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Archives: Balkans
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3 Memes: Twitter debates as Russian support for Syria intervention Doubles
By Anna Shamanska | ( RFE/RL) | - - Support among Russians for military intervention in Syria has more than doubled, to 31 percent in early October from 14 percent in September,…![Desperate Afro-Asian Migrants flee war, famine through risky Balkans on The Road To EU](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701021337im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/07/desperate-afro-asian-migrants-fl-187x137.jpg)
Desperate Afro-Asian Migrants flee war, famine through risky Balkans on The Road To EU
By Iva Martinovic | (RFE/ RL) | - - These days, the park flanking Belgrade's bus terminal and the nearby railway station teems with migrants. They are from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, or…![5,000 Hanging Skirts: How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701021337im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/06/5000-hanging-skirts-how-women-re-187x137.jpg)
5,000 Hanging Skirts: How Women Remember War Rape in Kosova
By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | - - On 12 June, 5,000 skirts and dresses were hung on 45 clotheslines in the football stadium in Prishtina, capital of Kosova. “The laundry…![“Nationalism and terrorism are constructed things to divide us”: Macedonian elections and a Balkan “War on Terror”](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701021337im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/06/nationalism-and-terrorism-are-co-187x137.jpg)