Incredible retro-futuristic monuments from former Yugoslavia (now Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.).

The enthusiasm, both in the academic and the political community, for the explicit mention of R2P in UN Security Council Resolutions 1973 (Libya) and 1975 (Ivory Coast), is both remarkable and understandable. For quite some time, many scholars and practitioners have underlined the paradigm shift from state security to human security. Of late, this is no longer a theoretical debate, but R2P has become praxis in concrete operations sanctioned by the UN Security Council.

The most concrete example of an R2P operation is the establishment of a safe haven (area) in a war zone. Srebrenica, between 1993 and 1995, is an exemplary case here. Its main characteristics, on paper, were:

1. The warring parties do recognize the safe haven as such and promise to respect it.

2. The save haven is demilitarized.

3. The safe haven is protected by a neutral UN-force, mandated to deter (with ‘brutal’ force) any attempt by outsiders to undermine the safe haven.

In Srebrenica the safe haven concept failed with horrendous consequences, because the third condition was not fulfilled. It is obvious that these criteria were/are also not fulfilled in either Ivory Coast or Libya. On the contrary, from the very beginning, already in the wording of the resolutions but on the ground even more so, the whole R2P concept has been blurred.

In Ivory Coast both sides (troops of the former president Gbagbo and those of the new president Oatarra) committed serious atrocities against citizens; protecting civilians was not at all part of their military strategy, despite the active involvement of France troops in the battle. In Libya, Benghazi was considered by the UNSC to be the first city whose citizens – as distinct from rebels/fighters – should be protected by foreign (mainly NATO) airplanes. But bombing has nothing to do with protection; on the contrary. In fact, both UN Resolutions 1973 and 1975 have neglected to prescribe how civilians should be protected. Instead, they exploit the R2P terminology as an alibi for choosing sides. The label R2P was nothing more than a cover-up.

By now, what is clear is that it may be fairly stated that both UN Resolutions were biased. In the case of Ivory Coast (Res. 1975) full (French) support was authorized in favour of one side (president Outarra) in the conflict. And in the case of Libya (Res. 1973) the international community, with certain qualifications, put their shoulder behind the so-called rebels (freedom-fighters). Only air support, no boots on the ground were permitted. It is true, now and then the international community has to take side in a conflict. But I don’t want to be deceived. In both cases, neither the wording let alone the execution of the resolutions had anything to do with the protection of civilians. Reality is our witness!

It is a real pity, but R2P has now become an alibi for going to war instead of a promise to protect citizens caught between warring parties. I wouldn’t have had any problem if the UNSC had adopted a resolution for ‘war’ against the Gaddafi regime, authorizing military support (also on the ground) to the ‘rebels’ fight for freedom. Unfortunately, wars are part of our reality and support for the ‘good’ side is sometimes necessary if not obligatory, including military support.

But there is more to do than to fight the enemy. On behalf of the international community, we also need R2P soldiers on the ground protecting those places where people are gathered in an attempt to find shelter. Or bringing civilians to special security zones, which may be cities or temporary refugee camps, where they are safe. For that we need a new international convention, adopted by the UNSC. And based on that a specially trained and equipped R2P-force.

After the Rwanda massacre in 1994, voices were raised in favour of the establishment of a UN-intervention force. That idea was not embraced by most countries, in particular not by permanent members of the UNSC. Almost two decades later, the right to intervene was definitely replaced by the responsibility to protect and now measures should be taken to enable powers to act upon this responsibility. Indeed, an R2P-force will be more broadly acceptable, because of its strict and limited mandate, and its neutrality during the ongoing battle. Nevertheless, its mandate should be robust: protection of civilians has to be taken deadly seriously. One more failure of the ‘Srebrenica’ variety must be avoided at all costs.

Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people, and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems — from hacking together software to working out how you'd sustain an idea — all in just 48 hours.

Do you have an idea you want to work on? Or maybe a particular technical solution that could be used for good? Social Innovation Camp Internews in Sarajevo is looking for inspiring ideas and committed people. The call for submissions will be closed Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

This year’s event will be held in Sarejevo on July 9-10, 2011 and organized by Internews and Transitions (TOL). The focus of Social Innovation Camp Internews is to jumpstart a “digital activist” movement across Central and Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Central Asia that uses information and communication technologies for positive social change.

