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Soviet past remembered in museum
(23 Mar 2011)
AP Television
Budapest, Hungary - March 17th, 2011
1. Pan of black and white photos of victims of terror in the communist era in the Terror House Museum
2. Wide of wall of photos of victims of communism
3. Wide from above of real Soviet tank in front of wall of victims, inside the museum
4. Mid of star-shaped cut out showing visitor to the Terror House Museum
5. Wide of entrance to Terror House Museum with Hungarian fascist cross and red star
6. Wide of exhibit showing video screens of crimes of Soviet Terror in Hungary
7. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Maria Schmidt, Historian and Director of Terror House Museum:
The most important thing for me was that those school groups that come here shouldn't misbehave and make jokes and mess around, this is not the place for that. But we can only achieve that affect using devices and techniques that are able to stun them and influence their thinking about the past.
8. Wide of prison basement and torture cells
9. Pan right across cell to hangman's noose
10. Mid of installation with man watching documentary about internment camps
11. Mid of internment camps documentary
12. Pan of secret service files to library
13. Pan of exhibit with socialist nostalgia
14. Mid of display corridor
15. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Richard Bogdan, Tour Guide, Zoom Hungary:
Hungary is so different today that it's hard - thank God - to show that on the streets. That's why the Terror House is a good place to bring guests. The museum deals mainly with the shadier past of communism, and it's good at showing what happened back then.
16. Various of museum shop, with Lenin and Stalin candles, and customers at till
17. Pan left across Marxism Pizzeria in Budapest, decorated with communist posters and flags
18. Mid of lamp swinging in front of poster
19. Mid of Marxism customers
20. Tilt down Soviet-themed menu
21. Set up of Magda Kovacs, Vice-President, Hungarian Communist Workers' Party at Hungarian Communist Workers' Party HQ in Budapest
22. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Magda Kovacs, Vice-President, Hungarian Communist Workers' Party:
One man's democracy is another man's dictatorship. For me, as a communist, I'll be perfectly honest with you, this is also dictatorship what we have here today in Hungary - it's the dictatorship of money. Money itself, and capitalism, is a form of dictatorship. Democracy for me means the previous regime, where everyone had a job, they had an apartment, they had security. The constitution guaranteed everyone's right to work and right to a home - for me, that's democracy.
23. Mid of poster of Stalin's boots
24. Pan across detail of Stalin's boots poster
25. Pan left across posters exhibition at Bakelit Multi Art Studio
26. Mid of wall of posters including Comrades, it's Over! poster by Istvan Orosz
27. Tilt up Comrades, it's Over! poster by Istvan Orosz
28. SOUNDBITE: (Hungarian) Istvan Orosz, Graphic Artist:
Posters as an art form are full of clich�s, so they're not able to communicate on a really subtle level as normal visual art would be able to. Usually they have a powerfully formulated punchline using strong imagery, without too much selection in terms of imagery.
29. Tilt down red-star shaped meat in a mouse trap by Peter Pocs
30. Zoom out of posters exhibit
31. Wide of posters exhibit
32. Wide of poster Volk by Krzystof Ducki
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An exhibition in Budapest reveals the harsh realities of Hungary under Communist rule.
Two decades after the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe, Hungarians are both remorseful - and nostalgic.
