Civil War in Ukraine: Western Empire vs Russia

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Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Риторический вопрос. Ответ зависит от того кто будет на него отвечать. Косово в олимпиаде участвует и в ООН заседает, только почему то там же не видно ни Северной Осетии, ни Абхазии, ни Приднестровской республики. Я молчу о совсем новых ДНР и ЛНР.

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Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither North Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.
 
youlik said:
Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Риторический вопрос. Ответ зависит от того кто будет на него отвечать. Косово в олимпиаде участвует и в ООН заседает, только почему то там же не видно ни Северной Осетии, ни Абхазии, ни Приднестровской республики. Я молчу о совсем новых ДНР и ЛНР.

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Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither North Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.


Correct me - if I am wrong but in SToRd1dR's quote below - my impression is that SToRd1dR is pointing out that the Unites States is "ignorant" of Crimea's History - just like the misconception that Kosovo is part of Serbia? Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014, and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the secession. Albanian Kosovo is an independent and sovereign state recognized by 109 member countries of the United Nations and not part of Serbia. Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

Kosovo is part of Serbia?

US urges Ukraine-Russia restraint over Crimea

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/12/479608/Russia-Crimea-Ukraine-US

History Proves Kosovo Was Never Part of Serbia
http://newsblaze.com/thoughts/opinions/history-proves-kosovo-was-never-part-of-serbia_40079/

As a result of the colonialism, genocide and annexation committed by Serbia on Albanians in Kosovo as well as the other indigenous territories of ethnic Albania (1912-1999) which is separated into two parts in favor of the enlargement of Serbia’s territory – Great Serbia.

This was the main reason why Kosovo struggled through centuries to achieve full independence from Serbia. The indisputable historical facts prove that the origin of the conflict between Serbians and Albanians are not from the more recent era of Tito’s Yugoslavia(1943-1989) or from Slobodan Milosevic Yugoslavia (Serbia+ Montenegro,1989-1999), but is a struggle that has taken place over centuries.

Albanians have never stopped their struggle against Serbian colonial rule and genocide, and have always remained determined to regain their rights to the indigenous territories of ethnic Albania.

The right of self-determination and independence of Albanians in Kosovo is supported by the following arguments:
•Firstly, Kosovo has been inhabited by Illyrians, who were the ancestors at present day Albanians; Albanians constitute over 90% of Kosovo’s inhabitants.
•Secondly, in 1878, Kosovo was part of the ethnic Albania. In that year, as a counter-replay to anti-Albanian resolutions, adopted by the Congress of Berlin in 1878 the Albanian League of Prizren was founded, but then was destroyed by the military intervention of Russia and the Ottoman Empire, which led the Great Powers’ Congress of Berlin in 1878 to enable Serbia and Montenegro to grab Albanian lands and to commit genocide against Albanians for the second time. That was the Russian intervention in favor of the Serbia and Montenegro which destroyed peaceful coexistence in the Balkans.
•Third, Kosovo was a legal part of Albania (November 28, 1912), but was invaded by Serbian military forces who committed genocide against its indigenous people.

The historical, juridical and political injustice created by the Great European Powers led to the separation of Kosovo from its motherland. Fourthly in 1918, Kosovo became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by force and genocide, but it was a flagrant act of colonialism, dividing Albanian territories, and giving rise to the Albanian right to the decolonization of Kosovo.

In summary, Kosovo’s dissociation from Serbia is justified by the following reasons: (1) historically, Kosovo has never legally been a part of Serbian territory, but only became annexed to Serbia by genocide and colonial plunder;and (2) historically, culturally and linguistically, Kosovo belongs to the civilization of western Europe, as Albanians are ethnically the descendants of Illyrians and not at all descendants of Slaves or Muslims as Serbian quasi-history, politics and propaganda try to misinform the public by fabricating their history in order to hide their centennial colonial genocides committed on Albanians and ethnic Albania (1878-1999).
 
Ukraine's Ministry of Education has introduced radical changes to the country's education system, simplifying the school curriculum for grades 1-4. According to the reforms' critics, the changes will have catastrophic long-term effects for the country's future.

Ukraine's Soros'-Inspired Education Reforms Turning Into a Complete Catastrophe
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160812/1044209120/ukraine-education-reform-analysis.html

The curriculum changes, stepping into force in September, include a simplification of Ukrainian language lessons, the simplification of reading evaluation, and a reduction in grammar lessons, as well as writing and presentation studies, until the third grade.

The reform also includes politicized changes to the reading, music and visual arts programs. The literary works of "irrelevant Soviet authors" have been removed from the curriculum, together with songs including the famous Soviet wartime song 'The Sacred War', which has been deemed 'anti-Ukrainian'.

In mathematics too, the requirements for early grades have been simplified, with the curriculum reducing memorization tables for basic sums. Total teaching time has been reduced, and 3,800 older teachers will have their wages reduced, based for the most part on their age and allegedly for 'carrying the tradition of Soviet schools'.

In its analysis of the changes to the curriculum, Rossiyaskaya Gazeta pointed out that the reform of the education system was the initiative of Education Minister Liliya Hrynevych, who prior to her entry into politics was involved in the Ukraine chapter of the Renaissance Foundation, associated with Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science's press statements on the reform, Hrynevych has expressed a special gratitude to Soros for the Fund's assistance on this "joint project."

Not everyone is thrilled about the changes. Commenting on the reform earlier this year, Evgeny Muraev, a Rada MP from the Kharkiv region, slammed the initiative in the harshest manner possible:

"It is very symptomatic that the 'simplification' of the school program was announced alongside the increase in gas tariffs, and suggestions that Ukrainians return to heating their homes using firewood….The main thing is to teach people to read, to write and count using their fingers. For a primitive economy or cleaning toilets in Europe nothing more is needed." Muraev noted, in an angry post on his Facebook page.

Muraev isn't alone in his dire assessment. Speaking to the independent Russian newspaper Svobodnaya Pressa, Ukrainian political analyst and publicist Dmitri Galkin suggested that the education reform comes as no surprise.

"The state has no money to invest in education, nor the desire to engage in its development." Furthermore, "Minister Hrynevych is a sufficiently experienced person; she has worked all her life in the education system, and is well aware of its problems. Therefore there can be no question about someone's poor understanding of the consequences of the introduction of these new evaluation criteria. She is deliberately adjusting these criteria in accordance with the situation which has developed, because she knows perfectly well that the state will not be able to find the funds to increase teachers' pay. Accordingly, it is easier to simply reduce the workload placed on them."

Ukrainian political scientist Alexander Dudchak was even more blunt, telling the online newspaper that "the country is facing a deliberate program aimed at the mental debilitation of the population. An uneducated population is easier to control, its interests are less expensive for the economic and political forces in power. Overall, this is merely a continuation of the strategy launched at Maidan…the transformation of the sovereign state of Ukraine into a collection of resources, among them the labor force. And this kind of slave labor should be cheap and unpretentious."

As for Soros' role, Dudchak suggested that the 'philanthropist' "was just one of the cogs in the global system of governance of peoples and states, working to establish control over significant areas of the globe without the use of the armed forces. His resources, and the US state apparatus standing behind him, has done a lot for the destruction of the education system, and not just in Ukraine. His poisonous patronage is known worldwide. And in Ukraine, as in other countries, there were many people, some consciously, others blindly, and others still for a small fee, who were ready to work for the destruction of their country using the money of Soros and other donors."

Unfortunately, the expert recalled,"Soros appeared in Ukraine while it was still part of the Soviet Union, and in this time financed a huge number of projects in a variety of professional associations, in social and government agencies. His contribution to the degradation of Ukraine and its transformation under the standards [ensuring] the West's interests are very high."


Yevgeny Panov, the supposed leader of the Ukrainian subversive group seized in Crimea, has made a confession stating that secret service career officers had been members of the group in charge of preparing sabotage attacks.

The video recording with his confessions was aired by Rossiya’24 news channel.

