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ROMANIAN PEOPLE WON- CHEVRON KICKED OUT OF ROMANIA…

Chevron ditches last European fracking project in Romania Published time: February 23, 2015 00:12 Russia Today Reuters / Mike Blake US energy giant Chevron is terminating its operations in Romania due to poor exploration results and prolonged protests by environmentalists.The withdrawal from this fracking project will mark the end of the company’s shale gas exploration in Europe. Because of falling

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At least 2 killed in blast at 500-strong Anti-War rally in Kharkov, Ukraine (“Right Sector” behind?)

Earlier in the day, 133 Ukrainian soldiers, freed as part of a prisoner swap with the rebel forces, arrived in Kharkov. The march in Kharkov was organized in commemoration of the 2014 Maidan events, which brought about regime change in Ukraine. Kharkov, in northeastern Ukraine, is the country’s second largest city in terms of population. The Kharkov region is under Kiev control and is close to the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.

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THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS, part V

THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS (Demographic, legal, and social-economic circumstances)   The territory of the state of the Serbian people varied dynamically during the 19th and 20th centuries. Following the Berlin Congress, the Principality’s four districts of Vranje, Niš, Pirot and Toplica measured 48,300 km2, an increase of 10,300 km2. (These territorial possessions were to eventually become the Kingdom

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THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS, part IV

THE BORDER FRONT The first preventive incident of the taking over of strategic points on the “Albanian front” was performed by Serbia in 1913. By this armed action, intrusions of “kacac” gangs were disabled; rebellion prevented; and attempts to expand Albania territorially cut. The intrusion of the troops of the Hasan Prishtina on the territory of Serbia in February 1915

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THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS, part III

LIBERATION AND REBELLION As the dawn broke on September 15, 1918, from the position of the Second Serbian Army, after a whole day of military preparation, the Thessalonica front was breached – and with that the military denouement in the southeast of Europe. After a couple of days, on September 21, 1918, the Serbian troops reached the Vardar river, cut

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THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS, part II

THE YUGOSLAV STATE AND THE ALBANIANS, part II In the years and decades after the Berlin Congress, the obsession with defending designated territories grew into pathological enmity towards neighboring states and peoples on religious-ethnic levels. The consequences of the conflict, followed by an accelerated change of ethnic structure in the Albanian population, was mostly felt in the impact made by

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The Restored Serbian State and the Albanians, part II

The Restored Serbian State and the Albanians 1804-1876, part II   The major political events and developments determining relations between Serbia and the Albanians in the 19th century, (given the general situation in the Ottoman Empire, and particularly in the Albanian social setting – according to historical research), can be outlined as follows. During the First Serbian Uprising, (which in the

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