Anyone from across the world — including people who work for NGOs or the media; who are public employees, web developers, business or marketing types who are enthusiastic about a social cause — is invited to attend the event as experts, volunteers, and developers. Travel grants are available for the priority countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

To apply for participation fill out this form.

Read more about the Social Innovation Camp Internews in Sarajevo: http://www.sicamp-internews.org

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic says that if accused Bosnian Serb wartime criminal Ratko Mladic is captured after the mandate of the international court overseeing Yugoslav war crimes expires, he should be tried in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Incredible retro-futuristic monuments from former Yugoslavia (now Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.). The tricky engineering structures were commissioned by former Yugo

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Also referred to as “very tasty" and "with a character that has Bodog written all over her," the 26-year-old Pasalic (@Tattytats on Twitter) has been around the online poker industry since her early 20s as a player, TV presenter and reporter.

Her debut tournament in Bodog colours will be the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

Said Pasalic:

"Bodog's brand is the one that fits me best … from the photo-shoot onwards everybody at Bodog has had a wicked sense of fun which is what I am about too so the synergy is obvious.

“They've all shown me great support already so it's now just up to me to take down the World Series!"

Pasalic was born in Bosnia Herzegovina but brought up in Zagreb, Croatia and discovered online poker when she moved to Denmark at 19.

According to the release, she is also a "passionate cook,” “prides herself in personally answering every question sent to her Facebook page” and, at night, “tends to wear Chanel No.5 though currently is sporting Jean Paul Gaultier.”

Pasalic's signing comes in the wake of last week’s re-signing of current Bodog pro Evelyn Ng.

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Dragan Varagić published his analysis of the most influential Twitter users [sr] from Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro, done through manual selection and consulting ratings services. Written by Filip Stojanovski · comments (0) Share: facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

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Taking offers on below domains individually : caribú,com - *Caribou* (Spanish) 减肥瑜伽,com - *Yoga Weight Loss* (Chinese) 腕時計ショップ,com - *Watch Shop* (Japanese) 节假日,com - *Holidays* (Chinese) муп,com - *MUP* (Russian) українка,com - *Ukrainian* (Ukrainian) фотографії,com - *Photos *(Ukrainian) українки,com - *Ukrainian* (Ukrainian) 苏格兰威士忌,com - *Scotch Whiskey* (Chinese) аплоад,com - *apload* - similar to upload (Russian) 虚拟化,com - *Virtualization* (Chinese) corán,com - *Quran* (Spanish) обращение,com - *Treatment* (Russian) точкадоступа,com - точка доступа - *Access Point* (Russian) ювелирной,com - *Jewellery* (Russian) босния,com - *Bosnia* (Russian) モバ,com - *Mobile* (Japanese) 研究生院,com - *Graduate Schoo*l (Chinese) פלזמות,com - *Plasma* (Hebrew) やせたい,com - *Lose Weight* (Japanese) дошкольник,com - *Preschool Child* (Russian) играю,com - *PLAY* (Russian) ingyenjátékok,com - *Free Games* (Hungarian) editfotoonline,com - *Edit Photos Online *(Italian) боснияигерцеговина,com - босния и герцеговина - *Bosnia and Herzegovina* (Russian) босниягерцеговина,com - босния и герцеговина - *Bosnia Herzegovina* (Russian) 島,net - *Island* (Japanese) 기도,net - *Prayer* (Korean) 小游戏在线,net - *Online Games* (Chinese) インターン,net - *Intern *(Japanese) ỷ,net - Single Character y (Viatnamese) also shows as independence гор,net - *Mountains *(Russian) сам,net - *Himself* (Russian) habloespañol,org - *Speak Spanish* (Spanish)

The Hill of Podbrdo of Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Our Lady first appeared to six children back in 1981. Since then, millions of pilgrims have, in a special way, encountered Our Lady for themselves when climbing the hill. Ever since the first days of the events, Podbrdo has been known as Apparition Hill.

