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	<title>M. Bozinovich</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Coincidence or a conspiracy?</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=251</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Kosovo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IMF, traditionally under the European control, has been busy dispensing political favors in the Balkans. To further appease the Albanian extremists in Kosovo, IMF maneuvered to declare that separatist entity a member of the IMF, a right reserved to independent nations. In return, Serbia got a promise for a $3.5 billion, or thereabouts, loan so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sobering speech by Serbia&#8217;s c.bank chief</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=248</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Serbian central bank Governor Radovan Jelasic told the IMF and World Bank panel that he sees economic gloom for Serbia in 2009 that will extend over into 2010.
&#8220;What do I expect at the end of 2009?&#8221; asked the Governor rhetorically in his speech to the panel titled Global Crisis in Europe and Central Asia.
Then he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In hope of the Ambassadorial luck</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=240</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Serbia&#8217;s forthcoming Ambassador to the US, Vladimir Petrovic, says that he will focus on developing a close relationship with the  National Security Council in order to counterweight the State Department&#8217;s disastrous influence on the US policy making on Serbia.
So we have the NSC Affairs, for example, who prepare meetings with foreign leaders and in connection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pious Muslims busy across the world</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=238</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a remarkable convergence of expressions of Islamic piety across the world today.
First in Israel, a Muslim kills a Jewish teenager with a pickax:
A pickax-wielding Palestinian terrorist&#8230; infiltrated the Jewish community of Bat Ayin in Etzion Bloc region near Bethlehem and murdered Shlomo Nativ, a 13-year-old Israeli boy, splitting his skull with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serbia borrows $34.9 from World Bank</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=234</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Kosovo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Serbia got another loan, this time from the World Bank to fill up budgetary gaps caused by decrease in tax revenue caused by the economic slump.
The $34.9 million loan is amortized over 20 years, with an 8 years grace period (no payments needed) and the annual interest is the average of the six-month LIBOR rate.
Serb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serbia: maximum debt to cure borrowing defaults</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=228</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Serbia&#8217;s economist Stojan Stamenkovic warned that Serbia faces bankruptcy.
&#8220;Serbia needs to do everything so it can maintain its foreign currency liquidity because without that there is a threat like in 1980 when the country went bankrupt,&#8221; Stamenkovic told Serbia&#8217;s daily Politika.
Yesterday, Serbian Minister for Economy, Mladjan Dinkic, told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s new main man in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=222</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Weeks after Richard Holbrooke got appointed as the &#8220;special&#8221; envoy for Afghanistan, US got themselves a new leader in Afghanistan.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Gov. Gul Agha Shirzai, a semiliterate former warlord, has an autocratic style, a reputation for doling out government contracts to family and friends, and a personal fortune allegedly amassed via corruption and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austrian upside-down Swiss banking</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=220</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After publishing the warning Moody&#8217;s credit rating agency issued on Austria&#8217;s Raiffeisen bank, the owner of the Serbian media outfit Kurir became a target of personal attacks by the Deputy President of the Raiffeisen Bank Executive Board, Zoran Petrovic, who exposed private information about the owner that, to be nice, stretches the accepted decorum of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN corruption in Kosovo</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=218</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Kosovo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Wall Street Journal:
An American-backed drive to curb misconduct at the United Nations is faltering, blighted by bureaucracy and accusations of retaliation against whistle-blowers.
Story of James Wasserstrom, a 25-year veteran of the UN and a former .N official in Kosovo who become a whistle-blower last year and was placed under investigation by the UN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stalin on icon in Russia</title>
		<link>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=213</link>
		<comments>http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/?p=213#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bozinovich</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A large portrait if Stalin has been placed next to an icon of a Russian saint Matrona Nikonova, a blind Russian woman canonized for, among other things, a prophecy she allegedly told to Stalin in 1941, just before Hitler&#8217;s invasion, telling Stalin to stay in Moscow if he wants to win.

The icon of Stalin was ordered [...]]]></description>
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