ISIL Freedom Network: Eastern and Central Europe

• Websites (27)
• Organizations (16)
• Contests and Scholarships (1)
• Forums and E-Mail Lists (1)
• Introductions to Issues (28)
• In-Depth Studies (22)
• Books (4)
• Merchandise and Book Catalogs (1)
• Periodicals (4)
• Audio and Video (4)

Banking Without Borders
Source: Baltic Banking Group
City: Riga, Country: Latvia
E-mail: bbg@balticbankinggroup.com

Offering international merchant banking, trust and other financial services. The site offers detailed information on many banking and finance matters.

Firearms in Russia: laws and history
Source: Roman V. Isaev
City: Moscow, Country: Russian Federation
E-mail: rm@techno.ru

A summary of Russian laws concerning firearms, brief history of firearm evolution in Russia from the middle ages to the present, and general firearms info and links.

Kosova Home Page
Source: QIK
City: Kosova, Country: Yugoslavia
E-mail: kic@kosova.com

Immediate releases on events in besieged Kosova as well as history, culture, etc.

Liberalism - Libertarianism
Source: Jano Simicka
Country: Slovakia
E-mail: jano_simicka@geocities.com

Includes a valuable explanation of the difference between the meaning of word "Liberal" in Europe and the US, which often causes misunderstanding; "liberal" (libertarian) links.

Ayn Rand in Russian
Source: Dmitry Kostygin
Country: Russian Federation
E-mail: dk@aynrand.ru

This Web site is a beautiful example of the state of Objectivism in Russia. Among the features (all in Russian) is a page with information on the translations of her books. Named Freedom Home Page of the Week.

Yugoslav Movement for the Protection of Human Rights
Source: Tomislav Krsmanovic
City: Belgrade, State: Serbia, Country: Yugoslavia
E-mail: tom@EUnet.yu

An "organization that provides support to Yugoslav victims of lawlessness, [and] monitors and discloses current state of human rights ..." In Serbian.

Wirtualne Archiwum Nierzadu
Source: Jacek Sierpinski
City: Katowice, Country: Poland
E-mail: sierp@eternal.net

"Wirtualne Archiwum Nierzadu" means "The Virtual Archive of Anarchy" in Polish. (However, it can mean also "The Virtual Archive of Prostitution"). Individualist & free-market anarchism; articles and discussions; "Jonathan Gullible" in Polish; & more...

Instytut Liberalno-Konserwatywny
Source: ILK Foundation
City: Lublin, Country: Poland
E-mail: ilk@platon.man.lublin.pl

A libertarian-conservative foundation - publishing books, seminars, and other educational, informative, and popularizing activities. In Polish with an introduction in English.

Moscow Libertarium
Source: Institute for Commercial Engineering
City: Moscow, Country: Russian Federation

A networking project for the Russian-speaking libertarians, aimed at helping them to better spread the gospel. Features a few English translations from works of Russia's leading free marketeers.

Museum of Communism
Source: Prof. Bryan Caplan
City: Princeton, State: NJ, Country: United States

"To do for Communism what the Holocaust Memorial Museum does for Nazism: namely, to educate the public about mass murder, widespread slave labor, and other human rights violations committed by Communist regimes."

The Movement for the Protection of Human Rights Home Page
Source: The Movement for the Protection of Human Rights
Country: Yugoslavia
E-mail: pokret@EUnet.yu

Organization which provides support for Yugoslav victims of human rights abuses.

Policy Spotlight: War in the Balkans
Source: Free-Market.Net
Country: United States

Links, surveys, summaries and in depth examinations of the current War in the Balkans.

A War Diary
Source: K.
City: Belgrade, Country: Yugoslavia
E-mail: info@wardiary.org

The daily diary of K., a 21-year old woman living under the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia.

Czlowieczenstwo? (Humanity?)
Source: Cezary Zmuda
City: Knurow, Country: Poland
E-mail: czarek@ka.home.pl

Individualist anarchism, literature and underground music (including MP3 files). In Polish, with a short brief in English.

