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Robert Chandler

Graduated with a BA in Russian and English Literature from Leeds University. His co-translations of Andrey Platonov have won prizes both in the UK and in the US. His translation of Hamid Ismailov’s The Railway won the AATSEEL prize for 2007 and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 Rossica Translation Prize. Recently he translated The Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, to be published in July 2013.

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Articles by Robert Chandler

  1. Election in Azerbaijan. Lower interest among young voters

    Elections in Azerbaijan have regularly been criticized by international observers and mainly seem to be a formalization of political balance agreed by different economical interest groups in the country. Being split, the opposition parties now once again admit that, in addition to election fraud, they suffer from low support from an electorate that sees them as a weak force in society. In the foreseeable future political changes in Azerbaijan will rather be a result of shifting powers within the elite than of electoral processes.

  2. Belarus election. PEOPLE WILL GATHER ON THE October Square IN MINSK

    Andrey Sannikov is a wellknown Belarusian diplomat. In the 1980s, he served as representative of the Belarusian Soviet Republic at the United Nations. In the beginning of the 1990s, when Belarus declared its independence, he was an active member of the the newly formed independent adminstration and held the post of deputy foreign minister. Here in an interview about dicatorship, the importance of voting and the role of international observers.

  3. Interview with Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu

    Visiting Warsaw in November 2010, during a tour to the neighboring countries, Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, gave the following interview for Baltic Worlds’ correspondent Peter Johnsson. November 2011 the poet and former opposition candidate to Lukasjenka is not allowed to leave his house and to be in Stockholm to receive the Tucholsky Award. The Tucholsky Award is presented each year by Swedish PEN to a persecuted, exiled, threatened author or journalist. The Award is named after the author Kurt Tucholsky, who in the early 1930s fled to Sweden from the Nazis in Hitler’s Germany.

  4. Local Elections in Ukraine. Two Tales about One Polity

    The highly preliminary electoral results of the regional elections in Ukraine indicate that the rapidly changing framework has had a highly diverse effect on the political arena, emboldening some, and discouraging others.

  5. Baltic Worlds Roundtable. A Closer Look at the Energy Sector

    Based on three basic themes - multi-level governance, sustainable development, knowledge of the issues involved - the aim of the Baltic Worlds Annual Roundtable 2010 is to gather a number of stakeholders and scholars to discuss the development of the energy sector in the Baltic Sea Region. Welcome the 24th of November to Södertörn University.

  6. Consolidating the Democratic Process: Parliamentary Elections in Kyrgyzstan

    On October 10 the people of Kyrgyzstan elected a new national parliament (Jogorku Kenesh) in an election that has been described as the most free and fair ever in a post-Soviet Central Asian republic. A closer look at the elections as well as their results indicates certain obstacles on the road to a prosperous parliamentary system.

  7. A coalition of coalitions: The 2010 Parliamentary elections in Latvia

    With several old parties joined in new constellations, the Latvian party landscape may have turned its back on party fragmentation. The Latvian autumn sky is however clouded by low turnout, the lingering issue of corruption, and, in the shadow of the economic crisis, reports about possible vote-buying.

  8. The Swedish General Election 2010. – The end of one-party domination

    The outcome of the 2010 election Late Sunday evening on the 19th of September, it appeared as if the general […]

  9. Furrows in the agrarian field. Leaving deep traces

    Britt Liljewall et al. (eds.) Agrarhistoria på många sätt 28 studier om människan och jorden, Festskrift till Janken Myrdal på hans 60-årsdag [Diverse approaches to the history of agriculture: 28 studies of humanity and the earth: Essays in honor of Janken Myrdal on his 60th birthday] Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry 2009, 552 pages + Jouko Nikula (ed.) Maaseutuaiheita — Rural Motifs, Essays in Honor of Professor Leo Granberg, Helsinki, Aleksanteri Series 5:2009, 237 pages+ Anders Björnsson, Skuggor av ett förflutet Bondeförbundet och trettiotalet, En idéhistorisk essä [Shadows of the past: The Swedish Farmers’ League and the nineteen-thirties: An essay in intellectual history] Lund: Sekel 2009, 213 pages + Ann-Katrin Hatje, Svensk välfärd, genus och social rationalism under 1900-talet, [Swedish welfare, gender, and social rationalism in the 20th century] Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University 2009. 227 pages

  10. Confrontation or compromise? Peasant leaders in interbellum Europe

    Mark Biondich, Stjepan Radić, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904–1928, Toronto. University of Toronto Press 2000, xi, 344 pages + R. J. Crampton, Aleksandǔr Stamboliĭski: Bulgaria. London, Haus Publishing 2009, xi, 192 pages + Daniel E. Miller, Forging Political Compromise, Antonín Ŝvela and the Czechoslovak Republican Party, 1918–1933, Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press 1999, 323 pages

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