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Roma Battle Stereotypes, Seek Political Unity

Published August 28, 2001 in The Christian Science Monitor Leave a comment

“It is a growing trend for young, educated Roma to keep their identity. This is very helpful for the rest of the community. They are people to be proud of.”

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Excavation Of Lithuania’s Great Synagogue Highlights A ‘Painful Page’ From History

Published October 16, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

For decades, the principals at a boxy, two-story kindergarten in Vilnius unwittingly pored over their lesson plans a few feet above one of the city’s most sacred sites.

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A New Law In Latvia Aims To Preserve National Language By Limiting Russian In Schools

Published October 28, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

“It’s a miracle Latvian survived as a language,” said Andis Kudors. “Latvians are sensitive because language is the main feature of our national identity.”

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What Brexit Looks Like to the Rest of Europe

Published June 24, 2016 in Slate Leave a comment

A colleague from Poland advised his British-born wife to get a Polish passport. It was high time to make some coffee.

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A Dirty – Not Particularly Funny – Poem Just Turned Into an ‘International Crisis’

Published April 13, 2016 in Reuters Leave a comment

Just when Angela Merkel thought she had checked “Turkey” off her to-do list, a filth-laden poem read by a late-night comic is presenting her with a new dilemma.

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Why Estonia’s Not Worried, Despite Its Neighbor to the East

Published July 22, 2015 in Reuters Leave a comment

Estonian President Ilves doesn’t like to dwell on the supposed Russian threat to his country after Putin’s annexation of Crimea. His thing is technology.

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Germany’s Anti-Immigrant PEGIDA Isn’t a Vladimir Putin Plot. It’s Scarier.

Published January 14, 2015 in Reuters Leave a comment

What’s most striking about the movement is not the radicalism, but the ordinariness, of the people it attracts.

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The Charlie Hebdo Effect

Published January 9, 2015 in Slate Leave a comment

While politicians call for tolerance and calm, an increasing number of Germans see a gap with their elected officials, especially on hot-button issues like immigration.

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Inside the New Anti-Muslim Group Gaining Strength in Germany

Published January 8, 2015 in BuzzFeed Leave a comment

“I don’t have anything against Christians or Buddhists or Jews,” Kathrin Oertel said. “They don’t demand I observe certain rules so as not to offend them.”

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Obama’s Response to Invasion of Crimea Is ‘Pathetic’

Published March 2, 2014 in BuzzFeed

“The Sixth Fleet should be here,” said Ali Hamzin. “Today only the U.S. can preserve the territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine.”

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Women Lead The Way Against Belarus’ Patriarch, Says Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

“Our women understood they don’t have to stay in their kitchens and can go and fight for their rights beside  — and even in front of their men,” said Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I’ve reported from the former Soviet empire since 1996. I started working as National Public Radio’s Moscow correspondent in December 2016. Before that I contributed to Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg and The Moscow Times, among others.

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