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	"WAVE" No.17 March 2008 Editorial Topic of the Issue Kosovo Independence False State in the middle of Serbia Have you ever heard of one nation with two motherlands? Well, that's the case with Kosovo Albanians. Some Europeans on one French website asked - "if they don't like living in Serbia, why don't they simply leave Kosovo and go to their motherland Albania"? Well, the question is good but it's hard to find the answer. So-called Kosovars are people who live in Kosovo, and there are Serbs and Albanians, as well as some other nations. Why then Albanians have a right to have second Albanian state in Serbia, and Serbs don't have right to live in their own country?... >> Reminder: March Pogrom 2004 Multiethnic democracy? March 17, 2004 is remembered by pogrom of Kosovo Serbs and it's presented everywhere as an example of the worst ethnic and religious violence committed under the UN protectorate in its history - 35 Orthodox churches and monasteries are destroyed or damaged. Is this a sign of civilized society and multiethnic democracy announced by Kosovo Albanians leaders? Sport against Politics Good Bye, Weapon! Instead of enjoying the beauty of sport, sport became an arena for pushing out different kinds of frustrations. When the situation comes there, even the highest professionals are worried Perspectives Welcome to Kosovo, the Next Failed State? Not until the Albanian-run Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) came on the scene in 1997 with a guerrilla campaign against Serbian troops and terrorist attacks on civilians did the Clinton administration begin to pay attention to Kosovo, inadvertently rewarding the KLA and its terrorist violence. The KLA deliberately sought to provoke Serbian reprisals, and Milosevic, with his usual obtuse brutality, readily obliged Politics Elections in Russia Another Successor Although the number 70% sounds impressive it's 49% of all the registered voters and 37% of all the Russian population. It's not even majority in all senses. But Kremlin propagandists try to turn it that "Whole Russia is supporting Medvedev and Putin's plan". It is not. However, if we look at it from the historical point of view, Medvedev is (according to the numbers) the most popular president in Russia since 1991. Is this really so?... >> Retirement after 49 years of ruling From Castro to Castro "To my dearest compatriots, who have recently honored me so much by electing me a member of the Parliament where so many agreements should be adopted of utmost importance to the destiny of our Revolution, I am saying that I will neither aspire to nor accept, I repeat, I will neither aspire to nor accept the positions of President of the State Council and Commander in Chief" - Fidel Castro... >> Society Youth Protest in Sarajevo Do you feel safe? During protest caused by rising under-age delinquency two persons got hurt, glasses were smashed against the cantonal government building, as well as on numerous cars and trams... >> Media Responsibility False Interview with Prime Minister One of the editors of the Croatian daily newspaper "Jutarnji list" - Davor Butkovic, published on February 9 an interview with Ivo Sanader, Croatian Prime Minister, done through sms messages and e-mails. At least he thought so. After the governmnent denied that Sanader was even talked to Butkovic recently, it was discovered that on the other side was not the Prime Minister but 23-years-old Viktor Zahtila... >> Culture & Arts Black/North SEAS Making the waves of inspiration and trust While strong memories of invasions, wars, siege and exile remain vivid in the region, the European Union stretches since recently to the shores of the Black Sea but peace cannot be taken for granted at its every spot since there are still places of tension and some contested borders, and the rifts created by exclusivist demands, hostility and mistrust. North Sea knows less political tensions but ecology and de-industrialization hamper the development of its old port cities, commercial interest clash and fishing quotas hurt, migratory flows alter the population and provoke new divisions... >> Science & Tech Ig Nobel Prizes Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK Everything started 17 years ago, when Marc Abrahams became editor of AIR. He was meeting all kinds of people who had done things that were hard to describe, and for the most part, nobody had ever heard of. For some of them, it seemed a great shame that nobody would give them any kind of recognition, and that was what really led to the birth of the Ig Nobels ... >> Sport Fantasy Sports Real Players in Virtual Teams This kind of game is usually organized by media, sports websites or associations, with aim to attract readers and offer them more fun and entertainment. You are offered to make your own all-star-team out of real players but you have to take care because your budget is limited and every player has its value, also you have to watch the positions and think about substitutes... >> Women's Football Breathing with Whole Lungs The best sign that shows how much fans like women's football is the number of spectators during the final match of the third World Championship (U.S.A. 1999),- more than 90,000 people!... >> and much more in all sections... explore!