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November 7, 2008

Russia, U.S.: Reactions to Medvedev's Address

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Reactions to president Medvedev's address to Russia's Federal Council, delivered shortly after Obama's election as the new U.S. president: Irina Filatova writes that Medvedev “talks tough, but in reality the moment may be past for an aggressive, Putin-style posture towards the US&#...

Romania, U.S.: Obama's Victory

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Corina Murafa and Csíkszereda musings share their thoughts on Obama's victory. ...

Serbia, U.S.: Bloggers on Obama's Victory

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Belgraded posts a roundup of Serbian bloggers' reactions to Obama's victory. ...

Serbia, U.S.: Change and Personal Risk

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Lucy Moore writes this about Obama's victory on her B92 blog: “But after we applauded and hugged our way through his final “Yes we can,” I couldn’t shake the thought that surely all this is just too good to be true. For as America saw in the civil rights years, and as Serbia saw in M...

November 5, 2008

Russia, U.S.: “Obama, Palin, and Russian Glamour”

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Anna Ershova asks her friends outside the United States - “the real outsiders” - who they'd vote for: “The vast majority of my Russian and Ukrainian friends and acquaintances — the younger crowd — would vote for Barack Obama if they could. But in general, the older Russians...

Russia, U.S.: A Song for Sarah Palin

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Scraps of Moscow reports on Russians' preferences in the U.S. election and re-posts a YouTube video of a “mildly entertaining contribution to the online body of material (growing fast, but probably with a short shelf life) poking fun at Sarah Palin. It seems to be by a couple of faux Russi...

EU, US: Local Interests First

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Dr. Filomena writes: “I certainly hope all Europeans so involved with the issues surrounding the US elections will be as active next year during EU’s elections. Not to mention the ones in their own individual countries. Those might indeed affect us.” ...

Central & Eastern Europe, U.S.: “Cloudy Vision”

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Leopolis discusses the possible impact of “a McCain or Obama presidency” for Central Europe. ...

Poland, U.S.: Support for Obama

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The beatroot reports that “even though not as enthusiastic as most Europeans, Poles would vote for Barack Obama by a margin of three-to-one.” ...

November 2, 2008

Russia, U.S.: Election Coverage

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Russia Blog writes that, in addition to writing regularly on McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden, “Russian mainstream media also give a fair amount of coverage to minor party American presidential candidates, who, somehow, are left unnoticed in their own country.” ...