Scapegoat Mad As Hell
Source: Wlodzimierz Gogloza
City: Lublin, Country: Poland
E-mail: laissezf@box43.gnet.pl

Personal home page on libertarianism and individualist anarchism. Mostly in Polish, with some materials in English.

Libertarianizm (wolnosc)
Source: Krzysztof Sobolewski
Country: Poland
E-mail: liberter@libertaryzm.prv.pl

Essays, articles, links. In Polish, with an English version.

Greek Libertarians
Source: Greek Libertarians
Country: Greece

A site for libertarianism in the cradle of democracy. In Greek, with English translation coming soon.

Liberated Serbia
Source: Liberated Serbia
Country: Yugoslavia

"Welcome to liberated Serbia!" Well, not really ... more like "Welcome to unliberated Serbia, but we're working on it!"

Libertarianizm.pl
Source: Libertarianizm.pl
Country: Poland
E-mail: libertarianizm@nospam.libertarianizm.pl

A Polish Web site with links to information about libertarianism in -- what else? -- Polish.

Moment of silence home page
Source: The Henry Hazlitt Foundation
City: Kosovo, Country: Bosnia and Herzegowina
E-mail: info@momentofsilence.org

"On May 24, 1999, people around the world came together at one moment in time for one purpose. We stopped what we were doing and quietly observed two minutes of silence for peace in the Balkans." Read comments from people around the world concerned for the plight of people in this war-torn part of the globe.

The Russian economy
Source: Hoover Institution
Country: Russian Federation
E-mail: russianeconomy@hoover.stanford.edu

All of the intellectual ammo of Hoover's stable of scholars is brought to bear on the Russian economy here, on every aspect and how it could be reformed for more efficiency and economic growth. The site particularly focuses on Russian banking and breaking up "enterprise networking socialism."

Porn issue used to stifle political dissent
Source: Institute for War and Peace
Country: Kazakhstan

"Courts in Kazakhstan have ordered the closure of a private television station for broadcasting pornography, in what is seen as a thinly veiled attack on media outlets close to the opposition." (04/26/02)

Man2Man
Source: themenscenter.com
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: grolph12@hotmail.com

A site for battered men in England. Support for male victims, and links to studies on female domestic violence.

Liberty English camp web site
Source: Liberty English camp
Country: Lithuania

English language camp for libertarians, to help libertarians in East/Central Europe improve their English, both in general life and specifically to understand the lectures and dicussions at the International Society for Individual Liberty conferences.

Free Market Center
Source: FMC
Country: Yugoslavia
E-mail: info@fmc.org.yu

Yugoslavian free-market think tank "dedicated to researching and broadening ideas related to free market economy."

Strona wolnosciowa -- libertarian web site
Source: Strona wolnosciowa
Country: Poland
E-mail: capitalist@hotmail.com

English and Polish language web site on liberty: libertrianism, classical liberalism, objectivism, capitalism, economic freedom, symbols of liberty.

Sorin Cucerai's libertarian web site
Source: Sorin Cucerai
Country: Romania
E-mail: sorixxx@yahoo.com

Web site of a Romanian libertarian. Articles, studies, and projects, presented in Romanian and English.

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Source: İ. Erhan Bilici
City: İstanbul, Country: Turkey
E-mail:

The "3H Movement" (Liberty, Rule of Law, Tolerance)[named "3H" because in Turkish the words for these three concepts all start with an H, as does the word for movement] is a libertarian youth organization based in Istanbul with representatives in other main Turkish cities, welcoming Turkey to reform herself regarding civil liberties, individual human rights, rule of law, asking her to tolerate all kinds of diversities within her borders. Turkey must adopt a liberal constitution, its government must respect civil liberties and individual human rights without any hierarchies within those values, practice the rule of law without any exceptions, tolerate all the diversities within the country (for instance ethnic, cultural, social and sexual). And Turkey needs an effective free market economy. A Statist approach, Byzantine bureaucracy and high taxes form an obstacle to the free market. These three facts must be abolished. In Turkish. With an English section.

