Problems with Moldova

Soviet generals trying to separate eastern part of the country, largest alcohol consumption on the planet, Gazprom forcing high prices for natural gas, extremely high level of emigration...

Trabant as communist car?

Wrong comparison. Trabant was made of cotton and never higher class vehicle. There is excellent example of communistic management, because there was car company split between West and East. Eastern part being Wartburg and western - BMW. Of course BMW had better performance, was cleaner and had more varietes

Homicide rates throughout Europe

Tell me about your cold, freezing, city!

Coldest major city in EEA is Helsinki.

You can go to university in Svalbard, but there is no city around it. You would have 4 months below -10*C there.

Don't be confused. Swedish and Norwegian cities aren't very freezing (even 40 degrees above Siberian temperatures) and actually belt Poland-Finland is

Poland and Lithuania

It often helps to read Wikipedia (as it is crowd-sourced and reflects opinion of larger number of people).

How Polish people see Lithuania.

How Lithuanian people see Poland.

So what is European culture, anyway?

Ruskin said: "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last" On the whole I think this is true.

Europe according to FOX News

I love to think that red dots are capitals.

Turin in Italy, Hamburg in Germany, Tours in France.

Do these cities have anything in common?