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Veronica Khokhlova

Regional Editor for Central and Eastern Europe

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About Veronica Khokhlova

5249 posts · joined 2006-01-21

I'm a Kyiv native; have lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg on and off since 2001. I blog at Neeka's Backlog; my current photos are at Flickr; nearly 4,600 photos from Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Istanbul are at Neeka's FotoPage; my Global Voices translations are stored on Work Log; some of my pre-blog/non-blog work has been Filed Away.

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November 22nd, 2008

Hungary, Slovakia: Tense Relationship

On Nov. 15, Slovak prime minister Robert Fico and his Hungarian counterpart, Ferenc Gyurcsány, met in the border town of Komárno, Slovakia, in an attempt to ease nationalist tensions that have escalated due to Nov. 1 football game violence in Dunajská Streda, Slovakia. Eva S. Balogh of Hungarian Spectrum has been blogging a lot recently about the Slovak-Hungarian relations, and here are some of the highlights.

November 21st, 2008

Eastern & Central Europe

Svetlana Gladkova writes at Profy that “the difference between a US user of PayPal and a user from Russia is huge.”

November 20th, 2008

Eastern & Central Europe

Hungarian Spectrum writes about a documentary on “the devastating effects of Hungarian political divisiveness on families and friendships.”

November 19th, 2008

Eastern & Central Europe

Hungarian Spectrum is wondering how it is possible that “growing marijuana plants seems to deserve as harsh a sentence as murder” in Hungary.

Eastern & Central Europe

Chernobyl and Eastern Europe Blog posts an interview with a former Chernobyl liquidator - part 1 and part 2 - who now lives in the US and has written a novel in Russian about his experience.

Eastern & Central Europe

Scraps of Moscow and Moscow Through Brown Eyes both pick LJ user drugoi's photo as their favorite one from the Nov. 4 Russian March.