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• Mass of Media: Radovan Karadžić

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the [...]

• Italy: Rome starts today fingerprinting the gypsies

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  This is the first time after the World War II when a government initiate an ID action based on racial criteria. During the next 48 hours, Rome’s authorities will fingerprint about 10,000 gypsies, helped by the Italian Red Cross.
  In accordance with ANSA agency, about one hundred employees of the Red Cross [...]

• NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  The NATO summit will take place in Bucharest, Romania, during the April 2-4, in order for Allied leaders to carry forward decisions taken at the Riga Summit and review the evolution of NATO’s main commitments, which are all mutually reinforcing.
  During the summit, heads of state and government will assess the [...]

• Romanian traditions: Mărţişor

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  Mărţişor is one of the best Romanian traditions, celebrated in the beginning of the Spring, on March 1st. The tradition’s name is the diminutive of March (in Romanian: Martie). The men offer to the women a talisman object also called Mărţişor, consisting of a jewel or a small decoration like [...]

• Kosovo, a solution for all the European countries with ethnic minorities

  Monday, February 18th, 2008

  In a public declaration right after the proclamation of the independence of Kosovo, the leader of the Hungarian party in Romania (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania), Marko Bela, said that Kosovo is a precedent, and a solution for all the European countries that have ethnic problems.
  Marko Bela saluted Kosovo’s independence and [...]

• Kosovo and the Russian dolls, the democracy as the new religion

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  Kosovo will proclaim soon, in some hours, its independence. It’s a fact. Kosovo will be the world’s newest state. And it will be recognized by US and most of the European countries, as well as the most other countries. But what if tomorrow, a small area within Kosovo wants to declare [...]

• Kosovo, the Pandora’s box

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, the states of the old USSR… almost all the European countries have provinces in the same situation with the Serbian province Kosovo. The European Union would be a solution. But the independence of the provinces is a solution too.
  I think that the Kosovo’s independence is [...]

• Mass of Media: Kosovo

  Friday, February 15th, 2008

  Kosovo moves to calm minority Serbs as it prepares for independence
  The Canadian Press
  PRISTINA, Serbia – Kosovo’s prime minister announced on Friday the creation of a government office to handle the concerns of the Serb minority in an attempt …
  Kosovo breakaway prompts East-West split
  Times Online, UK
  Russia warned the West [...]

• Big investment in the Black Sea area (Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine)

  Sunday, January 13th, 2008

  10 billions Euros will be invest by Voest Alpine (voestalpine AG), Austria, in eight areas at the Black Sea, in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, in order to build a siderurgical aggregated group of plants with 10,000 employees, build on 1,000 ha of land.

  Petru Ianc, the chief of the General Department for Industrial [...]

• Two neighbors that quarrel on their poverty: Romania and Bulgaria

  Saturday, January 5th, 2008

  Now I am living at the border with Serbia, but in my childhood I was living at the border with Bulgaria. It is true, during the communist era there was not so much visits of the Romanians in Bulgaria or Bulgarians in Romania. Now, a lot of Romanian pass on their [...]

• Kosovo, Balkan’s touch stone

  Sunday, December 9th, 2007

  Here it is a short history of Kosovo, as told us by Wikipedia:
  In ancient times, Kosovo was part of a bigger region called Dardania. It was inhabited by tribes postulated to be of mixed Thraco-Illyrian ethnicity which inhabited the Balkans since the late Bronze Age.
  By the 6th century, Slavic tribes from north and east [...]