[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Friday found former Croatian Colonel General Ante Gotovina [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] guilty [judgment summary, PDF; materials] of several counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes for his involvement in the 1995 Operation Storm [BBC backgrounder]. Gotovina, along with former military leaders Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, had been on trial since 2008 [JURIST report]. The men were charged as participants in "a joint criminal enterprise" aimed at the permanent removal of 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia. Gotovina was found guilty of eight counts including murder, plunder, persecution and deportation and sentenced to 24 years in prison. Markac was found guilty of the same offenses and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Cermak was acquitted on all counts. The judgment brought about mixed reactions. Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] applauded the judgment [statement] as "the first step to truth and justice for many victims of crimes committed during 'Operation Storm.'" Croatian authorities denounced the judgment [Telegraph report] and stated that they would "do everything in [their] power to change it." The ICTY continues to hear cases regarding former military leaders in the region and accusations of war crimes committed during the 1990s. Proceedings against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [case materials; JURIST news archive] resumed this week [Guardian report] after multiple suspensions [JURIST reports]. Karadzic faces 11 war crimes charges, including counts of genocide and murder, for alleged crimes he committed during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Last month, UN prosecutors demanded that ex-Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic [ICTY profile, PDF; JURIST news archive] receive a life sentence [JURIST report] for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s. Perisic's trial began in October 2008 [JURIST report], and closing arguments concluded at the end of March.

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Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Croatian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Croatian is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

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Croatian is a Slavic language spoken by around 5 million people. It is the official language of Croatia and one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also is an official regional language in the province of Burgenland in Austria. It has three main dialects: Chakavian, spoken primarily on the islands, along the Croatian coast and in the Lika region, Kajkavian, spoken in northern and northwestern Croatia, and Štokavian, spoken in the rest of Croatia. This phrasebook gives an overview of useful phrases in Standard Croatian.

Croatian belongs to the "synthetic" language group, which means that unlike English and other "analytical" languages, different grammatical aspects are expressed in one word by changing the structure of that word—adding an ending or prefix, modifying the core of the word, etc. In analytical languages such as English, the same is achieved by using separate auxiliary verbs, pronouns or adjectives while the actual word remains unchanged. In Croatian, one word is often sufficient to express what English can only achieve by using multiple words.

Croatian (hrvatski jezik) is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries. They are varieties of the Serbo-Croatian language, along with Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.

Standard and literary Croatian is based on the central dialect, Shtokavian (Štokavian), more specifically on Eastern Herzegovinian, which is also the basis of standard Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. The two other principal Croatian dialects are Chakavian (Čakavian) and Kajkavian. These dialects, and the four national standards, are commonly subsumed under the term "Serbo-Croatian" in English, though this term is controversial for native speakers and paraphrases such as "Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian" are therefore sometimes used instead, especially in diplomatic circles.

Vernacular texts in the Chakavian dialect first appeared in the 13th century, and Shtokavian texts appeared a century later. Standardization began in the period sometimes called "Baroque Slavism" in the first half of the 17th century, while some authors date it back to the end of 15th century. The modern Neo-Shtokavian standard that appeared in the mid 18th century was the first unified Croatian literary language.

Croatian is written in Gaj's Latin alphabet. It is a member of the following language family:

Indo-European Languages > Balto-Slavic Languages > Slavic Languages > South Slavic Languages > Western South Slavic Languages > Serbo-Croatian Languages > Croatian

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[JURIST] The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) [official website] on Thursday indicted [press release] former Croat soldier Miroslav Anic for war crimes against Bosnian Muslim civilians allegedly committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian civil war [JURIST news archive]. The indictment alleges [Reuters report] that Anic and his unit were responsible for an attack on the village of Grahovc, where eight men were separated from their families and executed with automatic weapons. Anic and his unit are also allegedly responsible for "cleansing" the village of Han Ploca, where 20 men were executed in similar fashion, and murdering 38 more in the village of Stupni Do. The BiH war crimes court was established in 2005 to reduce the caseload of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website]. In January, the court sentenced [JURIST report] Sefik Alic, a Muslim commander, to 10 years in prison, overturning his 2008 acquittal. In December, the court convicted four former Bosnian Serb policemen [JURIST report] of killing at least 150 civilians during the Bosnian civil war. In November, suspected war criminal, Dragan Crnogorac, was arrested [JURIST report] on suspicion for having committed genocide in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [JURIST news archive] during the end of the Bosnian civil war. In August, Spanish officials extradited accused Montenegrin war criminal [JURIST report] Veselin Vlahovic, known as the "monster of Grbavica," to Sarajevo.

