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Skip to comments.Russia to build power plant for Serbs
Posted on 05/11/2006 11:17:39 AM PDT by kronos77
Russian state-owned company Technopromexport has announced it will build a thermal power plant in Serbia within three years. The company Wednesday signed a contract with Serbia and Switzerland's Mentor Energy, company officials said. The construction of the plant, with two 450-megawatt blocks, is estimated to cost $877 million. Maja Gojkovich, mayor of the Serbian town Novi Sad, where the plant will be built, said the project will greatly benefit the economy of the town and the country, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. "It will provide work for 5,000 to 6,000 Serbs and guarantee orders for a number of Serbian businesses," she said. Technopromexport, a leading electricity exporter and builder of energy facilities, has a number of projects in foreign countries, including India, where it is participating in the construction of a thermal power plant and the upgrading of the Obra power plant. The company also plans to win a $500 million tender for the construction of a 1,900-megawatt power plant in India's North Karanpura.
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Npw, Maja Gojkovic is from pro-Russian Radical party. 7 days ago European Union stoped negotiations with Serbia due to non cooperation with UN court, also US is likley tostop aid to Serbia. On other side Russia is pumping aid to parts of Serbia iwth pro-russian administration while pro-western goverment is stranded.
What will happen? Pro-russians will win. Simple logic, Russia is helping us, west is pushing us.
Im afraid of that, but that is what is gonan happen if nothing changes on the west...
If Serbia refuses to live up to its international obligations, then the Russians can have you.
I wouldn't let the Russkies build me an outhouse let alone a power plant.
In international confrontation, small nations cannt afford to step back. Only great nations can compromise.
West ahould do so.
BTW. Soros says Hi!
Swiss project, Russian money.
You just go right on repeating that to yourself as Serbia continues to fall further behind its neighbors.
My Serbian nation is free nayion under God.
I wont mind using stone axe if it is in my free hands.
My Serbian nation is free nation under God.
I wont mind using stone axe if it is in my free hands.
While I don't think it will get that bad, you're certainly heading in that direction.
I hope so.
Bolja Grob Nego Rob!
"Better a Grave than a Slave!"
A sentiment shared by true Americans, too!
Seems Japan is in on the financial action, too:
Serbia keeps wanting to turn westward, because it's in their nature. But the West turns its back and the East offers her a hand. What would you do if you were her?
Exactly Bokababe,
Serbia is by default western country, yet buisiness is buisiness, andmaking money is a postulate for building true democracy, cause only in deceloped country where people are not hugry, you can have democracy.
Japan finances Serbia economic reforms
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, May 11 (UPI) -- Japan has made grants totaling $800,000 to stimulate reforms and employment in private and finance sectors in Serbia-Montenegro.
Japan's Ambassador Tadashi Nagai said the grant was aimed at offering technical assistance in improving fiscal management, business climate and stabilization of the financial sector.
He said the Japanese government "believes that re-structuring these sectors is essential" for Serbia-Montenegro, which is turning its post-communist system into a free-market economy, the Serbian radio-television reported.
Nagai attended a ceremony at which officials of Serbia-Montenegro and the World Bank signed an agreement on Japan's donation.
Japan has donated more than $8 million to Serbia-Montenegro in the past five years.
"Give me liberty or give me death"
In fact America's out of control state department may still be stuck in some sort of clintonista wet dream regarding policy in the balkans, but obviously other countries including Russia and Japan are not.
You can talk about socialism all you want, but the basic fact of the matter is that Serbia is the one place in the balkans inhabited by normal, middle class people.
Nobody has said it better!!
__________________________________________________________ Kosovo will belong to Serbia again
According to the article Russian company will build thermal plant but nothing about any aid. If you will pay them, they will build it, quite simple.
Im afraid of that, but that is what is gonan happen if nothing changes on the west...
Why do you think that somebody in the west would care wherever such a small country like Serbia will serve the interest of Russia or not? I think that is rather your problem and if your compatriots wish that to happen, let it be
and Im not a big fun of Kremlin as you probably are well aware.
But so long as you can retreat into an unfounded superiority complex in regards to the neighbors, or blame all your woes on Clinton, who cares how bad things are getting, huh?
Basically, if there was any one thing you could count on with Slick KKKlinton it was that any time, anywhere in the world, should the interests of ordinary middle class people came into conflict with the interests of trash, you could absolutely count on KKKlinton to come down four-square on the side of the trash. Albanians and Bosnians of course are beyond trash; they're the kind of people who give trash a bad name.
That would buy at least four of YOU, wouldn't it?
Hey boy, where are those pancakes?
