Section: The Netherlands
American Hockey Through Ukrainian Eyes: ‘Like Interrupted Sex’
Photo: Andrew Ivakhov From time to time, we at Global Voices translate texts that appear on the Russian Internet, when writers capture something peculiar about the world, as seen by the denizens of the RuNet. Most of our content has to do with politics and social issues, but that’s not a rule, and today’s installment concerns the wild...
Russian Ambassador to Turkey’s Assassination: A Bullet from Aleppo?
Ankara panorama. Creative commons. The assassination December 19 of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov as captured in photographs from inside Ankara’s contemporary art museum had a haunting aesthetic. Turkish and Russian envoys will meet today to discuss Syria, day after killing of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey....
Prime minister assured of victory in Ukraine vote: NOS
Prime minister Mark Rutte is assured of winning enough support in the senate for his compromise deal on the EU’s… …read more Source:...
ChristenUnie won’t back Ukraine treaty compromise
Minor Christian party ChristenUnie will not support the compromise deal on the EU’s treaty with Ukraine struck by prime minister… …read more Source:...
Dutch get their EU deal on Ukraine referendum; now its up to the senate
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has won the support of the 27 other European leaders for a supplementary to the… …read more Source:...
Dutch court orders Crimean treasure collection be sent back to Ukraine
Hundreds of works of art from Crimea currently in the hands of the Allard Pierson museum in Amsterdam must be… …read more Source:...
No deal yet on Ukraine treaty, Dutch foreign minister says
The cabinet has not yet reached agreement with other EU states on a separate declaration to take away Dutch objections… …read more Source:...
Rutte urged to ignore Ukraine referendum and ratify treaty
Mark Rutte’s government should ratify Ukraine’s association treaty with the EU despite the ‘no’ vote in this year’s referendum, according… …read more Source:...
A Decades-Long ‘Conversation’ Between Yugoslav and Polish Rockers
The Gdańsk shipyard, a springboard for democratic changes in then-Communist Poland of the 1980s. A 2016 photo by Filip Stojanovski, CC BY. Even though cultural ties between countries that formed ex-Yugoslavia and Poland are not too frequent, there’s one form of communication that has been an exception. Over the last four decades, rock music...