Crimea subversion group included professional secret service officers
http://novorossia.today/crimea-subversion-group-included-professional-secret-service-officers/

“The group included the professional intelligence officers Alexander Kirillov (codename Kirill), someone Dmitry by name, and Oleg Litvinenko (codename Dog Fox). Also, the group includes Sambul Alexei (codename Sigh), and a guy whose first name or surname I don’t know but who has the codename Deshikh,” Panov said.
 
angelburst29 said:
youlik said:
Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Риторический вопрос. Ответ зависит от того кто будет на него отвечать. Косово в олимпиаде участвует и в ООН заседает, только почему то там же не видно ни Северной Осетии, ни Абхазии, ни Приднестровской республики. Я молчу о совсем новых ДНР и ЛНР.

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Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither North Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.


Correct me - if I am wrong but in SToRd1dR's quote below - my impression is that SToRd1dR is pointing out that the Unites States is "ignorant" of Crimea's History - just like the misconception that Kosovo is part of Serbia? Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014, and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the secession. Albanian Kosovo is an independent and sovereign state recognized by 109 member countries of the United Nations and not part of Serbia. Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

Kosovo is part of Serbia?

US urges Ukraine-Russia restraint over Crimea

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/12/479608/Russia-Crimea-Ukraine-US

History Proves Kosovo Was Never Part of Serbia
http://newsblaze.com/thoughts/opinions/history-proves-kosovo-was-never-part-of-serbia_40079/

As a result of the colonialism, genocide and annexation committed by Serbia on Albanians in Kosovo as well as the other indigenous territories of ethnic Albania (1912-1999) which is separated into two parts in favor of the enlargement of Serbia’s territory – Great Serbia.

This was the main reason why Kosovo struggled through centuries to achieve full independence from Serbia. The indisputable historical facts prove that the origin of the conflict between Serbians and Albanians are not from the more recent era of Tito’s Yugoslavia(1943-1989) or from Slobodan Milosevic Yugoslavia (Serbia+ Montenegro,1989-1999), but is a struggle that has taken place over centuries.

Albanians have never stopped their struggle against Serbian colonial rule and genocide, and have always remained determined to regain their rights to the indigenous territories of ethnic Albania.

The right of self-determination and independence of Albanians in Kosovo is supported by the following arguments:
•Firstly, Kosovo has been inhabited by Illyrians, who were the ancestors at present day Albanians; Albanians constitute over 90% of Kosovo’s inhabitants.
•Secondly, in 1878, Kosovo was part of the ethnic Albania. In that year, as a counter-replay to anti-Albanian resolutions, adopted by the Congress of Berlin in 1878 the Albanian League of Prizren was founded, but then was destroyed by the military intervention of Russia and the Ottoman Empire, which led the Great Powers’ Congress of Berlin in 1878 to enable Serbia and Montenegro to grab Albanian lands and to commit genocide against Albanians for the second time. That was the Russian intervention in favor of the Serbia and Montenegro which destroyed peaceful coexistence in the Balkans.
•Third, Kosovo was a legal part of Albania (November 28, 1912), but was invaded by Serbian military forces who committed genocide against its indigenous people.

The historical, juridical and political injustice created by the Great European Powers led to the separation of Kosovo from its motherland. Fourthly in 1918, Kosovo became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by force and genocide, but it was a flagrant act of colonialism, dividing Albanian territories, and giving rise to the Albanian right to the decolonization of Kosovo.

In summary, Kosovo’s dissociation from Serbia is justified by the following reasons: (1) historically, Kosovo has never legally been a part of Serbian territory, but only became annexed to Serbia by genocide and colonial plunder;and (2) historically, culturally and linguistically, Kosovo belongs to the civilization of western Europe, as Albanians are ethnically the descendants of Illyrians and not at all descendants of Slaves or Muslims as Serbian quasi-history, politics and propaganda try to misinform the public by fabricating their history in order to hide their centennial colonial genocides committed on Albanians and ethnic Albania (1878-1999).

angelburst,

Great "alternative history" article, goes hand by hand with the Marvel or DC comics Super Heroes saved the world in WW2 stories :)

I think that Stormrider wanted to point out the double standards in US relations with the world, as: if Crimea belongs to Ukraine, why then Kosovo cant belong to Serbia?
 
angelburst,

По большому счету всякий такой спор похож на спор двух блох о том кому из них принадлежит собака на которой они сидят.
Однако, если позволите, я тоже приведу немного аргументов. Сначала логические, потом исторические.
Итак, Вы приводите статью некоего доктора философии с турецким или албанским именем из Бостона, который утверждает первенство албанцев на данной территории, туманно начиная с неких иллирийцев.
Вопрос первый: что еще мог этот человек написать? Он, скорее всего и стал "доктором" потому что цветисто умеет излагать нужный бред. Дополнительным указанием на это является наличие в статье цитат Киссинджера, известного патриарха американской политики русофобии. Этот прием не уникален, а только часть технологии. Например сейчас в той же Украине детей учат по учебникам, где на полном серьезе утверждается, что некие древние "укры" (естественно предки современных украинцев) выкопали Черное море и участвовали в строительстве египетских пирамид. Люди которые все это сочинили тоже наверняка теперь "доктора" и философии и истории, а оплачивается вся эта деятельность из "образовательных" фондов другого записного русофоба Сороса.
Вопрос второй: почему начало с иллирийцев? Давайте тогда уж поднимемся до этрусской культуры. Вы что нибудь о ней слышали?
В общем с "комиксом", как его назвал Avala, спорить глупо.
Далее, как аргумент легитимности Вы пишете, что Косово признано 109 странами.
Здесь список этих стран.
http://www.geopolitics.ru/2014/02/nepriznannye-gosudarstva-kosovo/
Не хочу подвергать сомнению международный авторитет Чад, Папуа — Новая Гвинея, Бурунди, Восточный Тимор, Сент-Китс и Невис, Фиджи, Доминика и прочих признавших, но что-то среди них не наблюдается ни Китая, ни Индии, ни Бразилии и др. (всего стран в ООН 193). Отсюда следует вывод, что некоторое количество стран, имеющих возможность проводить независимую от Запада в целом и от США в частности, политику обосновано усомнились в этой самой легитимности этого образования как суверенного государства.
Все это части шаблонной технологии проводимой США и их союзниками, которая просматривается во многих местах. Афганистан - Аль-Каеда, Египет - Братья мусульмане, Ирак, Ливия, Сирия - ИГИЛ, Джебхат-Ан-Нусра, Косово - АОК, Украина - Правый сектор, Азов, Айдар и пр. Опять же глядя на крупную военную базу в Косово Кэмп-Бондстил, которая обозначается как база сил KFOR, но находится под американским командованием и фактически является американской базой, можно представить что было бы в Севастополе в случае сохранения в Крыму власти ныне правящей в Украине проамериканской хунты.
В заключении Вопроса о Косово я приведу Вам статью, где автор проработав некоторое количество материала, суммирует факты опровергающие заявления Вашего доктора философии. Кстати, с указанием на источники откуда эти факты взяты, что в принципе отсутствует в приведенной Вами статье.
http://otello.gorod.tomsk.ru/index-1274676762.php

Теперь я Вам возвращаю Вашу фразу
Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

Это все что касается Косово, хотя можно еще поговорить о способах действий тех сил (включая армию освобождения Косово), которые с поддержкой американских властей проводят их политику на определенных территориях. Однако когда я писал-
Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither South Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.
я хотел сделать акцент не на Косово, а на двойных стандартах в оценке одних и тех же процессов. Это настолько очевидно, что даже Путин, при всей своей дипломатичности, в последних своих речах открытым текстом говорит, что одним можно все, а другим нет.


