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Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova: ‘Russian murders shocking, but hardly a surprise’

('Iryna V',) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:44:50 -0000

As we mourn our lost Russian colleagues, Belarusians do not forget our own Baburovas, Politkovskayas and Klebnikovs. We remember why they perished. Expresso

Maurizio Crosetti: ‘Using English words in Italian is a basic lack of respect’

('Mary Maistrello',) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:47:14 -0000

The Turin-born sports journalist at national daily 'La Repubblica', 46, on how Europe has changed Italian journalism and a ‘provincial’ tendency to use so many English terms

Petr Uhl: ‘I prefer to call it the Czechoslovak spring’

('Chris Yeomans',) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:20:27 -0000

He stood on the barricades of Paris and Prague in 1968 and later produced the Charter 77 civic initiative. The man who once smoked cigarettes in prison with former president Václav Havel looks back over his sixty-six years, but also to Europe and the future