation – constructs the Enemy whom the military confronts in the east of the country….
Italy: An Oracle on Populism for CEE
by Donatella Bonansinga The current populist turn in Central and Eastern Europe might seem surprising or puzzling to some. The Visegrad Group (V4), born to further the European integration of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, is now acting as an…
Contemporary music subcultures in St. Petersburg: Snapshots of Techno and Witch House scenes
By Matyáš Viktora The author spent one semester as an exchange student of International Relations in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He aims to analyse local underground or semi-underground subcultures through portraits and snapshots from the parties and other events. This article should…
Outlook from Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border
by Balthazar Mandahl Forsberg In this short piece I share some of my experiences and observations from my stay in Idomeni as a volunteer. I’ll try to give a brief overview over work of independent volunteer groups in the camp…
Resisting Fear – Václav Havel’s legacy and the need for existential revolution in the 21st century
By Jiří Přibáň ‘It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to the automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they, too, are being dragged helplessly along by it. They are manipulated in…
Housing Construction in Socialism: Interview with Katarína Andrášiová
This interview is based on an article called “Bytová výstavba v socializme: Sídliská Bratislavského Ružinova v Reflexii Tvorcov” published in Žili sme v socializme I.: kapitoly z etnológie každodennosti (We Lived in Socialism: Chapter from the ethnology of everyday). The…
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