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Frozen borders, frozen souls
Stories from the Belarusian-Polish border.
Amidst the endless sea of birch trees, a profound philosophy is revealed. A sense of European primal force. In the North-East, birch trees have witnessed history for tens of thousands of years, while the Białowieża Forest in Poland is the largest remaining fragment of the
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Tensions on the Polish-Belarusian border have reached a peak
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka talks about an „excursion to Poland” with the Wagner Group, Vladimir Putin accuses Poland of revisionist plans, and the Poles started massively strengthening their eastern border. The situation between the Russian-Belarusian alliance and Poland became extremely tense. But what exactly is going on in this region?
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An opposition activist in Belarus has been pardoned from eight years in prison
Raman Pratasevich, a former opposition activist, journalist, and blogger, who was dragged off from a Ryanair plane, and arrested amid an international scandal, is free.
„I am incredibly grateful to the country and, of course, to the president personally for such a decision. This is, of course, just great news,
strategy
Poland will investigate Russian influence, but not everyone is happy about it
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed and then proposed to amend a law establishing a state commission of inquiry to investigate and uncover Russian influence in Poland between 2007 and 2022. The news of the commission has caused a stir: the Polish opposition says that this plan is only intended
lifestyle
Sometimes you need to dig deep for a spectacular view | TOP5
Today we feature five breathtaking salt mines that might change the way we think about mines and their potential.
Some may be familiar with the Hungarian folk tale of the old king who one day asked his daughters who loved him the most. The youngest—who, it turns out at
business
Belarus, who failed | The transition to democracy in our region – Part V.
More than thirty years have passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which left an enormous economic and political void in Central and Eastern Europe. In this series of articles, we explore the responses of the countries of the region to the new circumstances: how they could adapt to
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Struggling Ukraine | The transition to democracy in our region – Part IV.
More than thirty years have passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which left an enormous economic and political void in Central and Eastern Europe. In this series of articles, we explore the responses of the countries of the region to the new circumstances: how they could adapt to
business
Ten thousand IT experts are missing from Slovakia | Innovation and startups in the CEE region - Part III.
The Russo-Ukrainian war has put Central and Eastern Europe in the international spotlight; our region has great potential, but many problems hold back innovation. Unfortunately, Slovak education’s quality is below par, and 10.000 IT experts are missing from the job market. But, regarding environmental protection, Slovakia might be
design
HIGHLIGHTS | Is this really how children see the world?
“Grown-ups always know better,” sounds the criticism from children. But do we really know everything better? How does a designer know what the little ones need? This time, we are bringing you projects that help the adult world understand children’s language.
We adults often think we know what our
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From the Volga to the Danube—to be Russian in Hungary
It is not surprising that countless Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian people have found their home in Budapest (and, of course) in Hungary in recent decades. What is perhaps more interesting is that although they did not form a unified, closed world like the Chinese in Chinatown (which I wrote about
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HIGHLIGHTS | „This book is mine”
“Don’t lend your books.” Because if you do, you’ll never get them back – at least this is what experience shows. Sounds familiar, right? One can see many posts on social media of book-owners looking for their books they can’t find at home, hoping that the borrower will
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HIGHLIGHTS | Design from Belarus
At times when the events in Belarus are in the center of attention of the global
media, we thought we cannot stay silent either – the same as Belarusian artist
Rufina Bazlova didn’t stay silent either, who recorded the events in the form of
embroidery. The regular, traditional motifs, bird
A weboldal sütiket (cookie-kat) használ, hogy biztonságos böngészés mellett a legjobb felhasználói élményt nyújtsa.