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The 8th Circle
http://www.the8thcircle.com
This blog centers around three broad topics: corruption, democracy, and Eastern European politics.
- Added on: Jun 21st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: The 8th Circle
- Listed in: Political Law
- Tags: europe corruption law democracy eastern anticorruption
Recent Posts
Sovereignty out the window?
Partially out of news fatigue (incessant coverage of the issue became…umm repetitive), I haven’t posted much on the Caucasus war as of late. There have been several major developments that warrant attention. First, by officially recogniz...
Blogosphere talk
This is a mix of things: either stuff I wanted to write about, but others have done the job already or something that caught my attention. In no particular order: Lucas writes about Colonel Khuiyovich is returning to duty - a hilarious true story ...
Gender equality and genuine democracy (comments)
If you haven’t had the chance to read the guest post by Mayia on gender equality and democracy in Ukraine, I encourage you to do so. Specifically, we have had new very interesting comments either challenging or corroborating Mayia’s argu...
The cost of the Beijing Olympics
Martin Samuel, of The Times, uncovers the logistics behind Beijing’s much-lauded Olympics in China’s apologists are wide-eyed and clueless. Excerpts that went underreported in the mainstream media: About 100 miles south of Beijing, an agr...
Call for papers on Romania and Bulgaria
If you specialize on Bulgaria and Romania, this may be a good publishing opportunity (via ISA blog): The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies seeks essays of 6,000 to 8,000 words for a collection that explores the post-1989 cultural lands...
