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	"WAVE" No.27 January 2009 Editorial Topic of the Issue Another Russian-Ukrainian dispute Empty Pipelines taking Hostages After Gazprom stopped gas shipments, the most dramatic scenario was seen in Bulgaria, Serbia and Bosnia, where people in several cities with no gas alternatives, were left out of heating. Europe, being dependent on gas coming from Russia in more than 80 percent, was in a position to step into a dispute between Ukraine and Russia. Both sides agreed to end the row risen upon debt and pricing... >> Trading or political war of Russia and Ukraine There is nothing new in the East It is not a secret that Ukraine sees its strategic future in the EU and NATO, and not within the Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet republics). According to that, Moscow thinks that it is normal for Ukraine to apply the same rules like all other Europeans. Three years ago, then President of Russia Vladimir Putin was talking about nonsense that his country finances, from its own budget, Ukrainian closing to the West Russian Gas Crisis - REPUBLISHING (2007) Europe Unsecured Energy crisis between Russia and Belarus at the end of 2006 and the beginning 2007 poses a threat to political and economic stability of all Europe Politics Serbia - a move towards European integration (1) A last-ditch effort for EU The chief obstacle in Serbia's path of joining the European Union is still in its cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Following the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the public opinion shuddered at the Netherlands' solitary refusal to unfreeze the EU trade and aid pact. As a foreign scrape goat for what is happening to us, after Javier Solana and Carla Del Ponte, for the first time the name of Maxim Verhagen was mentioned... >> Society Music for Charity Deejays Radio 3FM get a record amount for refugees Serious Request: Six days without food, without drinks. Six days only making radio. Three deejays from Radio 3FM, one of the biggest music channels in The Netherlands, are behind lock in the Glass House from Friday 19th till Wednesday 24th December. It's the fifth time before Christmas deejays are locked up to make money for a charity organisation. This year all the money goes to 'Het Rode Kruis', which has about 37 million refugees all over the world... >> Youth and aggression From boredom to violence A cruel reality like poverty, with no-perspective and the reign of the superior are just excuses. We will always find someone else to blame. But instead of placing the blame on one another, we should be solving the problem... >> International Student Week in Ilmenau, ISWI 2009 Right Now! About 350 students from all over the world participated in the ISWI 2007 and discussed about "Education". This meeting was very successful. The Ilmenau University of Technology is proud to be the host for a successful student conference in 2009. A lot of interesting workshops will be held in order to give you the chance to have fruitful discussions, to establish new contacts and to get an insight into current problems. I look forward to welcome you to Ilmenau in May 2009! - Professor Peter Scharff, Rector of the Ilmenau University of Technology... >> European online magazine - Café Babel Become Babelian Aiming to go beyond national politics and media, cafebabel.com offers its readers every week critical analyses of European current affairs on the internet in seven different languages - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish. The idea was to create the first multilingual European magazine on current affairs designed for readers across borders, analysing the political and intellectual evolution of the continent from a European perspective... >> Economics FIAT - Zastava Agreement Face the crisis with small car Last September the Italian Fiat and Serbian Zastava signed an agreement worth 940 million euro. Fiat group chief executive Sergio Marchionne reports great satisfaction but however warns about the future of car industries. 'There could be only six survivors in the global volume sector' he reports... >> Culture & Arts New animated world Pixar(t) "Pixar" studio for animation lanced in 2008 movie "Wall-E", which was one of the five the most popular but also the most payable movies during the last year, and in the end of 2008 appeared their new film "Bolt". For May 2009 there is announced "Up", so it is seemed to be very useful to repass the facts about "Pixar", having in mind the Pixar's accelerating plans for future, richer and with new courses... >> In Memoriam: Harold Pinter (1930-2008) The Final Wink of the Old Fox Having read and watched his interviews, the interviews of a man who once was a repertory actor, performing in out-of-the-way places of the Great Britain, one can only be certain that his plays were not mere philosophical explications of a general hopelessness and uncertainty. He is a Bekett, but a unique one, more direct, more accessible Bekett, a Bekett put into a genre. Pinter knows how to tell a story, especially in its first, action layer; it is a story audience can relate to without nodding slowly as its metaphysics enters their lives. That is probably where the mixed terms used to describe Pinter come from... >> Science & Tech Science in Sports "Hawk-Eye" vs. Trick of the Eye A team of researchers at University of California, Davis have shown that the unfortunate umpire may have been a victim of a common trick of the eye. Scientists have shown that tennis referees are vulnerable to an optical illusion that makes balls appear to be out, when they actually land just inside the court... >> Colourful Life What is your colour? Based on the results of the Dewey Color System test, we can conclude that persons who represents "yellow-green" type are caring and good listeners. "Blue-orange" persons are builders and at the same time unstable-mooded: at the moment they are innovative and in the other, they are traditional criticists. "Red" and "pink" persons are the best in making priorities. There are also theories about links between certain colors and specific geometry shapes... >> Sport The new Tennis Season 2009 Many Colours in the White Sport We can expect an interesting battle among the top four male players: the excellent Rafael Nadal, too early written-off Roger Federer, ambitious Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray who is in the best shape of his life. Among the female players is difficult to say who the favorite is, but the competition will once again be strong: Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic, Williams sisters, Dinara Safina, Elena Dementieva... are all the candidates for the top... >> Austrian skier's come back The Old Man and the Ski Herman Maier's return as The World Cup Super G champion is surely one for the books of records... >> Entertainment The music of 1990s Great Come-Back Side by side with the political struggle of the last ten years, there was also another, hidden but extremely important fight - a musical one. On the one hand: 'turbo-folk', 'diesel' and 'dance music' evolved to the status of the life style, and on the other hand: pop, rock, blues and jazz were totally forgotten. And in the middle there were people... >> and much more in all sections... explore!