E/W Letter Sample articles

Sample articles

Please visit our Publications Online page for links to article reprints and complete issues of our publications which are available online. Reprints and back issues from the East/West Letter archive are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

Selected articles from older issues of the East/West Letter which have been listed here for some time are still available. Some of these articles are now only available in PDF format.

Privatization Watch (March/April 1995)

Polish Politics in Turmoil (January/February 1995)

Russia's "Black Tuesday" [Ruble crash] (September/October 1994)

New Air Rules Worry Czech Firms [Pollution] (July/August 1994)

Data page samples: See portions of the newsletter data pages on Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine on their info pages online (the newsletter contains additional data and charts). Also, see the charts on industrial production, consumer prices and unemployment data and on selected foreign exchange rate histories.

Reprints, back issues and indexes

Back numbers of the East/West Letter are available at US$10.0 per copy; special prices are available to libraries which purchase a set of back issues - contact Okno (contact form) for more information or to get a sample issue.

Reprints are available for most articles on request at US$3.50 each; short articles are available for $2.00 and briefs and sidebars for $1.00. Special pricing is available for orders in quantity or for educational use; please contact us for details. Please specify article title and issue citation when ordering.

A three-year cumulative index to the Letter was published at the end of 1994, and is included free with every new subscription (form to subscribe). The index is also available separately for US$5.00. Another index to cover 1995-7 will be prepared soon and will be sent automatically to all subscribers.

Tables of contents

These listings include main articles and other features; small briefs and sidebars are not listed. All issues include "Business briefs," "Currency & finance update," and region/country economic data and exchange rate histories. (Use the following links if your browser does not support frames.)

(The Letter was published as a quarterly through volume 2 no. 2, and as a bimonthly thereafter.)