Transitions: Vol.5, No.3, March 1998

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Subject: Transitions: Vol.5, No.3, March 1998

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Transitions: Vol.5, No.3, March 1998


Content of the March issue of Transitions: 

- From the Editor: Corruption: What Can People of Good Will Do? 

- Letters 

- Notes from along the Way: 'Velvet Coup' in Armenia; A Lousy Lesson
for 'PArtners in Peace'; The Banja Luka Spring; News from Russia,
Transcaucasia and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, South
eastern Europe

- In Their own Words: Hungary: Horn Blasted Over Roma Issues;
Slovakia: Meciar and the Presidency; Turkmenistan: Building Democracy
the Eastern Way  

- On the Move, by Michael L.Wyzan (Migration trends in the CIS)

- The Ominous Landscape of Russian Corruption, by Svetlana P.Glinkina

- The Russia Mafia: Between Hype and Reality, by Peter Rutland and
Matasha Kogan

- Russia's Top Crime Fighter, by Brian Whitmore (on Yurii Boldyrev)

- The Corruption of Statistics, by Viktor Voronkov (Catastrophists may
rule the day in discussions on Russia's future, but their scenarios
stand on shaky ground)

- Thinking about Corruption, by Natasha Kogan

- Sleaze Spreads in Pauperized Albania, by Fabian Schmidt

- Reform as Expediency, by Zeljko Ivanovic (Montenegro's new president
leaves an old ally behind as he abandons their shared traditions) 

- Leveling the Playing Fields (Transparency International's Dieter
Frisch tells Transitions's Jeremy Druker that the battle against
corruption can be likened to the struggle for human rights...)

- The Trade-offs of a Cozy Life, by Tomas Vrba (For the seemingly
unflappable citizens of the Czech Republic, corruption and its
tolerance are rooted in the morass of the past) 

- Cartoons

- The Ghost of Perestroika, by Nina L.Khrushcheva (Gorbachov and his
accomplishments should not vanish from the political scene, says the
granddaughter of a Soviet leader forced into 'retirement')

- Demagogue in Waiting, by Slobodan Reljic (Impoverished,
disillusioned, and apathetic Serbia is ripe for leaders with quick
fixes up their sleeves, and the ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj
patiently awaits his turn) 

- Remembering and Rebuilding in Bosnia, by Andrew Herscher

- Media profile: Inching Toward Integrity, by Peter Gross (After
helping spark a revolution, Romania's media struggle in the aftermath) 

- Media Watch: Bosnia: Patriotic Journalism; Czech Republic: Focus on
EU, NATO

- Books

- Cityscape: A Capital In Psite of Itself, by Predrag Raos (Zagreb)

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