Hungary: Bloody Monday
The police crackdown against peaceful demonstrators on the night of October 23, 2006, shows that there is very little difference between the past and the present.
Europe
EU Data Retention: Access All Areas
This month, a highly controversial European law came into effect that raises concerns about our fundamental right to privacy.
Nagorno-Karabakh: The Long Shadow of Joseph Stalin
The president of Azerbaijan, Ilhan Aliyev, son of the long-time president Heydar Aliyev and Robert Kocharian, president of Armenia, met outside Paris, in Rambouillet February 10-11, 2006 to discuss the stalemated conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Rambouillet had also been the scene for the last-chance negotiations on Kosovo just before the NATO bombing of Serbia began in 1999.
Corporate Education
As the negative effects of globalization make their impact, many people are questioning the influence of corporations on society. In terms of education, this has become quite a sensitive subject. In many ways, the uneasy relationship between schools and corporations mirrors the larger debate of corporate influence within society as a whole.
Mystery deepens over Milosevic’s death
The controversy surrounding the sudden death of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell at the Hague has only deepened with the autopsy performed in the Netherlands and the vague, self-serving statements made by officials of the UN war crimes tribunal.
And Justice for None: The death of Milosevic leaves old wounds open
Slobodan Milosevic is an innocent man. Technically, this is the final outcome of his trial at The Hague. With his death on Saturday, he was able to escape responsibility for the part he played in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. A person is innocent until proven guilty, and since he was not convicted while he was alive of any crime, he has thus died an innocent man. Technically, at least.
