The UN's special rapporteur for contemporary racism, Maurice Glele-Ahanhanzo, has released a report on racial discrimination against Roma in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania. more »
Jan Krosnicki has resigned and asked to be transferred to the Penal Department of the Appeals Court in Warsaw, "Zycie" reported on 3 April. more »
During the two-day event at the March 24-25 conference at the Tallinn Pedagogical University, "Estonian Women as Future Citizens in the European Union", women_s activists and government leaders signed. more »
Only 42 percent of Poland_s largely Catholic population supports a planned law to ban all forms of pornography in the country, according to an opinion poll published Wednesday. more »
SOLIDARITY DEPUTIES WANT PROBE INTO PRESIDENT_S PAST. more »
Estonian Parliament passed on March 14 amendments to the Anti-Corruption Law that expand the circle of public service officials obliged to declare to the state their economic interests. more »
Lithuania_s ruling Conservatives were roundly thrashed in countrywide municipal elections on March 19. more »
On March 15, the pre-term elections for Russian president began. more »
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright returns to the land of her birth Sunday to honor one of its founding fathers -- but not, she insists, to plan her return as Czech president. more »
About one-fifth of Latvia_s residents, 20.9 percent, say that they have been victims of a crime in the past 12 months such as robbery or assault, according to a poll conducted by the public opinion study center SKDS. more »