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 former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. He was arrested in Belgrade on 21 July 2008 and brought before Belgrade’s War Crimes Court. For some time he had been working at a private clinic in Belgrade specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under the alias Dr. Dragan David Dabić under the company name of “Human Quantum Energy”. (Wikipedia)

Radovan Karadzic’s female companion shocked at true identity
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
A woman who was Radovan Karadzic’s companion during his life in hiding has told of her shock at discovering his true identity. She vehemently denies reports …

Karadzic trial to test tribunal
San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Kevin Sullivan and Peter Finn THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader accused of genocide and crimes against …

The Karadzic Trial
New York Times, United States
Q. What is Radovan Karadzic charged with? What is the process? A. Radovan Karadzic is charged with a wide range of crimes, from genocide to crimes against …

Jewish organizations welcomed the arrest of indicted war criminal …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee applauded the arrest of Karadzic, who is accused of overseeing the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, …

Radovan Karadzic: the ultimate quack?
guardian.co.uk, UK
The extraordinary double life of Bosnian genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic as an alternative therapist poses the question: is this the final nail in the …

Arrest of Karadzic eases Dutch feelings of guilt
Radio Netherlands, Netherlands
Now that the former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been arrested, attention appears to be shifting away from the Dutch actions in Srebrenica. …

National Post editorial board on the arrest of Radovan Karadzic: A …
National Post, Canada
Boris Tadić has more integrity than Vojislav Koštunica ever had (faint praise indeed) but make no mistake: Radovan Karadzic was bought and paid for. …

The Radovan Karadzic trial will be a travesty
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
The loathsome Radovan Karadžić will be vacu-suctioned off to The Hague to face a court that violates every norm of jurisprudence. …

Court Advocates Hope Bashir Gets Message from Karadzic Arrest
Voice of America
He says that President Bashir may be able to draw some important lessons from the international resolve that finally brought Radovan Karadzic to justice. …

Timeline: Radovan Karadzic
Financial Times, UK
945 Radovan Karadzic is born into poverty in Savnik (now Montenegro), Yugoslavia, the son of a Serb nationalist fighter. 1960 He moves to Sarajevo, …

Blogosphere:

Sri Sri Radovan Karadzic
David Seaton
That’s why I laughed out loud when I read that Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb’s answer to Dr. Mengele, had disguised himself as a guru and nobody around him ever caught on… No flies on this mass murderer. A perfect disguise. …

Doctor Radovan Karadzic?
Cheryl Brink
The former president of Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic, was arrested yesterday on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the war from 1992 to 1995. He has been on the run for the last 11 years and apparently working as a …

Radovan Karadžić, The Balkans & China
davesgonechina
Radovan Karadžić has been arrested in Belgrade, where he has been hiding right under everyones noses under an assumed identity of a mystic healer. On the official Serbian/English website of his alter ego, Dr. Dragan Dabic, he claims he …

Things that are giving psychiatry a bad name – Radovan Karadzic
Frontier Psychiatrist
Anyone who thinks that psychiatrists are murders and psychopaths need look no further than Radovan Karadzic, who until yesterday was Europe’s most wanted man and is now awaiting trial for war crimes in The Hague. …

Radovan Karadzic/Dragan David Dabic’s website
Adam LeBor
If a Hollywood scriptwriter came up with a plot that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted war criminals, would be found posing as an alternative medicine practitioner in New Belgrade, wearing a long white …

Serbia: Radovan Karadzic was Disguised as a Doctor
Sinisa Boljanovic
On July 22, Rasim Ljaljic, president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, and Vladimir Vukcevic, a war crimes prosecutor, held a press conference about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic a day earlier. …

Jasmina Tešanović: My neighbor Radovan Karadzic (essay)
Xeni Jardin
Radovan Karadzic, poet, psychiatrist and planetary war criminal number one, effectively vanished in 1996. His General, Ratko Mladic, is still on the run. Karadzic and Mladic were the architect and the builder of the genocide in …

Radovan Karadzic is History
Mark Stoneman
For the generation of students I am now teaching, Radovan Karadzic might seem like ancient history. Only my older nontraditional students remember the Bosnian War. Those in their twenties and teens were either too young at the time to …

Sean M. Maloney on Radovan Karadzic’s time on the lam: What took …
Dan Goldbloom
After 13 years of futility, the West is cheering the capture of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a man accused of a log list of hideous war crimes. As someone who has followed the Balkans closely, I cannot help but think …

White House Hails Arrest of Radovan Karadzic
The White House lauds Serbia after its arrest of one of the world’s most wanted fugitives — Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the 1990s “ethnic cleansing.” “There is no better tribute to the victims of the war’s …

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 will help the policemen to collect data related on civil state, health, and to make photos of the gypsies.

