Identity
Pre-Soviet past can become the basis of Belarusian national identity
July 21, 2010by Paul Goble In a week when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has argued that the Soviet period created the basis for Ukrainian statehood, a Moscow scholar suggests that Belarusians will remain divided by the Soviet inheritance but can be united...
How Diaspora Communities Influence Politics at Home: Moldova Foundation’s experience
September 28, 2008By Vlad Spânu* In 1906, in Washington, DC, the American Jewish Committee has been established in response to a series of pogroms in czarist Russia, particularly the 1903 Chisinau pogrom. Chisinau (Russian transcript Kishinev) was a capital of Russia...