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“Greater Albania” Is A Myth To Preserve The Country’s Unity (II)

04/11/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 8 comments

(Please read Part I prior to this article) The Power Of The Christian Community The State Of Religious Affairs: What’s usually left out of the conversation when discussing Albania is the strategic Christian minority inhabiting the northern and southern border regions, and the potential for them to sympathize more with […]

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“Greater Albania” Is A Myth To Preserve The Country’s Unity (I)

04/11/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 18 comments

Outside observers tend to think of Albania as a monolithic bloc, but just below the “Greater Albania” surface is a depth of societal division, periodically drained by the “unifying” valve of ethnic irredentism. The country is suffering from such a degree of corruption and mismanagement that thousands of its citizens […]

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The future of the Balkans runs through Macedonia (II)

03/03/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 4 comments

Part I Levers Of Influence Macedonia sits in the current crosshairs of the ‘New Cold War’ between the West and Russia, or more accurately put, between the unipolar and multipolar worlds. Having earlier discussed how the country reached this (un)enviable position and the competing visions that each camp presents it […]

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Europe Between Kosovization and Jihadization

28/01/2015 by Vladislav B. SOTIROVIC

Today the Old (dying out) Continent is under multi-faced crises pressure some of them having older roots but the others are product of current political decisions and moves by the European decision makers (and those who are behind them across the Ocean). The European oldest and mostly painful crisis-problem is […]

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