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Boris Meissner

Boris Meissner (August 10, 1915 Pskov - September 10, 2003 Cologne) was a German lawyer and social scientist, specializing in international law and Eastern European history and politics.

Despro

Annually Switzerland invests about 2.8 billion Swiss francs to fight poverty and to support the economic growth in the developing countries and Eastern European countries, including the CIS.


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1965 Pulitzer Prize

J. A. Livingston of the Philadelphia Bulletin, for his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West.

A+

Animax Eastern Europe, an Eastern European anime TV channel formerly known as A+

Anima Sound System

After touring Eastern European cities and capitals - 8 performances in Prague alone - Anima Sound System has begun to draw interest from Western European promoters - from the "Glasshaus" in Berlin, to "Divan du Monde" in Paris.

Anna M. Cienciala

She taught courses in Eastern European history – with focus on modern Polish and Russian history – at the University of Ottawa and the University of Toronto in Canada, before landing a long-term career in the U.S. at the University of Kansas in 1965.

Arnold Zweig

In a quite literal effort to put a face to the hated 'Ostjude' (Eastern European Jew), due to their Orthodox, economically depressed, "unenlightened", "un-German" ways, Zweig published with the artist Hermann Struck Das ostjüdische Antlitz (The Face of East European Jewry) in 1920.

Arnošt Lustig

After the fall of eastern European communism in 1989, he divided his time between Prague and Washington, D.C., where he continued to teach at the American University.

Binyamin Shlomo Hamburger

Having originally been educated in Eastern European Jewish and Hasidic institutions, he came to explore his family's heritage after learning more about the traditions observed by his ancestor, Moses Sofer (1762–1839), the rabbinical authority better known as the "Chatam Sofer" after his writings.

Brandenburg

Franconian Nuremberg and Ansbach, Swabian Hohenzollern, the eastern European connections of Berlin, and the status of Brandenburg's ruler as prince-elector together were instrumental in the rise of that state.

Center for European Policy Analysis

Founded in 2005, CEPA provides a forum for scholarly research, writing and debate on key issues affecting the countries and economies of the Central and Eastern European region, their membership in the European Union (EU) and relationship with the United States.

Charles T. Powers

He spent long stretches of his tenure with the Times as a foreign correspondent in Africa, based in Nairobi from 1980 to 1986, and as Eastern European Bureau Chief from 1986 to 1991, during which time he lived in Warsaw.

Elie Wiesel bibliography

A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac, forward by Elie Wiesel (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) ISBN 0-374-52023-2, ISBN 978-0-374-52023-6; classic photographs of Eastern European Jewish life from the 1930s

Engomi

The University of Nicosia is also located within the municipality and thus is home to a large student population made up mainly of foreign students from Eastern European and Arab countries amongst other minority nationalities such as British, French and American.

Erwin Oberländer

From 1975 to 1985 he was Professor of Modern Eastern European History at the University of Münster and served as Dean at the Faculty of History 1976-1977.

Fredell Lack

Fredell Lack was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the oldest of three children of eastern European (Latvian) immigrants Abram I. Lack and Sarah Stillman (who was a sister of noted painter Ary Stillman).

Gabby Young and Other Animals

“Gabby is distinctive..as much art-school as Agent Provocateur. Eastern European touches and acoustic instrumentation combine with a strong seductive voice to suggest a busking Kate Bush” MOJO (Roy Wilkinson)

Genya Turovskaya

Turovskaya lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is an associate editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Golo Footwear

Established in 1915 by Eastern European immigrants, Golo initially designed and manufactured slippers in Dunmore, Pennsylvania.

Hanno Höfer

Between 1990 and 1992 he studied South-Eastern European History and Ehtnology in Berlin, then he had a scholarship at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and later, between 1994–1998, he studied Movies and Directing at the Academy for Theatre and Film in Bucharest.

Jack Firestein

He was born in Whitechapel, London, England, to an eastern European Jewish family, he left school when he was 14 to follow his father as a tailor, he later became a bookseller, a profession he continued most of his life.

Jacques Kemp

He moved to the ING Head Office in Amsterdam as General Manager of ING Bank International to establish the Central & Eastern European network.

Jean Gornish

She understood what her audiences wanted, and regularly finished her concerts with a medley called “Shtetlakh” that included songs about Eastern European shtetls such as Zlatopol, Moliev, and Belz, concluding with the song “God Bless America.”

Jewish Territorialist Organization

Both concurred that a self governing Jewish territory should be based on a preponderance of Jews in the region rather than British legislative fiat, and both concurred that the new government should be formed on a modern, democratic basis rather than some earlier biblical ideal or Eastern European Kehilla structure.

Konstanty Jeleński

He led the Eastern European division of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (after 1967, the International Association for Cultural Freedom) and was a prolific contributor to the Association's monthly publication Preuves and to Kultura, the Polish émigré literary journal.

