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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa è una testata giornalistica on-line, un centro studi e un centro servizi che esplora le trasformazioni sociali e politiche nei Balcani, in Turchia e nel Caucaso
Chechen demographic rise: reasons and concerns - OBC …
Jan 10, 2019 · Besides demographic growth, these republics also compete in terms of political instability. In the years of 2008-2010 the online media resource Caucasian Knot, which monitors the situation in the region, even recorded lower numbers of violence related death in Chechnya than in Ingushetia and Dagestan.This prompted analysts to speak about a spill over and spread of the Russo-Chechen war, which ...
Croatia shows how to deal with the worst wildfires - OBC …
Jul 5, 2023 · Source: EFFIS The causes. How can these fires be explained? As detailed in a recent study by the United Nations University's Institute for Environment and Human Security, the climate crisis has made it easier for forest fires to degenerate into what are called "extreme fires", i.e. events that end up beyond human control. The problem is aggravated by uncontrolled development and poor awareness ...
What will the Euro effect be in Croatia? - OBC Transeuropa
Aug 9, 2012 · (Originally published by the portal H-Alter within our project EDJNet ). Right after the latest parliamentary elections in July 2020, Croatia, along with Bulgaria, entered the EU exchange rate mechanism (ERM-II), generally considered a waiting room for the Eurozone.
The "homo georgicus", the oldest European man - OBC Transeuropa
Nov 9, 2011 · The oldest human remains found outside the African continent are in Dmanisi, Georgia, and date back to 1.8 million years ago. It is the homo georgicus, a hominid species which, by evolution, seems to be intermediate between the homo habilis and the homo erectus. The discovery was possible thanks to the steadfastness of the Georgian researchers, along with international archeologists, including ...
The truth about Jasenovac - OBC Transeuropa
May 11, 2016 · Also this year, as has happened since 2016, two opposing ceremonies celebrated the liberation of the Jasenovac concentration camp on April 22 nd, 1945.The Jewish and Roma communities as well as the representative of the Serbian minority decided not to participate in the official celebrations, accusing Andrej Plenković's government of being ham-handed in the fight against historical revisionism.
Sarajevo 1984, Yugoslavia's Olympic Games - OBC Transeuropa
Aug 14, 2013 · Every day, several thousand young people from all over Bosnia rehearsed the choreography for the Olympics opening and closing ceremony. The main Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun" asked, with a headline all over the front page, "Where did they find all those beautiful girls and tall guys?", and then countered with …
Serbia: the beginning and end of Radio B92 - OBC Transeuropa
Oct 9, 2014 · The station's anti-war editorial policy did not just translate into uncensored news. The fifty people who collaborated and worked for B92 at the time did not just cover events, they organised them – e.g., the concert of Belgrade's most famous pacifist rock bands or the collection of aid for the refugees from Krajina, ignored by mainstream media.
Macedonian journalist Zoran Bozinovski must be released
Jul 24, 2007 · This publication has been produced within the project European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, co-funded by the European Commission.The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and its partners and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.
Timişoara, 1989: the days of the revolution - OBC Transeuropa
May 22, 2009 · The revolution in Timişoara . The fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime started in Timişoara, a city of Western Romania. On the 15th of December of 1989 Romanian authorities wanted to expel the reformed pastor Lazlo Tőkés, disliked by the regime because of his sermons, in which he did not omit condemnations of the regime.