In Case You Missed It: Seattle City Attorney's office files assault charges against cop who repeatedly kicked a cooperating teen suspect in the chest, the Arizona Senate passes a bill to prevent another Kenyan president, and Santorum's running.

T Is for Trillion: Obama proposes $4tn cut to U.S. federal debt.

Sleepy Air Traffic Controllers: The scourge of American skies. (Even Boeing Field workers are succumbing to the trend.)

Kobe Bryant: Fined $100,000 for calling referee a "fucking fag."

Meanwhile in Everett: "A naturalized U.S. citizen living in Everett was arrested Wednesday by U.S. marshals for extradition to Bosnia and Herzegovina for his alleged participation in the massacre of Croatian civilians while a member of a Bosnian Army unit during the Balkan War in 1993," reports the Seattle Times.

I Bet They Come Out "Pro": Mike McGinn and Dow Constantine to make public safety announcement this morning.

"A Train Derailed!": UPS's go-to excuse for late deliveries, investigated by KIRO.

To Be Fair, It Is Spring Break: Toddler orders juice, gets sangria at Florida Olive Garden.

Finally, happy birthday to Loretta Lynn, the country music superstar who was born in this day in 1935, and who will be appearing at the Snoqualmie Casino in August. Embedding's diabled, so click here right now to see Ms. Lynn serve up a hot meal called "Fist City."

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Two naturalised US citizens of Bosnian origin have been arrested at the request of Bosnia and Herzegovina to face accusations they committed war crimes there 18 years ago.

Two naturalised US citizens of Bosnian origin, a man and a woman, were arrested on Wednesday at the request of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to face accusations that they committed war crimes there 18 years ago.

Two naturalized U.S. citizens living in Washington state and Oregon were arrested Wednesday over allegations of war crimes in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Two naturalized U.S. citizens living in Washington state and Oregon have been arrested over allegations of war crimes in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Two naturalized U.S. citizens living in Washington state and Oregon have been arrested over allegations of war crimes in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Two naturalized U.S. citizens living in Washington state and Oregon have been arrested over allegations of war crimes in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A naturalized U.S. citizen living in Washington state was arrested Wednesday over allegations of war crimes against civilians in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Research and Markets: Bosnia And Herzegovina Infrastructure Report Q2 2011 - Announcement of a Major Loan from German Bank KfW in 2011 a Positive Sign for BiH's Power Generation Sector "Bosnia and Herzegovina Infrastructure Report Q2 2011" Bosnia Infrastructure Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, ...

The U.S. Marshals Service arrested an Everett man Wednesday at the request of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina where he is accused of war crimes.

SEATTLE, April 13 (UPI) -- Federal authorities Wednesday announced the arrest of an Everett, Wash., man wanted for alleged war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A 39-year-old Everett man was arrested Wednesday by U.S. marshals for extradition to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina for his alleged participation in the massacre of Croatian civilians while a member of a Bosnian Army unit during the Balkan War in 1993.

A 39-year-old Everett man was arrested Wednesday morning by U.S. Marshals at the request of the government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina for alleged war crimes, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle.

We recently joined forces with CNN iReport's Freedom Project to help open people's eyes to the shocking scope of modern slavery. Our initial project was fairly modest: To simply get people invested in the issue, we asked readers to send in a picture or video of themselves declaring their stand against slavery. More than 100 submissions are in so far. A small selection is below.

Priscilla Kim, 17, of South Korea, sent in this image of her with her friends. Nearly half of them are sitting, but semantics aside, we're glad they're involved. This is going to have to be a global effort.

Funda Ray of Hibbing, Minnesota, made this arresting message out of the accessories of youth: Tootsie Rolls and bubble gum. It's got a David Fincher vibe and we're taking it seriously.

Nicole Epps is a graduate student at The Johns Hopkins University and works with the school's Protection Project, a nonprofit research and training institute founded "to address trafficking in persons as a human rights violation." Apparently, you're already doing the work. Our thanks.

Piper Blurred, a student at American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says, "I find it appalling that some people are still slaves in the 21st century. This is shameful and it should be stopped as soon as possible." Agreed!

