Tag Archive | Yugoslavia
The Guardian: Zoran Djindjic understood at a very early age that revolution and money-making were not mutually exclusive activities
Zoran Djindjic Serbia’s most capable and daring politician Misha Glenny guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 March 2003 21.04 GMT The murder in Belgrade of the Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic has deprived Serbia of its most capable and daring politician. His tireless organisational skills proved absolutely critical at the high point of his career, when the Democratic Opposition […]
NO to NATO: The Breakup of Yugoslavia
Beginning in 1990 Germany and the United States sought and achieved the breakup of Yugoslavia in two stages—1992-1995 and 1998-1999. The German government aimed at this division because it wanted to include as territory of its “vital interest” Slovenia and Croatia, the most economically developed states of the Yugoslavian confederation. These states were old allies in the Second […]
NO to NATO – The US/NATO War in Yugoslavia: Eight Myths
NO to NATO – The US/NATO War in Yugoslavia: Eight Myths Myth #1. U.S./NATO had to attack “the Serbs” because the Yugoslav government and President Slobodan Milosevic refused to negotiate on Kosovo, a region of Yugoslavia where ethnic Albanians are the majority. Reality: U.S./NATO bombs are falling on all Yugoslavs: Serbs, Montenegrins, Albanians, Hungarians, Romanis (called Gypsies) […]
Dark Soldiers of the New Order
The Soviet Union’s spies haven’t disappeared, they’re just wearing new clothes. An exclusive excerpt from Edward Lucas’s new book, Deception. Forin Policy (BY EDWARD LUCAS | JULY 13, 2012) The cold breath of the Communist secret police state blighted countless lives behind the Iron Curtain. But it also touched my own childhood in 1970s Oxford. Olgica, our […]
Serbian FBR in foreign languages... 