Eastern Europe
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Eastern Europe is the eastern region of Europe. There are several meanings possible:
- The region lying between areas of Central Europe and Russia. This meaning is used for the region since the end of the Warsaw Pact
- An other mening is: the area of land stretching from east to west as follows:
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- - its eastern limit is either the Ural Mountains within Russia or from the Pacific coast of the Russian Far East
- - its western limit is the boundary between the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (sometimes excluding Kaliningrad).
Politically, "Eastern Europe" may in fact cover all of northeastern Eurasia, since Russia is one single transcontinental country. Cyprus is also frequently taken to be a European state, although geographically it is in Asia. The same approach is also sometimes taken with the post-Soviet states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus.
The borders of Eastern Europe are not clear as regions are not physical features that can be defined by neutral criteria.
In recent years, with the spreading of the European Union, many countries Eastern Europe have sharply increased their economies, quality of life and cities. This has also boosted tourism, the film industry, and even, to a lesser extent, immigration.
In many old sources, the term "Eastern Europe" still means such European countries that until the end of the Cold War (around 1989) were Communist states or countries under Soviet influence, i.e., the former Eastern Bloc. The majority of people in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia often consider their countries to be part of Central Europe rather than Eastern Europe.
[edit] External links
- Civic Education Trends in Post-Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
- Information about Eastern European People
- Transitions Online
- Business portal for Central and Eastern Europe
- Slavic and East European Resources
- Toronto Slavic Quarterly
- The Slavonic and East European Review
- The Slavic Review
Academic Institutions
- Center For Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
- Russian and East European Network Information Center, University of Texas
- American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, University of Illinois
- Center For Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University
- The East Central European Center, Columbia University
- The Slavic and East European Language Resource Center, Duke University and The University of North Carolina
- Wirth Institute For Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta
- Association for the Study of Nationalities
- Association for Women in Slavic Studies
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
- Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies, University of Liverpool
- Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services
- Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
- School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
- Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham
- Oxford Austrian Studies Association
- School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
- European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
- Herder Institute
- Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde
- Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
- The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies
