France: Taking a Stand for Regional Languages
Region: FranceWritten byRayna St. On March 31, 2012, several simultaneous events took place in France's major cities, driven by the overarching goal of showing an unfailing support to regional as well as in... more
Views: 1363Hungary: An Eventful Celebration of the National Holiday
Region: HungaryWritten by Marietta Le Last week, Hungary celebrated the 164th anniversary of the 1848 Revolution [1]. On March 15, 2012, the opposition elected a rapper as the ‘alternative president' - while the prime mi... more
Views: 1197History Lessons in Armenia and Azerbaijan
Region: AzerbaijanWritten by Hayhuki Barseghyan, In each country, school textbooks teach one version of history that sustains animosity towards the other. Schoolchildren in Armenia and Azerbaijan are too young to remember the Na... more
Views: 1576Armenian Politicians Claim Credit for France's Genocide Law
Region: Armenia
Others say French decision was not really influenced by Yerevan. By Hasmik Hambardzumyan As politicians in Armenia vie to prove they prompted France to pass a genocide denial bill, some analysts say the vote probabl... more
Views: 1400SSRB blatantly tampers with history of J&K
Region: IndiaJammu -Instead of filling vacancies in a transparent manner the state Service Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) is busy scripting new history of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir Independent Press (KIP), said in a n... more
Views: 1072Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie
Region: SerbiaWritten by Sasa Milosevic Not so long ago Angelina Jolie was “more concerned” [1] about the reception of her directorial debut movie, ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey [2]‘, ... more
Views: 1222Repairing Broken Tajik-Uzbek Relationship
Region: Tajikistan
Narrow vision of nation-state encourages alienation, obstructs solutions to common problems. By Shahodat Saibnazarova - Central Asia Of the five Central Asian states, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are arguable the most en... more
Views: 1255Russia: The Fake Political Twitter Account Phenomenon
Region: Russian Federation
Written by Alexey Sidorenko The Internet not only gives life to citizen activist groups, human bots or lolcat [1] lovers; online anonymity provides perfect conditions for human creativity and humor. Twitter i... more
Views: 1460J&K Academy to preserve Gujjar History & Culture
Region: India
Jammu, December 5 (Scoop News) - Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art Culture and Languages has taken into hand three prestigious publication projects to document the History, Culture and word-hoard used by this tri... more
Views: 2800Laissez-Faire Liars, Part I
Region: United States
"Henry Clay's "American System," devised in the burst of nationalism that followed the war of 1812, remains one of the most historically significant examples of a government-sponsored program to harmonize and balance t... more
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