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"The view of the world has been Americanised"The renowned journalist Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, 75, became known to a wider public during the Cold War era through her sensitive reporting from Poland and Czechoslovakia for ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Service). Marion Krasek, Vienna correspondent for "Spiegel", has reported on the Balkans, where she has family roots, for over ten years. Two different generations of journalists speak about the working conditions for Eastern European reporters today and in the past. interdisciplinary | Crossborder | by Antje Mayer | 2008-09
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Understanding the Eastn-ost, a flourishing network of journalists with its headquarters in Berlin, wants to awaken an interest in Eastern Europe by presenting it from an unprejudiced viewpoint and dispensing with established clichés. An interview with the journalist Matthias Echterhagen, managing director of n-ost. social issues & initiatives | Berlin | by Kathrin Lauer | 2008-09
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Ukraine: the press is free but it can be boughtJournalists in most of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) do not have an easy life. They battle against censorship, difficulties strewn in their path by the authorities, and even at times against physical threats and violence. A cliché? To some extent admittedly, as the situation in Ukraine appears to be different: in Europe's largest country there is something resembling freedom of the press. social issues & initiatives | Ukraine | by Dörthe Ziemer, Christoph Kersting | 2008-09
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From Prostitute to Respectable LadyRussia’s image in the world is not just blemished, it displays deep furrows. That is nothing particularly new. Even before the era of Vladimir Putin, the world’s largest country had an aura of being “terrible, inexplicable, incomprehensible and evil”. The West saw and viewed Russia with the same hesitant, unsettled interest with which one would squint into one’s own subconscious. Has Russia got an image problem or a reality problem? The former Soviet dissident and controversial anti-western TV presenter Mikhail Leontjev has the answers. social issues & initiatives | Russia | by Eduard Steiner | 2008-09
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