Triumph of the west?
The collapse of East Germany does not mean that West Germans have won the argument, says novelist Ingo Schulze. It’s time for a new debate
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Russia: the price of independence
Website Ingushetia.org has lost a second owner in just over a year to violence. Maria Eismont reports
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Herta Müller: “Censorship is voracious”
Herta Müller has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this interview published in Index on Censorship, she discusses the death of free expression in Ceauşescu’s Romania
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India censors Nehru-Mountbatten passion
Plans to make a movie about the romance between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten may be halted by the Indian government. It has refused to allow filming in the country if there are any scenes that show India’s first prime minister and the wife of the last viceroy holding hands, kissing or saying the word love.
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