As the New Year approaches, Kosovo, a rebellious part of Serbia with a predominantly Albanian population, has been once again added to the list of active hotspots. The debate over the role of Russia in it has again intensified. After a series of severe provocations, the Kosovo authorities announced an […]
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Aroused By Power: Why Madeleine Albright Was Not Right
When involved in war, those who feel like benefactors are bound to congratulate the gun toting initiators. If you so happen to be on the losing end, sentiments are rather different. Complicity and cause in murder come to mind. The late US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will always be […]
India And The Donbass Republics
India’s dilemma over humanitarian intervention is revisiting it, with Russia’s recognition of the two self-proclaimed Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states. India is certainly not going to follow the Russian footfalls. The heart of the matter is that India has adopted a consistent position on issues involving […]
Sir Tony Blair: Bloody Knight Of The Realm
Awards and honours bestowed by States or private committees, republican or monarchical, are bound to be corrupted by considerations of hypocrisy, racketeering and general, chummy disposition. From the Nobel Peace Prize to the range of eccentric and esoteric orders bestowed each year in Britain by Her Majesty, diddling and manipulating […]
The 1937 Memorandum On The “Albanian Question” In Yugoslavia (II)
Part I The 1937 Memorandum – measures to protect Yugoslavia The Memorandum’s author as a professional historian quite clearly understood that the only way and the only means to cope with them in order to protect Yugoslavia from Albanian separatism, terrorism, and Albanization was to use the legitimate force by […]
The 1937 Memorandum On The “Albanian Question” In Yugoslavia (I)
In 1937 a Memorandum to the Royal Yugoslav Government was presented by Vaso Chubrilovic on solving the “Albanian Question” in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A Bosnian Serb Vaso Chubrilovic (1897−1990) was a historian, teacher, university professor, minister, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and politician. In […]
Kosovo: Land, Demography, Economy, And Religion (II)
Part I Economy: Gastarbeiters and criminal business In Kosovo-Metochia (KosMet) traditionally part of the gastarbeiters’ (guest workers) money is proliferated by financing criminal business but first of all a drug smuggling, which from the Middle East goes via KosMet to West Europe. It is one of the principal occupations of […]
Kosovo: Land, Demography, Economy, And Religion (I)
Territory, people, and physical power (security forces like police and army) are the inevitable prerequisites for creating a state. The ethnic Albanians were at the beginning intruders into the autonomous province of South-West Serbia – Kosovo-Metohia (KosMet), who constituted a small minority there (in 1455 only 2%). The focal question […]
How Yugoslavia Was Wiped Out From The Map (V)
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV On October 17th, 1998 occurred renewed military clashes between the KLA and the Yugoslav security forces (Serbian police and Yugoslav Army). An anti-Serbian policy of the EU became once again confirmed in October 1998 when illegitimate “President” of the “Republic of Kosova” […]
How Yugoslavia Was Wiped Out From The Map (IV)
Part I, Part II, Part III The summer of 1990 was extremely hot in Kosovo for the reason that on July 2nd, Kosovo Albanians issued a declaration of independence within Yugoslavia that was, actually, a political revolt to the fact that on June 26th, using temporary measures, Belgrade took over […]
How Yugoslavia Was Wiped Out From The Map (III)
Part I, Part II Kosovo Albanians On April 6th, 1941, the German troops invaded both Yugoslavia and Greece. All of Kosovo became occupied by the Italian, German, and Bulgarian troops during a week. On April 17th, the Royal Yugoslav Army signed an armistice with Germany (but not capitulation! It means […]
How Yugoslavia Was Wiped Out From The Map (II)
Part I The Serbs and Serbia On the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, no single ethnic group had an absolute majority but the Serbs have been the most numerous nation having a simple majority. According to the 1981 census, the Serbs counted 36,8%, the Croats 19,8% followed by the Muslims (today Bosniaks) […]
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