What is a thermal power plant?
Albanian and Bosnia will continue to be the armpit of Europe until Europe is no more.
Or you could borrow his mom 100 times.
So you can try and talk up Serbia all you want, just like a Honduran is free to extoll the virtues of his country.
Just don't expect anybody with half a clue to take you seriously.
Serbia is being prevented from properly developing its economy. Don't tell me that Slovenia with no conceivable profitable resources can have a GDP of $20,000 whilst Serbia, abundant in all kinds of natural resources and industry, with an educated, English-speaking population very much in touch with the world they live in, has a GDP 5-7 times smaller than Slovenia's. BS!
I don't put much stock into the official rankings anyway, because it is obvious that Bosnia -- with no economy to speak of -- can't have a greater GDP than Serbia. Yet, miraculously it does.
"it takes 1 3/4 Serbs to make what an Albanian is making"
Oh, yes, that is why Albania is such a "rich" country! LOL!
Or perhaps you were talking about Kosovo Albanians? Yes, I understand the sale of narcotics, semtex and the sex slave trade can be quite lucrative -- at least for now. But when the Euros go home, offering up your little brother for sex won't be quite so lucrative and your people may actually have to work for a living!
I suspect that you are not aware of it but you are the best spokesman for Serbia on FR. Fusion was even better but he is gone :(
Like that's ever been an issue here on FR's Balkan threads.
The only thing preventing Serbia from developing its economy is the Serbs - by choosing to cling to a discredited socialist/nationalist legacy, they're getting exactly what they're asking for: poverty and international isolation. Slovenia has used the 15 years since independence to get their economy together, and the results are inescapable to the objective observer.
Slovenia, btw, has an economy "only" ~1/3rd larger than Serbia's, due to there being 5 times as many folks in Serbia.
But hey, it's all BS because it's inconvenient, right?
Being an American of English descent, I've got that puritan work ethic ingrained, so it's not an issue.
But as far as Albania, considering where they were coming from, they'd have been hard pressed to worsen their economic condition. Fortunately for them, they've had leaders who haven't exacerbated their problems, unlike Serbia.
At some point in the future, I expect Serbia will regain its historical economic position in regards to its neighbors, but that isn't going to happen until it turns its back on the kind of simpleton thinking exhibited by you and those like you here on FR.
Quite frankly, I feel embarrassed for your ignorance, and saddened by Serbia's continuing plight - they're both tragedies in their own way.
"Quite frankly, I feel embarrassed for your ignorance, and saddened by Serbia's continuing plight - they're both tragedies in their own way."
I may have been mistaken about your ethnicity, for which you have my apologies. However, based on your advocacy of all things pro-Muslim, pro-Albanian in the Balkans and your obvious dislike of Serbs, it was an easy mistake to make.
No need for pitying me, Hoplite. I am an American Montenegrin Serb, for several generations.The last of my family arrived in the US over 80 years ago and my father was in the US Army during WWII. I have an MA, and am, financially, pretty much living the American Dream" my ancestors hoped for when they came to the US.
Has it ever occurred to you that the people who live over there, plus the people who live here (or in Europe) and have studied Balkan politics & history for many years before these wars started, may know more about it than you? Most Americans couldn't have located what "continent" Bosnia was on before 1992 -- but suddenly, they are "CNN experts"! Or they marry into it and think that they know it all. Give me a break!
I know who my people are, what their strengths and weaknesses are as a culture. They aren't perfect, they aren't all "saints", but they aren't "demons", either. And continual "humilation" doesn't tend to bring out the best in them -- or in anyone else, for that matter.
But when "the scimitar" is knocking at your door in smalltown USA saying, "Convert or die" -- trust me, you'll want a Serb on your side to protect you if you haven't killed or ethnically cleansed them all out of existence by then!
And Slovenia had the best economy of all, even when it was part of Yugoslavia. If I were them, I'd have wanted to take a walk, too.
But I can recall Slovenia in the 1970's, when an American half-Slovene, half-Serb friend of mine said to me, "Why is it that in Slovenia, they can put up a McDonald's and Tito calls it communism. But in Serbia, they can't even have a farm collective without Tito saying that it isn't communist enough! What is that madman doing?"
Tito was "mad" like a fox.
The Slovenes and Croats, individually, were never any real threat to Tito's power -- he was half-Slovene and half-Croat himself. The Bosnian Muslims and Albanians were never any real threat to his power, either. As a matter of fact, "Tito's Muslims" were an excellent "trading card" for doing business in the ME.
