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McCain Campaign Advisors Help Yanukovych Win Ukraine Election

Cyril Mychalejko February 10, 2010 Cyril Mychalejko

Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych, the once-disgraced Ukrainian politician who was defeated by outgoing President Viktor Yuschenko in 2004 as a result of election tampering, a Supreme Court ruling that overturned fraudulent election results and massive street protests dubbed the "Orange Revolution" has finally gotten the last laugh. He is expected to be named the next president of the former Soviet Republic with an election victory on February 7, thanks in no small part to former presidential campaign advisors of Senator John McCain.

Iraq Inquiry Panel: Britain’s Pride and Shame

Stefan Simanowitz January 27, 2010 Stefan Simanowitz

By the end of his six hour cross examination by the Iraq Inquiry panel in London, Tony Blair's former director of communications and strategy, Alastair Campbell, must have felt as if he had been, in the immortal phrase of a veteran British politician, "savaged by a dead sheep." Arriving at the Chilcot Inquiry, the bags under his eyes suggested that Tony Blair's former communications and strategy director might have suffered a few sleepless nights.

For Europe – Politics is the Economy

Rene Wadlow December 10, 2009 Rene Wadlow

Van Rompuy & Ashton

There has been a good deal of ironic comments in the European press concerning the selection of the Belgium Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the European Council President and Baroness Catherine Ashton of Upholland, a life peer, as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The Plight of the Roma: From Europe to Canada

Reuel S. Amdur November 11, 2009 Reuel S. Amdur

Roma Camp in Italy

The media have not paid enough attention to the plight of the Roma in Europe. The Roma's living conditions are miserable, and they suffer from serious discrimination in education and employment, and attacks from racists and neo-Nazis. Because of the conditions they face in Europe, a number of Czech Roma fled to Canada in 2008 and 2009. Their Hungarian cousins quickly began to follow suit. Across these international borders, the Roma's struggle for rights and survival has not been an easy one.

France: Sharing a Recipe for Peace

Alecia D. McKenzie June 1, 2009 Alecia D. McKenzie

Baking together for peace

Fourteen women are gathered in a Jewish kosher bakery on a sunny afternoon in Creteil, a multi-ethnic commune southeast of Paris. Bent over bowls of flour, tubs of butter and cartons of eggs, the women share jokes and anecdotes, speaking in both French and Arabic, as they knead dough and crack eggs open.

Romania: Gypsies Celebrate Roma Day, Yet Fear Reigns

Chuck Todaro April 30, 2009 Chuck Todaro

Roma Day Event in Apalina

Romania is home to Europe's largest Roma population and is the setting for some of the most pervasive societal violence and discrimination against Roma. The Twentieth International Roma Day was celebrated in bittersweet events throughout Romania on April 8th. "This day offers the press the chance to reverse the usual negative stereotypes," says Roma journalist Rudolf Moca.