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Articles in April, 2004 issue of New Internationalist

• No local fruit here
• The wild east: life in the high-rise jungle of urban post-communism is not for the faint-hearted. Richard Swift takes the measure of a new capitalism—that's all shock and no therapy
  by Richard Swift
• Capturing the Friedmans
  by Vanessa Baird
• Life after communism
  by Richard Swift
• Dig deeper
  by Gurmej Virk
• Armenian lives: a photo essay on poverty and transition
  by Onnik Krikorian
• Favourites: 60 Years On
  by Vanessa Baird
• Navel gazing
  by Gillian Sladden
• Hook noses and harems: Hollywood thrillers have a lot to answer for, feels Reem Haddad
  by Reem Haddad
• Rwanda survivors targeted
  by Wairagala Wakabi
• We expected better: economic collapse and cultural confusion have left post-communist youth with few options. Irena Maryniak tells their troubling story
  by Irena Maryniak
• Care-charming Sleep
  by Vanessa Baird
• XXY men
  by Steve Hammett
• Highlighting the work of photographers from the Majority world
  by Shafiqul Alam Kiron
• Uganda's death row debate
  by Wairagala Wakabi
• Revolution of roses: the people of Georgia have had enough. But does this mean real change? Richard Swift reports on the debate
  by Richard Swift
• Keeping His Promise: Exploring Mandela's Emotional Legacy
  by Vanessa Baird
• No apple for teacher
  by Siegrun Maybole
• Poverty and corruption
  by Urvashi Butalia
• Too distant shores: despite ever-larger obstacles, West African migrants are dying to get to Europe
  by Ivan Briscoe
• Life after the facts communism
• Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  by Vanessa Baird
• Uphill struggle
  by James Myles
• Tuna trouble: European fishing boats encourage extinction
  by Danny Kennedy
• The NI congratulates Ferial Haffajee!
  by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
• Hungarian Souffle: the communist system in Hungary was not overthrown. It simply imploded. Alex Bandy now sees a country uneasy about its past and uncertain about its future
  by Alex Bandy
• Profile of Eloisa Cartonera
• Report repression
  by Usama Al Shabibi
• Speechmarks
• Re-inventing Russian socialism: Boris Kagarlitsky has been a consistent voice of democratic and left opposition—first to autocratic state socialism and now to the oligarchic corruption of Yeltsin and Putin. His books include The Thinking Reed and Rus
  by Boris Kagarlitsky
• Cooking stoves pollute a third of the world's homes. Hugh Warwick breaks the silence of the killer in the kitchen
  by Hugh Warwick
• Shining example
  by David Harvey
• Carpet/rug
  by Susan Watkin
• Theatre of the absurd: Romania may be known as Count Dracula's homeland, but Ioana Baetica believes that ignorance and discrimination are the real blood-suckers for Romanian youth
  by Ioana Baetica
• Tonga
  by Olivia Ball
• Adding definition
  by Doug Holly
• Kidnapped democracy: did the US stage a coup in Haiti?
  by Chris Richards
• Democracy—beyond the market: throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Richard Swift finds a new breed of activists are struggling for sustainable democracy
  by Richard Swift
• Adding definition
  by Paul Bennett
• The rise of the machines: true tales of a mixed-up world
• Worldbeaters … taking aim at the rich and powerful