Keywords: Russia;censorship;art;freedom of expression;
An anti-censorship speech by a famous Russian actor and director has caused a week-long uproar, with many famous political and cultural personalities entering the fray.
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Keywords: Belarus;Elections;Lukashenka;Yermoshina;
But the elections also brought an unexpected win for the opposition, which won two seats in parliamentary election for the first time in 20 years.
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Keywords: Azerbaijan;Ilham Aliev;Natig Jafarli;referendum;human rights;
Five leading human rights defenders have called on the Council of Europe to assess the contentious Azerbaijani referendum.
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Keywords: Croatia;Plenkovic;Milanovic;Oreskovic;HDZ;
Although the Conservatives won the most seats, the lack of a majority requires either the formation of a coalition, or a new round of voting.
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Keywords: Belarus;Lukashenka;parliamentary elections;elections;opposition;
OSCE has criticized the process meant to elect representatives for the lower house of parliament.
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Keywords: Karimov;Mirziyayev;Uzbekistan;elections;politics;
Given the country’s electoral history, hardliner Mirziyaev seems a lock for the job, dampening the likelihood of change.
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Keywords: Transdniester;Moldova;Russia;referendum;Shevchuk;
The de facto president of the breakaway region wants to implement a decision reached in a referendum 10 years ago.
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Keywords: Armenia;Nagorno-Karabakh;resignation;Hovik Abrahamyan;Sargsyan;
Analysts say the economic slowdown, worsening relations with Azerbaijan, and rising domestic discontent are putting the government under severe pressure to reform.
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Keywords: Ukraine;China;Antonov;cargo aircraft;Mriya;
The gargantuan craft has a unique capacity to deliver very big, very heavy cargoes, but development costs are beyond the maker’s means.
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Keywords: Levada Center;Russia;foreign agent law;opposition;pollster;Lev Gudkov;
Move comes days after Levada Center reported falling support for ruling party and less than two weeks before nationwide elections.
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Keywords: Russia;Norilsk;nickel;river;pollution;
Pollution is the most likely cause for the biblical hue of water in notoriously polluted Norilsk.
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Keywords: Ukraine;Putin;Poroshenko;G20;summit;war games;agreement;
Russian leader makes concession to West as his military begins major exercises near Ukrainian border.
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Keywords: socio-economic development; balanced development; flourishing;social indicators;forecasts
This paper presents interdisciplinary research on the transformation of Polish society and the economy. A new composite Balanced Development Index (BDI) has been constructed and applied in a 'beyond GDP' paradigm to analyse Poland's socio-economic development during the 1999-2014 period and to make predictions for 2015-2017. Four groups of detailed indicators-two economic ones (external and internal) and two social ones (concerning the objective and subjective current situation, and public expectations for the future)- are used to construct four middle-level indexes, which are subsequently aggregated into the general BDI index. The congruency between the four middle-level indexes is interpreted in terms of the balance relevant for future socio-economic development. The validity of the index is proven by its high correlation with the psychological conditions of society. The results indicate a less optimistic picture of development in Poland than is provided by the GDP, which has been constantly growing.
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Keywords: Miloš Moskovljević; plenipotentiary envoy; Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia; Oslo; Norway; Cominform; North Atlantic Treaty/Pact; Marshall Plan
This article is an analysis of the circumstances in which Miloš Moskovljević worked and the results of his diplomatic activities as plenipotentiary envoy of FPRY to Oslo, Norway. Especially are stressed the lack of conϐidence which the new communist authorities had towards him as a bourgeois politician from a previous era and the newly developed situation created by the conϐlict that arose between the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and Cominform.
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Keywords: autonomous provinces; Republic of Serbia; Blue Book; constitutional question
This paper presents the opening of the constitutional issues raised by the leadership of the Socialist Republic of Serbia immediately after the adoption of the 1974 Constitution. From the whole set of measures that the republican leadership took towards establishing relations with its provinces, we analyzed “Blue Book” of 1977, as well as reactions to that controversial document. This paper was written based on documentation from the legacy of Đorđe Radosavljević Grne, a former top ofϐicial of Vojvodina, as well as historiographical literature and numerous autobiographical sources.
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Keywords: interest groups; association of housing tenants; association of housing landlords; rent control system; Southeast Europe; East-Central Europe; 1918–1928
This comparative study deals with the dynamics of the development of housing landlords’ and tenants’ interest groups in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland during the first decade after the WWI. It analyses the internal structure of these associations, their official organs, public meetings and particularities of the ways in which they were advocating their interests. Particular attention is given to their relationship with other organized interest groups in their respective societies.
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Keywords: The Kingdom of SCS; agrarian reform; agriculture; industrialization; Đorđe Dunđerski; large farms; Kulpin; the canned food factory; Kamendin; Institute for the Manufacture of Serum against of Livestoc
The impact of agrarian reform on the industrialization of the Kingdom of SCS reveals wide possibilities for analysis and research. This article is conceived as a case study of two industrial enterprises owned by Đorđe Dunđerski which are analyzed and examined and through which the impact of agrarian reform on the economy is shown. It presents the production of the enterprises and their functioning as part of the estate until the mid-1930s. Thereby this special case revealed several phenomena of economic development of the Kingdom of SCS, such as the issue of agrarian reform and the possibility of exemptions from it, the question of the relationship between agriculture and industry, and structural transformation of the estate and consequently economic development.
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Keywords: teacher; primary school; national state; the Kingdom of Yugoslavia; Milan Nedic’s government; the Second World War; the communist government; the Ministry of Education of the PR of Serbia; Chetniks
This paper aims to present the mechanism of the integration of the “old” teaching staff, i.e. the teachers who gained their professional afϐirmation in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and in the ϐirst years after the Second World War. Its starting point is the wider context in which the school was established as a state institution in the period of the formation of national states, i.e. the modern Serbian state. A signiϐicant part of the paper will deal with the attitude of the new communist government towards the teachers who obtained their degree in occupied Serbia and the teachers who got “negative characteristics” after the war, which was directly related to their “behavior” during the war and connection with certain collaborationist military formations or movements.
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Keywords: Yugoslavia; the USSR; socialism; planning; Federal Planning Commission; KPJ (Communist Party of Yugoslavia)
This paper shows the transition of the Yugoslav economic system towards a planned economy during 1946. The restoration of the economy and the establishment of a new economic order, occupied the primary position among the complex issues whose solutions awaited the new people in power in Yugoslavia after the liberation of the country. After the takeover, the Yugoslav communists, did not have thought-out plans for the transformation of the economic system, but they adopted the Soviet model and implemented the practice that was used in the USSR for the reconstruction of the economy. Sovietization of the Yugoslav economy marked a radical break from the pre-war economic practice, while the state sector of the economy was supposed to, through planning, become a decisive force behind economic development.
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