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• Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade (The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner) (2008)

  
  Picturenose — Authority: 119
  Memory game What if you lost everything, in an instant, that tethered you to your own existence? That’s exactly what happens to Alex (Carlo Ljubek), when he is involved in a motorway car crash... To read more, follow the link on this page to www.picturenose.com
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• Karzai 1, Holbrooke 0

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Is someone from the Pentagon taking a shot at Holbrooke in that WashPost story on Obamas "reset" with Karzai that Jason linked ? Note this: "Weve been treating Karzai like [Slobodan] Milosevic," a senior Pentagon official said, referring to the former Bosnian Serb leader whom Holbrooke pressured into accepting ...
  2 days ago

• Interview with Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere

  
  The Balkans Project — Authority: 110
  Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere is an analyst with the European Stability Initiative in Istanbul, Turkey. Kurdish Issue Not much happened on the Kurdish issue from 2002 to 2005. Now, a lot is happening. Following President Erdogan’s 2005 statement that the Kurdish issue “is my problem,” it’s been however sometimes ...
  6 days ago

• The Nabucco-South Stream race intensifies

  
  Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform — Authority: 150
  The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost on 11th November 2009 as Russia’s Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Slovenian Economy Minister Matej Lahovnik signed an agreement on the passage of the ...
  1 week ago

• Serbian Orthodox Church head Pavle dies at 95 (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 473
  AP – Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia’s Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the turbulent 1990s marked by ethnic conflicts in the Balkans, died Sunday. He was 95. Read the original post:  (AP)"> (AP)">Serbian Orthodox Church head Pavle dies at 95 (AP)
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• The Nabucco-South Stream race intensifies

  
  AriRusilas BalkanPerspective — Authority: 107
  The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost on 11 th November 2009 as Russia’s Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Slovenian Economy Minister Matej Lahovnik signed an agreement on the passage of ...
  1 week ago

• The Nabucco-South Stream race intensifies

  
  AriRusila's BalkanBlog — Authority: 107
  The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost on 11 th November 2009 as Russia’s Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Slovenian Economy Minister Matej Lahovnik signed an agreement on the passage of ...
  1 week ago

• Brussels authorises loan to Ford Romania to build low-Co2 engine

  
  Latest Newspaper Headlines | Current Events — Authority: 520
  The European Commission paved the way Friday for Ford Romania SA to access a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), which will help finance the development of a low-emissions engine at its Craiova plant. The EIB is lending a total of 600 million euros (896 million dollars) to Ford Europe for the project, of ...
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• The pace picks up on EU enlargement into the Balkans

  
  Brussels Blog — Authority: 560
  Enlargement of the European Union is, almost imperceptibly, moving forward once more.  EU foreign ministers are expected next week to forward Albania’s membership application to the European Commission for an opinion.  This is a necessary technical step on the path to entry - small, but important.The Commission ...
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• Informal Dinner in Madrid / Western Balkans

  
  Embassy of Greece in Poland Press & Communication Office — Authority: 124
  Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas (GREEK NEWS AGENDA) Ahead of Spain’s assumption of the EU presidency, Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas attended an informal dinner of EU foreign ministers , hosted by their Spanish counterpart in Madrid. This was an initial meeting to discuss the ...
  1 week ago

• Kosovo opposition politician attacked ahead of local polls

  
  Latest Newspaper Headlines | Current Events — Authority: 520
  A Kosovo Albanian politician campaigning for Sundays local elections was shot at Thursday night, but escaped unhurt, a police spokesman said. Hysni Ahmeti, an opposition candidate for the post of mayor in the ethnic hotspot town of Mitrovica, was on a way to a campaign event when his car was sprayed with bullets, ...
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• PSA: 5 Rules of Public Restroom Etiquette

  
  Very Smart Brothas — Authority: 125
  I know a lot of people swear they don’t use the bathroom at work.  Quite frankly I think they’re full of sh*t. Pun. The fact is, everybody at some point ends up having to use a public restroom .  Nobody likes doing this, but it is a necessary evil (as somebody pointed out yesterday).  Since it’s a ...
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• Duško Gojković - Swinging Macedonia (1966)

  
  What's in my iPod? — Authority: 92
  Sometimes the music takes its time to reach the destination. I got this album at least five years ago, gave it a cursory listen and shelved it. Just recently I put it on again, not even sure why, and discovered how great it was. Duško Gojković, a trumpet/flugelhorn player, composer and bandleader, was born and spent ...
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• Architects to build uber-luxurious resort in Montenegro

  
  Luxurylaunches.com — Authority: 605
  Montenegro became an independent country recently and the tiny Balkan nation is busy building its reputation as a luxury destination for Western Europeans. Montenegro has long been struck by the Yugoslavian Wars and the battles have done much to scar the image of this lovely and picturesque country. The country was ...
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• Anti-Greek Backlash in Salonica, 1821

  
  Far Outliers — Authority: 468
  From Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 , by Mark Mazower (Vintage, 2006), pp. 126-129: The Greeks in the city rang their church bells, rode through the streets on horseback, wore fine clothes and did not step down from the pavement when they passed a Muslim. To us this indicates ...
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• Anti-Greek Backlash in Salonica, 1821

  
  Far Outliers — Authority: 127
  From Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 , by Mark Mazower (Vintage, 2006), pp. 126-129: The Greeks in the city rang their church bells, rode through the streets on horseback, wore fine clothes and did not step down from the pavement when they passed a Muslim. To us this indicates ...
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• Ottoman terror in 15th c. Croatia

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 126
  Peaceful co-existence, Islamic tolerance, Ottoman benevolence in action... American Journal of Physical Anthropology doi:10.1002/ajpa.21152 The harsh life on the 15th century Croatia-Ottoman Empire military border: Analyzing and identifying the reasons for the massacre in epin Mario laus et al. ...
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• Forgotten Refugees - West Balkans

  
  Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform — Authority: 150
  The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans - still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escaped to other country, one part is “internally displaced ...
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• Forgotten Refugees - West Balkans

  
  AriRusilas BalkanPerspective — Authority: 107
  The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans - still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escaped to other country, one part is “internally displaced ...
  1 week ago

• Forgotten Refugees – West Balkans

  
  AriRusila's BalkanBlog — Authority: 107
  The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans – still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escaped to other country, one part is “internally displaced ...
  1 week ago

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