Lesya Ukrainka East European National University

Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University in Volyn is a Ukrainian university in Lutsk, named after Lesya Ukrainka.

Magid

Maggid or Magid, traditional Eastern European Jewish religious itinerant preacher in Judaism

Masthead

Masthead Studios, an eastern-European games developer specializing in massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Mekor Baruch

Before 1948, Mekor Baruch was considered an upscale neighborhood and was home to Eastern European Labor Party members and Holocaust survivors.

Psycho-Pirate

He impersonates the villain Baron Bedlam in order to gain power in the fictional Eastern European country of Markovia.

Raymond Detrez

For around two decades, he worked as a producer of the Belgian Radio and then became a professor of Eastern European history and culture.

Richard G. Salomon

Going on to the University of Berlin, Salomon studied eastern European history under Theodor Schiemann (1847-1921), Byzantine history under Karl Krumbacher (1856-1921), the history of medieval law under Karl Zeurner (1849-1914), and Latin paleography under Michael Tangl (1861-1921), under whom he completed his doctoral dissertation in February 1907: Studien zur normannisch-italischen Diplomatik.

Richard Georg Salomon (born 22 April 1884 in Berlin, Germany - died 3 February 1966 in Mount Vernon, Ohio) was an historian of eastern European medieval history and historian of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who taught at the University of Hamburg in Germany and at Kenyon College and its Episcopal Church seminary Bexley Hall in Ohio USA.

Richard Salomon

Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), historian of eastern European medieval history

Rick Spleen

For example, when Spleen has an argument with Michael, the café owner, or with Magda, his Eastern-European cleaner, Marty defends them rather than backing Spleen, which appears to wind him up even more.

Ruthenian Voivodeship

Settled in prehistoric times, the central-eastern European land that is now the southeastern part of Poland and the western part of Ukraine was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts, Goths, and Vandals (Przeworsk culture).

Settlements of the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture

In terms of overall size, some of Cucuteni-Trypillian sites, such as Talianki (with a population of 15,000 and covering an area of some 450 hectares – 1100 acres) in the Uman district of Ukraine, are as large as (or perhaps even larger than) the more famous city-states of Sumer in the Fertile Crescent, and these Eastern European settlements predate the Sumerian cities by more than half of a millennium.

Sheila Lukins

She was most famous as the co-author, with Julee Rosso, of the The Silver Palate series of cookbooks, and The New Basics Cookbook, a very popular set of food guides which introduced many Americans to French, Southern and Eastern European cooking techniques and ingredients and popularized a richer and very boldly seasoned style of cooking to Americans in sharp contrast to the health-food movements of the 1970s.

Social fund

However, a Social Fund also exists in Romania, a country that has recently joined the EU, as well as in many other Eastern European countries.

Spawn of Possession

In mid-September the band joined Cannibal Corpse as direct support on a 24 show tour throughout Scandinavia and the Baltic/Eastern European states.

Stanley B. Kimball

He was an expert on eastern European history but also wrote on Latter-day Saint history, specifically his ancestor Heber C. Kimball and the Mormon Trail.

Stephen Greenblatt

Greenblatt self-identifies as an Eastern European Jew, an Ashkenazi, and a Litvak.

Strike Back: Shadow Warfare

In March 2013, production moved to Budapest, Hungary to double as several Eastern European locations for the remainder of the series until filming concluded in June.

Svetlana Sotiroff MacDonald

Born in Switzerland during the Second World War, she moved to New York City as a child and then to Kitchener, Canada when the political situation in the United States became undesirable, as her family was educated and of eastern European origin.

Sylwester Kaliski

There is a rumour, that professor has been killed by Soviet KGB, as he headed Polish clandestine program of developing thermonuclear device intended for military use, which was started on order of highest level of Polish communistic party, in opposition to soviet dominance over Poland and other Middle and Eastern European countries.

The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties

"The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties" is the second single to be released from the album The Destruction of Small Ideas by 65daysofstatic.

Theodor Oberländer

He is the father of Professor Erwin Oberländer, a noted expert on Eastern European history, and the grandfather of Christian Oberländer, Professor of Japanese Studies.

William Daroff

He also studied at Kraków, Poland's Jagiellonian University, where he received a certificate in the history of Eastern European Jewry and The Holocaust.

Yvon Delbos

Afterwards, he set out on a tour of the central and eastern European capitols, visiting Warsaw on December 3, Bucharest on December 8, Belgrade on December 12, and Prague on December 15, in each case discussing the European situation with the ministers of the countries in question, and seeking to foster friendly relations with France.

Zhenqi Barthel

At the 2009 European Championships in Stuttgart, Barthel and her partner Kristin Silbereisen won a bronze medal in the women's doubles match, and shared their triumph with the Eastern European duo Oksana Fadeyeva (Russia) and Rūta Paškauskienė (Lithuania).