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March 23rd, 2008

Czech Republic, Slovakia: Whipping Girls and Other Easter Traditions

Elia Varela Serra · 22:17

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Easter is a very important celebration both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, called Velikonoce - from Veliké noci or Great Nights. Although the religious connotations of Easter were suppressed under the communist regime, nowadays Czechs and Slovaks are again aware of the strong Christian background of Easter, although they regard it as mostly fun times. Many traditions are still observed, especially in villages. Several bloggers have been describing some of them. 4 comments · »»

February 25th, 2008

Serbia: Anglophone Bloggers on Belgrade Rally, Riots, Kosovo

Veronica Khokhlova · 01:20

Below is a selection of the English-language posts about last week's events in Serbia and Kosovo, which appeared on Feb. 21-23. 3 comments · »»

June 5th, 2006

Czech Republic: Election Ends in Stalemate

Veronica Khokhlova · 17:56

On June 2 and 3, the fourth election to the Chamber of Deputies since the 1993 split of Czechoslovakia took place in the Czech Republic - and ended in stalemate. Below are some bloggers' reports and reactions. On the day the voting began, Bob Granico of Publius Pundit posted a comprehensive ... 0 comments · »»

Links

May 17th, 2008

The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia writes about what it feels like to be a foreigner in Slovakia.

May 14th, 2008

The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia writes about American football in Slovakia.

May 8th, 2008

A Fistful of Euros reports that Slovakia has “won EU approval to adopt the euro on Jan. 1 2009, thus becoming the 16th member of the European single currency zone.”

April 28th, 2008

The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia writes about plans to demolish Hotel Kyjev in Bratislava: “Though I agree that buildings like the Hotel Kyjev are part of Slovakia’s history, I disagree that they are part of true Slovak culture. Are the communist principles, good or bad, embodied in socialist-realism architecture a part of Slovak culture simply because Slovaks survived through those 40 years of it?”

April 25th, 2008

Edward Lucas of the Economist re-posts his piece on the “shrinking” of “media freedom” in Slovakia and Romania.

April 22nd, 2008

Bratislava-based Deleted by Tomorrow finds “that five-pointed star at the top [of John McCain's campaign logo] a bit unnerving.”

Edward Hugh of A Fistful of Euros writes in detail on Slovakia’s euro membership bid. (An update is here.)

March 31st, 2008

Information Policy links to a story in the International Herald Tribune on the protest of Slovak newspapers against the new requirement “to print responses by people or institutions to any news article even if the published information were true.”