Clubul Liberalilor
Source: Clubul Liberalilor
City: Bucharest, Country: Romania
E-mail: cl@ong.ro

A non-governmental organization created for the end of linking together people with liberal thinking from Romania and abroad. In Romanian.

Jaan Tõnisson Institute
Source: Jaan Tõnisson Institute
City: Tallinn, Country: Estonia

The aim of the Institute is to foster democratic development and the strengthening of civil society in Estonia. Has a Free Market Centre to promote free market economics in the Baltics.

Unia Polityki Realnej
Source: Unia Polityki Realnej
City: Warsaw, Country: Poland

Catholic free-marketeers. Political movement.

Liberální Institut
Source: LI
City: Prague, Country: Czech Republic
E-mail: info@libinst.cz

Came into being in the earliest days of the "Velvet Revolution" in order to support free-market social changes. Watchdogs of Prague's commitment to freedom.

Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Source: LFMI
Country: Lithuania
E-mail: lfmi@lrinka.lt

A non-profit libertarian think-tank established in 1990. Translated into Lithuanian and published Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson". Site is in Lithuanian.

Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Source: LFMI
Country: Lithuania
E-mail: LFMI@FreeMa.Org

A Lithuanian private non-profit organization established in 1990 to promote the ideas of classical liberalism based on the principles of individual freedom and responsibility, free market, and limited government. Took considerable part in promoting and implementing several key capitalist government policies, including a "gold standard-like" currency board system.

The United Civil Party
Source: UCP
Country: Belarus

"Liberty, Ownership, Rule of Law," is their motto. "The UCP advocates profound reforms in economic policy leading to the creation of a market economy. In politics, the UCP advocates priority of human rights and freedom of individuals, as well as the strengthening of constitutional legality and law as fundamental principles of the state."

EKOME (Society for Economic and Social Research)
Source: EKOME
City: Athens, State: Attiki, Country: Greece
E-mail: info@ekome.gr

An independent Greek think tank which promotes free-market economics and a strong Greek presence in international affairs. Greek and English versions of site.

International Harm Reduction Development
Source: IHRD
Country: United States

Part of George Soros's umbrella organization, the Open Society Institute, "IHRD's mission is to diminish the individual and social harms associated with drug use -- particularly the risk of HIV infection -- through innovative measures based on the philosophy of harm reduction." Focused on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Ruch Autonomii Slaska (Silesian Autonomy Movement)
Source: RAS
Country: Poland

A free market, traditionalist and regionalist party strugling for national recognition of the political autonomy of Upper Silesia, currently under Polish rules. In Polish.

Hayek Tarsasag
Source: Hayek Tarsasag
Country: Hungary

Hayek Tarsasag (Hayek Society) is a Hungarian classical liberal/libertarian society. Site is in Hungarian.

Edinaya Natsiya (United Nation) Party
Source: Edinaya Natsiya Party
City: Moscow, Country: Russian Federation
E-mail: ENparty@narod.ru

The Organizing Committee of political party Edinaya Natsiya (United Nation) was established in Moscow on June 1, 2002. The Party's political goal is creation of free nation in Russia. (Site is in Russian)

Free Market Center
Source: FMC
Country: Yugoslavia
E-mail: info@fmc.org.yu

A Yugoslavian institute dedicated to researching and broadening ideas related to free market economy. Its program is consistent with classical principles of individual liberty, free market economy, limited government and peaceful cooperation.

KoLiber Society
Source: KoLiber
Country: Poland
E-mail: koliber@koliber.org

Polish conservative-libertarian youth society. (In Polish)

Laissez faire student scientific circle
Source: Laissez Faire BSEU
City: Minsk, Country: Belarus
E-mail: leader@studlf.org

The only libertarian student campus group in Belarus at Miensk School of Economics. Libertarian news, materials and seminars for students. In English and Belorussian.

