East European Digest Vox 2007-09-18T09:40:14Z East European Digest http://easteuropeandigest.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cdf7ef744a094f/ The East European Digest takes a look at life for East Europeans at home & beyond. Europe East & West tag:vox.com,2007-09-18:asset-6a00cdf7ef744a094f00e398a9d3280004 2007-09-18T08:30:07Z 2007-09-18T09:40:14Z East European Digest http://easteuropeandigest.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Europe East and West

Currently reading this book, will post a review shortly.

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Turkey boy

This week (Sunday) sees Michael Palin visit Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. The preview video show's that most interesting of sports, oil wrestling. Click on the following link to visit the BBC New Europe homepage. to see the video and also to se...

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euro banknotes, fifty

Given the state of the money markets at the moment it's no wonder the Ministry of Finance topped the August figures for Google, with the K & H Bank at number 14. However, it's great to see that soaps, celebrities and sports stars are all still re...

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BBC - Michael Palin's New Europe New Europe

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]]> Immigration - More Are Wanting to Stay tag:vox.com,2007-05-29:asset-6a00cdf7ef744a094f00cd972e90064cd5 2007-05-29T19:15:02Z 2007-05-29T21:01:19Z East European Digest http://easteuropeandigest.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

UK passport front cover Regional Map of Europe

An interesting article appeared in the Metro today, (Tuesday May 29th 2007), regarding how more immigrants from Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Bulgaria are wanting to stay here in the United Kingdom. According to the article out of 333 ...

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Artificial landscape

Today was a very good day for stories regarding Eastern Europe and East Europeans living in the United Kingdom. The first of the few stories that I came across was in the Metro and related to how in Poland they are putting The Teletubbies in fron...

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]]> Dinar Bills used for Marketing Campaign tag:vox.com,2007-05-20:asset-6a00cdf7ef744a094f00cd972b571b4cd5 2007-05-20T11:19:24Z 2007-05-20T11:19:24Z East European Digest http://easteuropeandigest.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

posting letter to red british postbox Dollars and Dinar

At work we occassionally get magazine's from the Royail Mail, regarding marketing. I came across a story where the business magazine Ekonomist used a very interesting campaign where they used a 500,000,000,000 Dinar bill, which was to represent...

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Budapest - Statue Park

Although it has been a while since I made it out to Szoborpark. I do love the Communist Period statues. However, not what they represent....

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]]> Zeitgeist For Hungary in March tag:vox.com,2007-04-17:asset-6a00cdf7ef744a094f00d4142a44db685e 2007-04-17T21:46:57Z 2007-04-18T19:15:39Z East European Digest http://easteuropeandigest.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Hungary flag (with clipping path)

It seems that Hungarian's are fascinated by flash games in the month of March, according to the Google Zeitgeist, coming in at number one. Meanwhile, at number two comes my favourite European clothing chain, Mexx. Don't you think these are a stra...

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]]> New referendum on citizenship for ethnic Hungarians? tag:vox.com,2007-03-24:asset-6a00cdf7ef744a094f00d4142840566a47 2007-03-24T10:27:20Z 2007-03-28T22:56:15Z East European Digest http://easteuropeandigest.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The story is currently been carried on the Budapest Sun Online website. "Miklós Patrubány, President of the World Federation of Hungarians (MVSz), has called for Hungary's voters to be given another referendum on whether citizenship should be gra...

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