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Students in Albania are taking to the streets against a major neoliberal reform affecting higher education. The reform is promoted by ‘socialist’ Prime Minister Edi Rama. We interviewed Redi Muci, a member of the movement “Për Universitetin” and a lecturer at the Polytechnic College of Tirana. (This article first appeared in Left Voice). What is going on […]
On our trip to Moscow in June 2015, we met with Ilya Budraitskis, who spoke to us about the crisis facing Russia today and its effects on art and culture. Budraitskis’ argument is presented here alongside drawings by Sveta Shuvaeva, whom we also met while in Moscow. These works were made over the last two years […]
9 November by Center for Social and Labour Research In 1999 Ukrainian government debt exceed critically level of 60% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) : $15.3 Bn. In 2002 ,Ukraine refused credits from IMF. From the end of 2004 cooperation with international finance institutions was limited by consulting and technical support. New credit programs were […]
This article originally appeared on Democracy Now (where you can obtain the full video as well). The details are out on the the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and critics say the trade deal is worse than they feared. The TPP’s full text was released Thursday, weeks after the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations—a group representing […]
What specific challenges has the position of your country on the refugee corridor between the Mediterranean and Western Europe brought in the past months, in relation to numbers of refugees transiting (issues such as asylum laws, transport, border control)? For those people who are familiar with the context and history of migration and asylum in […]
What specific challenges has the position of your country on the refugee corridor between the Mediterranean and Western Europe brought in the past months, in relation to numbers of refugees transiting (issues such as asylum laws, transport, border control) ? Croatia’s position in the corridor is challenging for the society and its institutions since the issue of migration and […]
What specific challenges has the position of your country on the refugee corridor between the Mediterranean and Western Europe brought in the past months, in relation to numbers of refugees transiting (issues such as asylum laws, transport, border control)? Curiously, Bulgaria, despite its geographical location, has not experienced the same number of border crossings as for example we witness […]
For more than a week the so-called Balkan Route is passing through Slovenia. The Slovenian government intended to impose the entrance quota of 2500 refugees per day. Croatia answered by sending the refugees and migrants over the so-called “Green” border. This controversy between Slovenia and Croatia created dire humanitarian conditions for the refugees and migrants. […]
by TheRussianReader October 26, 2015 Boris Akunin Boris Akunin: In Russia, two distinct, completely dissimilar peoples live side by side, and these peoples have long been bitterly hostile towards each other. (May the Byzantine double-headed eagle that Ivan the Third selected as the country’s emblem go to hell in a hand basket.) There is Us […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: This article by Carne Ross was originally published in the Financial Times on 23 October 2015. Perhaps the last place you would expect to find a thriving experiment in direct democracy is Syria. But something radical is happening, little noticed, in the eastern reaches of that fractured country, in the isolated region […]