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This blog was created to comment on issues that interest me and may interest others, which denote either vision or the lack thereof. Because of who I am and what I am doing, much of it will circle around the Balkans and culture in general. But not exclusively, of course.

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Vision! Come on... · 3M ago

Lustration Should Not be About Purges

The lustration process in Macedonia is one of several in the region that have gone horribly wrong – becoming a tool by which the authorities stigmatise their enemies. This article originally appeared on 27 January in BalkanInsight, www.BalkanInsight.com A society contaminated by totalitarian manipul

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Vision! Come on... · 6M ago

News about Macedonia in English

Now here’s a good initiative. Macedonian blogger @razvigor started pulling together news sources, blogs, twitter users, NGO sources etc in English from and about Macedonia. Help him by adding to the list. Here’s the link Vision? Yeah, baby…

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Vision! Come on... · 7M ago

Trading freedom. A Balkans List of Bad Practices

This article originally appeared on 11 October in BalkanInsight, www.BalkanInsight.com The last few weeks bombarded us with bad news from the Balkans. It seems that the dream of so many people to have a good life in freedom and prosperity has moved a few steps further into the realm of the unreachab

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Vision! Come on... · 8M ago

Time to Grow

This article originally appeared on 8 September in BalkanInsight, www.BalkanInsight.com At 20, you are not a child anymore. But nobody expects you to be mature, either. You are grown up, but you lack the patina of experience. You are creative, but not realistic. You are loud and impulsive, but what

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Vision! Come on... · 1Y ago

Shadow boxing on the peoples’ backs. Macedonia is heading for snap elections

This article originally appeared on 23 February in BalkanInsight, www.BalkanInsight.com So they finally get their will. The two arch-rivals of Macedonian politics, Prime Minister Gruevski and opposition leader Crvenkovski can finally enter the ring against each other. For the first time. Although th

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Vision! Come on... · 1Y ago

Lennon and The End of a Childhood

This article originally appeared on 8 December in BalkanInsight, www.BalkanInsight.com I first heard it on Radio Free Europe. John Lennon had just been shot in New York. New York – an abstract concept to me, a concept of freedom, of all I wanted then. To breathe freely, to move freely, to do whateve

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Vision! Come on... · 1Y ago

Macedonian B-Movie Gone Wrong

This article originally appeared on 26 November in Balkan Insight, www.BalkanInsight.com Last night, Skopje entered a post-modern time warp, which might have put a symbolic end to the transition period. At last, the city – alas, not the rest of the country – has entered the post-modern era of media-

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Vision! Come on... · 1Y ago

Half – Europe of the Palanka

Karl Emil Franzos, an Austrian Jewish writer at the end of the 19th century once called the Eastern provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire “Half-Asia”. Not only that, he dedicated them two entire books containing sharp depictions of life in these provinces. I dare say that no publisher would hav

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Vision! Come on... · 1Y ago

The public cartel

Richard Wagner on the discussion about Thilo Sarrazin in Germany. Pim Fortuyn reloaded? Whatever one may think about Sarrazin’s theses, the uninformed moralizing outrage even before the book has officially been published is a splendid example of the bigotry of Germany’s mediatised public discourse.

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Vision! Come on... · 2Y ago

Artists and Politics – A Dangerous Liaison

This article originally appeared in Balkan Insight, www.BalkanInsight.com I grew up with a deep aversion against socialist realism and the pseudo-culture that it propagated and that surrounded me, demanded by a political system, which openly oppressed the individual in the name of a collective, alle

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