#balkans

anonymiss@despora.de

In #Brussels, announced withdrawal of #Soros #Foundation leaves #NGOs reeling

source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/13/in-brussels-announced-withdrawal-of-soros-foundation-is-leaving-ngos-dizzy_6133772_4.html

"It was a shock. A total surprise," said Nick #Aiossa, acting director of the European office of #Transparency #International, one of the continent's leading NGOs fighting for the rule of law and against #corruption. At the end of June, the Open #Society Foundation (OSF), founded by #GeorgeSoros, decided to turn its back on 40 years of #investment in civil society in the heart of #Europe and redirect its funding towards #Ukraine, #Moldova, the #Balkans and the plight of the #Roma.

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#eu #politics #help #ngo #finance #money #problem #future #lobby #lobbyism

kuchinster@rusx.org

A True Shock? Economist Jeffrey Sachs Reveals Secret at Heart of U.S.-Russian Relations

Image/photobrainwavelost@nerdpol.ch wrote the following post Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:19:12 +0300

It seems that the interest in #peace is secondary. Greed for power and resources is more important. Therefore, there will be #war as long as the warmongers face no real resistance and are strong enough to stir up trouble.

Leading US diplomats, led by the great stateman-scholar George Kennan, warned at the time that the NATO enlargement would lead to disaster: “The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding #NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.” So, it has proved.

Here is not the place to revisit all of the foreign policy disasters that have resulted from US arrogance towards #Russia, but it suffices here to mention a brief and partial chronology of key events. In 1999, NATO bombed #Belgrade for 78 days with the goal of breaking #Serbia apart and giving rise to an independent #Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the #Balkans. In 2002, the US unilaterally withdrew from the #Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the US and NATO allies repudiated the UN Security Council by going to war in #Iraq on false pretenses. In 2004, the US continued with NATO enlargement, this time to the Baltic States and countries in the Black Sea region (Bulgaria and Romania) and the Balkans. In 2008, over Russia’s urgent and strenuous objections, the US pledged to expand NATO to #Georgia and #Ukraine.

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#history #NATO #USA #US #europe #coldwar #Western #deepstate #warmongers #IMF #neocons #expansion #war against #soviet #economy #USSR #russian #Russia

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

It seems that the interest in #peace is secondary. Greed for power and resources is more important. Therefore, there will be #war as long as the warmongers face no real resistance and are strong enough to stir up trouble.

Leading US diplomats, led by the great stateman-scholar George Kennan, warned at the time that the NATO enlargement would lead to disaster: “The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding #NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.” So, it has proved.

Here is not the place to revisit all of the foreign policy disasters that have resulted from US arrogance towards #Russia, but it suffices here to mention a brief and partial chronology of key events. In 1999, NATO bombed #Belgrade for 78 days with the goal of breaking #Serbia apart and giving rise to an independent #Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the #Balkans. In 2002, the US unilaterally withdrew from the #Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the US and NATO allies repudiated the UN Security Council by going to war in #Iraq on false pretenses. In 2004, the US continued with NATO enlargement, this time to the Baltic States and countries in the Black Sea region (Bulgaria and Romania) and the Balkans. In 2008, over Russia’s urgent and strenuous objections, the US pledged to expand NATO to #Georgia and #Ukraine.

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mlansbury@despora.de

Romania: Russia 'will not stop' with war in Ukraine, calls for better preparation amid potential conflict with NATO

"The Russian Federation has become a problem for the world order, for #democracy. In fact, it is a war of Russia with the democratic world. It is not a war with Ukraine," said Vlad, Romania's highest-ranking military officer.

Vlad, who was recently appointed Chief of Defense in November 2023, said he believes that Russia "will not stop" at Ukraine.

"If (Russian President Vladimir Putin) wins in Ukraine, the main target will be the Republic of #Moldova. We will witness tensions in the Western #Balkans. I am more than convinced that President Putin's policy will escalate in the immediate future."

https://kyivindependent.com/romanian-defense-chief-russia-will-not-stop-with-war-in-ukraine-calls-for-better-preparation-amid-potential-conflict-with-nato/

#Imperialism #RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine #war

aljazeera@squeet.me

Jelena Begovic: Serbia’s tech rise in East vs West power struggle | Talk to Al Jazeera

Following the Cold War’s ideological rift, East-West rivalry persists, fuelled by advances in AI, cybersecurity, telecommunications and biotechnology.Emergin...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #balkans #europe #latestnews #newsheadlines #science #serbia #talktoaljazeera #tech #technology
Jelena Begovic: Serbia’s tech rise in East vs West power struggle | Talk to Al Jazeera

bliter@diaspora-fr.org

Le Grand #Entretien de Janvier avec #PierreYvesRougeyron et Davy Rodriguez - #CercleAristote

Le retour du Grand Entretien pour une nouvelle année 2023 avec comme co-animateur, #DavyRodriguez, qui animera également sa #nouvelle #émission de relations #internationales, "Davy contre les Empires".

