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Albania: 'NATO yes, PM Berisha no!'
Whilst Tirana celebrated an invitation to join the NATO alliance alongside Croatia on 2 April, the opposition mobilised itself to denounce the government
non-eu countries, council of europe, tirana, bucharest, sali berisha, albania, future of europe
The future is death metal-inspired art in Kosovo
Contemporary art is just one bright face of the Kosovo prism, from which the works of the likes of 29-year-old visual artist Artan Balaj refract
non-eu countries, exposition, contemporary art, art market, nationalism, best of cafebabel.com, europe
As drugs and violence rise, Mexico's democratic hopes fall
Mexicans are losing confidence in their institutions, justice is absent, women are murdered and narcotics traffickers keep the pressure on an increasingly violent society
non-eu countries, mexico, violence, drugs, feature, men and women, youth
Photos: Cuba as Castro retires at 81
Post-election images from the provincial tourist town of Viñales in the west, to the semi-tropical cacao plantations of Baracoa in the east. The Cuban leader will not run again as president at the National Assembly on 24 February
non-eu countries, presidency, photogallery, baracoa, retirement, cuba, cigarette
Putin: a (filmic) kiss for Valentine’s Day
Two weeks before his handpicked successor takes over, a Russian film released on DVD on 14 February shows a rather different side to a fictional, unnamed outgoing Russian president
non-eu countries, moscow, cinema, vladimir putin, love, russian federation, post-soviet states
Australia: ‘Sorry’ for the Indigenous
13 February. Big screens, daytrips to Canberra, and a historical ‘apology’ by the new Labor government, to the 13, 000 Indigenous children taken from their Aboriginal parents after British colonisation
non-eu countries, john howard, aboriginal, stolen generation, indigenous, history, apology
Minsk: the tidy road to regime perfection
Neat, elegant, so clean that you want to go barefoot – that is how the Lukashenko regime likes to present the capital of Belarus - the one visible to tourists, that is
non-eu countries, feature, alexander lukashenko, post-soviet states, minsk, belarus, world affairs
Jeta Xharra: ‘Kosovo's status is not a solution to everything’
Playwright, journalist and Kosovo's answer to Jeremy Paxman - the ‘pushy, irritating’ TV presenter as she describes herself, 29, exposes local politicians in a society she vouches is 'fed-up'
non-eu countries, feminism, independence, enlargement, peacekeeping, southern eu, europe on the ground
Cocaine Spain
plus the never-ending story of Kosovo
non-eu countries, european personnel selection office, brussels, euweek, belgium, spain, kosovo
Estonian, language of the future?
From September 2007, the Russian minority have to officially learn Estonian in secondary schools - Irene Kaosaar, the head of linguistic minorities, on a 'transition' not a 'reform'
non-eu countries, languages, estonia, life-long learning, society, tallinn, russian federation
Ho Che Anderson: I never actually said 'hey mom, this is my sex book'
The London-born Canadian graphic novelist, 38, is relaxed and frank as he discusses being chosen as the only black cartoonist to portray Martin Luther King, a series which took him ten long years to complete
non-eu countries, italy, art spiegelman, sex, comics, america, bologna
Colin Dexter: 'Morse is human, a bit selfish and a snob'
The retired British 'Inspector Morse' novelist, 77, once monitored Russian military morse transmissions from inside eastern Germany. The crime fiction giant has successfully turned Oxford into a European fictional murder capital
Walking the Lal Masjid mile
On 10 and 15 September former prime ministers Sharif and Bhutto plan leaving London for upcoming elections in Pakistan. Military president Musharraf was hit hard by the ten-day ‘Red Mosque’ siege by armed fundamentalists in July
non-eu countries, democratisation, islamabad, pakistan, islamic terrorism, world affairs
In Turkey islamism is modern
Durão Barroso says Turkey is not yet ready for entry into the EU, and Spanish Secretary of State for the European Union, Alberto Navarro argues that the sphere of influence in Turkey not taken up by the EU will instead be taken up by Russia, China or Iran.
non-eu countries, afghanistan, josé manuel barroso, turkey, islamophobia, islam, politics
The eastern punk Svieta Songako
Art is politics. The fourth and last chapter of our portraits of artists who are attempting to resist the ‘cultural Chernobyl’ in a Belarus that is in Alexander Lukashenko’s stranglehold
non-eu countries, cd, central and eastern europe, music, alexander lukashenko, culture, minsk
Political choreographers: Alexandre and Natalia Furman
Art is politics: the third part of our series on portraits of artists attempting to resist the 'cultural Chernobyl’, which reigns in Belarus, a country asphyxiated by the authoritarian regime of president Alexander Lukashenko
Belarus rocks
Art is politics: the first part of our series on portraits of artists who attempt to resist the 'cultural Chernobyl' which reigns in Belarus, a country asphyxiated by the authoritarian regime of president Alexander Lukashenko
non-eu countries, music, alexander lukashenko, culture, minsk, belarus