There are more pictures over at CNN iReport. We're working with CNN iReport to expand this effort with more involved projects and ever-greater impact.

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A small winemaking cooperative in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina is working with six Croats and a Serb to revive ancient regional wine traditions -- and put the horrors of the Bosnian war to rest...

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Damir Arsenijević - Mobilizing Unbribable Life: the Politics of Contemporary Poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina

NEW YORK, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Energtek Inc. (Other OTC:EGTK.PK, Pink Sheets: EGTK ), a leader in hi-tech natural gas solutions and Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology, announced today that the company signed a multi-million dollar contract, with expected accumulated revenu

Energtek Inc. (Other OTC:EGTK.PK, Pink Sheets: EGTK ), a leader in hi-tech natural gas solutions and Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology, announced today that the company signed a multi-million dollar contract, with expected accumulated revenues near $100MM over the ten-year contract period, to sell natural gas to one of the largest commercial entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Written by Veronica Khokhlova Café Turco writes about the April 6 commemoration of the liberation of Sarajevo in WWII and the beginning of the siege of the city in 1992.

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Written by Veronica Khokhlova Café Turco writes about the April 6 commemoration of the liberation of Sarajevo in WWII and the beginning of the siege of the city in 1992.

WNBA Draft April 11, 3 p.m. ET, ESPN On Monday afternoon, 36 college seniors and foreign players will learn their WNBA fate when the league holds its annual draft. Connecticut senior Maya Moore is expected to lead the way in selections and Minnesota holds the first-round pick. Tulsa, the team with the second pick, is most likely to choose Australian phenom, 19 year-old Elizabeth Cambage, the WNBL’s MVP this past season for the Bulleen Boomers.   Player School/Team Hometown Position Adams, Danielle Texas A&M Kansas City, MO Forward/Center Alexander, Kachine Iowa Minneapolis, MN Guard Allenspach, Erica Marist Miamisburg, OH Guard/Forward Bjorklund, Angie Tennessee Spokane, WA Guard-Forward Bosjnak, Adrijana Novi Zagreb Bosnia and Herzegovina Center Breland, Jessica North Carolina Brooklyn, NY Forward Brown, Kourtney Buffalo Solon, OH Forward Brown, Raeshara Missouri Little Rock, AR Guard Cambage, Elizabeth Australia London Bridge, England Center Carlson, Hillary Wyoming Riverton, WY Forward Carter, Emily TCU Bossier City, LA Forward Chester, Felicia Depaul St. Louis, MO Forward Christmas, Karima Duke Long Beach, CA Guard-Forward Cole, Chelsea Pittsburgh Lumberton, NJ Forward Colson, Sydney Texas A&M Houston, TX Guard Davis, Jori Indiana Rochester, NY Guard DeGraffenreid, Cetera North Carolina Sylva, NC Guard Dunlap, Victoria Kentucky Nashville, TN Forward Elam, Hope Indiana Champaign, IL Forward Evans, Dawn James Madison Clarksville, TN Guard Gale, Ashley LaSalle Glenside, PA Guard Hamsic, Anesa Zeljeznicar Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Center Harris, Amber Xavier Indianapolis, IN Forward Harrison, Taneisha Pittsburgh Bowie, MD Guard Ibekwe, Ify Arizona Carson, CA Forward Jackson, Tanika Alabama St. Saginaw, MI Forward Jaeschke, Amy Northwestern Wilmette, IL Center Jarry, Rachel Bulleen Boomers (Australia) Australia Forward Jenkins, Tierney Alabama Mt. Juliet, TN Forward Johnson, Adrienne Louisiana Tech