In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 14 weeks ago

There s a Greek deli in central Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi.It s hard to overstate how odd this is. Burundi is one of the poorest countries...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 15 weeks ago

We re back after a happily uneventful, if hot and a bit long, drive from Yerevan. Went past one of the air bases that was bombed, and saw what looke...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 32 weeks ago

So, the Albanosphere: about 7 million Albanians in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece and Montenegro, plus another million or so recent emigrants and ...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 34 weeks ago

Not too long ago, Doug Muir wrote about why Nagorno-Karabakh may be coming soon to a front page near you. Back in the mid-1990s, I wrote something mu...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 34 weeks ago

Not too long ago, Doug Muir wrote about why Nagorno-Karabakh may be coming soon to a front page near you. Back in the mid-1990s, I wrote something muc...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 35 weeks ago

Hungarian intellectuals are protesting against the owner of the newspaper Magyar Hirlap, after the paper started printing some genuinely shocking ant...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 38 weeks ago

I m working through the frozen conflicts in ascending order of awfulness. Two posts about Transnistria can be found here and here.So, South Osseti...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 39 weeks ago

Two weeks ago Denmark was in turmoil because Danish newspapers decided to reprint the infamous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad after one of their a...

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