Right after WWII, Tito also fancied himself becoming the "Stalin of the Balkans", and this is why he broke with the real Stalin. It is also why Tito imported Albanians into Kosovo and wouldn't let Serbs return (so he could take over Albania with his homegrown variety). Tito backed the communist side of the Greek civil war, hoping to add Greece to his realm. But this plan never worked out for him and he had to settle for Yugoslavia, alone.
But the only ethnic group who was any real continuing threat to Tito was the Serbs, because they were the single largest ethnic group in Yugoslavia, they had a history of democracy, and they had a huge active diaspora expelled after WWII for fighting against communism.
So Tito kept "his enemies" (the Serbs) closer than his friends. Tito made Serbs into "real Yugoslavs", involving them at every level of the government, overlapping their territories (the Krajina and Dalmatia have only been part of Croatia since post WWII)with the Croats, dividing off Kosovo -- in short, making sure that Serbs were so invested in communist Yugoslavia that they dare not rebel or lose everything dear to them.
American Serbs had been telling Yugoslav Serbs for years that they were being set up to fail because they were the only ones so invested in Yugoslavia, but they wouldn't listen.
And likewise, neither would America listen to anything but "pro-Tito Yugoslavia". The US State Department was more pro-Tito than any Yugoslavs were. Twice initiatives were passed by the US Congress to honor Tito's WWII rival here in the US for saving the lives of over 500 American flyers during WWII, and twice those initiatives were shot down by the US State Department because "it might offend Tito". US Serbs couldn't even get the second in command of WWII Nazi Croatia, Andrija Artukovic, deported. The SOB was living openly in San Pedro, CA for over thirty years and was responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. Finally, the Jews went after him and got the job done after Tito died, because -- even as Americans -- we couldn't do a damn thing about it.
So the failure of Yugoslavia, post-Tito, was expected. The bloody wars over Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, predictable. The Serbs as "the bad guys", likewise predictable.
Sad, but it's been like watching a car accident from a distance in slow motion. Nothing you can do while it happening except help the wounded once it is over.
Great stuff.
The entire Clinton Adminstration is a collection of losers. 67% of his administration couldn't get a security clearance due to background checks due to their behaviors and criminal records, arrests, finanical misdealings etc...fact actually....
Clinton was the biggest loser of all and in fact fabricated most of the reasons to go into the Balkans, after Milosevic became a serbian nationalist in the late 80's and turned his back on the CIA...true story.
They we introduced the Muh. into Bosnia, fabricated the massacres, provoked the Serbs into Bosnia and yes they came on a bit heavy handed, agreed, but nowhere near what the lying media reported. Fact hoppie.....
Well, we'll give you a call when we decide to ethnically cleanse the American Southwest of Hispanics, m'kay?
Just kidding, of course - America's core values and those of Serbia aren't compatible so long as Serbia is a nation or group which identifies itself by who one's parents are, and that doesn't look to change anytime in the near future, does it?
Further, I'm really not interested in hearing the Serb story of oppression under Tito yet again - each of Yugoslavia's ethnicities has a beef with Tito's methods and legacy. As of now, Serbia is responsible for its present condition, not Tito or any of his contemporaries.
No Tom. BS.
Save it for the suckers.
Its good to see a moron continuing to pull his pud.
"M'kay"...are you gay Hoplite? Is that your signature response..."m'kay"? Dope.
"Well, we'll give you a call when we decide to ethnically cleanse the American Southwest of Hispanics, m'kay?"
Save "the call", muchacho. As a native Californian, I consider tacos and enchiladas as one of the "essential food groups"!
= )
If you're going to account for it that way, on average it takes 1 3/4 Serbs to make what an Albanian is making and 15 1/2 Serbs to make what my fellow Americans are making.
So you can try and talk up Serbia all you want, just like a Honduran is free to extoll the virtues of his country.
Just don't expect anybody with half a clue to take you seriously.
You might not be, but some of your fellow Serbs back in the Balkans are as up into their necks in those activities as their Albanian neighbors.
There is no factual basis for any claims of Serbian exceptionalism when compared to its neighbors.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Serbs are well-known as the unrepentant war criminals of Europe.
Guess which one is going to continue to color America and Europe's policies?
Ignore that.
Serbia remains the most multicultural nation in the Balkans, making your nonsense about them caring only about parentage even more laughable than most of your other lies about the Serbs, pancake boy.