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Celebrating it's tenth year in 2011 the Terror House Museum in Budapest portrays Hungary's difficult relationship to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Tarja - Interview for Bulgaria (June 2010) - part 2
Awards, manipulation and abuse in Bulgaria
Medals for chumps, tin of thread, knar with ribbon or for awards, their Undermining, distortion and misuse
Without going into specific details of anyone who is adorned with this award shows that these are criminal informers and agents litter of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian State Security communist Gestapo, whose bloody crimes and still go unpunished, BKP parasites and degraded criminal elements here and there, in one enjoying a shiny tin, without being aware of the immoral filth with which it drenched. Such rewards it is obvious those serve the sleazy political interests, shall be distributed according to who has taken over power, and whose own bedpans and postulants want to awards
Медали за будали, тенекийка на конец, чеп с панделка, или за наградите, тяхното обезсмисляне, опорочаване и злоупотребите с тях
Без да се впускам в особени подробности за всеки, който се е накичил с тази „награда се вижда, че това са криминални агенти доносници и боклуци на България, Държавна Сигурност и Българското комунистическо Гестапо, чийто кървави злодеяния и до днес остават ненаказани, БКП паразити и деградирали престъпни елементи и тук таме по някой радващ се на лъскавата тенекийка, без да си дава сметка за неморалната мръсотия с която го омазват. Подобни „награди е очевидно, че служат на нечистоплътни политически интереси, раздават се според това, кой е обсебил властта, и чий свои подлоги и послушници иска да „награди
Четвърти лекционен тур с Лъчезар Бояджиев - 22.10.2016
ВЪВЕДЕНИЕ В СЪВРЕМЕННОТО ИЗКУСТВО - СОФИЯ, 2016
ЛЕКЦИОННИ ТУРОВЕ С ЛЪЧЕЗАР БОЯДЖИЕВ
Четвърти лекционен тур - 22.10.2016
Тема на маршрута: Музея през „прозореца“ на града
На 22 октомври, се състоя последният четвърти лекционен тур от „Въведение в съвременното изкуство“, 2016 в София. Този път „обиколката“ на града бе на закрито – а именно в музея - Квадрат 500. Там участниците видяха колекцията през погледа на Лъчезар Бояджиев, който въз основа на конкретни произведения говори за града.
Лъчезар Бояджиев за последния четвърти лекционен тур:
Музеят през „прозореца” на града – ще ходим из Квадрата, но ще го гледаме през снимки от града!
Какво е съвремие и съ-временно? (Contemporaneity and con-temporary?)
Какво е „образ на времето”, който внушава един музей?
Какво е „експозиция” в града за разлика от експозицията в музея?
Защо градът и музеят не могат един без друг?
Защо София не е Скопие, и никога няма да бъде, въпреки че на онези, които „инвестират в идентичност” много им се иска?
Защо Квадрат 500 не е Лувъра и никога няма да бъде?
Защо въведението в съ-временното изкуство всъщност зависи изцяло от Вас?
Между другото ще стане дума и за:
- опакото на пространството;
- град и село;
- религия и бохема;
- идеология и форма;
- художници и бълдъзи;
- фотография и скулптура;
- живопис и днес.
Повече за Лекционните турове с Лъчезар Бояджиев и образователната платформа „Въведение в съвременното изкуство“:
„Въведение в съвременното изкуство“ е проект на фондация „Отворени изкуства“ и галерия SARIEV Contemporary.
Проектът „Въведение в съвременното изкуство“ 2016 – София е финансиран от Столична програма „Култура“ на Столична община за 2016 г.
С подкрепата на награда „Гауденц Б. Руф“
Партньор: Национална художествена галерия
Медийни партньори: @BG on Air, Виж София, егоист, Timeart.me, Stand.bg, Artnewscafe Bulletin
Камера и монтаж: Калин Серапионов
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„Въведение в съвременното изкуство” е проект на Фондация „Отворени изкуства” и Галерия SARIEV Contemporary.
Проектът „Въведение в съвременното изкуство” 2016 – София е финансиран от Столична програма „Култура” на Столична община за 2016 г.
С подкрепата на награда „Гауденц Б. Руф”.
Партньори: Национална художествена галерия
Медийни партньори: Виж! София, Timeart.me, Stand.bg, artnewscafé бюлетин, егоист.
Втори лекционен тур с Лъчезар Бояджиев - 11 юни 2016 г.
Въведение в съвременното изкуство 2016 – София
Лекционни турове с Лъчезар Бояджиев
Втори тур - 11 юни 2016 г.
Тема: тела в града, човекът в действие и формиране на културното наследство - как се присъства в градската среда и как се формират музеите, какво е отношението между човек и наследство и как то бива интерпретирано, пресъздавано и преосмисляно в съвременното изкуство.
