Archive for the ‘Balkans’ Category
Posted on August 25, 2010 - by Venik
Microsoft for Soviet Macedonia
I don’t know why, but today I stopped by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. I was greeted by a photo of Lake Debar located in western Macedonia near the border with Albania. When I hovered the mouse over little black squares on the photo, I was given a quick lesson in Macedonia’s history. My knowledge of [...]
Posted on July 22, 2008 - by Venik
Tadic Selling Out… Again
Serbia’s pro-NATO puppet government of Boris Tadic arrested Radovan Karadžić, the leader of Republika Srpska and a Bosnian Serb national hero who in the early 1990s led popular resistance to NATO-backed Muslim extremists in Yugoslavia. In 1992-1996 Karadžić led the heroic defense of Sarajevo against Muslim fundamentalists. The city’s Serbian defenders were finally forced to [...]
Posted on February 25, 2008 - by Venik
BBC Looking for Kosovo Compromise
In its latest news report on Kosovo – Russia weighs options on Kosovo – BBC is wondering how Russia may respond to Kosovo’s declaration of independence. Russia is clearly weighing up its options. It must balance its desire to maintain reasonably cordial relations with its business partners in Europe with its new assertiveness abroad… In [...]
Posted on February 23, 2008 - by Venik
Russia’s Threat of Military Intervention in Kosovo
As I predicted (see Russia’s Kosovo Options post on Feb. 15), Russia’s response to Kosovo’s declaration of independence is spilling outside the usual diplomatic channels. The latest BBC headline reads “Russia could use force in Kosovo”. Russia’s ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told journalists that “Russia does not exclude the possibility of a military intervention [...]
Posted on February 15, 2008 - by Venik
Russia’s Kosovo Options
An interesting opinion about Russia’s options regarding the Kosovo situation was published by Reuters in their “Russia’s options limited for Kosovo retaliation” (Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:34am EST). Fyodr Lukyanov, editor of the respected journal Russia in Global Affairs, believe that Russia’s immediate response to the expected proclamation of independence by Kosovo will be limited [...]
Posted on February 15, 2008 - by Venik
Kosovo Quagmire, Round Two
Western media is in a rush to point out that Russia’s support of Serbia on the issue of Kosovo is a result of cultural ties between the two countries, as well as Russia’s desire to regain its influence in international politics. Russia’s failure to protect Serbia from aggression by NATO in 1999 was a humiliating [...]
