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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Two Schools Under One Roof
Sarajevo, BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA | In early March 2008, the town council of Capljina, a Croat-majority town in the country’s south, announced that all Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Bosnian Serb […]
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Kyrgyzstan: Tongue-tied Schools
OSH, Kyrgyzstan | The exodus of native Russian speakers out of Kyrgyzstan shows no signs of slowing.
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Uzbekistan: Do You Speak Russian?
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan | I had a misunderstanding over an Internet card I was trying to buy from a young merchant in one of Tashkent’s stores not far from the Russian […]
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Croatia: Street Smart
ZAGREB | Thousands of Croatian students who took to the streets this month to protest a new university admissions test and reforms in higher education, complaining that schools and universities […]
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Turkmenistan: Doors Opening, Doors Slamming
Much was made of this year’s secondary school graduating class in Turkmenistan, in both local and international media. This was due to the fact that no students graduated from Turkmen […]
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Moldova: Misleading First Impressions
This past spring, Mariana Diaconu from Yaloveni, a town around 15 kilometers south of Chisinau, passed her final exams with flying colors. Those results at her lyceum carried new importance […]
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Kyrgyzstan: Still Waiting
Osh, KYRGYZSTAN | Looking back on the tumultuous events of March 2005, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev once said that the Kyrgyz nation was “put on the edge of losing its […]
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Macedonia: Learn to Forget
SKOPJE, Macedonia | Ivana’s homework has a familiar refrain: she memorizes lessons from physics, chemistry, math, and history classes. She does this until her head aches, she complains, “and that’s […]
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Romania: One More Chance
CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania | It is 11:10 on a Thursday morning when a slightly unusual science class, the last of the day, begins at Nicolae Iorga School in the Iris industrial […]
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Uzbekistan: From Russia, With Luck
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan | Anya entered the Tashkent branch of an expensive Russian economics university rather than one of Uzbekistan’s public universities, gambling that her choice would lead to a good […]
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