The resulting database will be manage by the Red Cross, in the future.

Same time, the authorities will “census the gypsy children from the school to evaluate there level of knowledge”.

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini, suggest a database of the European Union for the fingerprints and ADN of the gypsy children that lives in the nomad camps. “The best way to protect these children is to give them an ID, to give them the right to health assistance and education,” explained Franco Frattini. So, there has to be developed “an European database with the name, fingerprint, and ADN data of all these children, for a safer life for them…. If EU will not adopt this solution of the fingerprinting and ADN, …. Italy will adopt it anyway“.

The European Commission asked for a report from the Rome authorities till the end of this month, in order to evaluate the legality of these measures.

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 situation in Afghanistan and Kosovo, as well as in other regions where NATO is engaged. NATO’s operations and missions are a driving force for the transformation of the Alliance and, in parallel, demonstrate the ability of the Organization to practise solidarity in very different circumstances.

An important point of the summit’s agenda will be the enlargement, for Croatia, Macedonia and Albania.

A major topic of the discussions will be the ability to sustain operations, together with the ability to confront security threats in an effective and unified way, concluding on the NATO’s capacity to provide forces for operations and the ways and means of preparing for future security challenges.

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“A NATO summit is not just a working meeting. It is also a symbol of transatlantic unity, of shared values, of common security and a common future,” NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said.“A symbolic meeting needs a symbolic logo. This one, which we are unveiling today, is based on the Wings of Freedom monument which any traveller to Bucharest will see on his way to and from the airport,” De Hoop Scheffer stated.

“There is no doubt that the concept of freedom is at the very foundation of the Alliance, and I think it is a very fitting symbol for our Summit : NATO values, with a Romanian flavour.”

During the NATO’s summit will be closed both airports in Bucharest, for security reasons. It will only be used by top summit guests including U.S. President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Vladimir Putin who has also indicated he will attend.

The summit is considered the biggest in NATO’s history, with heads of state and of government from all 26 NATO member states, as well as of 23 NATO partner states that will attend the summit.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Organisation (NATO); French: Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique de Nord (OTAN); (also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, or the Western Alliance) is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization established a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

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 a flower, an animal, a heart, tied to a red and white string. There are multiple symbols in this gift, but all of it have three common sense: revival, sensibility, and the care for the women.

The gift is considered to bring good luck and wealth. Some consider the red as the symbol of the Spring, and the white for Winter, the tradition taking place right between the two seasons. I prefer the version in which the two colors represent the love and the sincerity. This symbols fit better with the early Spring flowers associated with this tradition, especially the snowdrops.

There are archeological proves that the tradition is over 8 thousands years old. It was celebrated by Getas, and it is found in the celebration of Mars as the protector of the fertility and vegetation, as well as in the celebration of the Marsyas Silen god by the Dacians. The Dacian women use coins and little stones tied to red and white wool wires, for wealth and fertility.

Similar traditions can be found in Balkans, especially in Bulgaria (the tradition is called Martenitsa – Мартеница), Macedonia and Albania.

Marko Bela saluted Kosovo’s independence and asked for Romania to recognize Kosovo as a new state.

The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, (also Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania; Hungarian: Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség, RMDSz; Romanian: Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România, UDMR) is the main political organization representing the ethnic Hungarians of Romania. Officially organized as a political alliance (not as a party), UDMR nevertheless acts as one of the main parties of Romania. Since 1996, UDMR has been a member or supporter of every government. As of 2007, it is part of the governing coalition, along with the National Liberal Party.

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 its own independence? Will it be recognized by the other countries? And if the day after tomorrow an even smaller area within the previous one wants its own independence? How far is accepted the independence? What about a city? A street? A house?

The main question is not if Kosovo has or do not have the right to declare its own independence, but which are the conditions required for a given area to declare its own independence.

The historical conditions cannot be taken into consideration here, because the smallest land was independent before belonging to a state. How far in the past can be claimed the historical conditions?

What is the minimum percentage of people within that area that want to be independent, in order for the other countries to accept it? 50%, 75%, 100%?

