Posts Tagged ‘lviv’
[URBAN NOTE] Five cities links: Lac-Mégantic, Ruse, Lviv, Istanbul, Melilla
- Five years after the rail disaster, Lac-Mégantic continues to rebuild and to recover. CBC reports.
- Language Hat reports on the city of Ruse in the eastern Balkans, once a famously multilingual community.
- Marginal Revolution takes a quick look at the tumultuous ethnic history of what is now the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- Roads and Kingdoms reported on Syrian refugees who set up new homes in Istanbul in an old Ottoman-era neighbourhood.
- The Spanish enclave of Melilla, located on the African coast surrounded by Morocco, faces terrible unemployment. The Irish Times reports.