Two weeks ago I arrived at The Hague, Netherlands to visit a friend of mine, N., who interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She and I taught at the same high school in Sarajevo in 2006. I flew at 6:20 a.m., thus all I wanted to do the rest of the [...]
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Kosovo Declared Independence
On Sunday, 17 of February, 2008 Kosovo’ parliament declared independence from Serbia with back up of the USA, Britain, Germany and France. [BBC]
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Frenchman, a Cuban, a Bosnian and an American are stranded in a lifeboat fighting to survive after their ship has gone down. They are trying to show bravado in the middle of a bad situation. The Frenchman pops open a bottle of French wine he’s saved from their sinking sink, takes a few sips and [...]
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Four astronauts land on the moon. An American, a German and two Serbs. The American jumps out and plants a flag on the surface exclaiming that US derring-do and money made their mission possible so the moon will belong to America. The German pulled out the flag and stuck in a flag from his country [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Balkan for Beginners – Where Is It and What Does It Mean? (Part 1)
Map The Balkan border is a disputing issue as Slovenia is included on some maps and not on the other, and the part of Romania which belongs to this region is unclear. Balkan Scissors blogs a short but fairly detailed post describing the Balkan: The identity of the Balkans owes as much to its fragmented [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Slovenia Begins EU Presidency
As of January 1st, 2008, Slovenia becomes the first new EU member (countries which join the EU in 2004) to resume the 6-month EU presidency. Some of Slovenia’s main concerns are to smoothen its former neighbors’ acceptance to EU as well as ease the tension regarding Kosovo’s independence. [Link, EU2008]
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Read the rest of this entry »Serbo-Croatian Language – Brief Course on Dialects
Under no circumstance that I want to insult your sense of living; in fact I encourage your to get a life. Sniffing through a long post about language is not a recommended weekend’s pastime. However, this article presents many interesting facts about the language. Hard but good to read. One characteristic word you’ll hear among [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Does Bosnia Really Exist?
I am not the one who asks the above question. Apparently, a techie working on a SEO Black Hat project needs help from people who live in Bosnia-Herzegovina. However, he starts having some doubt about the existence of this country. And No! This isn’t a philosophical question nor and this clueless techie is a Serb. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Germany Supports Bosnia’s EU Bid
The road to EU for Bosnia will be indeed a long one. I don’t think Bosnia has to worry about is the support from other EU countries—Germany and eventually many more. You belong to the European family of nations…your place is in the European Union and we will support your on your way to integration,” [...]
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