If there will be no general accepted conditions but only the accept by the most important countries based on every specific area that intends to proclaim its independence, than we cannot speak about democracy, only about specific interests.

If there will be established specific conditions for the independence, than it will start the chaos.

The conclusion? My opinion? Our world has nothing to do with the democracy. The democracy is the religion, the God of the modern world, a tool. Everyone accepts or is forced to accept it and its rules, everyone speak about it, but nobody saw it.

Don’t you think that the latest wars are very similar with the crusades from the Middle Ages? Replace the Christianity with the democracy and see the result.

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 less a result of their population or Albania’s lobby, and more of a US lobby. And the European countries accepted it. More than this, this is a possible solution for the countries that lost territories after the World War II. It is a geopolitical strategy, and the start for a new geography of the world, especially in Europe. Here, I agree with Vladimir Putin.

I do not know if it is good or bad.

Some time ago I wrote a fictional scenario about the global warming and how it will influence the geopolitical strategies of all the developed countries. These actions fit with that scenario.

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 today that recognition of Kosovo’s independence would affect its attitude towards two breakaway regions of neighbouring Georgia. …

FACTBOX: EU to launch Kosovo police and justice mission
Reuters
(Reuters) – European Union states are due to approve this weekend the launch of a 2000-strong police and justice mission for Kosovo. …

Kosovo poised to declare independence on February 17 – report
Sofia Echo, Bulgaria
Kosovo will declare independence on February 17 2008 at 5pm local time, Kosovo government officials said minutes before an official news conference held …

Serbia’s Tadic vows to preserve Kosovo
Irish Times, Ireland
Serbia swore in President Boris Tadic today two days before Kosovo proclaims independence, in the country’s most traumatic moment since it was bombed by …

Kosovo’s looming independence raises question: Why not Scotland or …
International Herald Tribune, France
Kosovo’s looming independence raises all those questions and more. For starters: Why is statehood OK for some people but frowned on for others? …

Bulgaria Won’t Be Among the First to Recognize Kosovo
Hовини.bg, Bulgaria
Bulgarian ambassador in the United States Elena Poptodorova claimed that the pronouncement of Kosovo’s independence is just a matter of time. …

Serbian President vows to keep unwilling Kosovo
ABC Online, Australia
Boris Tadic has been sworn in as Serbia’s President, pledging to preserve his country’s sovereignty over Kosovo, which is to declare independence within …

Serbia denounces Kosovo independence bid
Houston Chronicle, United States
The government demanded that the Security Council “immediately annul” any Kosovo declaration of independence, and denounced a European Union plan to …

Serbia Rejects Kosovo Independence Bid
Forbes, NY
By SLOBODAN LEKIC 02.14.08, 8:52 AM ET Serbia’s government proclaimed Thursday that any unilateral act by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership to declare …

Something about Kosovo and the “Independence Week”
BalkanInsight.com, Serbia
So many harmful things that Kostunica’s government can do, such as cut the electricity wires, seal the borders, not recognise Kosovo’s independence ever… …

Kosovo’s independence weighs on Cyprus’ elections
Courrier International, France
“Because election day is also the day that Kosovo is expected to declare independence. The principle theme of the elections is the reunification of the …

Azerbaijan Not in Hurry to Recognize Kosovo’s Independence
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
On 15 February, the Kosovo Parliament approved of the resolution allowing the passing of a set of laws on Kosovo’s independence within 24 hours. …

Greek foreign minister discusses Kosovo misgivings with US officials
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria
AP WASHINGTON (AP) – Greek foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis discussed her reservations about Kosovo’s expected declaration of independence from Serbia with …

Serbia: President sworn in as Kosovo prepares for independence
آكي, Italy
“I solemnly swear that I will devote all my efforts to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the republic of Serbia, including Kosovo and …

Kosovo premier promises security for minorities
Monsters and Critics.com
Pristina – Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci remained mum Friday about when his breakaway province would declare its independence from Serbia, …

Top political analysts on Lavrov’s ‘end of Europe’ Kosovo warning
RIA Novosti, Russia
What, we asked, will be the geopolitical consequences of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence? Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence, …

Presevo Albanians Back Kosovo
BalkanInsight.com, Serbia
5 February 2008 Pristina _ Ethnic Albanian leaders from the Presevo valley, in southern Serbia, have expressed their support for Kosovo’s independence …