75 years on, Polish brothers relive Soviet invasion
Warsaw (AFP) - The Soviets rode in on horseback, rifles dangling on rope. Boguslaw Kamola watched in horror from the woods as they occupied his city in eastern Poland. Then the shots rang out. "This dog was dashing across the field, and one of the soldiers reached for his rifle and fired at him," he ...
Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with Commission of Inquiry on Syria
Source: UN Human Rights Council Country: Syrian Arab Republic MORNING/MIDDAY 16 September 2014 Concludes General Debate on Thematic Reports and on the Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights The Human Rights Council today held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Commission of Inquiry o ...
Происхождение и смысл Шотландского референдума
Оригинал взят у oldgoro в Происхождение и смысл Шотландского референдума Идея Шотландской независимости из невероятной стала весьма возможной. Хотим мы того или нет, но идея Англо-Шотландского союза, просуществовавшего более чем 300 лет, может быть отменена, оказав при этом значительное влияние на п ...
Everyday Projects at Photoville in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Dumbo, Brooklyn
A young girl on the balcony of the parliament/palace that Ceaucescu built but was shot in the head with his wife on television before the balcony was finished and he ever got to use it in Bucharest, Romania. The Everyday Projects Presented by Instagram Featuring Contributing Photographers from @ eve ...
The plight of Moldova's orphanage children
While the horror stories of the orphanages of 1990s Romania were widely publicised, the conditions facing children in neighbouring Moldova are not well known. Widespread poverty and a lack of basic social services are blamed for a situation which aid ...
Lexington church members host Hungarian-speaking visitors from Romania
Follen Community Church, a Unitarian Universalist church in East Lexington, early this month hosted 10 Hungarian-speaking visitors from their Unitarian partner church in Alsófelsoszentmihály, a farming village in the Transylvanian region of Romania.