Lafayette, LA Forward Johnson, Brittany Ohio St. Olney, IL Guard Karel, Alyssa Wisconsin St. Paul, MN Guard Keane, Kalisha Michigan State Ajax, ON Forward Krnjic, Sarah Serbia Serbia Center Lavender, Jantel Ohio St. Cleveland, OH Center Long, Shonda Central Mich. Saginaw, MI Guard Lucas, Italee North Carolina Las Vegas, NV Guard Malashenko, Olesia Ukraine Ukraine Forward Mason, Lesslee Houston Cincinnati, OH Forward Maznichenko, Olga Ukraine Ukraine Forward Melson, Kayla Mississippi Montgomery, AL Guard Montgomery, Alex Georgia Tech Tacoma, WA Guard-Forward Moore, Maya Connecticut Jefferson City, MO Forward Moore, Shavon Nevada Riverside, CA Forward Murphy, Stefanie Boston College Londonderry, NH Forward Niedola, Sabine Latvia Latvia Forward Pedersen, Kayla Stanford Flint, MI Forward Phillips, Porsha Georgia Stone Mountain, GA Forward Phillips, Ta’Shia Xavier Indianapolis, IN Center Pohlen, Jeanette Stanford Downey, CA Guard Quigley, Sam DePaul Joliet, IL Guard Repella, Liz West Virginia Steubenville, OH Guard Rhoads, Jence Vanderbilt Slippery Rock, PA Guard Robinson, Angel Marquette St. Paul, MN Guard Robinson, Danielle Oklahoma San Jose, CA Guard Robinson, Tahnee Nevada Fort Washakie, WY Guard Scott, Brittney Houston Beaumont, TX Guard Shells, Brittani Richmond Camdel, DE Guard Shilova, Anastasiya Russia Krasnoyarsky, RUS Guard-Forward Smalley, Ali Auburn Aran, AL Guard Spears, Brittany Colorado Pasadena, CA Forward Sverrisdottir, Helena TCU Hafnarfjordur, Iceland Guard Swords, Carolyn Boston College Sudbury, MA Center Taylor, Courtney Houston Crockett, TX Forward Thoman, Jaclyn Boston College Highlands Ranch, CO Guard Thomas, Jasmine Duke Fairfax, VA Guard Thomas, Krystal Duke Orlando, FL Center Vandersloot, Courtney Gonzaga Kent, WA Guard Vandiver, Aubrey Wyoming Hutchinson, KS Guard Ward, Courtney Florida St. Montgomery, AL Guard   2011 WNBA DRAFT – ROUND 1 Pick Team Record 1 Minnesota Lynx 13-21 2 Tulsa Shock 6-28 3 Chicago Sky 14-20 4 Minnesota Lynx from Connecticut Sun 17-17 5 Los Angeles Sparks 13-21 6 San Antonio Silver Stars 14-20 7 Tulsa Shock from Phoenix Mercury 15-19 8 Atlanta Dream 19-15 9 Indiana Fever 21-13 10 New York Liberty 22-12 11 Washington Mystics 22-12 12 Seattle Storm 28-6   2011 WNBA DRAFT – ROUND 2 Pick Team Record 13 Minnesota Lynx from Tulsa Shock 6-28 14 Minnesota Lynx 13-21 15 Chicago Sky 14-20 16 Connecticut Sun 17-17 17 Chicago Sky from Los Angeles Sparks 13-21 18 Atlanta Dream from San Antonio Silver Stars 14-20 19 Phoenix Mercury 15-19 20 San Antonio Silver Stars from Atlanta Dream 19-15 21 Tulsa Shock from Indiana Fever 21-13 22 New York Liberty 22-12 23 Washington Mystics 22-12 24 Seattle Storm 28-6   2011 WNBA DRAFT – ROUND 3 Pick Team Record 25 Tulsa Shock 6-28 26 Minnesota Lynx 13-21 27 Chicago Sky 14-20 28 Connecticut Sun 17-17 29 Los Angeles Sparks 13-21 30 San Antonio Silver Stars 14-20 31 Phoenix Mercury 15-19 32 Atlanta Dream 19-15 33 Indiana Fever 21-13 34 New York Liberty 22-12 35 Washington Mystics 22-12 36 Seattle Storm 28-6

Bloomberg is reporting that a Saudi delegation will visit the oil-rich majority-Muslim province of Bashkortostan in central Russia to explore opportunities - quoting regional President Rustem Khamitov. Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s AFK Sistema holding company plans to invest $3.5 billion in the next three years to upgrade oil refineries in Bashkortostan.

Also according to Saudi paper Arab News, Bosnia has invited Saudi investors to take part in the Sarajevo Business Forum 2011 as announced on the sidelines of Jeddah Economic Forum. Saudi investors have around 150 million euros worth of investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina in various fields.

