October 21, 2005
Some readers may have wondered what exactly is that funny little man in the ad on the left side of the page all about. So let’s take a minute to explain. Since 2004, Balkanalysis.com has been partnered with the Central and Eastern European Online Library, a cool German company that makes the works of a [...]
August 31, 2005
This analysis, originally published one year ago, recounts the heated events leading up to Georgia’s stymied attempt at starting a war with its neighbors. Although he had been empowered by the Americans in the so-called ‘Rose Revolution,’ President Mikheil Saakashvili learned that there is a limit to everything. The aggressive tone Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili [...]
August 14, 2005
By Vassia Gueorguieva* For more than a month after the parliamentary elections on June 25th, the political forces in Bulgaria have been unable to strike a deal to form a new coalition government. As predicted by polls, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) won the majority of the votes (34%) followed by the incumbent National Movement [...]
August 13, 2005
By Christopher Deliso I deliberately did not write anything about Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” when it was going down 10 months ago. Really, what to say? Everything about it was so depressingly predictable that there was nothing left to the imagination: the student protests, the staged rock concerts, the proliferation of colors and slogans, the shocking [...]
August 4, 2005
Balkan memorials and anniversaries tend to be bathed in blood, and Friday’s planned gala event in Zagreb – a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of ‘Operation Storm’ is no exception. Far from being an occasion for shame, at least in Croatia, the single biggest act of ethnic cleansing in Europe since World War II, in [...]
August 1, 2005
Balkanalysis.com is back! We apologize to readers who suffered through technical problems over the past few weeks- we changed servers and had various bugs to work out, but now hopefully everything has been resolved. Stay tuned for lots of interesting new reports, starting with tomorrow’s interview with Macedonia’s foremost military historian, author of a controversial [...]
June 20, 2005
Balkanalysis.com is going to take a brief hiatus due to summer break – and you should too! This means that until the end of July, no new articles will be posted. Email will also not be checked during this period. For those readers who must stay glued to the internet because of responsibilities, obsessions or [...]
June 4, 2005
Bulgarian foreign investment continued strongly with several high-profile acquisitions in recent weeks. But now that the European Union’s failed attempt at creating a constitution has affected enthusiasm for enlargement, will there be any negative results for Bulgaria? On June 1, Telekom Austria signed a Share Purchase Agreement which gave it total ownership of Mobiltel AD. [...]
May 12, 2005
Romania is in the midst of the worst flooding in a century, according to the Red Cross, which has performed massive relief work while calling for more donor aid for heavily affected regions. Related flooding has also caused widespread damage in neighboring Serbia, while an unrelated deluge caused 650 people to be evacuated from their [...]
May 6, 2005
It is in the grips of the mafia, but Bulgaria will nevertheless join the EU in 2007. Or will it? Brussels has threatened that if it does not clean up its act that accession might be imperiled, reports Reuters in describing the latest affront to civilized society in Bulgaria: the stabbing on Tuesday night of [...]
