Because there has been way too much heavy content lately….
[Preamble: This post takes issue with a few paragraphs of a very long and overall excellent report from Kosovo. I have the author at a disadvantage as I am nitpicking over words and phrases that perhaps I have misinterpreted and that perhaps require more context. Please judge for yourselves by reading the article first before [...]
Earlier this evening the pro-Karadzic rally called by the Serbian Radical party turned violent (B92 report now online).
It all happened very fast, with a group of hooligans spotting a relatively isolated unit of riot police, putting on masks and attacking.
I think the incident could have been prevented by a more organised police response. The police [...]
Check out this superb comic from SubNormality:
The Horror…The…uh…horror..?
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“The prosecution has strong incentives to try to tell the story of the war, rather than focus narrowly on successful conviction. This is the international tribunal’s signature case — especially after the termination of the Milosevic prosecution — and it will be heavily institutionally invested in the outcome and the legacy it creates, the more [...]
Last summer I was enjoying a drink with a friend in his apartment overlooking the Thames and Canary Wharf. His adorable little three year old daughter was entertaining us with songs and dancing and other antics. At one point she sat on his knee and asked what he was drinking. After he told he it [...]
In June this year author & Balkanologist Misha Glenny was interviewed by B92 about his new book on organized crime “McMafia”.
The interview gives a fascinating insight into the role of organized crime in the Balkans, in particular their central role in the recent Balkan wars.
I have quoted the interview extensively here in a few sample [...]
Yesterday afternoon I decided to attend one of the daily protests in support of Radovan Karadzic that are being organized by Serbian ultra-nationalists.
Here are a selection of pictures from the event, which was entirely peaceful, but in many ways utterly bizarre, especially when Mladic showed up…
This was the scene playing out as I arrived, about [...]
A recent post about the Yalta Intourist Hostel (above) led me to lexlibertas.com where found this handy list of sites devoted in part to Soviet Nostalgia.
A Russia of My Own
copydude
Da Russophile
Darkness at Noon
Deciphering Transdniestria
English Russia
Learn Russian
Misty Beth
Neeka’s Backlog
Registran.net
Russia 3.0
Russian History Blog
Russian Reading Challenge 2008
Russian TV
Russophile
Scraps of Moscow
Sean’s Russia Blog
Siberian Light
The Russian Dilettante
Transparent Russian Community
White Sun [...]
Someone posted this video on my Facebook account in response to my recent article on Karadzic.
Setting aside who did what to whom in Bosnia this video does reveal that Pallywood tactics were used by the Bosnian Muslims in a very similar way that Palestinians and Hezbollah use them.
It does seems a feature of the Muslim [...]