Transitions - latest issue

Date: Fri, 05 Sep 97 12:05:10 -0500
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Subject: Transitions -  latest issue

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Transitions -  latest issue

The next issue of Transitions (Vol.4 No.4 September 1997) is published.
Personal note: it seems that the new version of the journal is getting more
and more interesting. The contents of the last issue:  

- From the Editor: Europe's Enduring Disgrace

- Letters

- Notes from along the way: 
- Russia: Eltsyn on army reform; Denomination of rouble; Moscow policemen
killed in Dagestan; The richest politicians in Russia; The US AID
contributions to the Far East; Oneksimbank - Sviazinvest deal and more;
- Transcaucasia and Central Asia: Cossacs in Kazahstan celebrate anniversary
; Typhoid and holera cases recorded in Uzbekistan; Armed clashes in
Tajikistan Heidar Aliev visits the USA and more; 
- Eastern Europe: Clashes between students and police in Belarus; new
Cabinets in Ukraine and Latvia; A highly radioactive car detained on Russian
-Estonian border; Lithunia blasts the European Commission report and more; 
- Central Europe: Polish screening law went into effect; A day of
rememberance for he Roma killed in Auschwitz in Poland; Slovakia's highest
court declared parliament's decision unconstitutional; Statement of the
National Gypsy Minority Council in Hungary and more; 
- Southeastern Europe: Romanian Roma meet the European Union officials;
Bulgarian Prime Minister expects difficulties until next spring; Religious
instruction returned to Bulgarian schools; Slovenian Foreign Minister
resigned; First soccer match between Serbian and Croatian teems since the
disintegration of Yugoslavia; Muslim returnees in Bosnia forced out again by
Bosnian Croat mobs; Dayton agreement is about one year behind schedule, says
R.Holbrooke, and more

- In Their Own Words (Belarus radio: Slights to the Nation; Russian Central
Bank Chairman on Corruption; Central Europe: Anti-Roma Writing on the Wall)

- "Get out, you stinking gypsy", by Dimitrina Petrova

- Present but Unaccounted For, by Jeremy Druker  (How many Roma live in
Central and Eastern Europe? It depends on whom to ask)

- The Politics of Romani Politics, by Rudko Kawczynski

- An Ordinary Pogrom, by Claude Cahn

- The Struggle for the Controll of Identity, by Ian Hancock

- Hostages of Their Own Music, by Elena Chinyaeva

- A Tapestry of Romani Life 

- Serbia's Caesar Enters an Age of Uncertainty, by Nenad Lj.Stefanovic ("For
the first time, Milosevic will find himself in a position where he is not
surrounded by a secure cordon of like-minded followers") 

- From Stability to Growth (interview with Georgian Finance Minister Mikhail
Chkuaseli)

- A New Security Agenda for Armenia, by Vartan Oskanian

- Oil is Our Destiny (interview with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Hasan
Hasanov) 

- When Less State Means Less Freedom, by Stephen Holmes (Liberal values are
threatened just as thouroghly by state incapacity as by despotic power, as
Russia's social and political chaos reveals) 

- Divided by a Mutual Tongue, by Vesselin Vatchkov (Do Bulgarians and
Macedonians speak one language or two? Their search for understanding raises
issues of territory, history, and ethnic identity) 

- Measuring the Costs of 'Free' Education, by Marcin Krol ("Poland's ex-
communists need to go back to school if they think ensuring the right to a
free education will open university doors to the poor")

- Wars in the Former Yugoslavia, Take Three, by Marcel Stefancic (A
Slovenian film critic takes a look at the first crop of postwar films made
by his ex-compatriots) 

- Cartoons

- Books: Writing about the Roma

- Point - Counter Point: Is Czech Voucher Privatization a Success? Jan
Svejnar vs Jan Mladek 

- Media Watch 

- Media Profile: A Media Guided by Our Own Hand (on Romani media) 

- Cityscape: Baku Prepares to Boom 
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Boris 
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