August 30, 2004
The aggressive tone Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has taken up over the past two months in regard to Russia’s backing for the separatist region of South Ossetia picked up considerably last week, with the announcement that Georgia should prepare for war with Russia.However, considering that Georgia’s civil wars in the 1990’s, with Abkhaz and Ossetian [...]
August 26, 2004
By Thammy Evans Bradt Travel Guides, 2004 Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Indispensable, because it’s the only one out there, insufferable, because it’s so patchily written and permeated with questionable opinions, Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide bills itself as “the first-ever travel guide” to Macedonia. It is a book that, while definitely helpful in its wealth [...]
August 23, 2004
Ellen Mickiewicz is the leading American expert on the Russian television media, and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke University in North Carolina. Her views about the state of Russian television broadcasting are informed by many years of detailed research, fieldwork, and constant attention to emerging trends. A full [...]
August 21, 2004
The following is the second part of our exclusive interview with Macedonia’s world-renowned opera singer, Boris Trajanov, on the current state of Macedonia and some possible ways of improving the situation in the years ahead.CD: What about with the new minority language rights, and new Albanian university in Tetovo. Do you think these things will [...]
August 20, 2004
Rarely do we spring to the defense of Kosovo’s UNMIK masters. However, in the spirit of correcting media errors where and when they occur, it seems meet at this time to resurrect a story that was destined for publication a month and a half ago, but somehow got lost within the mountain of data we [...]
August 19, 2004
One of Macedonia’s most illustrious international representatives is renowned opera singer Boris Trajanov, who has attained fame throughout the world, playing to opera houses in France, Italy, Germany, America and more. (A detailed professional biography follows the interview text). In this exclusive interview, conducted last month in the aftermath of the decentralization protests in Struga [...]
August 17, 2004
It must be a nice view from Brussels. That is the vantage point from where EU officials and pseudo-governmental appendages like the International Crisis Group loftily dictate both their wisdom and their terms to the ignorant savages of the Balkans. The revival of turbulent events (most recently, today’s announcement that the world-famous Struga Poetry Festival, [...]
August 16, 2004
Like everywhere else, Skopje is changing, and perceptibly so. The following images of Skopje in summer may have potential historic value some day; for now, they may simply serve to provide humorous illustration of the article’s theme.This year has seen a wild proliferation of new buildings springing up everywhere in Skopje – apartments, office buildings, [...]
August 12, 2004
On Wednesday, a Bush administration spokesman declared Porter Goss, the president’s nominee for CIA chief, “…the most qualified man for the job.” This statement came in response to the shocking revelation, supplied by Goss himself, that he was in fact not qualified for the job.Until now, most of the grumbling over Goss has come from [...]
August 11, 2004
As the Athens Olympics descends upon us, various Balkan countries are confident of victory in Greece. Of course, it’s part wishful thinking, but also there are some definite contenders. Yet scandal has already arisen in the case of Bulgaria, and a general air of giddy confusion prevails as the Greeks grapple with last-minute media disparagement, [...]