Маршрут: Църквата „Св. Неделя“, площад между Министерски съвет и Президенството, Ларгото, Църква „Св. Петка Самарджийска“, КАТ, бивш квартал „Червена звезда“, ул. „Николай Хайтов“, Музей на социалистическото изкуство
За шестото си издание в София платформата Въведение в съвременното изкуство стартира новия формат лекционни турове с художника Лъчезар Бояджиев. Платформата продължава образователната си линия за създаване на познание и съзнание за съвременното изкуство, а новият формат цели да предложи нов подход за включване на публиката и възприемането на изкуството и градската среда в по-широк контекст.
През май, юни, септември и октомври 2016 г. ще се проведат четири лекционни тура, всеки един от които със своя собствена тема, концепция и маршрут на различни локации в София в градска среда, паметници, галерии и музеи. Туровете са насочени към хора, които се занимават или интересуват от съвременно изкуство, но не е необходима предварителна подготовка или образование.
Повече информация:
Камера и монтаж: Калин Серапионов
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„Въведение в съвременното изкуство” е проект на Фондация „Отворени изкуства” и Галерия SARIEV Contemporary.
Проектът „Въведение в съвременното изкуство” 2016 – София е финансиран от Столична програма „Култура” на Столична община за 2016 г.
С подкрепата на награда „Гауденц Б. Руф”.
Партньори: Национална художествена галерия
Медийни партньори: Виж! София, Timeart.me, Stand.bg, artnewscafé бюлетин, егоист.
Serbia | Wikipedia audio article
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans postdating the 6th century, Serbs established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, the country declared independence in April 1992 as Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Progress Index (45th) as well as the Global Peace Index (54th).
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00:02:50 1 Etymology
00:04:55 2 History
00:05:04 2.1 Prehistory
00:05:52 2.2 Ancient history
00:07:51 2.3 Middle Ages
00:09:33 2.4 Ottoman and Habsburg rule
00:11:47 2.5 Revolution and independence
00:14:24 2.6 Balkan Wars, World War I and the First Yugoslavia
00:18:39 2.7 World War II and the Second Yugoslavia
00:22:56 2.8 Breakup of Yugoslavia and political transition
00:26:18 2.9 Recent history
00:27:51 3 Geography
00:30:34 3.1 Climate
00:33:24 3.2 Hydrology
00:35:08 3.3 Environment
00:38:38 4 Politics
00:40:49 4.1 Law and criminal justice
00:41:51 4.2 Foreign relations
00:44:09 4.3 Military
00:46:09 4.4 Administrative divisions
00:47:23 5 Demographics
00:50:30 5.1 Religion
00:52:20 5.2 Language
00:53:33 6 Economy
00:56:35 6.1 Agriculture
00:58:34 6.2 Industry
01:00:46 6.3 Energy
01:04:36 6.4 Transport
01:08:27 6.5 Telecommunications
01:09:21 6.6 Tourism
01:10:45 7 Education and science
01:15:11 8 Culture
01:17:14 8.1 Art and architecture
01:20:16 8.2 Literature
01:25:29 8.3 Music
01:31:11 8.4 Theatre and cinema
01:34:31 8.5 Media
01:37:51 8.6 Cuisine
01:39:24 8.7 Sports
01:45:06 9 Public holidays
01:45:23 10 See also
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- Socrates
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, Macedonia to the south, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southwest. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the Slavic migrations to the Balkans in the 6th century established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Pr ...
CIA | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the Federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States.
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection. Though it is not the only agency of the Federal government of the United States specializing in HUMINT, the CIA serves as the national manager for coordination of HUMINT activities across the U.S. intelligence community. Moreover, the CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the President. It exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division.Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the CIA Director concurrently served as the head of the Intelligence Community; today, the CIA is organized under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in fiscal year 2010, the CIA had the largest budget of all IC agencies, exceeding previous estimates.The CIA has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center (IOC), has shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the Federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States.
