EASTERN EUROPE
July/August 2010
'The Tajiks are unnervingly friendly. They take the Islamic injunction of hospitality with grave seriousness. The hungry often sacrifice their only cow for a backpacker with a camera, and the regime has liberally welcomed boots and bases on its soil.'
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December 2009
Despite laws, protocols and international conventions, the number of people being trafficked into servitude is growing
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October 2009
Russians cling to the idea of being a great power, even though the quest for empire has become illusory and self-destructive. Can a new generation change this?
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March 2009
A tour through Eastern Poland uncovers the wreckage of German military might
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