The clearest example concerns Grigory Pasko, a journalist on a military newspaper in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east.

ECONOMIST: Russia

Despite a postponement this week, Grigory Pasko, a journalist accused of treason for leaking details of the navy's dumping of nuclear waste, is due for trial in Vladivostock in June.

ECONOMIST: Russia

But, says Pasko Kuzman, an archaeologist at the culture ministry, Macedonians are a mix of all the people who have ever lived in the region, so they have every right to treat Alexander as a symbol.

ECONOMIST: Annoy Greece, put up more statues of Alexander