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	"WAVE" No.30 April 2009 Editorial Topic of the Issue Serbia reminds of 1999 A Decade after NATO Bombs Tenth anniversary of NATO bombing campaign against Serbia (and former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) was marked in Belgrade and the whole country. Exactly at 12 o'clock, air raid sirens have been turned on and the sound that became so familiar to Serbian people in 1999, has called people to stand for a minute of silence and remember all the victims... >> Comment is free Serbia's anniversary is a timely reminder Nato's intervention over Kosovo in 1999 was an important precursor to the invasion of Iraq four years later Memories from 1999 Life between Air-Raid Sirens After some time the whole situation becomes normal. It is normal to hear air raid siren, it is normal to sleep in the basement, it is normal to stay without electricity. So normal to have no freedom to walk around, not to see your friends and not to go to school. But you can't get used so easy to the fear that you feel when the sound of aircraft is coming. Fear of bomb that will fall down on your house, that pieces of shrapnel will fall into your room, that you will stay buried in a basement. Fear of death Politics New US diplomacy - Part Two Barack Obama's Foreign Policy challenges "They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in practice. We haven't seen any change", said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. The U.S. is willing to speak directly with Iranian leaders if Iran stops its nuclear programme and stop supporting "terrorist" groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. These were exactly the conditions of the Bush Administration, too. Promised changes didn't come yet, and as the situation stands right now, it is not clear whether any changes will come in the near future... >> The ICC issues an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Man At The Top Generally held responsible as one of the causes behind the 20 years lasting civil war and the Darfur conflict, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted last March by The International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Such decision might have turbulent and unpredictable consequences, or simply be a step towards a long-awaited peace... >> Society Project "European houses" Europe on the south of Serbia Center for development of civil society "Protecta" from Niš worked up the idea in cooperation with "Media & Reform center" from the same city and "Patriotism" organization from Bulgaria. The "European houses" equipped their offices with in colours of the EU. Each of them has an info corner and a library. This project does not promote the EU, it only supplies people with information so they could see that the EU is a reality, not something abstract... >> International Student Week in Belgrade, ISWiB 2009 "Challenge of Changes" Participants will be chosen according to their on-line application that can be found on the official web site of the festival - www.iswib.org. They are offered to join one of 10 workshops: Art and Culture, Environmental Protection, Economics, Health, Human Rights, Media, Society, Youth Activism, Photography and Filmmaking. Deadline for applying is closing - April 30... >> Anti-Discrimination Law One Step Closer to the European Union The final version of the article 21, which has caused most controversy, states: "Sexual orientation is a private matter and no one may be asked to publicly declare their sexual orientation. Everyone has the right to freely declare their sexual orientation, and discrimination against such declaration is prohibited". Even the fact that there are no reliable data that show the number of homosexually oriented people in Serbia, with the estimates ranging from 5 to 35 per cent, proves this to be a debatable question... >> Nonformal education in Serbia A step towards the law One of the major problems in Serbia is a lack of adequate laws and regulations, and nonformal education is not an exception. The educational system is outdated and the reforms that have been made have not brought the desired results. The education people in Serbia acquire formally, in schools, consist of passive knowledge, most of it being inapplicable... >> Economics Africa's Share of the Global Economic Turmoil Facing the hard times As the effects of the global crisis bit harder on the people of the continent, there are spontaneous postulations from different quarters of its anticipated threats to the continent. Arno Turner, an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki and Tampere, Finland, opines on the Harvard International Review that the situation poses a great danger for the nations in Africa. He listed amongst other things the possibility of increased political conflicts and instabilities, corruption and nepotism and increasing African migration... >> Financial Crisis in Greece Bad days for the Greek economy The largest "nightmare" is currently in debt and its servicing costs. The Government has already made initial contacts with major foreign banks, to explore the interest of foreign investors for Greek bonds. At the moment, information indicates that there is interest and Greece will succeed even difficult to borrow the funds needed for 2009... >> Culture & Arts Quartet "Il Divo" in Belgrade Arena The spirit of an elegant breeze If the art is an dialectic mixture of supstance and soul which can express a thought of an artist in its own unique way, and if its goal is to make all the participants reach catharsis, than we are today, in the world of popera, completely mesmerised. However, if the goal of an artist, an artistic group, or a movement is to make us get out of the room smiling and feeling satisfied, thrilled and touched, than we can freely say that 'Il Divo' managed to acomplish such thing during their Belgrade performance... >> 38th 'Comedy Days' Theatrical Festival in Jagodina The Marathon Family finishes first The trio of judges, Professor Vladan Jevtović, actress Mina Lazarević and actor Tomislav Trifunović, awarded three joint winners. One being Branimir Brstina who was the captain, the business man, the psychiatrist and the lawyer in Dušan Kovačević's "Generalna proba samoubistva" ("Suicide Dress Rehearsal"), performed by Zvezdara Teatar. Another first prize was presented to Janoš Tot, for his interpretation of two characters: the fisherman in Suicide Dress Rehearsal and the role of Aksentije Topalović in The Marathon Family. Yet another actor in The Marathon Family was awarded, namely Ivan Jevtović for his performance as Billy the Python... >> Science & Tech Pirate Bay trial Aren't we all guilty, too, after all? The Pirate Bay, which calls itself "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker", was founded in 2003 by Piratbyrĺn, a Swedish organization that advocates the free reproduction of files on the Internet. Although the service actually provided by the site (file indexing) isn't considered illegal by the Swedish law, in May 2006 their servers were seized by the police. It happened again last year, which ended up leading to the trial... >> Web's 20th Anniversary The imaginary space of information Twenty years ago Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN, a physics laboratory in Switzerland, when he came upon idea that changed the way of our lives. He thought of joining hypertext to the already existing Internet and getting all information needed in one place. In a word, he created World Wide Web... >> Uruguay's "One Laptop per Child" policy Small changes in the Latin America's education reality In the world's most democratic developing country according to a research of the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany, 2008), the policy is also seem as a contribution to the political integration between civil society and the state. With 300 thousand computers, Uruguay was the first country to take concrete action in the program and still keeps the title of the largest participation so far in the whole world, a condition largely defended as one of the greatest realizations of the country's government by its current administration... >> Entertainment 47th International Motor Show in Belgrade "Discover your wishes" Belgrade Car Show was held from 27th March to 5th April. Visitors could see numerous premieres and more than 500 exhibitors, on the area of 40,000 square meters of space, in five halls of Belgrade Fair... >> and much more in all sections... explore!