Or something. Effective December 19th, citizens of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia can travel visa-free throughout the borderless Schengen area of the EU, which includes most of mainland Europe. These newest three states were preceded by Slovenia and Croatia, while Bosnia and Albania will be reviewed next year. Kosovo is not currently slated for inclusion in the Schengen agreement and has as ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina has slippedfurther in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scale. It was revealed at the CPI presentation held in Sarajevo on 17 November, that Bosnia and Herzegovina had ranked a score of 3.0 - a score shared by countries between 99th to 105th position - in an index that covers 180 countries. The Index ranks countries from those with the ...
... her out. I was slightly surprised that Detective Talia (Andrea Thompson) didn't know more about the conflict in Yugoslavia and it was left to Reid and Rossi to fill in the blanks... though maybe it was a bigger deal..., I was also in the middle of doing my Leaving Cert, so was keeping up on all the current news events in English and Irish for to write essays on it, so that could be why I was all "...
... of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that recently made the news for discovering water on the Moon through its unmanned lunar mission ( Chandrayaan-I ). He ...his mark on the international stage as the brainchild of the Non-AlignedMovement (NAM), along with Yugoslavia's Josep Tito and Egypt's Gamel Abdul Nasser. Unfortunately NAM ended in failure. But ...
... enough to fit.) ...another really interestingsounding prog group from the 70s, a band from Belgrade... which i guess was Yugoslavia then, but is now Serbia. It was hard to find, and i had to order it from Austria... but i've got high hopes that it will be worth the $40 i paid for it. :o In other news, i only have 5 days until i leave for MFF, goddamn. And i haven't done a thing to prepare ...
.... Imagine this dilemma: You're Israel's highest-ranking public relations expert. The world's news coverage, which shapes public opinion, is at best neutral and more typicallyhostile to Israel.... deteriorate: witness Serbia, at one point the thriving multicultural nucleus of a decent enough Yugoslaviafederation, over the 1990s transformed into a petty state run by gangsters and ethnic cleansers....
... of people now led new ways of life in new states with new borders. The world was rearranged as in a great postwar settlement -- but without a war. So profound were the changes that when Yugoslavia started to breakapart and the outside actors -- conditioned by habit to play leading roles in the drama -- stumbled onto the stage, the players seemed bewildered and scriptless. … With his work to ...
In this quick Reuters piece about the 12-year prison sentence handed down by a Belgrade court to Ilija Jurišić for 1992 war crimes, the offense is described as "improper battlefield conduct by ordering an attack on a column of the Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA) on May 15, 1992 in the town of Tuzla." What they don't mention anywhere in the article is that merely attacking foreign troops isn't ...
In yesterday's blog post on the failure of terrorism in Québec to survive through the 1970s, I mentioned that a major reason for the failure of the Front de Libération du Quec to survive was the fact that the people of Québec regarded their institutions as legitimate and democratic, and viewed violence directed towards people as abhorrent. Most members of most cells of the FLQ have been ...
...hard to find. Even as I give one interview after another in Yugoslavia, I sympathize with the wish to not give interviews. I think it...moderns you liked. But in one of your poems, “Meditation on a News Item,” you are dealing with Hemingway, or rather with a meeting between...wish you a very nice stay. How long are you staying in Yugoslavia? Leaving soon? Updike: Leaving all too soon; I’m just getting ...