Estonian Reform Party
Source: Estonian Reform Party
Country: Estonia

Web site of the Estonian Reform Party, the most (classical) liberal party in Estonia. They are not libertarians, in the sense of the U.S. Libertarian Party, but are probably the most liberal power party in the world. They have been in the ruling coalition for the last 5 years, holding 18% seats of the Estonian parliament. (Site is in Estonian.)

Liberální Institut Annual Award
Source: The Liberal Institute and the University of Economics, Prague (Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze)
City: Prague, Country: Czech Republic
E-mail: info@libinst.cz

On the occasion of the Institut's 5th anniversary in 1995, the Liberální Institut Annual Award "for the contribution to the development of liberal thoughts and for the promotion of ideas of freedom, private property, competition and rule of law in practice" was awarded for the first time. The institute's Board of Trustees decides each year on the recipient of the prize. The laureate is then expected to give the Liberální Institut Annual Lecture.

European Libertarians forum
Source: European Libertarians
Country: United Kingdom

From Armenia to Iceland, from Portugal to Finland: this is a place for European libertarians to meet and chat, discuss, exchange information, and vent their anger against the destructive forces of European governments.

The Lies of War
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Country: United States

The president of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute dismantles Clinton's three main reasons for using military intervention.

War Coverage to Die For
Source: Free-Market.Net
Country: United States

A look at how the War in the Balkans is being covered by the mass media.

Serbs up!
Source: Liberty
Author: Stephen Cox
Country: Yugoslavia

The Clinton administration may well be the most war-like in history, and now it's the Serbs' turn. (6/3/99)

Who Won What War?
Source: EGG
Author: Robert Klassen
Country: Yugoslavia

"The President of Yugoslavia is claiming victory. The British Prime Minister is claiming victory. The NATO generals are claiming victory. The US President is claiming victory.Looks like a win-win situation all around. Are we now to get that fuzzy feel-good feeling that the old Victory At Sea movies were supposed to promote?"

The answer to hate speech is more speech -- not censorship
Source: Hands Off the Internet
Author: Chris Wolf
Country: United States

Chris Wolf of Hands Off the Internet illustrates in this speech to the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust why the "best antidote to hate speech [on the Internet] is more speech," not government regulation. (1/28/00)

Geo-political implications of NATO intervention in Kosovo
Source: Antiwar.com
Country: Yugoslavia

"Testimony by Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade House of Commons, Ottawa." (2/17/00)

Kosovo
Source: Promethea
Author: Colin Patrick Barth
Country: Yugoslavia

Justification for the NATO bombing to "free" Kosovo has depended on a collectivist myth.

The road to environmental disaster
Source: Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter
Country: United States
E-mail: ddp@free-market.net

It's paved not by abusive corporations as it is by the tragedy of the commons. Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union an excellent case in point.

Válassz szabadon
Source: International Center for Pension Reform
Author: José Piñera
Country: Hungary
E-mail: icpr@free-market.net

Privatized social security worked in Chile, Piñera writes, and it can work around the world.

Çalýþanlarýn güçlendirilmesi: Þili’ deki sosyal güvenlik Sisteminin Özelleþtirilmesi
Source: International Center for Pension Reform
Author: José Piñera
Country: Turkey
E-mail: icpr@free-market.net

Piñera details the successful pension privatization in Chile -- in Turkish.

Låsati muncitorii så aleagå
Source: International Center for Pension Reform
Author: José Piñera
Country: Romania
E-mail: icpr@free-market.net

Privatized social security worked in Chile, Piñera writes, and it can work around the world.

