Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Advertisement Supported by ByEric Schmitt June 27, 2018 ORZYSZ, Poland — Soon after a United States Army convoy crossed Poland’s border into Lithuania during a major military exercise this month, two very strange things happened. First, four Army Stryker armored combat vehicles collided, sending 15 soldiers to the hospital with minor injuries. No one died. But hours later, an anti-American blog claimed a Lithuanian child was killed in the crash and posted a photo of a grisly accident. It was a different collision from the Army mishap, and Lithuanian news media quickly denounced the blog post as fake, designed to turn public opinion against the Americans and their Baltic ally. The bloggers had borrowed a page from the playbook of Russia’s so-called hybrid warfare, which American and Lithuania officials say has … [Read more...] about In Eastern Europe, Militaries Gird Against Russian Might and Manipulation
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Gay pride flags unfurled across capitals in eastern Europe
By Vanessa Gera Published 1:35 pm, Saturday, June 9, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-3', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 3', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Alik Keplicz / Associated Press Image 1of/3 CaptionClose Image 1 of 3 Police officers stand next to a light and water rainbow installation on the night before a gay pride parade, in downtown Warsaw, Poland, Friday, June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) Police officers stand next to a light and water rainbow installation on the night before a gay pride parade, in downtown Warsaw, Poland, Friday, June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) Photo: Alik Keplicz / Associated Press Image 2 of 3 Gay pride participants parade through Warsaw. … [Read more...] about Gay pride flags unfurled across capitals in eastern Europe
Foreign Investors Gobble Up Property in Central, Eastern Europe Despite Political Concerns
Nationalist policies in Poland and Hungary have raised concerns in Europe about the future of Central and Eastern Europe in the European Union, but you would never know that from the pace of foreign investment in commercial property. Foreign investors purchased €12 billion ($14 billion) of commercial real estate in the region in 2017, according to data firm Real Capital Analytics Inc. This was the highest level of cross-border investment into the region in a decade.... … [Read more...] about Foreign Investors Gobble Up Property in Central, Eastern Europe Despite Political Concerns
Amazon, Auto Companies Stoke Logistics Boom in Eastern Europe
The industrial real-estate market is booming in Central and Eastern Europe, thanks to the region’s geography and cheap labor along with the benefits of Europe’s unified currency and lack of trade restrictions. Developers are adding new warehouses and distribution facilities at a record pace. The math is simple: the facilities can be built and operated at low cost in countries like Poland or the Czech Republic and still serve affluent markets of high-cost countries such as Germany, Switzerland and France.... … [Read more...] about Amazon, Auto Companies Stoke Logistics Boom in Eastern Europe
Lead and Crime in Eastern Europe: A Hopeless Case
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen has an odd Drum-bait headline today: Why is there no lead-homicide connection in Eastern Europe? Children growing up in former communist CEE [Central and Eastern European] countries during the 1980s were subjected to horrific amounts of industrial pollution, including extreme levels of prolonged lead exposure. Since lead is theorized to be a primary culprit in exacerbating violent crime, you would assume there would be a sizeable discrepancy in the homicide rate between, say, former East Germany and West Germany, or Western Europe and Eastern Europe as a whole. But the difference in the homicide/violent crime rate is negligible, with many former communist CEE countries having a lower homicide rate than Western Europe. I suspect the same is true when comparing the rate of mental disorders, which is another malady that is supposedly influenced by exposure to high levels of industrial pollution. The text is … [Read more...] about Lead and Crime in Eastern Europe: A Hopeless Case