Archive for 2008/08 :

Spark, fire and water: Kosovo & Georgia

Posted by AriRusila on 20/08/08

Bearing in mind the risks for Poland’s allies in the Caucasus, Georgia above all, Warsaw’s recognition of the Kosovo Albanians’ secession was described as an irresponsible move by Nobel Peace laureate and former Polish president, Lech Walesa. “Recognizing Kosovo will bring nothing but trouble. No one can be denied the right to self-determination, but only [...]

Documentary movies Yugoslavia and Kosovo wars

Posted by AriRusila on 19/08/08

Please note that I have added two interesting movies to my Document Library. They are

Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War Part 1, and
Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War Part 2

This is a documentary movie which traces how crucial mistakes made by the West helped lead to the unnecessary breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, culminating in the devastating NATO [...]

Spark, fire and water: Kosovo & Georgia

Posted by AriRusila on 19/08/08

Bearing in mind the risks for Poland’s allies in the Caucasus, Georgia above all, Warsaw’s recognition of the Kosovo Albanians’ secession was described as an irresponsible move by Nobel Peace laureate and former Polish president, Lech Walesa. “Recogniz…

Spark, fire and water: Kosovo & Georgia

Posted by AriRusila on 19/08/08

Bearing in mind the risks for Poland’s allies in the Caucasus, Georgia above all, Warsaw’s recognition of the Kosovo Albanians’ secession was described as an irresponsible move by Nobel Peace laureate and former Polish president, Lech Walesa. “Recognizing Kosovo will bring nothing but trouble. No one can be denied the right to self-determination, but only [...]

Power in service of ethics

Posted by AriRusila on 16/08/08

Originally published 14/08/2008During last twenty years war for humanitarian reasons has came quite popular in political vocabulary e.g. in Balkans and now with Georgia case. The ideal to use power in the service of ethics is good. The problem is the l…

Bosnian X-files opening

Posted by AriRusila on 16/08/08

Originally published 12/08/2008Very interesting interview of former Hague Tribunal spokeswoman Florence Hartmann popped to my eyes from newspaper Blic. Referring the arrest of Radovan Karadzic she told, that “information about the fugitives’ whereabou…

Kosovo -> South-Ossetia -> Abkhazia ->

Posted by AriRusila on 16/08/08

Originally published 09/08/2008Georgia launched a major military offensive against South Ossetia on Friday in a bid to regain control of its breakaway province. The attack started few hours after declared ceasefire, just before opening Day of Olympic…

Forgotten pogrom – Operation “Storm”

Posted by AriRusila on 16/08/08

Originally published 05/08/2008Today 13 years has went since the massive ethnic cleansing of more than 250,000 Serbs from Krajina in Croatia. Thirteen years ago, on August 4 1995, 200,000 Croat army and police troops from Croatia and the Croat Defense …

Nazi’s Funeral shadows Croatia’s past

Posted by AriRusila on 16/08/08

Originally published on 01/08/2008Israel’s ambassador to Croatia, Shmuel Meirom, harshly criticized on Thursday 31 July 2008 the funeral given to a head of a World War Two concentration camp in Zagreb, saying also that it insulted the memory of those…

Belgrad riots & wider perspective

Posted by AriRusila on 16/08/08

Originally published on 30/07/2008This night I was watching news from Belgrade where some 15.000 demonstrators were involved running battles with riot police after a Belgrade rally in support of Radovan Karadzic. In every capital one can find hardliner…

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