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Born of neglect for Romania's historic buildings and other cultural heritage, a small movement is afoot to harness their beauty and back stories to inspire public preservation efforts.
Twenty-six days after former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili launched his hunger strike, authorities in his Black Sea homeland are flummoxed and bickering over what to do with a stubbornly popular ex-president who has vowed he is "ready to die" for his cause.
share Print The Tajik-born singer representing Russia in this year's Eurovision Song Contest says her berth in the finals this weekend is "like a dream.” But she says the problems she and other immigrants face in Russia won't ever be far from her mind. Manizha vowed to maintain the internal bearings that have led the "contradictory" 29-year-old performer and United Nations goodwill ambassador to the brink of international pop fame. "No position on the top charts, no position in the Eurovision rankings, no prizewinning nor non-prizewinning position can affect my internal position," she told ...
The West Searches For How To Compete With China's Belt And Road May 19, 2021 07:36 GMT Share share Print Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. As you may have heard, the China In Eurasia newsletter will now be going out twice a month. Expect to see it in your inbox on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. I’m RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here’s what I’m following right now. In Search Of A Western Belt And Road Growing disillusionment with the Belt and Road Initiati...
share Print PODGORICA -- Ecological concerns are piling up on a billion-dollar stretch of new highway through a picturesque river canyon at the confluence of competing influences in the Balkans. The delayed, 42-kilometer section of Montenegro's Bar-to-Boljare motorway is already under intense scrutiny over the cash-strapped Adriatic coast nation's decision seven years ago to hire a Chinese builder and take on nearly $1 billion in debt to construct it. This week, under public pressure, the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) requested permission to repair a damaged 500-meter section of ri...