fuck yeah eastern europe: Archive

fuck yeah eastern europe

April 2012

307 posts

March 2012

330 posts

Putin announces competition to find Russia's best... →

Vladimir Putin has announced a new Soviet-style competition to find Russia’s best workers. Russia’s president-elect told a cabinet meeting that there would be cash prizes for the winning welder, stone mason, electrician, miner and lorry driver. The Ministry of Health and Social Development has apparently already started selecting regional candidates through employers and trade...

U.S. Envoy to Russia Accuses TV Station of Hacking →

Ambassador Michael A. McFaul met with both cheers and criticism in Russia after he confronted a camera crew from state-controlled television, suggesting that they had accessed his schedule by hacking his e-mail or his telephone. Mr. McFaul engaged in a five-minute debate on Thursday with a reporter from NTV — a station that has produced harsh reports targeting the United States in recent months —...

Ethnic violence belies Balkans peace →

More than a decade after the conflict in the Balkans was brought to an end, a spate of violent incidents in the southern Balkans show that the ethnic and national tensions that erupted so disastrously in the 1990s are not a thing of the past. Buses and public parks have been attacked, injuring children. Mosques and churches have been vandalized. Flags have been burned and racist slogans chanted...

Russia’s Parliament to consider bill against ‘gay... →

A controversial bill that is likely to fuel discrimination against Russia’s embattled gay community has been submitted to Russia’s lower house of parliament. The bill calls for fines of up to 500,000 rubles ($16,500) for “spreading homosexual propaganda” among minors. The legislation was submitted Thursday to the State Duma by lawmakers from the central Novosibirsk region who blamed media for...

University revokes Hungary president's doctorate →

A Hungarian university decided Thursday to revoke the doctorate of the country’s president after an investigation found that large parts of his 1992 thesis were copied from other authors. Rector Tivadar Tulassay said Semmelweis University’s senate voted 33-4 in favor of revocation because Pal Schmitt’s dissertation on the modern Olympics did not comply with the professional and...

Ukraine rape scandal victim Oksana Makar dies →

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City to Keep an Eye Out for 'Stalin Buses' →

Follow up to this story: Tallinn will allow no “Stalin buses” to appear on city-operated lines on May 9, Deputy Mayor Kalle Klandorf said in a snappily phrased Raepress release calling the idea a “Post-Soviet wet dream.” Klandorf called the news a “media bubble” with no factual basis. He said that nobody had approached the municipal bus company with a...

Europeans are world's heaviest drinkers: WHO... →

People in Europe drink more alcohol than in any other part of the world, downing the equivalent of 12.5 litres of pure alcohol a year or almost three glasses of wine a day, according to report by the World Health Organisation and the European Commission. But while the title of world’s heaviest drinkers goes to the European Union as whole, where consumption is almost double the world...

Most popular FYEE posts.

I think for most people, when something goes across your dash you look at it, and then it’s gone. But when you’re the person who posted it, you can see what really catches peoples’ interest. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m actually pretty terrible at predicting what those things are. Sometimes I post things that I think are super awesome…and they get...

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Homophobia in the Balkans update.

European Union condemns anti-gay remarks by senior Albanian Cabinet member The European Union on Tuesday condemned remarks by an Albanian Cabinet member that people participating in a gay pride celebration scheduled for May should be beaten. Deputy Defense Minister Ekrem Spahiu, who also heads a small royalist party in the governing coalition, said last week that those who join Albania’s first...