780 days in Chechen separatist captivity
Source: Gazeta.ru
Author: Artyom Vernidoub
Country: Russian Federation

Russian human rights activist Svetlana Kuzmina arrived in Moscow on Wednesday, nine hours after being liberated from Chechen captivity where she spent more than two years. Her rebel captors agreed to free her after lengthy talks and an order from separatist field commander Ruslan Gelayev. (08/09/01)

Eyewitness: Collapse of the USSR as seen by a foreign student
Source: BBC
Author: Kate Goldberg
Country: Russian Federation

BBC News Online's Kate Goldberg recalls what it was like to be a student in Moscow in the months leading up to the break-up of the Soviet Union. Life was becoming harder for Russia's people, including the teachers -- because of both economic problems and the newly won freedom. "I don't know what to teach you any more," an ex-propaganda teacher said.(08/15/01)

Dachas and glasnost in Evil Empire
Source: BBC
Author: Sheila Barter
Country: Russian Federation

The Soviet era left the world with many new words in its vocabulary. BBC News Online's Sheila Barter takes a look at some of them -- from 'dacha' and 'glasnost' to 'Cold War' itself. (08/15/01)

Eyewitness: Inside Yeltsin's bunker
Source: BBC
Author: Tim Whewell
Country: Russian Federation

Tim Whewell reported from inside the besieged White House as the Soviet coup unfolded in August 1991. He remembers three days of drama as attack seemed imminent and normal life went on hold. (08/15/01)

Eyewitness: Republic of Azerbaijan loses faith in USSR
Source: BBC
Author: Elchin Halilov
Country: Azerbaijan

An eyewitness tells of the events in Baku in January 1990, when the Soviet military entered the city -- back then a part of the Soviet Union -- and fighting ensued, with numerous citizens killed. As a result, Azerbaijan lost faith in the USSR, and the author became a journalist instead of a physicist. (08/15/01)

The charges against Milosevic
Source: BBC
City: The Hague, Country: Netherlands

BBC News Online outlines the charges that former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic faces for alleged crimes in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. (02/08/02)

NATO war crimes in Yugoslavia
Source: Pravda.Ru
Country: Yugoslavia

Slobodan Milosevic is on trial for crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. However, Pravda.Ru remembers the crimes perpetrated by NATO in its illegal campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. It cites the "collateral damage" from just two months of this 73-day campaign. (02/18/02)

Key provisions of programs of Lithuanian parties
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Country: Lithuania

A table presenting, in brief, the programs of the six major parties that took part in Lithuania's general election in 2000. Covers several basic economic issues.

Where local government belongs
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Author: editorial
Country: Lithuania

"[W]hat, exactly, do today's municipalities do and what should they be? [They] may be seen as local economic divisions of the central government ... True self-government is not when an authority is elected for a number of years; it is when every problem is solved through voluntary participation of anyone who wishes to solve it." (2000)

Unmasking the myths of prohibition on tobacco advertising
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Author: Ruta Vainiene
Country: Lithuania

"Cigarette advertising may affect consumption of one or another brand of cigarettes, but not tobacco as a whole. Advertising affects choice, not habits ... It is advertising that helps them choose cigarettes that will be the least detrimental to their health. It is advertising that helps them tell the cigarettes that were produced legally apart from those that are illegally manufactured." (2000)

Governmental money -- a market paradox
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Author: Ruta Vainiene
Country: Lithuania

The Lithuanian currency, litas, is pegged to the U.S. dollar. The falling of the Euro in 2000 has caused exporters to want it to be pegged to the euro instead. But whatever direction is taken regarding the one government currency, it won't satisfy everyone. "To resolve the problems posed by today's currencies, money should be returned to where it evolved and where it belongs -- the market." (2000)

Assessing the impact of EU membership on the Baltic states
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Author: Ramunas Vilpisauskas
Country: Lithuania

"The competitive forces of the EU are less of a problem in the acceding countries than was widely feared ... The economic impact of adopting EU [regulations of] economic activities seems to have been underestimated ... [B]enefits of EU funds for the candidate countries seem to be exaggerated". EU membership can be a blessing, it can also harm, and the end result depends on many factors. (2001)