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angelburst,

By and large, just such a dispute similar to the dispute between the two fleas on one of them owns the dog on which they sit.
However, if I may, I also give some arguments. First logical, then historical.
So, You bring an article of a doctor of philosophy with a Turkish or Albanian name placed in Boston, who claims the superiority of the Albanians in the area, is uncertain since some of the Illyrians.
The first question: what else could this man write? He probably became a "doctor" because he can pretty good Express the desired nonsense. An additional indication of this is the presence in the article quotes of Kissinger, the famous Patriarch of the American policy of Russophobia. This technique is not unique, but only part of technology. For example now in Ukraine, children are taught according to the textbooks, which earnestly argues that some ancient "ukry" (of course the ancestors of modern Ukrainians) dug the Black sea and participated in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. The authors who wrote that nonsence, too, are probably now "the doctor", and of philosophy and history. And paid all this activity from educational funds of other inveterate Russophobe Soros.
The second question: why start with the Illyrians? Then let's really rise to the Etruscan culture. You ever heard of it?
In common with "comics" as it is called by Avala, silly to argue.
Further, as the argument of legitimacy You write that Kosovo is recognized by 109 countries.
Here is a list of these countries.
http://www.geopolitics.ru/2014/02/nepriznannye-gosudarstva-kosovo/
Don't want to question the international authority Chad, Papua New Guinea, Burundi, East Timor, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Fiji, Dominica, and others which have recognized, but something among them is not observed neither China, nor India, nor Brazil, etc. (all countries in the UN 193). The conclusion that a number of countries with the opportunity to pursue an independent from the West in General and USA in particular, the policy is justified doubt of the legitimacy of that entity as a sovereign state.
That all are parts of template technology pursued by the U.S. and its allies, which can be seen in many places. Afghanistan - al Qaeda, Egypt - Muslim brotherhood, Iraq, Libya, Syria - the ISIS, jabhat al-Nusra, Kosovo - the KLA, Ukraine - Right sector, Azov, Aidar, etc. Again looking at the large military base in Kosovo, camp Bondsteel, which is denoted as the base of KFOR, but is under American command and is actually an American base, you can imagine what it would be in Sevastopol, in the case of preservation in the Crimea the authorities now ruling in Ukraine, the Pro-American junta.
In conclusion, the issue of Kosovo I will give You an article where the author worked for a number of material, sums up the facts to refute the statements of Your doctor of philosophy. By the way, with indication of the sources from which these facts are taken that, in principle, is missing in the above by You article.
HOW THE ALBANIANS BECAME THE ETHNIC MAJORITY IN KOSOVO.
First of all, it should be noted that to call the southern province of Yugoslavia "Kosovo" is wrong; so it is called the Albanian separatists. Kosovo is the only territory of Kosovo Field, and the rest of the land is called Metohija, which translated into Russian with Serbian sounds like "Church estate". Here is the official name of Kosovo and Metohija, or, for short - COSM. For the first time it is mentioned in the XII century, as the territory populated by Serbs, but under Byzantine rule. All the international acts signed since its independence, Serbia (1878), Kosovo and Metohija remained under its sovereignty. Moreover, the cosmetics is the Old Serbia, the cradle of Serbian national culture, the location of the main Orthodox shrines of the country. In the territory there were about 1800 monasteries and temples, 200 of which are either ancient XIV century, or belong to the time of the proclamation of the Serbian Patriarchate (1346). This is the largest concentration of cultural and historical monuments in Europe.
The Albanian nationalists claim that their nation came into cosmetology even a thousand years before the Serbs. Supposedly Herodotus in his "Greco-Persian wars mentions that it is they, not the Greeks, inhabited Illyria. But reliable historical data on this. If the Albanians actually lived on the lands of the Byzantine Empire, how to explain that to the Turkish invasion, 97% of them professed Catholicism? Albanians who converted to Islam, came Old in Serbia only with the Ottoman conquerors. However, it is known that in the battle of Kosovo field, one of the militias Lazarus was Albanian, so not all Albanians were in the service of the Turks. Some are now 61% of Albanians are Christians (33% Orthodox, 28% Roman Catholic and 39% were Muslims.

Is necessary to emphasize the fact that many lands and villages throughout Metohija, and a large part of Kosovo was given to the Serbian rulers as methow great monasteries: Hilandar, Studenica, Bansko, Gracanica, mother of God Levitskii, Dečani, Holy Archangels, as evidenced by surviving letters, having, in addition to state law, a special historical significance for Kosovo and Metohija. They are further evidence of how the people lived and how small the percentage of non-Serb population.
Contained in these letters, people's names and place names, indicate that the agricultural population of Kosovo and Metohija was completely Serbian. Only in the charters of the fourteenth century, mentions Vlachs and Arbanasi (Albanians), even in very small quantities, and from this it clearly follows that no conflict between Serbs and Albanians in medieval Serbia was not (this issue will appear only after the Islamization of Albanians in the XVII century), and had the place of their living together, peaceful coexistence and cooperation.

Under the blows of the Ottoman Empire the Serbs had to retreat farther North. On the vacant after the departure of a significant part of Serbian territory from the late seventeenth century began the gradual migration of Albanians. The Albanians in General much better integrated in the socio-political system of the Ottoman Empire. To the eighteenth century about half of the Albanians adopted Islam, the highlanders were actively engaged in military service in the Turkish army, including the corps of Janissaries, the Albanians have also infiltrated the highest authorities of the Empire, up to the post of Grand vizier. Actually in Albania the Central government's power was minimal, and the management and land ownership were mainly in the hands of local feudal lords. Moreover, who settled in this region, the Turks quickly assimilated Albanians. The second half of the XVII century, the beginning of the rapid rise of the Albanian economy, especially trade and urban crafts. These factors contributed to the colonization of the Albanian population in neighbouring territories, deserted as a result of wars and emigration.
Change in the ethnic composition of Kosovo's population has led to the emergence of the Serbo-Albanian conflict. In the eighteenth century as a result of the Hellenization of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire, it ceased to serve as a center of liberation movement of the Serbs. In 1766 the Patriarchate of Peć was abolished. The middle of the XVIII stopped the expansion of the Habsburgs into the Balkans. All this contributed to the decline of the national movement and its movement in the Northern Serbia, in the Belgrade pashaluk, which from the beginning of the XIX century became the core of the liberation of Serbia. In Kosovo continued growth of the share of the Albanian population, especially in the Western part of the region. However, in 1838 an Austrian researcher Josef müller noted the predominantly Slavic character of the population Metohija, and especially noticeable was Serbian dominance in the cities.
During the struggle for independence, the Serbs suffered a terrible genocide by the Turks. But while getting the independence at the Congress of Berlin, no one had any doubt that cosmetics is a Serbian land, historically and ethnic composition, although one part of it was given to Montenegro and the other part still remained under Turkish rule. After crushing the power of the Ottoman Empire, the Albanians considered themselves deprived, too, because wanted to have their own state. They got it only in 1913, when Serbia, along with Romania and Greece finally ousted Turkey from the Balkans. The independence they "gave" Austria-Hungary, who wanted to weaken the fledgling Serbia, while in Northern Albania, the Serbs prevailed.

After the First world war, the Albanians were persecuted by the Serbian authorities, aimed at changing the proportions of Albanian and Serbian population in Kosovo. Only in 1930 about 2 000 families expelled from their lands Kosovars crossed into Albania. Albanians were evicted or forced out of Kosovo, as the Muslim population, which by agreement with Turkey had to leave the Balkans. From 1918 to 1944 in Turkey deported about 240 thousand Albanians of the Muhajirs who tried to save their Islamic identity (now the number of immigrants from Kosovo in Turkey exceeds their number in Kosovo). In their place were settled about 11 thousand Serbian and Montenegrin families, which were given to 50 hectares of land in total, they took more than 120 thousand hectares), free transfer to the place of settlement, the right of use of public forests and pastures, exemption for three years from taxes. Accordingly, the Serb population of Kosovo increased to 25-30%.
During the Second world war, most of Kosovo was incorporated into the Italian protectorate of Albania. During the Italian occupation, the Albanian armed forces launched a struggle for the expulsion of Serbs from the territory of the region. According to Serbian estimates, from 10 to 40 thousand were killed, from 70 to 100 thousand people were forced to leave Kosovo. In 1944, largely due to the efforts of Kosovo guerrillas, the territory was liberated and again became part of Yugoslavia. According to the Constitution of the Federal people's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 was formed the Autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija composed of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.

Tito, hoping for the accession of Yugoslavia Albania, encouraged the resettlement of Kosovo Albanians and, on the contrary, limited the possibilities for the return of the Serbian population. Although the level of economic development of Kosovo inferior to other regions of Yugoslavia, the standard of living here was considerably higher than in the neighboring Albania, which contributed to the influx of refugees from there. During the reign of Hoxha in Albania by his regime in Kosovo and Metohija escaped 400,000 people. Tito took them, hoping for the accession of Albania. The percentage of Serbs from 61 to 81 years in Kosovo decreased from 18.4 to 13.2% (only between 71st and 81st edge left 50 thousand Serbs - economic situation of the district has encouraged Serbs to migrate to the center). The number of Albanians in Kosovo increased from 1948 to 1981 in 2 times – from 733 thousand to 1.6 million, and by 1991 accounted for almost 90% of the population of the region. Few people know that in Kosovo have been living and 72 thousand Muslims (in this case the name of nationality), 21 thousand Turks, 97 thousand Gypsies.

