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2019. former president has been accused of treason and put under house arrest. they also have parliamentary elections. zalenskys party was the biggest winner there. then they went after the second biggest party. they shut down their tv station, seized assets of the biggest financial backer of the party. ukraine also, i mean, in recent years shut down the biggest social media site in the country. basically think the russian equivalent of facebook. thats just taken completely off the internet. the...

Plans to rename up to half of the bus-stop names in the eastern border town of Narva are meeting with local opposition six years after the Ministry of the Interior planned the change.

At the Hungary at First “Site” Conference, the Director of the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade discussed Hungary’s foreign policy in Central and Eastern Europe.

Fdiesz-KDNP and the opposition marked the Day of National Cohesion, commemorating the 101st anniversary of the signing of the Trianon Peace Treaty.

Budapest Mayor Karácsony: Trianon Treaty under which two-thirds of Hungary's territory was ceded to neighbouring countries is the nation's "shared trauma."

The whole history of french québécois identity, the separatist movement, all this, but i have to get right to the pressing matter of the day: pastagate. [ laughter ] >> patrick: pastagate. what do you want to know about pastagate? >> anthony: for those not up on current quebec politics, pastagate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french laws because they used the word "pasta," which is italian. this is -- >> patrick: oka...

French heritage and language. the issue of seceding entirely, a notion that persists to some extent even today. journalist patrick lagacé meets me for lunch at bistro m sur masson to help me understand a little bit of what many québécois feel is at stake. so, i was going to talk about the whole history of french québécois identity, the separatist movement, all this, but i have to get right to the pressing matter of the day: pastagate. [ laughter ] >> patrick: pastagate. what do you want to ...

[ laughter ] >> patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this -- this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect, an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> patrick: but every bureaucracy produces byproducts of stupidity. and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. >> anthony: the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking québ�...

Québécois identity, the separatist movement, all this, but i have to get right to the pressing matter of the day: pastagate. [ laughter ] >> patrick: pastagate. what do you want to know about pastagate? >> anthony: for those not up on current quebec politics, pastagate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french laws because they used the word "pasta," which is italian. this is -- >> patrick: okay, stop apologizing, okay? [...

Extent even today. journalist patrick lagacé meets me for lunch at bistro m sur masson to help me understand a little bit of what many québécois feel is at stake. so, i was going to talk about the whole history of french québécois identity, the separatist movement, all this, but i have to get right to the pressing matter of the day: pastagate. [ laughter ] >> patrick: pastagate. what do you want to know about pastagate? >> anthony: for those not up on current quebec politics, pastagate refe...