Karadzic and Mladic: The charges
Source: BBC
Country: Yugoslavia

Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic have both been charged and indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal at The Hague on 16 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws of wars in Bosnia-Hercegovina between April 1992 and July 1995. The charges are briefly listed in this BBC article. (02/28/02)

Yugoslavia: a brief history, now completed
Source: BBC
Author: Bill Hayton
Country: Yugoslavia

"Yugoslavia was born in the wake of World War One, suffered occupation and dismemberment during World War Two, flowered again as a Socialist republic but ultimately broke up in a series of calamitous wars in the 1990s." A brief history of a country that no longer exists. (03/14/02)

Dagestan: Mountain of nationalities
Source: BBC
Author: staff
Country: Russian Federation

"Dagestan is a republic of the Russian Federation about the size of Austria, divided between the main range of the Caucasus mountains and, further north, the coastal plain of the Caspian Sea ... Dagestan itself is home to some 32 small nationalities, held in a rather precarious equilibrium by a constitution that prevents any one of them acquiring too much power." (05/09/02)

Acton Institute home page in Russian
Source: Acton Institute
Country: United States

Translation of the Acton Institute home page into Russian.

Acton Institute home page in Ukranian
Source: Acton Institute
Country: United States

Translation of the Acton Institute home page into Ukranian.

Liberalism, Customary Rights and Economic Reform
Source: Moscow Libertarium
Author: Vitaly Nayshul
City: Moscow, Country: Russian Federation

A view of the specifics of the Russian transition towards a market economy by the one of country's leading economists. English version.

Replacing Potemkin Capitalism: Russia's Need for a Free-Market Financial System
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Kurt Schuler and George A. Selgin
Country: Russian Federation

This policy analysis argues that Russia needs to adopt sound financial reforms and sweep away the remaining socialist policies and institutions that have held it back. The U.S. should stop supporting the Russian financial status quo. (6/7/99)

Dubious anniversary: Kosovo: one year later
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz
Country: United States

"By waging an avoidable war [in Kosovo], the Clinton administration has saddled the United States with a host of intractable problems." This report examines the consequences of the Kosovo debacle. It is available in Adobe PDF. (6/7/00)

Waist deep in the Balkans and sinking: Washington confronts the crisis in Macedonia
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ted Galen Carpenter
Country: United States

"Washington should extricate U.S. forces from Kosovo forthwith and transfer responsibility to the European Union. America has no economic or strategic interests that warrant the risks it is incurring." This report is available in Adobe PDF. (04/30/01)

Report on sexual trafficking in Kosovo
Source: IOM
Country: Yugoslavia

A study from the International Organization for Migration, released on April 24, states that 85% of current prostitutes who migrated to Kosovo were forced into becoming sex workers. (04/24/01)

Reducing a common danger: Improving Russia's early-warning system
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Geoffrey Forden
Country: United States

This report examines how the "Bush administration could help Russia obtain and maintain an effective, economic, and reliable space-based early-warning system in both the short and the long term." It is available in Adobe PDF. (05/03/01)

Dismantling socialism: an interim report
Source: CIS
Author: Dr. Vaclav Klaus
Country: Czech Republic

The former prime minister of the Czech Republic and current Speaker of the Parliament details the transition from communism to an increasingly free country. (05/30/01)

Why a revolution in Russia did not happen recently -- and why it can happen
Source: Russian Magazine
Author: Alexander Ageev
Country: Russian Federation

A "social outburst" was widely expected in Russia in the 90s, when many people were impoverished. But it did not happen. The article explains this by the absence of a solid structure which could "burst." It warns that as stability in Russia increases, and people find themselves in permanent low status -- rather than in a constantly changing, uncertain one -- social uprisings can happen. (02/21/01)

Lebanon tortures arrested women
Source: Amnesty International
Country: Lebanon

According to a press release and report from Amnesty International (08/22/01), women arrested in Lebanon risk torture and ill-treatment at the hands of law enforcement institutions especially during pre-trial detention.