I now return You to Your phrase
Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

It's all with regard to Kosovo, although it is possible to talk about methods of action of those forces (including the Kosovo liberation army), who with the support of the American authorities conduct their policies in certain areas. However, when I wrote-
Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither South Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.
I wanted to focus not on Kosovo, and double standards in the evaluation of the same processes. It is so obvious that even Putin, for all his diplomacy, in his recent speeches openly said that one can do everything, while others do not.
 
Avala said:
angelburst29 said:
youlik said:
Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Риторический вопрос. Ответ зависит от того кто будет на него отвечать. Косово в олимпиаде участвует и в ООН заседает, только почему то там же не видно ни Северной Осетии, ни Абхазии, ни Приднестровской республики. Я молчу о совсем новых ДНР и ЛНР.

Translation
Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither North Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.


Correct me - if I am wrong but in SToRd1dR's quote below - my impression is that SToRd1dR is pointing out that the Unites States is "ignorant" of Crimea's History - just like the misconception that Kosovo is part of Serbia? Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014, and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the secession. Albanian Kosovo is an independent and sovereign state recognized by 109 member countries of the United Nations and not part of Serbia. Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

Kosovo is part of Serbia?

US urges Ukraine-Russia restraint over Crimea

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/12/479608/Russia-Crimea-Ukraine-US

History Proves Kosovo Was Never Part of Serbia
http://newsblaze.com/thoughts/opinions/history-proves-kosovo-was-never-part-of-serbia_40079/

angelburst,

Great "alternative history" article, goes hand by hand with the Marvel or DC comics Super Heroes saved the world in WW2 stories :)

I think that Stormrider wanted to point out the double standards in US relations with the world, as: if Crimea belongs to Ukraine, why then Kosovo cant belong to Serbia?

My deepest apologies and I do "stand to be corrected" upon my selection of an article, in which I misjudged, only to be pointed out - as a propaganda piece. I appreciate - the correction Avala.

And I agree on your reference of the Unites States "double standards".
 
Youlik,

your article is good, but to complex for the average reader. In short all the toponims (geographic places' names such as cities, mountains, rivers etc) in Kosovo and Metohija (as you correctly wrote) are of Slavic origin, which mean it belonged to some of the Slavic nations such as south Slavic nations (Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians, Macedonians . . . they all are the same BTW ) those Slavic names are also in the official Turkish empire writings from the 15th, 16th and 17th century. (for example the name Kosovo in Serbian means "Blackbird Field" in Albanian Kosovo, or how they spell it "Kosova, Kosove" means nothing). So there is no doubt that the Slavic people (Serbs or whatever) lived there before the Turkish occupation. There is also writings in Turks, Byzantine and many European states about Serbian state which was constituted on Kosovo, with capital moving from Prizren to Pec (the "furnace" in Serbian :) ). Not to mention all of the physical evidence in form of fortresses, churches, monasteries and so on. There is also historic fact that Serbian ruler Nemanja greeted Friedrich Barbarossa and his crusaders in the city of Nis (the "alcove" :) ) and make them passage through for the Turkey, and through the Kosovo as his land, and so on . . .

The Albanians are interesting because there is no clear evidence who they are. They claim to be "Iliryans" Celtic tribe which is no sure that even they have existed for sure. (BTW the Ilyrians if they existed also lived in Dalmatia and would be perfect fishermen like today's Croatians, but Albanians are far from that although they have very fine piece of Adriatic sea) Their national costume, for example is mix of European middle age costumes and middle eastern costumes. Their social and anthropological settings are totally middle eastern, and with that they are totally different than any other Balkan nation. Of course, the religions and the time passed make their mark on the sociology and customs of the every "nation", but even with that Albanians are too different than all which surrounding them. There is propositions that they have been brought by Byzantines from the Caucasus in the middle ages from the area also known as Albania, in today's Azerbaijan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_Albania

Or that they are indigenous as today's Vlachs, who are Celtic-slavic people (yes they are mostly pale skinned and with light brown or red hair :) ) somehow unchanged from the Roman times and still speaking Romanian language which is more primitive and more alike to Latin than today's Romanian language. If that would be the case than the Albanians are VERY changed and very mixed, because they social and any other make up is totally different than that of any other nation on the Balkan, which all are more or less the same. Actually their extremely patriarchal social customs are very pathological and non-European like (extreme even for the southern Europe)

Also, there is no "Serbian-Albanian" conflict. If there is, than there is also "Greece-Albanian, Bulgarian-Albanian, Macedonian-Albanian, even Turkey-Albanian" conflicts because they claim right on the land of all that tribes :) But, the fact is that the biggest population of Albanians outside Albania LEFT OVER TO SECOND PART OF 20th CENTURY is in Kosovo. The rest, Greece, Bulgarians, Turks, swiped and cleansed their Albanians during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Serbs felt confident so didn't did that (which later showed to be mistake, of course :D )

And now get back on topic :)


And I agree on your reference of the Unites States "double standards".

I think that Lavrov said that first :)
 
youlik said:
angelburst,
[...]

I now return You to Your phrase
Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

It's all with regard to Kosovo, although it is possible to talk about methods of action of those forces (including the Kosovo liberation army), who with the support of the American authorities conduct their policies in certain areas. However, when I wrote-

Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither South Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.

I wanted to focus not on Kosovo, and double standards in the evaluation of the same processes. It is so obvious that even Putin, for all his diplomacy, in his recent speeches openly said that one can do everything, while others do not.

I "Thank-you" Youlik - for taking the extra time and patience in providing additional information on the Albanian's and Kosovo, in general.

If I'm reading the information correctly - my biggest mistake and error was in my reference "Albanian Kosovo" when, in fact, as has been addressed in your article - the Albanian's are only a small portion, next to the Serb's and Croatians in Kosovo - with the Serb's being the majority?

I appreciate the corrections, by you and also Avala, for I have a personal interest in learning about the formal Yugoslavia and historical changes in the last 100 years, for I have a Slavic background myself.
Unfortunately, I was born in the U.S. (2nd generation) and never visited my Grandparent's native land.
 
Avala said:
angelburst29 said:
youlik said:
Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Риторический вопрос. Ответ зависит от того кто будет на него отвечать. Косово в олимпиаде участвует и в ООН заседает, только почему то там же не видно ни Северной Осетии, ни Абхазии, ни Приднестровской республики. Я молчу о совсем новых ДНР и ЛНР.

Translation
Kosovo is part of Serbia?
Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither North Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.


Correct me - if I am wrong but in SToRd1dR's quote below - my impression is that SToRd1dR is pointing out that the Unites States is "ignorant" of Crimea's History - just like the misconception that Kosovo is part of Serbia? Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014, and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum in which 96.8 percent of participants voted in favor of the secession. Albanian Kosovo is an independent and sovereign state recognized by 109 member countries of the United Nations and not part of Serbia. Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

Kosovo is part of Serbia?

US urges Ukraine-Russia restraint over Crimea

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/12/479608/Russia-Crimea-Ukraine-US


I think that Stormrider wanted to point out the double standards in US relations with the world, as: if Crimea belongs to Ukraine, why then Kosovo cant belong to Serbia?


Exactly! :)

Show must go on:

Russia Winning On All Fronts, Vice President Biden Warns Ukraine, Avoid Escalation Of Tensions With Russia!

http://novorossia.today/russia-winning-fronts-vice-president-biden-warns-ukraine-avoid-escalation-tensions-russia/

Over the past two and a half years, the Obama Administration has made supporting the pro-West Ukrainian government against Russia a matter of policy in virtually every case, even when it made little sense to do so. The most recent round of rising tensions, however, may be changing that.

Though officially the US insists it has no intelligence on Russia’s report of Ukrainian spies trying to infiltrate the Crimean Peninsula, killing a pair of Russian officers, Vice President Joe Biden today spoke with Ukraine’s president, warning him he must “do his part” in avoiding escalation of tensions with the Russians.

