Viktor and Yulia, together again.
April 6 (Bloomberg) — Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine party will team up in parliament with an alliance led by former premier Yulia Timoshenko and the Socialists, said Our Ukraine spokesman Valentyn Mondrievsky.
The Regions Party, led by Viktor Yanukovych, which won the most votes in March 26 elections, will [...]

What’s the Matter With Kiev? By Scott MacMillan Sunday’s vote wasn’t a rejection of the orange revolution, it was proof of its success.
The pre-election media coverage was entirely useless, and the post-election stories weren’t so great either, so thank god for Scott, who’s written a great piece in Slate.

I never thought the manner or timing of his death, while disappointing, would in the end make any difference.
Only a thousand turned uptp pay respect to Milosevic.
Whatever fears there were that Mr. Milosevic, in death, would provoke a nationalist outpouring did not come true today: There were flowers, candles and free lapel pins [...]

East Ethnia

European Tribune - Putting the Squeeze on Transdniestr by Soj
I see that the western press is almost completely ignoring the developing situation in Transdniestr, despite the huge ramifications involved.
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With the election of Viktor Yushchenko in early 2005, Ukraine has steadily allied itself with the west, including the United States. And the west believes that Russia [...]

CNN.com - Milosevic dies in prison cell - Mar 11, 2006
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been found dead in his prison cell in The Hague, Netherlands, according to the United Nations. He was 64.
Serbian radio says he hung himself, just like the Krajina president did. I must have misread something.
BBC says:
Steven Kay, Mr [...]

Long NYT magazine piece on the Belorussian opposition.
“We go into these elections not because we believe in their fairness, but because this is a chance to go to the people, to conduct a campaign door to door,” Milinkevich explained through an interpreter. “I will not say that at every door people will become less [...]

Serbia will come under intense international scrutiny today as it becomes the first nation to defend genocide charges, while separately facing censure for failing to surrender war crimes suspects.
Belgrade will be accused at the International Court of Justice of sponsoring ethnic cleansing in the 1990s which led to the worst massacres on European soil since [...]

The Novelist Walks - Why did Turkey drop the charges against Orhan Pamuk? By Hugh Eakin

Eastern Europe is currently enjoying its coldest weather since 1979. Temperatures in Moscow have been below minus 20 C (that’s minus 5 Fahrenheit for our American readers) for a week straight now, with regular visits to minus 30 (minus 22 Fahrenheit). In Bucharest, where we live, it’s currently minus 9 Celsius; that will [...]