September 28, 2006
By Ioannis Michaletos A topic insufficiently researched in Greece nowadays is the existence and historical progression of freemasonry in the country. Great debates occur whenever this theme is mentioned, with conspiracy theorists doing their best to blame all of the misfortunes of the Greek state on the existence of the lodges. This article will examine [...]
September 27, 2006
By Christopher Deliso Tucked down a side road in southwestern Macedonia‘s lush countryside, just off the main road connecting Struga and Debar, Podgorci would seem an unlikely place for an exotic foreign religious sect to take root. In this globalized 21st century, however, the little village of stone and cement houses, chickens and cows, a [...]
September 25, 2006
The senior UN security official in Kosovo has disclosed that KFOR is “anticipating wide-scale violent actions and demonstrations carried out by hardline Serbian and Albanian groups,” as negotiations reach a climax over Kosovo’s projected independence. According to Makfax, on Sept. 22, KFOR arrested seven Kosovar Albanians allegedly involved in the anti-Serbian riots of March 2004. [...]
September 21, 2006
The acquittal of a Turkish novelist on the charge of “insulting Turkishness’ was billed as a crucial step in proving to the EU that its only Muslim candidate will not backslide on human rights and freedom of speech reforms that are deemed crucial to any future Turkish membership in the bloc. However, far more serious [...]
September 14, 2006
By Carl K. Savich* The village of Vratnica in northwestern Macedonia has evolved and developed with each generation since it was founded over 500 years ago. For over half a millennium, it existed as a farming community within the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The nationalist movements of the 19th and 20th centuries brought many changes and [...]
September 10, 2006
By David Binder It is now a month since Martti Ahtisaari made a remark to Belgrade’s negotiating team in Vienna about the Serbian people. According to them, he said Serbs were “guilty as a nation” for the actions of the Milosevic government during the Balkan wars. The accusation swiftly stirred comparisons to the “collective guilt” [...]
