[ALST-L] New at TOL

[Lars Nicolaisen]

Transitions Online (TOL) (http://www.tol.cz), the leading Internet magazine
covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet
Union, has moved to a membership-based system. You can still see TOL for
FREE, with no obligation. Just fill out our registration form at
http://www.ijt.cz/trialsubscr.html to receive your free two-month trial
membership. If you're a citizen of a post-communist country, go to
http://www.tol.cz/join.html to sign up for a FREE annual membership.

New at TOL:

The OMRI archives are online! An invaluable resource for anyone interested
in the region, the OMRI archives comprise a wealth of research materials
produced by scores of top analysts from and on the region, from January
1995 to March 1997. At the time, OMRI was the leading resource on the
post-communist world, publishing thousands of articles on trends and
developments.

The OMRI archives include the OMRI Daily Digest, the Russian Regional
Report, Pursuing Balkan Peace, Analytical Briefs, and articles from
Transition, a biweekly magazine. The archives are fully searchable --
and they're only available through TOL. Find what you need at:
http://search.omri.cz/bin/search.html

Also, check out TOL's new articles, accompanied by our extensive
Interactive Bibliographies of relevant links:

FEATURES: Playing the Numbers Game
by Peter Schmidt
http://www.tol.cz/jul99/specr02001.html
The much-vaunted governing coalition in Slovakia is splitting at the seams.
One of Slovakia's top analysts charts Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda's
efforts to stay on top -- and describes how his decision to found a new
party could put the nail in the coffin of the post-Meciar political
euphoria.

OPINIONS: Sullied Reputations
by Elena Chinyaeva
http://www.tol.cz/opina/reputa.html
Marred by petty squabbling, the newly elected State Duma's first weeks
hardly inspired confidence in the body's authority. The Unity party was a
poor sport; the Communists proved two-faced; and all the commanding
politicians' popularity dropped as a result. The author argues that, in
Moscow, personal politics is once again getting in the way of effective
governance.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Yugoslavia: The Fifth Column
http://www.tol.cz/itowa/feb00yu1.html
"Do you journalists think you are holy cows?" ranted nationalist Vojislav
Seselj at a 10 February press conference. "You are potential murderers of
your people and your country." The full text of his exchange with a
reporter from B2-92 is excerpted here.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Recrafting Dayton
http://www.tol.cz/itowa/feb00bo.html
Fed up with the ineffectuality of the Dayton agreement, editors at leading
Sarajevo papers propose a ten-step recovery program for Bosnia, centered on
suspension of the presidency and a takeover by the High Representative of
the International Community in Bosnia.

IN FOCUS: Dividing Lines
by Sonja Magdevski
http://www.tol.cz/feb00/sonja.html
"An [Albanian] man can have a Macedonian girlfriend, but a woman can't have
a Macedonian boyfriend -- that is a fact," says Nora, a 22-year-old ethnic
Albanian living in Skopje. In TOL's profile, she and her brother Toni talk
about relationships, poverty, and day-to-day living in this ethnically
divided city. The article is part of TOL's monthly theme "Growing Pains,"
which examines the problems plaguing youth throughout Central and Eastern
Europe and Russia.

A Czech nonprofit dedicated to promoting independent journalism, TOL is
based in Prague and uses a network of local correspondents to provide
unique, cross-regional analysis. TOL was recently named site of the day
by Central Europe Online (http://www.centraleurope.com), a top information
source.

We encourage you to visit our site, subscribe, and become part of a dynamic
new media project dedicated to building independent journalism in Central
and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. And be sure
to also visit our partner sites:

- Central Europe Review (http://www.ce-review.org), the weekly Internet
journal of Central and East European politics, society, and culture

- The Network of Independent Journalists of Central and Eastern Europe
(NIJ), a weekly service run by the Croatian-based STINA press agency. To
subscribe to STINA's NIJ weekly service, giving you timely news of events
in the region, send an e-mail to: stina at zamir.net

- Index on Censorship, the international journal for free expression
(http://www.indexoncensorship.org). Through interviews, reportage, banned
literature, and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the political
issues of the moment.

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