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		<title>Good Serbs and Bad Serbs</title>
		<link>http://balkannews.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/good-serbs-and-bad-serbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is not us but Europe that needs to face reality&#8221; states Tomislav Nikolic, Serbian Radical Party leader, in a recent interview with Der Spiegel. He claims that the European Union has divided Serbia into two camps, &#8220;good Serbs, and bad Serbs.&#8221; The European Union is the one responsible for destabilizing Serbia. No, not ethnic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=18&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Bulgarian Corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 19th, Bulgaria&#8217;s chief of police, Veselin Petrov, tabled his resignation for unknown reasons. According to the Bulgarian News Network, it is unclear whether if the newly appointed Interior Minister, Mikhail Mikov, will accept Petrov&#8217;s resignation. I imagine this has to do with the ever widening scandal regarding the Bulgarian Interior Ministry&#8217;s involvement with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=17&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Cracks Down in Balkan Immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 02:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gypsies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election of another center-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi in Italy has led to a swift move against illegal immigrants, most of them coming from southeastern Europe. Der Spiegel reports that while the Italian government claims no specific immigrant groups have been targeted, most of those arrested in raids have been Roma (gypsies) from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=15&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit of Humor</title>
		<link>http://balkannews.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/a-bit-of-humor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an essay at The Media Times Review, a Bulgarian website, that included a hilarious annectdote. In all the madness and destruction that came out of the civil war in Bosnia (can it be called a civil war?) it is refreshing to find something humorous for a change. It read: In the early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=14&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Organized Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Albania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A cynic might consider southeastern Europe to be synonymous with organized crime. The news headlines in Albania do little to counter this. In a headline worthy of a Bulgarian newspaper these days, the Tirana Times reports that Albania&#8217;s tax chief as well as a secret policeman were arrested for the 1995 murder of a businessman. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=13&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romanian Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bulgaria is not the only Balkan country facing EU sanctions over the lagging pace of reform. The Diplomat Bucharest reports that in July the European Commission will issue a report over the state of the Romanian Justice system, and could recommend sanctions against the country. One of the sanctions that could be recommended is called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=10&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Further Down the Rabbit Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The scandal in Bulgaria continues, and the Bulgarian State Agency for National Security seems bent on getting to the bottom of this scandal that has rocked Bulgarian politics. The Sofia Echo today reports that the former Minister of the Interior, Roumen Petkov, may face criminal charges over the disclosure of the identity of an Interior [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=9&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Uncertain Election</title>
		<link>http://balkannews.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/an-uncertain-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday&#8217;s elections in Serbia produced a victory for pro-Western parties led by Boris Tadic, though according to Deutsche Welle the fragmented nature of Serbian politics &#8220;could still produce a nationalist, anti-Western government.&#8221; It seems the Socialist Party, once the party of great Serbian humanitarians such as Slobodan Milosovic, are the big winners of this election, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=8&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bulgaria Faces Possible No Confidence Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bulgarian politics this year has been a case of seeing just how far down the rabbit hole we can go. The ever widening scandal regarding the collusion of high government officials with organized crime figures shows no limit to its extent. Every day seems to bring new revelations as to how much the Bulgarian government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=6&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serbians at the Ballot Box</title>
		<link>http://balkannews.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/serbians-at-the-ballot-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 03:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EUobserver.com reports that today (Sunday) Serbians went to the ballot box in &#8220;decisive elections for the country&#8217;s EU future.&#8221; The election, like previous ones, pits pro-Western factions versus more right-wing nationalist parties. The three front-running parties are president Boris Tadic&#8217;s Democratic Party (DS), the nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS), and prime minister Vojislav Kostunica&#8217;s conservative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balkannews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3650774&amp;post=5&amp;subd=balkannews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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