Few countries have a better case for sovereign government and the rule of law than Ukraine. Even today you can take a short ride from the capital Kiev, as I did a couple of weeks ago, and speak to villagers who still remember the catastrophe of 1933, when Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet …
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The collapse of the Mubarak regime in Egypt and the American president’s decision to side with the Arab street, sacrificing one of Washington’s longest and most important strategic allies, compelled many observers to ask two questions: Are we witnessing the end of Obama’s realism; and how will the lessons of Cairo affect Obama’s policy of reset …
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With all of its problems, Hungary after 1989 has been a success story, but now the success is challenged in ways that are very much unexpected.  From the happy story of the transition from dictatorship to democracy, there is a looming potential tragedy, a transition from democracy.  In the second part of 2010, we Hungarians …
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  Updated with the results of the agreement between the European Commission and Hungary February 10, 2011 The aim of this note is to provide a brief, 12-point list of the main deficiencies of the new Hungarian media laws, at least with regard to the safeguards of media freedom and pluralism, laid down in Article …
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Barely eight months have passed since Hungary’s new Parliament met – and since then the words and deeds of the party and new government have turned the political life and the workings of the state and the economy upside down. We are constantly perplexed; we have not even recovered from our astonishment at yesterday’s political …
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