Vos chapitres :

00:00 #Actualités du Cercle Aristote : les #livres, les #conférences à venir, les cercles de province…
09:35 L’ #élection de #Lula au #Brésil
28:03 Rien ne va plus chez #LFI : #Mélenchon, #Bompard, #Ruffin et les autres
51:09 #Scandale de #corruption au #parlement #Européen de #Bruxelles
01:07:47 Les #Balkans, éternelle poudrière européenne

01:24:49 Section Nécro : #JosephRatzinger
01:36:29:14 #Houellebecq et l’ #Islam
01:50:33 Bibi de retour au pouvoir en #Israël

Les questions du public

02:08:18 La #réforme des #retraites
02:14:50 #Twitterfiles #silence des #médias
02:20:36 Les #souverainistes et le #RN
02:27:46 Un avis sur #FrançoisRuffin ?
02:35:42 Pour la #décentralisation ?
02:42:11 Que penser des #Napoléons ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=torx2oyPgh0
#politique #géopolitique #histoire

eccodrum@diasp.org

McCain’s Kremlin Ties
He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain’s political advisors have advanced Putin’s imperial ambitions.
By Mark Ames and Ari Berman
OCTOBER 1, 2008

another piece to the Putin / GOP puzzle.

Over the course of the presidential campaign, John McCain has repeatedly emphasized his willingness to stand up to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as proof that only he possesses the fortitude and judgment to become the next leader of the free world. In his acceptance speech at the Republican convention, McCain lashed out at Putin and the Russian oligarchs, who, “rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power…[are] reassembling the old Russian Empire.” McCain rushed to publicly support the Georgian republic during its recent conflict with Russia and amplified his threat to expel Moscow from the G-8 club of major powers. His running mate, Sarah Palin, suggested in her first major interview that the United States might have to go to war with Russia one day in order to protect Georgia—the kind of apocalyptic scenario the United States avoided during the cold war.

Yet despite McCain’s tough talk, behind the scenes his top advisers have cultivated deep ties with Russia’s oligarchy—indeed, they have promoted the Kremlin’s geopolitical and economic interests, as well as some of its most unsavory business figures, through greedy cynicism and geopolitical stupor. The most notable example is the tale of how McCain and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, advanced what became a key victory for the Kremlin: gaining control over the small but strategically important country of Montenegro.

#TheNation #Putin #Russian #oligarchs #politics #GOP #JohnMcCain #Manafort #lobbying #Montenegro #Deripaska #Serbia #Georgia #Ukraine #Balkans #Rothschild #AriBerman #MarkAmes #journalism #RusAl #Yanukovich #OrangeRevolution #Akhmetov #Yushchenko #Djukanovic #Kremlin #Soviet #RickDavis

anne_har@diaspora.psyco.fr

#Musique #Balkans #Taraf_de_Akaçfa

J'ai déjà posté sur eux, mais on ne voit plus les photos - c'était sur Framasphère ! La voix de la chanteuse est merveilleuse, j'espère que ça vous plaira, @fiel@diaspora-fr.org qui se forme l'oreille, et @jacreb@diaspora.asrun.eu qui avait posté une chanteuse mais dont j'ai oublié le nom et c'était aussi sur Framasphère...

Mă Gândesc, Neică, La Tine/ Suita De Ascultare Si Joc/Neicuță, Mi-Aduc Aminte
Live concert at Fonó Budai Zeneház in Budapest, Hungary.
February 4, 2022

Musicians:
Kisgyörgy Ilka - voice
Lulu Starr- violin (fille d'une amie, #Isabelle_Chapuis)
Telegdi Gáspár- accordion
Molnár Bálint - cobza
Dénes Ábel - double bass

Taraf de Akácfa was created in 2014 by traveling street musicians who serendipitously met in Budapest, Hungary in an international collective house on Akácfa street. The founding members of the group came from the United States, Sweden, Hungary and France, and eventually chose to stay in Budapest, where they experienced constant musical inspiration and could share their common passion for Eastern European and Balkan folk music. Their current musical repertoire is predominantly centered around Romanian lăutarească, Moldovan and Transylvanian folk music, and they also perform a variety of folk music from the Balkans. While the formation of the band has changed and now the majority of the current members are native Hungarians, one thing has always remained; the shared curiosity and enthusiasm for this complex and dynamically rich traditional music. Taraf de Akácfa mixes the different musical and cultural backgrounds of its members, while tastefully blending different styles of folk music with innovative ideas and arrangements. They honor the sources and traditions which they draw upon, all while adding
their own unique interpretation and style. Over the years, the members traveled throughout Romania, Moldova and Hungary, researching the origins of the songs which they play. They have had the opportunity to learn from the some of the greatest folk musicians, most notably those of Taraf de Haidouks as well as Marcel Râmba, who heavily influenced their current repertoire. In 2016 the band recorded their first self-titled album in Budapest. In 2018 their second full length album ”Trei Focuri” was recorded at Pheonix Studio in Diósd, Hungary.

https://youtu.be/WFe8s1E-jJw