That’s a huge shift in US narrative, as in the past they’ve always embraced whatever Poroshenko said about Russia, including his repeated predictions of an imminent Russian invasion of Eastern Europe. In this case, however, it seems the administration is uncomfortable with the road the Ukrainian government is going down, perhaps because unlike in Eastern Ukraine, where Russia was merely a supporter of the rebellion, Crimea is an official member of the Russian Federation, even if not formally recognized by Ukraine as such.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is facing potential diplomatic fallout with Russia itself over the situation, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warning Russia might ultimately decide to sever diplomatic ties with Ukraine in protest over the attempted infiltration. Ukraine has denied involvement in the matter, though Russia insists that a captured member of the infiltration team confessed to being a member of Ukraine’s spy agency.


Biden's Confusing Advice: US Should Work With and Against Russia Simultaneously

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160813/1044239823/biden-foreign-policy-proposals-analysis.html

Vice President Joe Biden has offered his sage advice for the next president on how to conduct relations with Moscow. In his essay, published by Foreign Affairs, the vice president suggested that the next president should combine "deterrence" and "tactical cooperation." Naturally, Russian analysts have something to say about Biden's recommendations.

In his essay, which offers recommendations on how the Washington might try and maintain its global hegemonic status, the vice president warned that "in nearly every part of the world, the United States contends with regional powers that have an enormous capacity to contribute to the international order – or to undermine it." Accordingly, he added, "much will rest on how America chooses to lead."

Specifically as far as Russia is concerned, Biden wrote that the US must "continue to pursue a policy that combines the urgent need for deterrence, on the one hand, with the prudent pursuit of cooperation and strategic stability, on the other."

Reconstituting the US claim that Crimea's vote to rejoin Russia was actually an 'illegal annexation' by Moscow, and accusing Russia of "continued aggression in eastern Ukraine," Biden argued that these actions "violate foundational principles of the post-Cold War order: sovereignty and the inviolability of borders in Europe." Accordingly, he noted, "we have rallied our allies in Europe and elsewhere to impose real costs on Moscow, making clear that this pressure will continue until Russia upholds its commitments under the agreements reached in Minsk aimed at ending the conflict."

Specifically, the vice president pointed to the Obama administration's move to quadruple US defense spending in Europe, and its efforts to strengthen NATO on the ground, including through the deployment of forces and equipment to Poland and the Baltic countries. "The next administration should redouble the United States' commitment to strengthening NATO and our partnership with the EU," Biden insisted.

Effectively trying to have his cake and eat it too, Biden also suggested that "investing in the core institutions of the West does not require reverting back to simplistic Cold War thinking. The United States should remain open to cooperation with Russia where our interests overlap, as we demonstrated with the Iran nuclear deal, as well as with the New START agreement on nuclear weapons. It is also difficult to envision how the war in Syria will ultimately end without some modus vivendi between Washington and Moscow."

Factually, the vice president's piece for Foreign Affairs was a continuation of concepts he laid out earlier. In June, Biden said that the US and Russia should avoid a new Cold War, adding that Washington would "have to continue cooperating with Russia where our interests overlap."

Commenting on Biden's essay for Foreign Affairs, Russian political analysts speaking to the independent online newspaper Svobodnaya Pressa noted that it's very difficult to speak of walk the line of cooperating with a country that's trying to force you to play by their rules.

Pointing out that "the consolidated interest of the US political establishment is to prevent Russia from returning to the world stage as a great power," Political scientist Sergei Markov told the online paper that the policy would continue to be applied in theory, even though it has been a complete disaster in practice.

Factually, Markov argued, this strategy has led to a "monstrous war crime – to the destruction of security in Europe" in the form of the political crisis and civil war in Ukraine. "This was a very high price to pay for the US to try to reach its goal." Effectively, the analyst suggested, in "trying to implement the policy of containment, the US largely destroyed its own image. Today, everyone knows that the coup in Ukraine was carried out with the support of US intelligence."

What's more, while policy in Ukraine may have had positive short-term benefits for the US, "Washington has factually discredited itself as a democratic force in the entire post-Soviet space."

And there is another major negative side effect, the analyst noted. "America's strategic interest is to have strong pro-Western and pro-American forces inside Russia. However, through their clumsy policy, the US has assured a colossal defeat for these forces. Now any politician in Russia who says that he has a good opinion of the US is immediately pinned as a political outcast," with virtually no support among the population and no prospects for being elected.

Markov noted that he considers Vice President Biden personally responsible for implementing the failed US policy on Russia, "which has dealt such a severe blow to US national interests. The US crossed a line in Europe which had not been crossed since the time of the crisis in Yugoslavia. They unleased a bloodbath in Donbass, liquidated freedom of speech in Ukraine, and moved Kiev to engage in a policy of state terror against the opposition."

Factually, the political observer noted, contrary to Biden's advice, "this is a legacy what the next US administration will have to abandon. The US, I will repeat, is interested in seeing significant forces within Russian society and among the Russian elite which are oriented toward America. By following the course it's on now, it will be impossible for the US to achieve this strategic goal."

Commenting on the state of the US presidential race, Markov suggested that while many observers have said that Republican candidate Donald Trump is 'unpredictable', in fact, "the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, is even more unpredictable, due to her propensity for reckless adventurism. Her policy in Libya, it's worth recalling, ended with the murder of the US ambassador. Meanwhile, her support for the jihadists in Syria to overthrow Bashar Assad has no rational explanation at all."

Ultimately, Markov noted, "America today is oscillating between the ideology of globalism, expressed by Hillary Clinton, and the ideology of 'Americanism'…proposed by Trump. No one can predict which of these ideologies America will choose, but it's a circumstance that worries many countries," Russia included.

For his part, Expert magazine correspondent Gevorg Mirzayan told Svobodnaya Pressa that Biden's 'dual track' strategy is actually logical, from the point of view of US interests. "The problem is that the Obama administration has never actually pursued it. Yes, we've had sporadic cooperation with the Americans in recent years, but we haven't been able to build a dialogue on the issues that present a common interest – such as Syria. We could not establish cooperation, because there is very little trust between Moscow and Washington. And cooperation without trust cannot exist."

"As far as the policy of containment is concerned, the US, from the American point of view, is obliged to contain Russia. But this containment must be moderate, fair. Containing Russia means not allowing it to undermine US interests in Europe, or to break the transatlantic link. However, when it starts meaning trying to prohibit Russia from having a sphere of influence, or trying to knock Russia out of Ukraine" (in the political sense), "this leads to tough actions by Moscow in response, since this kind of deterrence is both unfair and excessive," in Russia's point of view.

Finally, Moscow Institute of International Security Problems senior researcher Alexei Fenenko suggested that Biden's proposals are nothing more than a rehash of a foreign policy approach developed under the first Clinton administration.

That policy has four points, the expert noted. The first is that the US was not able to reach its main objective at the conclusion of the Cold War – the dismantling of Soviet military capabilities, which were passed on to Russia. "This meant that Russia remained the only country in the world technically capable of destroying the US, and of fighting the US using conventional weapons."

"The second point is that deterrence, especially in nuclear terms, remains the essence of Russian-US relations," as it was during the Cold War. "Third is the idea that it is necessary to pushed forward-deployed systems as far as possible to the east, up to the Russian borders, using the territories of the former socialist countries to do so. Fourth is taking the countries neighboring Russia, such as Ukraine and the Baltics, under control, which is meant to guarantee the inviolability of the world order established in 1991."

Effectively, Fenenko suggested, "everything that Washington thinks and says about Russia is a variation of the Clinton administration's views of the fall of 1993. In my view, the next US administration will not come up with anything new."

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The Obama administration might try to trigger a confrontation with Russia in Ukraine to provide an advantage for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton before the presidential elections in November, says a political commentator.

US sees war in Ukraine as advantageous to Clinton: Analyst
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/13/479884/US-Russia-conflict-Ukraine-Donald-Trump-Hillary-Clinton

Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on statements by Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the commander of the US Army in Europe, who called on Russia to allow observation of its military exercises in the Black Sea.

"That would do a lot, frankly, to lower anxiety," Hodges said, adding that, "There's nothing wrong with an exercise. It's ... the lack of transparency."

