Counterfactuals, a note in the spirit of Tolstoy
If one were to ask what they could have done in order for Russia not to invade Ukraine, the answer is game-theoretic. Chess is a good example…
If one were to ask what they could have done in order for Russia not to invade Ukraine, the answer is game-theoretic. Chess is a good example…
VIDEO – On April 5th, 1992, the longest siege of a European city since World War 2 began. It lasted 44 months, until December 1995. Over 11,000 people were killed, among them 1,600 children.
DwP – Sometimes I think I hear Milosevic when Putin is speaking. I am not struck by temporal confusion. Putin and his “Russian world” had Milosevic and his “Serbian world” as a precursor.
Let’s start with the good news. There aren’t any. Let’s try again. Good news is that the regime no longer holds two thirds of the parliament and Vucic could not be declared a president-for-life.
“The majority of the Ukrainian population, seduced by the siren call of Europe, has succumbed to the temptations of electoral democracy. Russian troops started a war to free it from these illusions.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is as contrary to international law as the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 and the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. These are all examples of aggression.
DwP – On February 26, 2022 was the 30th anniversary of the secret state project of depriving citizens of non-Slovenian heritage of their civil rights and expelling them from Slovenia.
The Orthodox armies of the Third Rome did not withstand the threat of the West and struck first, to return Ukraine to the Russian world. What could Cain have thought before he killed Abel?
The explanation for the occupation of Ukraine, if it happens, is that the rights of the Russian minority are endangered. The comparison with Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina is obvious.
We, historians from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia condemn the abuse of history…
DwP – The anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence will not lead to Serbia creating new policy towards Kosovo, with human rights at its core.
The Serbian government, contrary to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights on temporary ban on extradition, extradited to the Bahrein its citizen Ali Ahmed Jaffar Mohammed.
There are many reasons to like Novak Djokovic. By most tennis metrics, he has had a more successful career than his two arch-rivals, Nadal and Federer…
Nice weather for this time of year brought people out onto the picnic areas, but not to the polling stations. Which only makes sense – voting has long been replaced with pointless circling of numbers.
Let’s apply the standards that Judge Kelly applied to the Djokovic case and give everyone the right to have his or her voice heard, instead of just “loading” them back on the plane…
The Priboj police is celebrating the birth of one police officer’s son with a song so dear to them. And it goes like this: “Srebrenica, you are so dear to me, I wish you happened three more times…”
Does the number of misdemeanor charges point to the conclusion that the police used so-called intelligent video surveillance – cameras and software for digital, biometric face recognition?
Should the excavator smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to it the other also. This is not quite what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, but that is how the police in Sabac understood it.
What is all the excitement about? 1,000 cubic meters of gas coming to Serbia via Ukraine and Hungary costs $270, but with the new pipeline the price would be reduced to $155.
DwP – The fall of Vukovar, the birthplace of the Communist party of Yugoslavia, also represents the defeat of the Bolshevik project, in the sense of the country that died there, and globally.
They were arrested for throwing eggs at the shameful mural of Ratko Mladic, which was painted on one of the buildings in Njegoseva St, in the middle of Belgrade…
As soon as it was announced that Rade Serbedzija will have a concert, it was sold out. As soon as it was announced that Rade Serbedzija’s concert in Vinkovci was sold out – it was banned.
The photo of a girl holding a book with the question “Do you have trouble with grammar like people from the south of Serbia?” is a reminder that there is still life in a morally infected environment…
If there was any room for doubt, now it’s gone – the government led by Aleksandar Vucic has decided to sacrifice the health and lives of the citizens of Serbia for the sake of its own ratings.
DwP – Although the Serbian world really is a copy – or, a ripoff, if you will – of the Russian world, the role of those two worlds in their political contexts is completely different…
When, how, and why did we, the citizens of Serbia, decide to simply come to terms with illness, even death? In addition to all the (self) praise for the abundance of vaccines and new Covid hospitals…
The children’s section of the library in Negotin was scheduled to hold a promotion for the book “This is My Country, Here I Command,” by V. Sljivancanin…
The real star of this program was Milorad Dodik, who could not be clearer: “I have to let you in on a secret. We don’t like it when you call us Bosnians. We are not Bosnians, I am a Serb, I write in Cyrillic…”
Looking back at 16 years of Merkel’s Balkan policy, there were ups and downs, but bringing Serbia closer to the EU has failed. It’s time for a new start.
A fantastic tragicomedy could be written around the fact that the citizens of Croatia have chosen Nikola Tesla as one of the figures who will be featured on Croatian euro banknotes.
Telekom will pay an incredible 100 million euro per season, or a total of 600 million euros, for the exclusive broadcasting rights of the upcoming 6 seasons of English Premier League matches.