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection. Though it is not the only agency of the Federal government of the United States specializing in HUMINT, the CIA serves as the national manager for coordination of HUMINT activities across the U.S. intelligence community. Moreover, the CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the President. It exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division.Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the CIA Director concurrently served as the head of the Intelligence Community; today, the CIA is organized under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in fiscal year 2010, the CIA had the largest budget of all IC agencies, exceeding previous estimates.The CIA has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center (IOC), has shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations.
Serbia | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans postdating the 6th century, Serbs established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, the country declared independence in April 1992 as Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Progress Index (45th) as well as the Global Peace Index (54th).
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- Socrates
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Bucharest (; Romanian: București [bukuˈreʃtʲ] (listen)) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than 60 km (37.3 mi) north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border.
Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. It became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (neo-classical), interbellum (Bauhaus and art deco), communist-era and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of Little Paris (Micul Paris). Although buildings and districts in the historic city centre were heavily damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes, and above all Nicolae Ceaușescu's program of systematization, many survived. In recent years, the city has been experiencing an economic and cultural boom. In 2016, the historical city centre was listed as endangered by the World Monuments Watch.According to the 2011 census, 1,883,425 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the 2002 census. Adding the satellite towns around the urban area, the proposed metropolitan area of Bucharest would have a population of 2.27 million people. According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a functional urban area of 2,412,530 residents (as of 2015). Bucharest is the sixth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits, after London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and Paris.
Economically, Bucharest is the most prosperous city in Romania and is one of the main industrial centres and transportation hubs of Eastern Europe. The city has big convention facilities, educational institutes, cultural venues, traditional shopping arcades, and recreational areas.
The city proper is administratively known as the Municipality of Bucharest (Municipiul București), and has the same administrative level as that of a national county, being further subdivided into six sectors, each governed by a local mayor.
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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans postdating the 6th century, Serbs established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, the country declared independence in April 1992 as Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as free by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Progress Index (45th) as well as the Global Peace Index (54th).
The Volleyball Source Podcast: Episode 46
This week on the show we speak with Kim Sanderson, Team Manager of our Canadian Deaf Beach Volleyball Team. Kim tells us about an upcoming beach event called Silent Sand and the Deaflympics in Sofia, Bulgaria. We also talk FIVB Corrientes, World League and Everett got a new denim jacket.
0:00 Intro
1:22 World League Tickets
4:37 FIVB Corrientes
10:06 Kim Sanderson Interview
28:10 Viewer Q&A
30:08 Canadians Playing Overseas
30:41 World League Broadcast Rights
38:51 FIVB Long Beach
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00:02:25 1 Etymology
00:03:34 2 History
00:09:16 2.1 Treaties signed in Bucharest
00:09:56 3 Geography
00:10:04 3.1 General
00:13:53 3.2 Climate
00:15:02 4 Law and government
00:15:11 4.1 Administration
00:19:26 4.1.1 City general council
00:19:41 4.2 Justice system
00:21:00 4.3 Crime
00:22:29 5 Quality of life
00:24:42 6 Demographics
00:28:11 7 Economy
00:30:53 8 Transport
00:31:01 8.1 Public transport
00:31:40 8.2 Railways
00:32:41 8.3 Air
00:33:29 8.4 Roads
00:35:14 8.5 Water
00:35:54 9 Culture
00:36:20 9.1 Landmarks
00:38:53 9.2 Visual arts
00:41:28 9.3 Performing arts
00:42:22 9.4 Music and nightlife
00:43:43 9.5 Cultural events and festivals
00:45:20 9.6 Traditional culture
00:46:35 9.7 Religion
00:47:44 10 Architecture
00:48:17 10.1 Historical architecture
00:51:06 10.2 Communist era architecture
00:53:24 10.3 Contemporary architecture
00:56:27 11 Education
00:58:06 12 Telecommunications and media
01:00:23 13 Healthcare
01:01:32 14 Sports
01:03:38 15 Natives
01:05:53 16 Twin towns and sister cities
01:06:11 17 See also
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Bucharest (UK: , ; US: ; Romanian: București [bukuˈreʃtʲ] (listen)) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than 60 km (37.3 mi) north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border.
Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. It became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (neo-classical and Art Nouveau), interbellum (Bauhaus and art deco), communist era and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of Little Paris (Micul Paris). Although buildings and districts in the historic city centre were heavily damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes, and above all Nicolae Ceaușescu's program of systematization, many survived and have been renovated. In recent years, the city has been experiencing an economic and cultural boom. In 2016, the historical city centre was listed as endangered by the World Monuments Watch.According to the 2011 census, 1,883,425 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the 2002 census. Adding the satellite towns around the urban area, the proposed metropolitan area of Bucharest would have a population of 2.27 million people. According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a functional urban area of 2,412,530 residents (as of 2015). Bucharest is the sixth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits, after London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and Paris.
Economically, Bucharest is the most prosperous city in Romania. The city has a number of large convention facilities, educational institutes, cultural venues, traditional shopping arcades and recreational areas.
The city proper is administratively known as the Municipality of Bucharest (Municipiul București), and has the same administrative level as that of a national county, being further subdivided into six sectors, each governed by a local mayor.
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Rose Law Firm the following year. As First Lady of Arkansas, she led a task force whose recommendations helped reform Arkansas's public schools.
As First Lady of the United States, Clinton was an advocate for gender equality and healthcare reform. Her marital relationship came under public scrutiny during the Lewinsky scandal, which led her to issue a statement that reaffirmed her commitment to the marriage. In 2000, Clinton was elected as the first female Senator from New York. She was reelected to the Senate in 2006. Running for president in 2008, she won far more delegates than any previous female candidate but lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. During her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2013, Clinton responded to the Arab Spring by advocating military intervention in Libya. She helped to organize a diplomatic isolation and international sanctions regime against Iran in an effort to force curtailment of that country's nuclear program; this would eventually lead to the multinational Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2015. Upon leaving her Cabinet position after Obama's first term, she wrote her fifth book and undertook speaking engagements.
Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016. She received the most votes and primary delegates in the 2016 Democratic primaries and formally accepted her party's nomination for President of the United States on July 28, 2016 with vice presidential running mate Senator Tim Kaine. She became the first female candidate to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. She lost the presidential election to Republican opponent Donald Trump in the Electoral College, despite winning a plurality of the popular vote. She received more than 65 million votes, the 3rd-highest count in a U.S. presidential election, behind Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012. Following her loss, she wrote her third memoir, What Happened, and launched Onward Together, a political action organization dedicated to fundraising for progressive political groups.
World at 8 Friday 15 February 2013 With Nick Griffin MEP
You, too, can be a member of the British National Party
Raise a glass to forgotten heroes, to Arthur Redfearn, to the BNP, and to our British future!
Nick addresses
• the news media alteration of 'global warming' to 'climate change' so the government can continue scheming to retain 'carbon credits' as an excuse for higher taxes.
• the EU's 'green week', a week set aside for MEPs to visit constituents in their home country. Nick tours England whilst his colleagues play with wealthy constituents in the posh bits of Lanzerote or the Seychelles.
• And the sweeter news than that the ConDem government has thrown in the towel in the case of brave BNP bus driver Arthur Redfearn and will not appeal the Europen Court's decision and will present law amendment that, from now on, it will be illegal to sack anyone on the grounds of political opinion or their political affiliation.
Highlights of the news today Friday 15th February.
• Coronation Street star charged with child rape
• Catch Me if You Can!'
• French Far-Right Leader to Speak in Cambridge
• Macedonia: Illegal Mosques Financed by Saudis Springing Up Near You
• Small Bomb Targets Greek Far-Right Party Office in Piraeus
• Frenchman Self-Immolates Over Unemployment Benefits
• Germany: Muslims Plan to Convert Hamburg Church Into Mosque
• Nick Griffin MEP -- Climate change, 'green week', Arthur Redfearn
• Pat Robertson Claims Islam is 'Demonic' And 'Not a Religion' But an Economic System
• Muslim Infiltration in Public Education.
• Thought for the Day -- Our nearest and dearest?
• And finally -- Something fishy going on