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Topless Feminists Protest 'Win a Wife' Competition

A feminist group in Ukraine has protested a radio station competition to "win a wife" in the most eye-catching way possible -- by removing clothes. The Femen Movement is angered by a contest organized by a New Zealand radio station that offered a listener the opportunity to travel to Ukraine and meet women. Nine women...

Opinion: Can Democracy Take Root in Egypt?

With the decision by Hosni Mubarak to step down, nothing will ever be the same again in Egypt, nor perhaps in the Arab world. So the real question now is, what comes next? Will Egypt turn to some form of representative government? Perhaps, but it's pure fantasy to believe that this will be anything like Eastern Europe in...

Scores Charged in Cybertheft of Millions From US Banks

(Sept. 30) -- More than than 60 people were indicted today on charges of stealing millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts through mischievous computer attacks. In announcing the local and federal indictments, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York said that modern high-tech bank heists no longer require "a gun, a...

Anti-Hunger Bill Cuts $14 Billion From Food Stamps

(Aug. 6) -- In a rare show of bipartisanship in Washington, the Senate voted unanimously to pass the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Among other things, the bill reauthorizes federal child nutrition programs, sets nutritional standards for food sold in schools and boosts reimbursement rates for school lunch programs. All...

UN Report: AIDS Spreading Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia

(July 20) -- AIDS is spreading in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, especially among marginalized youth, according to warnings from United Nations advocates at this week's International HIV/AIDS Conference in Vienna. Rates of HIV in the region, which includes Russia and Georgia, have been climbing for much of the past...

Eastern Europe News From the Web

05/29/12 Euro 2012: ethnic minority fans need more safety... Source: The Guardian - London - UK I thought I knew and understood the worst of what went on in football stadiums in eastern Europe.
05/28/12 Mafia of Fashion - Eastern European Designers & Runway... Source: PRWeb (PRWEB) May 28, 2012 Provocative, Bold & Whimsical that is Eastern European Fashion by renowned designers from Croatia & Russia.
05/24/12 Cromos(TM) Pharma Announces Participation in ASCO 2012... Source: Marketwire LONGVIEW, WA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/24/12 -- Cromos™ Pharma, a full service, regional Contract Research Organization (CRO), announced today that it will participate and exhibit at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, IL on June 1-5, 2012.
05/23/12 The Veiled Plight Of The European Roma: New Report... Source: International Business Times (Australia) "Of those surveyed in this report, one in three is unemployed, 20 percent are not covered by health insurance, and 90 percent are living below national poverty lines. Although governments and societies have been aware of Roma exclusion and deprivation, the magnitude and the similarity of exclusion patterns across EU Member States is striking and leaves no excuse for delaying swift, effective action to improve the situation."
05/23/12 Jedward call on fans to fly to Eastern Europe to vote... Source: Irish Newspaper JEDWARD have come up with a hair brained solution for fans to break the Eastern block on voting for the Eurovision, after qualifying for the final last night.

Background on Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region".

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