Bennett, however, argued that despite Hodges’ claims, “the real reason is simply to try and gain an advantage over military forces in the future war that they are going to try and trigger with Russia.”

He said that it is “very obvious to Russia and it’s very obvious to us in the intelligence community and the military that the United States under the Obama administration is going to initiate some sort of a war or confrontation through the Ukrainian mercenaries; through the Ukrainian president.”

The analyst asserted that a conflict would very likely happen before the November elections in an effort to increase support for Hillary Clinton.

“And the reason for that is of course is to deteriorate support for [Republican Presidential nominee] Donald Trump and increase support for Hillary Clinton and that would be a great tragedy of course, because Hillary Clinton, a psychopathic war hawk, is obsessed with war with Russia, is obsessed with war with Iran and she is going to do everything she can to enable it,” Bennett said.

“So this is what’s going to happen most likely in the next coming months,” he added.

Bennett also said that in the wake of any incursion, Russia should not take an aggressive posture, “because any aggressive countermeasures are exactly the trap that they are going to lure the Russians and [President] Vladimir Putin into.”



The agent recruited by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence service has described how he selected places for planting bombs at the airport and bus station in Simferopol, Crimea’s capital.

The footage of Ridvan Sulemanov questioning was released by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Friday.

Ukrainian agent tells how he selected places for planting bombs in Simferopol
http://tass.ru/en/world/894044

Sulemanov said he had arrived in Simferopol on July 29 and "visited the central bus station and airport and found four places for possible planting of explosive devices." He said he sent their descriptions to the man named Pavel Nikolayevich who had recruited him in the Ukrainian town of Zaporozhye in October 2015.

Sulemanov was detained on July 30 when he was taking pictures at Simferopol’s airport.

He said he was instructed by Pavel Nikolayevich "to go to Simferopol and find places for planting explosive devices" in crowded areas.

"I realize that I was looking for places for Ukrainian intelligence agents to plant bombs and carry out terrorist attacks, which could kill civilians," Sulemanov said.

Andrei Zakhtei suspected of preparing terror acts in Crimea has confirmed he acted on order from Ukraine’s military intelligence.

A video footage of Zakhtei’s questioning held by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was shown on Rossiya-24 TV Channel on Friday.

"Now I realize and assess my actions that I was directly fulfilling an order of Ukraine’s military intelligence on transporting saboteurs and their load across Crimea," he said.

According to Zakhtei, a man called him over the phone on August 6 and said he "was advised by Yuri."

"In a telephone talk, he told me that I needed to drive to the village of Risovoye near Armyansk at midnight, take a group of people with some load," the suspect said, noting that later that person had transferred the meeting to the village of Suvorovo to take four people there and "the cargo they arrived with."

"When driving up to the place [Suvorovo], I heard a firefight and was detained by FSB officers on the scene," the suspect said.

Russia’s Federal Security Service reported on August 10 that it had detained a group of saboteurs on the territory of Crimea and had also prevented terrorist acts on the peninsula prepared by the Main Intelligence Department of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

One FSB officer was killed during the operation to detain the terrorists. Later, a serviceman of Russia’s Defense Ministry was killed as the saboteurs made a second attempt of intrusion. The terrorist attacks were designed to target critical infrastructure and life support facilities of Crimea.

Twenty improvised explosive devices containing more than 40 kilograms of TNT equivalent, ammunition, fuses, antipersonnel and magnetic mines, grenades and the Ukrainian armed forces’ standard special weapons were found at the scene, the FSB said.

Ukraine’s President Poroshenko and the Foreign Ministry have rejected Moscow’s accusations, calling the alleged saboteurs’ detention a provocation.

Ukrainian President Poroshenko ordered on Thursday to put on full combat alert all units on the border with Crimea and on the contact line in Donbass.
 
angelburst29 said:
youlik said:
angelburst,
[...]

I now return You to Your phrase
Repeat a lie - enough times - and you can rewrite history?

It's all with regard to Kosovo, although it is possible to talk about methods of action of those forces (including the Kosovo liberation army), who with the support of the American authorities conduct their policies in certain areas. However, when I wrote-

Rhetorical question. The answer depends on who is going to answer it. Kosovo participates in the Olympics and the UN in session, but why is there not visible neither South Ossetia nor Abkhazia or the Transnistrian Republic. I'm not talking about completely new DPR and LPR.

I wanted to focus not on Kosovo, and double standards in the evaluation of the same processes. It is so obvious that even Putin, for all his diplomacy, in his recent speeches openly said that one can do everything, while others do not.

I "Thank-you" Youlik - for taking the extra time and patience in providing additional information on the Albanian's and Kosovo, in general.

If I'm reading the information correctly - my biggest mistake and error was in my reference "Albanian Kosovo" when, in fact, as has been addressed in your article - the Albanian's are only a small portion, next to the Serb's and Croatians in Kosovo - with the Serb's being the majority?

I appreciate the corrections, by you and also Avala, for I have a personal interest in learning about the formal Yugoslavia and historical changes in the last 100 years, for I have a Slavic background myself.
Unfortunately, I was born in the U.S. (2nd generation) and never visited my Grandparent's native land.

If I may answer, as a someone who actually lives in Serbia and has ties personally with people on Kosovo. That is NOT correct by any means. The majority today on Kosovo are Albanians, then some Serbs, and with other "nations" only in traces. If you go some 20 years back in time it would be different, Albanians also would be majority but with bigger percentage of Serbs and others. Others would be Turks, Gypsies (or Roma) Gorans (people who counted themselves as Islamic Serbs) of course Croatians (although they would call themselves only "Catholics") Cincars (some kind of Greeks) Vlachs . . .; but the "leading rolls" would be Albanians and then Serbs. If you go further back in the history the percentage of the Serbs (and also the "others") would be greater. If you want Serbs to be majority you would go more in the past, probably in the 19th or 18th century.

You must understand that the South Slavic people and Balkan people in all are more or less the same from Bulgaria-Greece-Romania to Austria (the last genome researches sets Austrians to be in large percents South Slavic too :) ). BUT they are shaped out through the history differently mostly with the religion and by foreign influences. Thus we have now Slovenians as the "little Germans" :) Croatians as a soldiers of Vatican, Serbs shaped by the Byzantines and orthodox christian church (although Serbian "vision" of orthodoxy is not exactly the Christianity, its more like 70% of open paganism, even today!) We have Macedonians who speak a form of middle age Serbian language, Montenegrins who are not yet decided what they want to be, then Bosniaks who were Serbs and Croatians with islam religion all the way to the 1972. when they become nation known as "Muslims". And so on . . .

All of them think that they are something different than others. So Slovenians is cool with everything, Croats think that they are something really really speshul, and God must loved them because they love Pope so much (forget the Polish, they are the amateurs!) Serbs has unconscious (they are unaware of that) imperialistic tendencies, so "everyone on the Balkans are just Serbs, just with different religion, so all of them must get to their senses and come back to be orthodox Serbs again!". (Serbs sees everyone as a brothers, although some of them, as Croats are very mad and need help. Croats just want to get away from that :D ). Bulgarians has very overt and conscious imperialistic tendencies. The so called Bosniaks sees themselves as "the only victims in all of that" :) and so on.

And the fact is that all of them are even not the Slavic people, they are genetically Celt-Roman-Slavic mix, and in more or less same proportions through all the Balkans. (think of Serbs or Croats as of 40% of Irish and 40% of Russians, but with all the extremes taken from Irish and Russians :) ) Of course, as I said Albanians are different, their language, sociology and way of life is far away from the others on Balkan.

