Some Holocaust lessons being forgotten as survivors gather at Auschwitz 70 years on Vanessa Gera, The Associated Press 26 January 2015   OSWIECIM, Poland - A decade ago, 1,500 Holocaust survivors travelled to Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation. On Tuesday, for the 70th anniversary, organizers are expecting 300, the youngest in their 70s. "In 10 years there might be just one," said Zygmunt Shipper, an 85-year-old

Ex-Soviet states bicker as Putin tries to unite them By Darya Korsunskaya and Andrei Makhovsky, Reuters 10 October 2014 Vulgar chants about Vladimir Putin before he arrived for a regional summit in Belarus did not augur well for the Russian president’s hopes of bringing the leaders of former Soviet republics closer together. Matters got even worse when bickering broke out at the start of the meeting, revealing fault lines over the Ukraine crisis

European Candidates See Opportunity on Extreme Edge By Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times  11 May 2014  PARIS — The campaign advertisement in the Czech Republic begins with a snake slithering out of a red European Union flag and a montage of pictures of supposed threats to Czech identity, including a 500-euro note, an Israeli flag and a gathering of Orthodox Jews. “The European Union is an evil which produces more evil — it is our duty to confront

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06 September 2006 “Report: Czechs, Others Sterilize Gypsies,” by Jeffery White, in Christian Science Monitor. 06 July 2006 “Rights Organization Condemn Roma Evictions,” by Open Society Justice Initiative. 07 May 2006 “Gypsies Gain a Legal Tool in Rights Fight,” by Otto Pohl, in New York Times. 06 March 2003 “Slovakia to Investigate Charges Gypsy Women Were Sterilized” by Peter S. Green, in New York Times. 28 February 2003 “Gypsies