Effacing the male
Source: Transitions
Author: Adam Jones
Country: Bosnia and Herzegowina

Most have heard of the campaign against women during the conflict in Kosovo. This article focuses on supposed "gendercide," or gender-selective mass killing, of "battle-age" ethnic-Albanian men.

The gender element in Stalin's mass murder
Source: Gendercide Watch
Country: Russian Federation

Under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, tens of millions of ordinary individuals were executed or imprisoned in labour camps that were little more than death camps. Gender played an important role, and in many respects the Purge period of Soviet history can be considered the worst gendercide of the twentieth century.

A study on road haulage policy in the context of Lithuania's integration in the EU
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Country: Lithuania

LFMI has made analysis of road haulage policy in the context of Lithuania's integration in the EU. The goal of this research was to evaluate the impact of EU accession on the business conditions of goods transportation by road in Lithuania and to submit policy recommendations to the Lithuanian negotiators. A summary of the analysis, conclusions and policy recommendations is presented. (2001)

Winners and losers of EU integration in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of the Baltic states
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Author: Ramunas Vilpisauskas, Guoda Steponaviciene
Country: Lithuania

A qualitative analysis of effects of EU integration in the three Baltic countries -- Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. This LFMI study shows the main positive and negative effects, and explains which groups will win and which will lose because of the integration. (10/99)

Rethinking Lithuania's territory planning, land sale and building regulations
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Country: Lithuania

The LFMI has made an analysis of legal and regulatory provisions regarding territory planning, land sale and building activities in Lithuania. Its study, summarized in this paper, describes the main features and problems of current laws, and proposes free market solutions that would bring the procedures in this area in line with legitimate public interests. (2001)

A study on the development of the Lithuanian securities market
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Country: Lithuania

"Although legal and institutional preconditions for the development of the securities market in Lithuania are in place, the market fails to utilize its full potential and to contribute to economic growth." The study outlines several reasons for this, and proposes privatization of the Stock Exchange, as only a private owner would make effective and non-politicized decisions for its future. (03/02)

Islam in Turkish politics: Turkey’s quest for democracy without Islam
Source: Association for Liberal Thinking
Country: Turkey

"Recent Turkish politics have witnessed an outstanding and unexpected triumph of political Islam." The Turkish secularist establishment bans Islamic parties. This study reviews the political history of modern Turkey, exposing secularist 'Kemalism' as a political religion forced upon the public. Islam is deeply rooted in society, and its representation is necessary for true democracy in Turkey.

Prospects for democracy and market economy in Turkey
Source: Association For Liberal Thinking
Author: Atilla Yayla
Country: Turkey

An overview of the economic and legal policy proposal of Turkey's Islamist movement, the Welfare Party, which was the leading partner in a coalition government between July 1996 and July 1997. The proposals are clearly incompatible with individual liberty. But Islam in general does contain elements that support a free market economy and democracy. And, Islam is a part of Turkey's reality. (10/97)

Islam, democracy and civil society
Source: Association For Liberal Thinking
Author: Chandran Kukathas
Country: Turkey

An extensive examination of the principles of civil society and modern democracy, and of the place of religion in general, and Islam in particular, in society. "[T]he real question which ought to be addressed is not so much the problem of reconciling Islam with modern democracy and civil society as the problem of what model of democracy is most suited to modernity." (05/98)

A survey of the Lithuanian economy 2001-2002
Source: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Country: Lithuania

The Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) presents the ninth economic survey of Lithuania, providing estimates of economic variables in 2001 and forecasts for 2002 based on the opinion of market participants. This survey was conducted in January and February 2002. (2002)

The economic implications of the registered pledge system in Lithuania
Source: East-West Management Institute / Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Country: Lithuania

This project "... was designed to analyze the development of the property pledge system in Lithuania, to describe the existing model of property pledge registration and to evaluate advantages and disadvantages thereof." It also proposes the ways to radically improve the system. (Word file) (2002)

Perspectives from 'near abroad' on relations with Russia
Source: Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
Author: Vladimir Socor
Country: Russian Federation

"More than ever before, Russia's future depends on its relations with the Western world. That relationship will, in turn, significantly depend on how Russia chooses to behave toward the former Soviet-ruled countries that have restored or gained their independence."

