Posts tagged Poland

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc, TOL’s aggregation of the five most important news items related to Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.

• Travelers stranded as Polish budget carrier goes bust
• Bomb threat interrupts Pussy Riot trial
• EULEX to leave Kosovo by 2014
• Czech anti-corruption campaigners cheer tough prosecutor’s promotion
• Red-flagged Porsche stopped at Lithuanian border

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc, TOL’s aggregation of the five most important news items related to Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.

• Jailed politicians, sports stars head Ukrainian electoral lists
• Police kill six suspected extremists in Almaty raid
• Slovakia seeks extradition of Hungarian Holocaust suspect
• Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses charged with spreading extremism
• Romney courts Walesa’s solidarity

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc:

Armenian oligarch to escape charges in beating death

Serbian president softens rhetoric on Kosovo

Ponta’s brilliant plan to pardon Nastase?

Human trafficking concerns in Uzbekistan

Poland seeks carbon credits for nonexistent power plant

Have you read Poland: Waiting in line for bread was never so much fun! and now wish you could play the game? It’s your lucky day! An English version is available online for download on the Institute of National Remembrance website.

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc:

Romania: High court upholds suspension of President 

Russia‬: Kremlin blames local officials in ‪flooding‬ that left 170 dead in ‪Krasnodar‬

‪Russian‬ ‪Wikipedia‬ protests ‘online censorship’ plans

‪Azerbaijan‬: Former president, once a scapegoat for loss of‪ Karabakh‬, returns from exile

Poland: Waiting in line for bread was never so much fun! 

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc:

Language bill passes in Kyiv with legislative sleight-of-hand

Romania’s government launches endgame to claim presidency

Treason charges for journalist in Azerbaijan

Moscow tightens the noose for dissenters

Polish amnesty offer gets modest response