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“Just minutes before the movie Summer Palace (Serbian: Letnja Palata) […] rolled, Serbian authories came to the rescue and pulled the movie off the Festival because apparently China threatened to freeze all diplomatic activities with Serbia if the movie is shown,” reports Belgrade 2.0.

Recent Links also in Eastern & Central Europe

Posts on the first round of the presidential election in Romania last month: Csíkszereda Musings - here, here, and here; and Power&Politics World - here.

Some of the posts that have appeared on Hungarian Spectrum in the past ten days: “corruption and the unfriendly attitude toward foreign investors“; the Hungarian opposition leader's meeting with the Russian PM and the future of the Russian-Hungarian relations - here and here; murder at the University of Pécs - here and here; scandals surrounding the public television company of Hungary, MTV; politics and the H1N1 vaccine.

Russian Internet providers blocked the Cavkaz-center [ENG], the Web site famous for its support of Caucasus separatists and extremists, LJ-user nl reports [RUS].