Word: bratislava
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...markets? After posting record gains in recent months, bourses across the region stumbled last week. In a single day, the Prague Stock Exchange's PX 50 index tumbled by 5.8%, the second biggest loss in its history; the Czech press dubbed it "black Wednesday." Budapest dropped by 5.45%, while Bratislava and Warsaw fell by more than 2%. By week's end, the bourses closed up to 9.4% lower. Analysts say standard profit-taking was responsible, but perhaps it was a bubble - inflated by post-accession optimism and rising regional economies - that needed to burst. "I think it was a classic...
...hardest conversation of all was with Putin. During a speech in Brussels, Bush said that "all European countries should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia." So when the two leaders met later in the week in Bratislava, Slovakia, there was no chummy back-slapping. Putin was defensive, deflecting concerns about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media by pointing out that reporters from TV network cbs had been fired in the U.S., too. The accusation - no American reporters have been fired by the White House - confused Bush and reinforced the Administration view that Putin sometimes...
...plan to rein in terrorists and bring democracy to the Middle East - he meets all 25 leaders of the E.U. member states, and dines with the refusenik in chief, French President Jacques Chirac. He promenades along the Rhine with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, then moves on to Bratislava to exchange views, and perhaps a few soulful glances, with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...tourists as well as locals. In the prewar years, Dubrovnik was known to the European cognoscenti as a low-cost alternative to the ritzy Riviera. Now its charms are fast becoming an open secret. Flights arrive almost daily from Madrid, Paris, Rome and Vienna, together with budget services from Bratislava, London Gatwick and Dublin. In all, more than 320,000 foreigners holidayed in Dubrovnik (pop. 37,000) last year, up from 250,000 in 2002. "Dubrovnik is a jewel," says Ed Serotta, a Vienna-based historian and frequent visitor. He recommends a stroll on the 11/4-mile medieval wall encircling...
...pack-a-day smoker, Beata Zvástová, a 43-year-old manager of a Bratislava post office, is no stranger to sudden coughing fits. But what she felt during her Sept. 23 shift was no smoker's cough. "I felt as if my air tube was about to stick together," she says. "I kept trying to clear my throat." When she saw her colleagues were also choking, she called the police. Last week, the Slovak Interior Ministry confirmed that Zvástová's post office had been attacked by a mixture of chloropicrin and phosgene, two chemicals...