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The Belarusian August

Rally in support of Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya and the joint campaign headquarters. 30 July 2020, Minsk, Belarus
Rally in support of Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya and the joint campaign headquarters. 30 July 2020, Minsk, Belarus || By Homoatrox - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

The week of protests has shown that the situation is completely different than the well-known crises of the past: the revolution of Solidarity in Poland, the Arab Spring, the Ukrainian Maidan.

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Bullet for a Slovak reporter

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A memorial for Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová in Prešov, by Petinoh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

More than two years after shocking assassination of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, another Slovak journalist from the same newsroom faces a death threat. Data analyst Peter Sabo found a pistol bullet in his mailbox – informs editor-in-chief of Aktuality.sk, Peter Bárdy.

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Mask Diplomacy

A Chinese dragon statue in Kazincbarcikai; photo: István Jávori (wikipedia, CC)
A Chinese dragon statue in Kazincbarcikai; photo: István Jávori (wikipedia, CC)

The Chinese authorities are doing everything to direct the attention of the world away from their mistakes that contributed to the spread of the pandemic – says Alicja Bachulska, an analyst of Chinese politics

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Hungary rules botched subsidies

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Hungary tops the list of countries for most OLAF recommendations for the recovery of EU funds between 2014 and 2018. In these four years, OLAF concluded 52 probes into misuse of funds and recommended that the EU Commission to recover 3.84 percent of payments made to Hungary under the bloc’s structural and independent funds and […]

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Slovakia: The Countess and the farmers

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The European Union directs a massive amount of money towards Slovakia in the form of agricultural subsidies. These funds are managed and redistributed by the Agricultural Paying Agency (APA), an organisation with an annual budget of more than half a billion euros at its disposal. This kind of money attracts not only farmers and agricultural […]

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