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Inside this issue
• Concerns are rising about potential rivalry between Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin in Russia’s next presidential election
• A new generation of eastern European designers is emerging with fresh ideas and big ambitions - -
Content
Past imperfect, future tense
Worries about the years ahead have spoiled the anniversary atmosphere for many citizens, writes Stefan Wagstyl
20 years on: Legacy of past fails to shake faith in market
Countries remain wedded to liberal economics despite the strain of the financial crisis, says Stefan Wagstyl
Politics: Concerns grow over Russia’s twin tsars
Charles Clover and Stefan Wagstyl on potential rivalry within Moscow’s political elite
Living standards: Flowers make way for vegetables as city folk learn to grow their own
Stefan Wagstyl looks at why many of Russia’s urban dwellers are going back to the soil
Industry: Russia’s one-company towns face bleak future
Charles Clover on the problems of Togliatti and 400 other relics of the Soviet Union’s rapid industrialisation drive
Entrepreneurship: The ice-cream king of Poland
Zbigniew Grycan does not believe in retiring quietly, writes Jan Cienski
Justice: Join the queue to pay your debt to society
Neil MacDonald on a prison system under strain in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Society: Downturn stirs ethnic tensions in Hungary
Thomas Escritt looks back on a difficult year for the country’s Roma (gypsy) population
Telecommunications: Kosovo’s callers forced to talk in foreign codes
Krenar Gashi unravels the complexity of a simple phone call
Fashion: Cutting their cloth with style
Karen Hodkinson on a generation that is drawing on the region’s roots to make its mark
