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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

No one seems to have a solution to the scourge of child labor in a seaside resort.

Ignas is one of the ubiquitous unchaperoned children, some as young as 10, who come to Palanga every summer from all over Lithuania to make money illegally selling chebureki – crescent-shaped, meat-filled dumplings.

Like most chebureki sellers, Ignas says he gets 50 Lithuanian cents (14 euro cents) per dumpling sold. That’s one-eighth to one-sixth of the 3- to 4-litas purchase price. The older boys who sell beer get up to 2 litas of the 5- or 6-litas price per can.

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

Fire suspends work at suspected mass grave of Kosovo Serbs

Poor grain harvest predicted in Kazakhstan

Sudden sale of venerable Serbian daily draws political fire

Lithuanian voters will have a say on controversial nuclear plant

Monthlong search finds no trace of Russian aerial joy riders

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

Russian bill ‘belongs to the past,’ European human rights chief says

Moldovan legislators ban hammer and sickle, other totalitarian symbols

Mladic rushed to hospital after requesting a break during Hague proceedings

Minsk: Lithuanian military officer, conspirators arrested for spying

Court ruling restricts Vojvodina autonomy and divides political opinion