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  1. Children's Day today. See @UNICEF report on child poverty (35 developed nations) goo.gl/BNYUa Iceland 1,Slovenia 6,USA 34,Romania 35
  2. For 27 daily & weekly Serbian newspapers, 2003 to present see bit.ly/LcTOvy. UCL name & password needed for off-site access.
  3. Digital National Library of Serbia updated. For historic newspapers see bit.ly/KQ5RzJ , for Poster Library see bit.ly/M5sz8b
  4. #Estonia publishes data from its latest population census: the number of residents compared with 2000 has decreased: goo.gl/BuOx3
  5. The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies are now available electronically from 1981 onwards bit.ly/L8wdfC
  6. For web-based research guides on topics of current relevance to NATO see bit.ly/8XTwbT
  7. Russian literature in the UK is only the tip of the iceberg but a prominent one. goo.gl/foTPi @russiaprofile
  8. @vrhopk Thank you very much for sharing the links!
  9. Two decades after the fall of communism, Eastern Europeans are rebelling against a culture of corruption: goo.gl/BcPkJ @washtimes
  10. Just a reminder that the Library will be open on Saturday but closed next Monday and Tuesday for the Bank Holidays.
  11. The Warsaw Pact in the 1960s, Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP) goo.gl/VTbPG
  12. Updated version of Your Better Life Index launched by @OECD. Compare 34 countries including the UK and Eastern Europe: goo.gl/3VRX8
  13. 16th century printed books connected to Eastern Europe from the digital collections of the Bavarian State Library goo.gl/eq6aF
  14. Russian government 2012. Short biographies @VoiceofRussia goo.gl/01AOk
  15. 'Poland is one of the world's few success stories since the fall of the Soviet bloc' writes @SPIEGEL_English goo.gl/qx87a
  16. Crisis dims dreams for Europe's poor east: goo.gl/W4lQz @reuters_co_uk
  17. . @ValdaiClub unveiled a new online service: reviews of books about Russia printed by major international publishers: goo.gl/PLmOH