If you want to read more I would sugest the austrian traveler and scientist Felix Philipp Kanitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Philipp_Kanitz

and his books:
https://archive.org/details/dasknigreichse02kaniuoft
https://archive.org/stream/BulgariaInImagesFromFelixKanitz/bulgaria_kanitz_djvu.txt

Or Russian diplomat Alexandr Gilyferding " The travel to Herzegovina, Bosnia and Old Serbia" (Kosovo was known as Old Serbia in 17, 18, 19th century) cant find english translations though.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/209665124/Aleksandar-Giljferding-Putovanje-po-Hercegovini-Bosni-i-staroj-Srbiji


Or Turkish traveler and scholar Evliya Çelebi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evliya_%C3%87elebi
 
Avala, сделал прекрасное описание нынешней ситуации, но позвольте мне добавить свои "5 копеек".
Конечно же в данный момент Албанцев в Косово абсолютное большинство. Ни Сербов, ни других почти не осталось, но надо понимать, что это сделано искусственно и поддерживается с помощью внешних сил (про базу США я уже писал), и учитывая чем является для Сербов Косово и Метохия (Исконная Сербия), думаю что Сербы не скоро об этом забудут. Потенциально мы имеем конкретный территориальный конфликт.
Я заранее прошу прощения в том случае если об этом уже писали. Новость то уже вроде бы и не новость, но я, как и автор статьи Лимонов, об этом узнал только что.
http://rusvesna.su/recent_opinions/1471108376
Получается, что вчера и сегодня я писал о Косово, что явилось формальной причиной беззаконного разрушения Югославии, теперь пишу о следствиях. Эти следствия столь же беззаконны и организаторы в этом откровенно расписываются, только дальше констатации фактов пока дело не идет. Ответственность нести никто похоже не собирается. Как и в случае с бывшим Британским премьером и с пробиркой Пауэлла.
Дело Милошевича на мой взгляд уникально в том смысле, что все его участники получили позорные для себя результаты. Большой Запад в лице Гаагского трибунала расписался в собственных незаконных действиях, Россия пытавшаяся что-то сделать для предотвращения расчленения Югославии, но сделавшая категорически недостаточно и наконец сами сербы практически продавшие своего бывшего лидера (не важно хорош он или плох) на незаконную экзекуцию. Россия какие-то выводы из этого сделала, это показывает ситуация в Сирии. А остальные?


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Avala made an excellent description of the current situation, but let me add my "5 cents".
Of course at the moment Albanians in Kosovo, an absolute majority. Neither the Serbs nor the other is almost gone, but you have to understand that this was done artificially supported using external forces (about US base I wrote), and given what is Kosovo and Metohija for the Serbs (the heart of Serbia, Serbia Native), I think that the Serbs will not soon forget about it. Potentially we have a specific territorial conflict.
I apologize in advance if this was already written. The news that there seems to be no news, but I, like the author of the article, Limonov, just found out about it.
The West is immersed in his own swamp — Limonov about acquittal of Milosevic.
Sent me from Berlin a sensational message. I, at least, did not know this fact.

Resource info-balkan.ru, title: "Giulietto Chiesa: Milosevic is acquitted, and customers over it to sit on the dock".

Text: "the international Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia withdrew charges against the deceased in prison of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes during the Bosnian war 1992 — 1995. However, Western media in this regard is silent. About it says a famous Italian politician, former MEP, journalist and writer Giulietto Chiesa.

Who knows about this? No one. No one of our newspapers told about it.

The sentence was handed down on 24 March and now August. Was not given any formal statement regard Milosevic, although this is stated in the conclusion in relation to the other accused, Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced to 40 years by the decision of the Tribunal".

"It is already an August, but none of the world media did not notice. But if noticed, not considered it necessary to give this information to their readers and viewers".

"For those who understand, who know what im talking about, the news —"the bomb". Which should make at least all Western leaders to apologize or put them on the bench of the same Tribunal ."
"And it is now evident that the so-called Tribunal, the assemblage of impious ... to say the least and working for the Empire, not truth and justice. And they all knew. Because the judge who presided over the trial of Karadzic, was among the judges who were involved in the prosecution of Milosevic. He was familiar with all the documents and details of both processes. His name is O-gon, and he's from South Korea.

Wonder who pays his salary and to his colleagues. Shame what happened!

The West is immersed in his own swamp. The West destroyed Yugoslavia. Killed Milosevic. Accused him of what he not did and for what was not responsible."

It turns out that yesterday and today I wrote about Kosovo, what was the formal reason for the illegal destruction of Yugoslavia, now writing about the consequences. These effects are equally lawless and the organizers frankly this signed but there is only the statement of facts. The responsibility to bear, no one it seems is going. As in the case with former British Prime Minister and vial Powell.
The Milosevic case in my opinion is unique in the sense that all its members have received deplorable results. Big West in the face of the Hague Tribunal, signed in his own illegal actions, Russia was trying to do something to prevent the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, but made strongly not enough and finally the Serbs themselves are sold his former leader (no matter good or bad) on the illegal execution. Russia made some conclusions from this, it shows the situation in Syria. And the rest?
 
youlik said:
I apologize in advance if this was already written. The news that there seems to be no news, but I, like the author of the article, Limonov, just found out about it.

The West is immersed in his own swamp — Limonov about acquittal of Milosevic.
Sent me from Berlin a sensational message. I, at least, did not know this fact.

Resource info-balkan.ru, title: "Giulietto Chiesa: Milosevic is acquitted, and customers over it to sit on the dock".

Text: "the international Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia withdrew charges against the deceased in prison of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes during the Bosnian war 1992 — 1995. However, Western media in this regard is silent. About it says a famous Italian politician, former MEP, journalist and writer Giulietto Chiesa.

Who knows about this? No one. No one of our newspapers told about it.

The sentence was handed down on 24 March and now August. Was not given any formal statement regard Milosevic, although this is stated in the conclusion in relation to the other accused, Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced to 40 years by the decision of the Tribunal".


The UN war crimes tribunal has determined that the late Serbian president was not responsible for war crimes committed in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war. The judges determined that Slobodan Milosevic was not part of a "joint criminal enterprise" to victimize Bosnian Muslims and Croats.

Hague Tribunal Exonerates Slobodan Milosevic for Bosnia War Crimes Ten Years Too Late
http://katehon.com/article/hague-tribunal-exonerates-slobodan-milosevic-bosnia-war-crimes-ten-years-too-late (Translate to other languages at site)

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague has determined that
the late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was not responsible for war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

In a stunning ruling, the trial chamber that convicted former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic of war crimes and sentenced him to 40 years in prison, unanimously concluded that Slobodan Milosevic was not part of a “joint criminal enterprise” to victimize Muslims and Croats during the Bosnian war.

The March 24th Karadzic judgment states that “the Chamber is not satisfied that there was sufficient evidence presented in this case to find that Slobodan Milosevic agreed with the common plan” to permanently remove Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from Bosnian Serb claimed territory.[1]

The Karadzic trial chamber found that “the relationship between Milosevic and the Accused had deteriorated beginning in 1992; by 1994, they no longer agreed on a course of action to be taken. Furthermore, beginning as early as March 1992, there was apparent discord between the Accused and Milosevic in meetings with international representatives, during which Milosevic and other Serbian leaders openly criticised Bosnian Serb leaders of committing ‘crimes against humanity’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ and the war for their own purposes.”[2]

The judges noted that Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic both favored the preservation of Yugoslavia and that Milosevic was initially supportive, but that their views diverged over time. The judgment states that “from 1990 and into mid-1991, the political objective of the Accused and the Bosnian Serb leadership was to preserve Yugoslavia and to prevent the separation or independence of BiH, which would result in a separation of Bosnian Serbs from Serbia; the Chamber notes that Slobodan Milosevic endorsed this objective and spoke against the independence of BiH.”[3]

[...] [...] [...]

It’s worth recalling that Slobodan Milosevic died under a very suspicious set of circumstances. He died of a heart attack just two weeks after the Tribunal denied his request to undergo heart surgery in Russia.[17] He was found dead in his cell less than 72 hours after his attorney delivered a letter to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which he said that he feared he was being poisoned.[18]

The Tribunal’s official report on the inquiry into his death confirmed that, “Rifampicin had been found in a blood sample taken from Mr. Milosevic on 12 January 2006.” And that “Mr. Milosevic was not told of the results until 3 March 2006 because of the difficult legal position in which Dr. Falke (the Tribunal’s chief medical officer) found himself by virtue of the Dutch legal provisions concerning medical confidentiality.”[19]

The presence of Rifamicin (a non-prescribed drug) in Milosevic’s blood would have counteracted the high blood pressure medication he was taking and increased his risk of the heart attack that ultimately did kill him. The Tribunal’s admission that they knew about the Rifampicin for months, but didn’t tell Milosevic the results of his own blood test until just days before his death because of “Dutch legal provisions concerning medical confidentiality” is an incredibly lame and disingenuous excuse. There is no provision of Dutch law that prohibits a doctor from telling the patient the results of his own blood test -- that would be idiotic. On the contrary, concealing such information from the patient could be seen as malpractice.

