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I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.
Are they Russian by way of the Ozarks?
The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.
La di da di, we likes to party
We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.
I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.
It looks to me as though these politics mean Serbs, Croats and Muslims. But they are all people. They are all the same. They all look like people, there's no difference. They all have arms, legs and heads, they walk and talk, but now there's "something" that wants to make them different.
There are Russians, and then there are Russian ballerinas from the Kirov.
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
I feel absolutely no loyalty to Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian national causes. I have no other emotion but utter contempt for people who helped destroy Yugoslavia, and I feel the same about the people who are now selling what is left of it." (p. 13)
The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
She remembered wondering what it was that the Albanians exported in such an anonymous way, but when on one occasion she had looked it up, she found that their only export was electricity - which, if she remembered her high school physics correctly, was unlikely to be moved around in lorries.
Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
Some slight friction threatening in the Balkans, sir.
Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.
Itterasshai.
Go and come back safely.
Indians, schmindians!
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.
Moslem conquest.
The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.
These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
Italians make you laugh and break your heart.
As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.
Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years."
"I hope that's not true", I said.
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
Irish as a Paddy's pig.
Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia
I built Kosovo for 10 years.
As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.
We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.
I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.
(Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians.
Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
Fookin' Irish, they're a race of political masochists, they love their fookin' chiefs and princes an' a strong hand belting. It's like the man said in the play, Abair and focal republic i nGaoluinn?
We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.
Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
Of the seven butchers who interest us, four are Tatars and three are Yids. They're at the top of the list of suspects. But, to avoid any reproaches of prejudice, I'm arresting the lot. And I'll give them a thorough working over. I
The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.
I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
I'm from a Gypsy background!
I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.
We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship.
In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions.
My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany.
The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
The Chetniks! Everybody helped them, the whole world. By not helping Bosnia
someone in Tunis. Halabi
Italy has been made; now it remains to make Italians
The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and closer to the order of the Romans than the Turks.
My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and did what foreign types do - they married into a penniless but well-bred local family.
British. My mother
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.
You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.
The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.
For my part, it was Greek to me.
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution ... responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.
The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians
Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.
I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.
I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.
I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.
Valar Dohaeris. All men must serve.
My parents could not be more Italian.
A feast of languages
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists.
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.
[The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
We are, for all our polish, of little
stature, and, as human lives,
compared with authentic martyrs,
of no account.
I don't know what the word is in Austrian.
I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.
Kosovians can move back in.
The Germans, a race eager for war.
Laistry ... I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?"
"Canadians.