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May 15th, 2008

Macedonia: Bloggers Emphasize Need for Open Communication with Greece

Filip Stojanovski · 14:20

lingua → bn · mk

Amid the internal turmoil caused by Greek actions to block Macedonia's accession to NATO and the EU, and due to an increasing number of reports of attacks over Macedonian truck drivers by nationalist mobs in Greece, many Macedonian bloggers are attempting to bridge the gap of ignorance existing between the two nations. 19 comments · »»

April 9th, 2008

Macedonia: Bloggers Discuss NATO Summit and Greece

Filip Stojanovski · 00:45

lingua → mk · sq · es

Last week, the Macedonian blogosphere buzzed about Greece's obstruction of Macedonia's NATO entry. Filip Stojanovski translates a number of initial reactions. 23 comments · »»

April 6th, 2008

Southeast Europe, Russia: War, Peace, and Shared History

Veronica Khokhlova · 23:45

lingua → mg · es

Veronica Khokhlova translates some Russophone bloggers' views on shared history and conflict in Southeastern Europe and the Caucasus. 5 comments · »»

March 16th, 2008

Macedonia: Name Change to Enter NATO, EU?

Elia Varela Serra · 19:09

lingua → mk · jp · es

Ever since Macedonia became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991, its name has been the subject of a bitter dispute with its southern neighbor, Greece. Greece claims that the use of “Republic of Macedonia,” as Macedonia calls itself in its constitution, not only violates Greece's historic cultural claim to the name, but also implies a territorial claim to the northern Greek province of Macedonia. Elia Varela Serra reviews bloggers' responses to the issue. 159 comments · »»

September 23rd, 2007

Russia: Conference on Renewable Energy Sources

Ljubisa Bojic · 14:26

lingua → zht · zhs · es

Web 2.0. is finally coming to the Balkans: SeminarskiRad.com, a portal based on the share principle and offering free resources to Serbian students, has become really popular very quickly. A few days ago, the portal's blog supplement opened on Blogger, dedicated to the topics relevant to Serbia's youth. The first post is a report from a recent Moscow conference on renewable energy, whose aim was to educate young scientists in order to make this planet greener. 3 comments · »»

August 27th, 2007

Greece: On Fire

Yazan Badran · 22:17

lingua → hi · zht · zhs · pt · bn · ar · es · jp · fr

We've probably all heard it in the news by now: Greece is ablaze. Today the fires reached the ancient city of Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics and home of the Olympia Museum, which houses one of Greece's greatest archaeological collections. Athens in Flames (From flickr user alefbetac)While the fires ... 4 comments · »»

March 13th, 2007

Turkey is Typing: You Tube “Should I Stay or Should I Go”

Deborah Ann Dilley · 17:21

Last week Global Voices reported on the temporary ban the Republic of Turkey put on media site YouTube. The background of the issue stems from a single video posted by a Greek accusing the founder of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as being gay. In response to this video, ... 5 comments · »»

October 29th, 2006

IGF in Athens: searching globally for the Internet's common ground

Jose Murilo Junior · 23:52

The first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum - IGF, which aims to be a a place for a "multi-stakeholder policy dialogue", starts tomorrow, going from 30 October to 2 November in Athens, Greece. The idea of the forum emerged during last year's meetings of the World Summit on the ... 4 comments · »»

Links

April 23rd, 2008

A post on the Greek-Macedonian relationship - and nearly 800 comments to it - at Mark Mardell's Euroblog (BBC).

April 22nd, 2008

Douglas Muir of A Fistful of Euros posts a brief update on the Greek-Macedonian relationship.

April 10th, 2008

Greater Surbiton writes about NATO's relations with Russia: “If the NATO powers lack the will to stand up to Russia, it raises the question of what precise purpose NATO serves.” And about NATO and the Greek-Macedonian relations: “Greece has been a very poor member of NATO; it has only about 130 troops in Afghanistan - the same number as Macedonia, a non-member with one-fifth its population.”

April 9th, 2008

Say: Macedonia speaks up against “radicalism” that seems to be more and more prevalent in the Greek-Macedonian relations: “I wish to condemn any violent form of ‘resolving' the issue and to ask everybody to cool down, because the problem will stay, and in the meantime the gap between the two nations will become wider. After all, we do need to live together.”

April 8th, 2008

Turkish blogger Metin asks “What's in a name?” following Greece's vetoing Macedonia's bid to enter Nato. He also asks: “What if, when the U.S. troops leave Iraq (but not its government), the country is split into three, including Kurdistan. And Turkey finds itself opposing the name Kurdistan, as it realizes the same could be applied to the territory inside its own borders.”

April 3rd, 2008

A roundup on the Macedonia-Greece name dispute: Balkan Baby writes that posters in the capital of Macedonia “featuring a customised version of the Greek flag in which the cross […] was replaced with a swastika” did “nothing but shoot Macedonia in the foot”; A Fistful of Euros examines “one of those perfect Balkan storms where you have obnoxious and stupid behavior that leads to even more obnoxious and stupid behavior”; Say: Macedonia pledges to call Greece “‘the Former Macedonian Province of Greece', or FMPG for short” from now on; Greater Surbiton mocks the Greek Foreign Minister; The Board, a blog written by the New York Times editorial board, notes that “tiny Macedonia doesn’t threaten Greece under any name.”

April 1st, 2008