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My Letter Published in the Wall Street Journal: Bob Dole's Corrupted Opinion on Bosnia

Julia Gorin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Balkans, Julia Gorin, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Wall Street Journal, Bob Dole, Serbs, Politics News
Julia Gorin

Below is the original version of my letter that the Wall Street Journal published today. Because of space considerations, there was no room for the wh...

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Best Places For Smokers Traveling Abroad: A Top-10 List

LA Times | Mark Milian | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: Smokers, Smoking, Serbia, Smoking Rules, Laos, Travel, Balkans, No Smoking, Boznia Herzegovina, Lung Cancer, Belarus, Cigarettes, Health, Russia, Smoking Permitted, Samoa, Cancer, Smoking Allowed, Tobacco, Austria, Greece, Nauru, World News

With so many places around the world instituting smoking regulations, increasing taxes and, quite literally, kicking smokers to the curb, it's getting...

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Global Beat Fusion: Tomorrow's Balkans

Derek Beres | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: World Music, Music, Brooklyn Music, Bucovina Club, Balkan Music, Shantel, Balkans, World News
Derek Beres

Shantel has near-singlehandedly championed Balkan music for well over a decade, ever since dropping a few folk tunes into a dance set in Brooklyn and watching the crowd catch fire.

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Discovering Greece: Thessaloniki is Cooler Than You

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Tourist Attractions, Macedonia, Greek, Mount Olympus, Travel, Balkans, Archaeology, Loreena McKennitt, Athens, Culture, Tourism, Art, Northern Greece, Christianity, Travel Writing, Greece, Thessaloniki, Israel, Ilana Teitelbaum, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

Thessaloniki is far from the classic tourist fantasy of Greece: there are no nearby islands, and Delphi and Athens are far away. But it is the country's cultural capital and the epitome of cool.

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Balkan Myths

John Feffer | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Nato, Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, World News
John Feffer

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Kosovo.

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Cluster Bombs In The Balkans, 10 Years Later, Still Threaten 160,000 People

Inter Press Service | Vesna Peric Zimonjic | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bomb Treaty, Norwegian People's Aid, Cluster Bombs, Kosovo, Foreign Affairs, Balkans, Serbia, Cluster Bomb Ban, NATO Cluster Bomb Treaty, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

BELGRADE, Apr 8 (IPS) - An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the N...

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Turkey: Not the Usual Geopolitical Sandwich

William Bradley | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey, Bosporus, Afghanistan, France, Pakistan, George W. Bush, European Union, Prague, G-20, London, Istanbul, Nato, Barack Obama, Germany, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Ankara, Jihadists, Cold War, Erdogan, Islam, Winston Churchill, Byzantine Empire, Neoconservative, Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mohammed Cartoons, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Roman Empire, Soviet Union, 100 Days, World News
William Bradley

Obama seems to see Turkey, which has friendly relations with Israel, as potentially a much stronger partner than any other NATO nation, perhaps even Britain.

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Macedonians Plant Six Million Trees In Single Day

Reuters | Kole Casule | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Macedonia, Green News, Climate Change, Environment, Balkans, Deforestation, Forests, Global Warming, Trees, Green News

Thousands of Macedonians took to the hills and forests on Wednesday to plant six million trees in a single day as part of a mass reforestation drive i...

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Previously Unknown Hagel Letter Warns Rice of Russia Collision

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abkhazia, Serbia, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, US Foreign Policy, South Ossetia, Russia, Stephen Hadley, Chuck Hagel, Balkans, Kosovo, Blowback, Politics News
Steve Clemons

This letter warns the administration that its actions in the Balkans ran the risk of triggering blowback from Russia -- it seems it was ignored.

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Catholic Priest Officiates at Fully-Uniformed Nazi's Funeral

Julia Gorin | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Nazi, Terrorism, Croatia, Thaci, Balkans, Serbia, Catholic, George Bush, Yugoslavia, Kosova, Serbs, Bosnia, Cheney, Albania, Karadzic, Vatican, Politics News
Julia Gorin

Commander of the second-largest concentration camp complex of World War II -- Croatia's Jasenovac -- passed away last week and received a burial in hi...

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Karadzic Told Us What He Planned; We Just Watched

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Associated Press, Bosnia, Balkans, Foreign Affairs, Press, Justice, Radovan Karadzic, Genocide, Politics News
Mort Rosenblum

Stepping back, we might take stock of where we are as a civilized world 16 years after Radovan Karadzic was allowed to exterminate people he found inconvenient.

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Par For the Course: Purported Serbian Killer of Muslims Arrested; Confirmed Muslim Killers of Christian Serbs Acquitted, Embraced

Julia Gorin | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Julia Gorin, Serbia, Karadzic, Kosovo, Bosnia, Bush, Serbs, Terrorism, Balkans, Politics News
Julia Gorin

When will Americans finally ask what is happening when the U.S. is embracing China, North Korea, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, "Palestine", "Kosova" -- while isolating Serbia?

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