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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Eastern Europe</title>
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	<description>Democracy Digest provides news, analysis and information on democracy promotion and related matters. The Digest is produced at the National Endowment for Democracy.</description>
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		<title>15 years after Srebrenica massacre, moral imperatives meet political realities in the Balkans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration remains committed to ensuring reconciliation and reform in the Balkans, a senior official has insisted. But the region’s elites are pursuing narrow self-interest at the expense of the collective good, warned Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President and Deputy Assistant to the President, addressing a meeting on the fifteenth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/15-years-after-srebrenica-massacre-moral-imperatives-meet-political-realities-in-the-balkans.html</link>
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		<title>Moldova’s NGOs poised for fall elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With elections due in the fall, Moldova’s NGOs are poised to play a critical role in the country’s democratic transition, writes Bobbie Jo Traut:
NGOs were actively involved in monitoring both the April and July elections, and they remain at the forefront of promoting democratic change by fostering independent media, defending human rights, and promoting greater [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/moldova%e2%80%99s-ngos-poised-for-fall-elections.html</link>
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		<title>Combating corruption &#8211; and indifference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Reagan-Fascell fellow Alina Mungiu-Pippidi isn’t the only analyst frustrated with European Union’s faltering efforts to promote rule of law and democratic governance in the Balkans.
Security services’ screening of candidates for high public office in Bulgaria appears to be hitting honest politicians rather than rooting out the country’s notoriously high levels of corruption, reports suggest. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/combating-corruption-and-indifference.html</link>
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		<title>It takes a village &#8211; or two?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at the International Forum for Democratic Studies draw our attention to The Economist’s ringing endorsement of Alina Mungiu-Pippidi&#8217;s &#8220;A Tale of Two Villages&#8221; as  “a dramatic, thought-provoking and sometimes savagely funny account of one of the toughest problems in Europe: the ingrained poverty of the Romanian countryside.”
Mungiu-Pippidi, a former Reagan-Fascell fellow at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/it-takes-a-village-or-two.html</link>
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		<title>Polish plane crash claims leading democrats of Solidarnosc generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A strange blend of sadness and celebration marked the start of the World Movement for Democracy’s 6th Assembly in Jakarta today &#8211; poignancy over the tragic plane crash in Poland which robbed the democracy movement of several major figures sat uneasily with the vibrancy of such a diverse, cross-cultural gathering of 600 participants from over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/polish-plane-crash-claims-leading-democrats-of-solidarnosc-generation.html</link>
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		<title>Serbia: don&#8217;t mention the G-word</title>
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Youth activists start to spray &#8216;genocide&#8217; before the Serbian parliament
Nine activists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights were apprehended in Belgrade last night after spray-painting the message “That Difficult, Foreign Word – Genocide” on the pavement of the plateau in front of the Serbian Parliament.
Some 30 activists with the group, a grantee of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/serbia-dont-mention-the-g-word.html</link>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s new democracies &#8211; resilient, uncertain and suffering (but at least they&#8217;re not Greece)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if Greece were a Central European country?, asks Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria.
While a year ago many feared that Central Europe was too corrupt and politically unstable and its economies too liberal (too Anglo-Saxon) to survive the crisis, now it has become clear that it was actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/europes-new-democracies-resilient-uncertain-and-suffering-but-at-least-theyre-not-greece.html</link>
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		<title>Bosnia: ethnic cleansing as state building?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen years on from the Dayton Accords, Bosnia’s political crisis threatens a renewal of extreme nationalism in the run-up to next year’s elections. The prospect of a referendum on the status of the Republika Srpska could lead to renewed ethnic violence.
Bosniaks and Croats would not accept partition, warns Reuf Bajrovic, a Sarajevo-based political analyst with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/bosnia-ethnic-cleansing-as-state-building.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Endowment for Democracy
Currently available opportunities include: Administrative Assistant &#8211; CIMA, Program Assistant &#8211; Asia, Program Assistant &#8211; Europe, Program Officer for Asia, Program Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, Database/Web Developer, and Senior Director of Finance.  Further details here.  
International Republican Institute
Currently available DC-based opportunities include: Online Communications Specialist, Deputy Press Secretary, Program Assistant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/democracy-jobs-12.html</link>
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		<title>Revive the “solidarity of the shaken” &#8211; Glucksmann</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the collapse of communism, the West should not be complacent about the inevitability of democracy, writes André Glucksmann.
The fall of the Berlin Wall did unleash a “solidarity of the shaken”— a politics of democratic solidarity practiced by those “shaken by totalitarian regimes and devoted to opposing them,” he argues.
The peoples extricating themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/revive-the-%e2%80%9csolidarity-of-the-shaken%e2%80%9d-glucksmann.html</link>
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