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The BEARR Trust Emergency Appeal for Ukraine and Moldova
The BEARR Trust is raising funds to help small civil society organisations and voluntary groups to support displaced people, refugees and other vulnerable people in Ukraine and Moldova. Below you can read about our appeal and how it has progressed since Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The BEARR Trust …
Moldova against COVID-19: solitary or solidary?
By Petru Negura, 18 June 2020 See here for the original article on IOS Ostblog Spezial. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed, as in a drop of water, a series of weaknesses but also unsuspected strengths of the Moldovan state and society. At a population of fewer than 3 million inhabitants (and 3.5 million with Transnistria), Moldova …
The Impact of COVID-19 on rural communities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
7 August 2020 A report by Nathan Dampier, BEARR Trust volunteer COVID-19 Statistics in the EECA region as of 15:43 GMT – 04/08/20 (in parentheses – comparison to 12/06/20) EASTERN EUROPE Confirmed Cases Confirmed Recoveries Confirmed Deaths Cases per 1M pop Deaths per 1M pop Tests per 1M pop BELARUS 68,250(+15,730) 61,163(+35,403) 574(+276) 7,223 61 …
From Tuberculosis to COVID-19 in Russia’s Prisons
15.7.2020 BY OLGA ZEVELEVA A blog: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/gulagechoes/2020/07/15/lessons-of-the-recent-past-from-tuberculosis-to-covid-19-in-russias-prisons/ Lessons of the Recent Past: From Tuberculosis to COVID-19 in Russia’s Prisons BY JUDITH PALLOT, PI “GULAGECHOES” The Russian prison system is no stranger to epidemics. Faced with COVID-19, Russia has had a wealth of experience to draw upon. In this blog, and following on from the history of the …
June 2020 Newsletter
COVID-19 is still sadly dominating all our activities. At BEARR we are trying to do as much as we can working from home, and hope you find our information, publications and other services a useful resource at this time. In this issue we have two articles on aspects of COVID-19 in EECA:Our BEARR Volunteer, Nathan …
COVID-19 in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus – an overview
A report by Nathan Dampier, BEARR Trust volunteer As the coronavirus pandemic spreads into BEARR’s region of focus, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, governments have taken a range of measures to try to reduce the catastrophic impact across society of COVID-19. In this article I attempt to bring you an overview of these …
The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev – book review
Sergei Medvedev, a political historian, wrote this set of essays, originally published in 2017, over several years. The book is copiously foot-noted and brilliantly translated by Stephen Dalziel. It reads as a sometimes overlapping or repetitive stream of consciousness, covering politics and geopolitics, history, social issues, and the Russian mentality (if there is such a …