To see listing of investment firms from Saudi and the Middle East, check our Middle East Investors Directory

More details follows from Arab News and Bloomberg

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		+	Ministry of Finance and Treasury [http://www.mft.gov.ba]
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	= Brazil =		= Brazil =

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	== Bosnia and Herzegovina ==		== Bosnia and Herzegovina ==
	University of Bihać [http://www.unbi.ba/eng/]		University of Bihać [http://www.unbi.ba/eng/]
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		+	== Brazil ==
		+	Instituto Federal da Bahia [http://www.portal.ifba.edu.br/]
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		+	Universidade de Ribeirão Preto [http://www.unaerp.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia [http://www.ufrb.edu.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal do Ceará [http://www.ufc.edu.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal do Tocantins [http://www.uft.edu.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal do Pampa [http://www.unipampa.edu.br/]
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		+	Universidade de São Paulo [http://www.usp.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco [http://www.ufpe.br/]
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		+	Universidade Católica de Petrópolis [http://www.ucp.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal do Amazonas [http://www.ufam.edu.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal Rural do Amazonas [http://www.ufra.edu.br/]
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		+	Faculdade da Cidade do Salvador [http://www.portal.faculdadedacidade.edu.br/]
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		+	Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas [http://www.face.ufmg.br/]
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		+	Faculdade de Tecnologia Intesniva [http://www.fateci.com.br/]
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		+	Universidade Estadual de Maringá [http://www.uem.br/]
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		+	Universidade Federal do Oeste do Paraná [http://www.ufopa.edu.br/]
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		+	Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais [http://www.ifmg.edu.br/]
	== Cambodia ==		== Cambodia ==

[JURIST] Bosnian war crimes victims on Thursday submitted evidence to the Prosecutors Office for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) [official website] accusing three former members of the Serbian Supreme Council of war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian civil war [JURIST news archive]. Former Yugoslav presidents Zoran Lilic and Dobrica Cosic and the former president of Montenegro Momir Bulatovic have been accused of ordering an arms increase [AP report] for the Serbian army during the war in BiH. It is unclear whether the allegations, submitted by an association of Bosnian wartime camp inmates, will warrant charges to be filed against the three former Serbian leaders. Last month, in an unprecedented civil decision, a French court awarded [JURIST report] a Bosnian family 200,000 euros (USD $280,000) for wartime abuses committed by former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Biljana Plavsic [JURIST news archives]. The court's ruling may pave the way for victims of war crimes to obtain civil compensation from war criminals without a criminal trial. Karadzic faces 11 war crimes charges [indictment, PDF], including counts of genocide and murder, for alleged crimes he committed during the war in BiH. Karadzic is defending himself in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] and has denied all of the charges against him. After multiple suspensions [JURIST reports], Karadzic's trial is expected to last through 2012. In 2009, Plavsic was released [JURIST report] from a Swedish prison after serving two-thirds of her sentence for war crimes committed between July 1991 and December 1992. Plavsic voluntarily surrendered herself to the ICTY in 2001 and was sentenced to 11 years in a Swedish prison. The ICTY agreed to grant her release [JURIST report], citing good behavior and "substantial evidence of rehabilitation."

Illuminated manuscripts inlaid with gold or silver leaf and spectacularly illustrated, are most often associated with the Medieval church (the Gospels, Psalters, etc), where texts were generally hand-copied until Western Europeans discovered the printing press.

The Jewish world, however, has often been influenced by its surrounding communities and it is, therefore, not at all surprising that Jewish illuminated manuscripts exist as well. Although many Jewish books and texts were destroyed in the course of Jewish history, whether by natural disintegration or, more often, in the flames of pogroms and book-burnings, many important manuscripts have been preserved. Of these, the two most famous are Haggadot.

While it is known that the Sarajevo Haggadah was created in the mid-1300s, it’s exact origins are unknown. The history of this Haggadah, however, is well established: it changed of hands in 1510, there is a note from 1609 stating that the Haggadah does not speak against the Church, and, in 1892, Josef Cohen tried to sell it. It was bought by the National Museum in Sarajevo and tucked away for safe keeping due to its delicate nature. The curators even managed to keep it from the Nazis and hid it during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Haggadah was displayed for the public during Passover in 1995.