This all gives rise to well-founded suspicion that powerful geopolitical interests would rather Milosevic die before the end of his trial than see him acquitted and have their vicious lies exposed. U.S. State Department cables leaked to Wikileaks confirm that The Tribunal did discuss Milosevic’s medical condition and his medical records with U.S. Embassy personnel in The Hague without his consent.[20] They clearly didn’t care about medical confidentiality laws when they were blabbing about his medical records to the American embassy.

It’s an unsatisfying outcome that Milosevic has been quietly vindicated for the most serious crimes that he was accused of some ten years after his death. At a minimum financial compensation should now be paid to his widow and his children, and reparations should be paid to Serbia by the western governments who sought to punish Serbia in order to hold Milosevic “accountable” for crimes that their own Tribunal now admits he wasn’t responsible for, and was in fact trying to stop.


On August 11th, 2016, Serbian Prime Minister Vucic announced the formation of the new government, the appointing of ministers, some to ministries and others to government committees. The old government was officially disbanded at 7:00 pm on the 11th. All of this at face value would normally seem like a rather mechanical and banal exercise in the daily life of a parliamentary republic. But yet this is Serbia - and anyone following, even loosely, the events in Serbia and the Balkans region, will know that this government's formation came with no shortage of intrigue, and in a background fraught with danger. And what's more than that, events in the Balkans always reflect the turmoil and temperature in the world, and not only reflect, but magnify.

The Last Serbian Government?
http://katehon.com/article/last-serbian-government

This government was not formed under the casual, predictable, or rote conditions by which governments are often formed following elections. It took from April until this day in mid-August to create the social, political, and - yes - international atmosphere in which a government could safely or readily be formed.

What is the background and context of this newly formed government? What were the reasons for its delay?

It is sufficient to say that the reasons for the delay were external pressures. We must recall, firstly, that this is in the background of a series of NATO attempts to create instability in this region, and further divide Balkans states from each other, and to create new micro-states out of existing Balkans states. NATO presently supports both a strong Croatia policy, a Centralized Bosnian state policy, and a Greater Albania policy, and a Mafia-state policy for Montenegro. All of these are aimed specifically at undermining the position of Serbia, which in its greater incarnations as well, is always seen historically a kind of 'Malo-Rossiya' by the Anglo power centers, and an enforcer and ally of Russia's interest in the Balkans and upon the Adriatic, and even to the border of Italy and the Vatican itself. (Article continues.)
 
angelburst29 said:
The Last Serbian Government? [/b]
http://katehon.com/article/last-serbian-government

This government was not formed under the casual, predictable, or rote conditions by which governments are often formed following elections. It took from April until this day in mid-August to create the social, political, and - yes - international atmosphere in which a government could safely or readily be formed.

What is the background and context of this newly formed government? What were the reasons for its delay?

Serbian daily Informer, citing Russian media has stated the nations of Macedonia, Serbia and Greece are "screwed" after the latest pact between Putn and Erdogan which decided to get the Turkish stream project back on track.

The only way for the United States to let the three Balkan nations live in peace is if they give up on their business partnership with Russia, regardless of how beneficial it may be for all three.

Russian Media: US preparing chaos in Macedonia, Serbia and Greece to prevent Turkish Stream
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/29983/1/

- US has their own gas project called Trans-Adriatic pipeline (TAP) which is in competition with the Russo-Turkish project. The gas would come from Baku, Azerbaijan. The US wishes to see Russia isolated in every field, particularly in business and wants the three Balkan nations to be under Washington's auspices.

The US nearly created a war in Macedonia which was used as a message to Belgrade that the same destiny awaits them unless they fulfill Washington's requests - reports Informer, citing Russian media.

Moscow and Ankara signed a contract in which they would finance the gas pipeline 50-50. The pipeline will go underneath the Black Sea and would find its way through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, all the way to Austria and the EU. Meanwhile, Turkey and Russia have arranged to do their multi bullion trade in their local currencies, which is yet another dagger to the heart of Washington's empire and the dominance of the dollar. Russia is trading in local currencies with few dozen nations including China, Iran and India.

The US made it very clear that it will do anything in its power to prevent the Turkish stream project as showcased a year ago in Macedonia, and few weeks ago n Turkey.

Despite complete peace in Macedonia, US Secretary of State over a year ago suddenly announced Macedonia was in the "line of fire". The only reason for Kerry's comment was that Macedonia begun building its part of the infrastructure that would tap in the Turkish stream. Soon after Kerry's announcement, the 'wiretapping scandal' and the subsequent unsuccessful terrorists attack in Kumanovo, followed by a foreign led coup surfaced.


Serbia's Prime Minister, overwhelmingly won his elections, however for six months has not been able to form a Government. All this after announcing Serbia won't let western countries (read USA) dictate the future of his country. Vucic appears to have misjudged how far Washington is willing to ensure the region does not have business ties with Russia and now Turkey. Vucic is already facing a Macedonian scenario with protests by the US financed "NGO" sector.

Turkey experienced their own US led 'revolution' after the country was coup-ed not even a week after Erdogan apologized to Moscow for downing its jet and offered to kick start all of their stalled projects, the Turkish stream being the main focus.
 
Avala said:
If you want to read more I would sugest the austrian traveler and scientist Felix Philipp Kanitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Philipp_Kanitz

and his books:
https://archive.org/details/dasknigreichse02kaniuoft
https://archive.org/stream/BulgariaInImagesFromFelixKanitz/bulgaria_kanitz_djvu.txt

Or Russian diplomat Alexandr Gilyferding " The travel to Herzegovina, Bosnia and Old Serbia" (Kosovo was known as Old Serbia in 17, 18, 19th century) cant find english translations though.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/209665124/Aleksandar-Giljferding-Putovanje-po-Hercegovini-Bosni-i-staroj-Srbiji

Or Turkish traveler and scholar Evliya Çelebi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evliya_%C3%87elebi

Much Thanks Avala for the additional links and information.

My own background is Slovenian, with all four Grandparents coming from the area. In my earlier years, it was the main language spoken in the household by everyone, mixed with a little English, here and there. As older family members passed on, the language faded. I did not keep with the old family tradition - of marrying someone in my own ethnic group, so the language and most of the customs were lost.

Recently, I came across this article and President Vladimir Putin's visit.
The Vršič Pass: The Russian road to Slovenia’s heart
http://rbth.com/international/2016/07/29/the-vrsic-pass-the-russian-road-to-slovenias-heart_616419

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to visit the site of a 1916 tragedy in the Julian Alps that has come to form the basis for the relations between Russia and Slovenia.

Around the small wooden chapel on the forested mountain slope in northern Slovenia, 3,800 feet above sea level, one hour’s drive from Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, and about 20 minutes’ drive from the Austrian and Italian borders, workers were busy building wooden plank platforms for VIP guests and decorating them with spruce branches.

On July 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected here at the Vršič Pass for a high-profile visit to mark the 100th anniversary of a rather minor First World War episode, which stands nonetheless at the symbolic focal point of Russian–Slovenian relations.

In March 1916 more than 100 Russian POWs – part of more than 10,000 deployed here by the Austro-Hungarian command to build a mountain road – died in an avalanche. Their comrades built a Russian Orthodox chapel dedicated to St. Vladimir next to their graves – a memorial that several generations of local Roman Catholic Slovenes later preserved despite changing borders and political regimes.

With the emergence of independent Slovenia and Russia in the early 1990s, annual commemorations at the end of July, around the day of St. Vladimir, became the axis around which not only the humanitarian, but also political and economic relationship between the two countries developed.

Also:
The Russia Beyond the Headlines project has added another string to its bow: a Slovenian-language version of its website, si.rbth.com, was officially launched on July 7. Now Slovenians can read articles and opinion pieces written by experts on Russia in their native language.
http://rbth.com/press_releases/2016/07/29/rbths-new-slovenian-language-site-gets-off-to-a-good-start_616195
 
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