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The lost art of speaking Belarusian in Belarus 8 Oct 2012 | 10:21 pm
Since independence from the soviet union in 1991, remnants of Belarus' titular language stay mostly in the cultural sphere, with around 300, 000 speakers in the country. Young musicians, poets and wri...
Ankara’s patience has its limits: Turkey’s EU bid 8 Oct 2012 | 02:58 pm
By Anika Gatt Seretny Turkey’s long and controversial negotiation process seems to have taken a new turn. The EU’s most patient bidder seems to be losing its’ interest in Membership.
Esch-sur-Alzette - the hope of Luxembourg 4 Oct 2012 | 01:04 am
Reposted from DaivaRepeckaite.com, which is now my original blog, at least until the blogging platform at CafeBabel becomes user-friendlier and allows comments. You are welcome to comment on the other...
Swedish band Little Dragon take Proust test 3 Oct 2012 | 08:20 pm
The four Scandinavian musicians are friendly enough but musically unstable, even after three albums. They are aware of their bizarreness, and agreed to answer questions taken from a famous questionnai...
Concert review: Mashrou' Leila rock stage in Amman with pro-gay songs 2 Oct 2012 | 05:28 pm
If you believe in incarnations, you would swear that Freddie Mercury now resides in the body of Hamed Sinno, the charismatic and openly gay lead singer of the Lebanese indie band. The name of the seve...
Danish TV political drama 'Borgen': one to keep watching 2 Oct 2012 | 03:20 pm
Denmark has become an authentic export machine for fictional television. After the success of 'The Killing', which was adapted into an American version, its producers created a drama about national po...
Who cares about politics? 1 Oct 2012 | 08:20 pm
Normal 0 21 false false false HU X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 21 false false false HU X-NONE X-NONE What are the chances of young people getting involved in politics? Is it boring? Or inte...
Post-it poets: J A Sutherland 28 Sep 2012 | 02:17 pm
JA Sutherland is an emerging poet based in Edinburgh. Check out his blog, where he writes poems in response to objects in the national museum of Scotland.
Kusturica's Balkan Disneyland vs world's biggest Jesus in Croatia 26 Sep 2012 | 11:01 pm
When Victor Hugo declared 'Let the nation be inspired by a love of national architecture', he implied a clear link between national pride and construction with which some would still have sympathy. Th...
It's all –ová: changing Czech grammar for gender equality 26 Sep 2012 | 05:11 pm
The spotlight is on one of the most quintessential features of the Czech language, the feminine ending '–ová' on all women’s surnames. Strictly speaking this grammatical rule indicates that wives 'bel...