The Birds’ Head Haggadah is named after the distinctive figures used in its illustrations. Creating humanoid figures with bird-like faces was one way Jewish artists avoided violating the practice of not creating images of humans. (The artist used other facial distortions as well). Discovered in 1946, the Birds Head Haggadah is among the oldest surviving Askenazi illuminated Haggadot (late 13th century). Its origin is placed in Southern Germany, where Jews were mandated to wear the conical “Jew’s Hat” shown on the adult male figures in the Haggadah.

View an image from the Sarajevo Haggadah here.

View an image from the Birds’ Head Haggadah here.

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BUSINESS PERISCOPE: Visit of Bosnian delegation to Pakistan KARACHI: A six-member delegation from Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently visiting Pakistan from April 4-8, 2011.

By Alija Izetbegovic in Sarajevo (The former chairman of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.)

Summary

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Bosnian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Bosnian is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

From Website

After secession from Yugoslavia, the Bosnian government declared the official language to be called "Bosnian" rather than "Serbo-Croatian." However, "Croatian," "Serbian," and "Bosnian" are considered by linguists and travellers alike to be one and the same language, with minor idiomatic differences. Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian) is a Southern Slavonic tongue in the Slavonic group of languages of the Indo-European family. It is closely related to Slovenian, Macedonian, & Bulgarian. Nouns have gender and cases, and the past tense is conjugated by gender and person while other tenses are conjugated only by person.

The language itself should not prove difficult to pronounce. Grammatical complexities will however present challenges to those not familiar with highly inflected languages, such as Latin or Russian. Inflection is the grammatical process of altering the noun to indicate its position & function in the sentence. The noun is said to have "case." Whereas English nouns are defined in the sentence through the use of prepositions - as in the sentence "Mary throws the ball to John," inflected languages alter the form of the noun, so "John" in the example would appear as the indirect object in the sentence in the dative case (indicated by the change in the suffix, and less frequently the prefix) and "ball" as the direct object in the accusative case. The same sentence in Bosnian/S-C would have no preposition "to" as in "Mary baca loptu Johnu." Notice that "John" received a "u" as a suffix, which immediately governs the meaning of the word "Johnu" and dictates its function in the sentence. In another similarity with Latin as well as the other Balto-Slavic languages (except Bulgarian-Macedonian), Serbo-Croatian does not use articles; there ARE a few ariticles, but they are rarely used even in literature and formal speech.

Certain idiomatic differences exist in Serbian and Croatian, mostly as a result of regional applications. Some phrases, such as alahimanet and merhaba, are relatively unique in Bosnian usage, as they are a remnant of Islamic (and therefore Turkish)/Ottoman influences. Consulting separate pages on the Croatian & Serbian phrasebooks may prove beneficial to those interested in better understanding such regional differences.

Bosnian (Bosanski [bɔ̌sanskiː], Cyrillic: босански) is a name commonly used for Serbo-Croatian as spoken by Bosniaks; as a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of three Serbo-Croatian standards used officially in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The same subdialect of Shtokavian is also the basis of standard Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin, so all are mutually intelligible. Up until the dissolution of former SFR Yugoslavia, they were treated as a unitary Serbo-Croatian language, and that term is still used to refer to the common base (vocabulary, grammar and syntax) of what are today officially four national standards. The Bosnian standard uses the Latin alphabet, though the Cyrillic alphabet is also accepted, chiefly to accommodate previous usage in the former SFR Yugoslavia, but is seldom used in practice.

The name of the language is a subject of some controversy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and is sometimes alternatively referred to as Bosniak (also spelled "Bosniac"; bošnjački), reflecting a position that it is the standard language of Bosniaks, not all Bosnians (i.e. Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks).

Gaj's Latin alphabet or Gajica is a variant of the Latin alphabet, based on Jan Hus's Czech alphabet, adopted by the Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj. A modified version of it, containing a contribution by Đuro Daničić, is currently used for the standard languages of the former Yugoslavia: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin (Serbo-Croatian). A corresponding Cyrillic script, the vukovica (Serbian Cyrillic), is used for Serbian and Montenegrin. A slightly reduced version is used as the script of the Slovene language. It is also the basis for the Banat dialect of the Bulgarian language.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_alphabet

View the Bosnian Phrasebook.

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