Lisbon agenda of the European Union and its impact on Lithuania
Source: LFMI
Country: Lithuania

"The Lithuanian Free Market Institute has completed a study 'Evaluation of the Lisbon agenda of the European Union and its impact on Lithuania' which was contracted by the European Committee under the Government of Lithuania within the framework of the Programme of assessing economic and social impact of Lithuania's accession into the EU ..." (12/03)

Nato's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ted Galen Carpenter
Country: United States

Ted Galen Carpenter's new book examines NATO's "victory" in Kosovo and shows how "the Balkan war damaged America's relations with two major powers, Russia and China, and lent credence to allegations throughout much of the world that the democratic West had embarked on a new imperialism behind a facade of humanitarian intervention." (1/00)

Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy: Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Paul R. Gregory
Country: United States

"Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy brings together prominent scholars from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom to summarize economic research based on the Soviet state and party archives."

Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Michael McFaul
Country: United States

McFaul explores the question of how Russian democracy emerged from a country with a czarist and communist background. (09/01)

The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev
Country: Russian Federation

This collection presents the results of years of research into the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution. (10/03)

BerlinWall.Net: 'Get a piece of freedom'
Source: BerlinWall.Net
Country: United States

"The pieces of the Berlin Wall that you see on my website are a true symbols of freedom ... each large piece of the Berlin Wall that you see here and the artwork on each piece has its own separate meaning."

ITK PARI
Source: ITK PARI
City: Sofia, Country: Bulgaria

"The only Bulgarian financial business news daily."

Prague Business Journal
Source: New World Publishing, Inc.
City: Prague, Country: Czech Republic
E-mail: smacmillan@ceebiz.com

The leading investigative business weekly in the Czech Republic, covering the Czech Republic and the emerging economies of Central Europe from a pro-market perspective.

Central Europe Review author archive
Source: Central Europe review
Author: Sam Vaknin
Country: United States
E-mail: palma@unet.com.mk

Archive of political columns for "Central Europe Review".

The Free Market, April-June 2004
Source: LFMI
Country: Lithuania

This issue contains: "LFMI is analysing economic causes of smuggling"; "Lithuanian free-marketeer ranks among ten people who have changed Lithuania"; "Tax Freedom Day Receded and Came on May 8th in 2004"; and much more.

The global harm of Swedish precaution
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States

"Professor [Robert] Nilsson [explains] how Swedish regulators have been successfully exporting parts of the Swedish legislation to the rest of Europe. His analysis is a salutary lesson for any country that considers only the possible benefits of the precautionary principle, and not the costs, which can be significant." (11/16/01)

Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: Russian Federation

"Anders Aslund [describes] two alternative courses to capitalism that have been followed by postsocialist countries that have not chosen radical reform: state despotism, as in the case of Belarus, or the rent-seeking state, as in the case of Russia." This event can be viewed with RealPlayer. (01/17/02)

Exiting the Balkan Thicket
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States

At this Cato event three contributors to the Cato Institute's new book, Exiting the Balkan Thicket, reviewed the West's experiences in Bosnia and Kosovo and provided recommendations on how the United States can move beyond the status quo to forge a better balanced and more forward-looking security relationship with its European allies. RealPlayer is needed. (04/18/02)

The Kosovo conundrum
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: interview conducted by Philip Dru
Country: Yugoslavia

An inteview with Nebojsa Malic conducted by "Philip Dru." WMV or MP3 formats are available.

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