I did....and lo and behold one took the bait. The sucker is you in believing the BS, as the proof is there. You are one of the worse in that you have the knowledge, the research and the background yet you lie due to some misguided loyality to the Clinton Administration and their underhanded dealings. You worked for them once, and now you are just a loyal subject supporting the lies perpetrated from this wacky former group of spin doctors. Most Americans have no clue as to the truth as some don't even know where Kosovo is located on a map......you are different, you know the situation and still fail to tell the truth due to your political, or personal agenda, loyality, or whatever. It's a very dangerous game that is being played and there is no Plan B for the U.S., NATO or UN involvement. It's a bandaid and agreements based on Power and misplaced politics.
They (the perps in this), could care less that hundreds of innocent Albanians, Bosnians, Croats, Serbs, are murdered and those that will be murdered after the independence if it occurs.
It's not BS its absolute truth, and you know it. You have war criminals that are Serbs being chased. Then you have War Criminals from the KLA who are members of the Mafia, getting pardoned and made leaders of political parties and prime Ministers. Seems a little one sided, you think? yet no one says a thing........
Yeah, that's the ticket.... and I was Milosevic's CIA case officer back in the 1980s too.
And Srebrenica never happened, Racak was a setup, and there were no mass graves of K-Albanians in Kosovo.
Actually, where I think you have worked I can't mention here mainly because it's against the rules, so I won't.
Secondly, Srebrenica did happen but 2,000-3,000 insurgents or combatants were killed not 8,000 as said before. Granted, the Serbs did execute POW's, which is what they are on trial for. The Serb nationalist are protecting their middle level commanders and police chief's BTW.
Rajak was a set up also, as the Frence, Spainish and several other investigating teams indicated that many reasons and observations, to include the KLA's behavior with the OSCE observers, the bodies being moved, and the quick burial of the 9 bodies that it is suspected were actual KLA. Rajak was a KLA stronghold, they provoked the Serbs and either the KLA killed the 40-45...or they were killed by the shelling after the Serbs were provoked. Speculation also indicates that they might have been killed by the NATO bombing which was very out of control (or maybe not), and killed civilians both Serbs and Albanians. The bodies were placed in Rajak to appear like a massacre. Either way, the scene and bodies did not indicate a massacre. This is a long story very short........there were a few mass graves in Kosovo but not as previously reported by the Clinton Adminitration. Where are the 10,000 dead bodies....They only found 2,100 and some odd number, with three bodies here, five there, etc......the most they found was 22 bodies and confirmed they were Serbs buried in a mass grave.......
If you believe the whole story, then they have lied to you as well. If you are part of the lie, shame on you.
tom, hoplite is living on his daddy's coattails.
I have been told that the site.. www.savekosovo.org of which is designed to tell the truth about Kosovo, has been attacked by another organization. They made up a dummy site called www.savekosova.org to through people off. The fight for Kosovo Independence has taken a nasty turn. It's a fact that there has been 32 attacks on minotities, which included property damage from 1-11 May 2006. I've got the reports and in addition, sources in CivPol have informed me that the UN said to not report this outside the chain. These reports from 1-11 may are only scratching the surface of what's going on within Kosovo.
Montenegro is heading to Independence to join Kosovo to become a Mafia state as well. May I venture a "guess", that International powers are targeting Macedonia between now and 2010 to be broken up as well.
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READING, Pa. - Curbing crime has become a top priority in Berks County.
Gov. Tom Corbett and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Sen. Pat Toomey are set to attend next week's crime summit, but the public and news media will be locked out.
The news came as a shock for businesses and residents in the city, who feel they should have a stake in the discussion.
"It's way out of hand, and someone needs to step up," said Rafael Rodriguez, the manager at Villa Join the Movement on Penn Street. "I think they should hear what the public has to say so we can voice our opinions."
"I feel it should be open to the public because we have public representatives there that are really not connected to the public," said Ed Terrell, a community activist.
The public will not be invited inside the Crowne Plaza, the site of the summit, because of the nature of the discussion. Officials don't want people hearing details about proposed law enforcement strategies, said county officials.
Berks County District Attorney John Adams is leading the effort.
"If we let the criminals know exactly what law enforcement is going to do, our strategies would be less effective," said Adams.
The goal of the summit is to consider resources that can be used to fight against crime in Greater Reading. The agenda will clarify the types of violent crime via trends and statistics, as well as review and vet real strategies and proposals to combat and address these crimes.
"We want to put a lid on violent crime, but we have to get with law enforcement and say, what's the plan, what's the strategy?" said Berks County Commissioner Kevin Barnhardt.
Corbett, Casey, Toomey and Adams will make brief remarks following the summit, but the bulk of the conversation will be private.
The crime summit is scheduled for Jan. 18 at 2 p.m.
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Gift shop offering soy candles, goat milk lotion, room sprays and home décor. Open: Thursday and Friday: 9 am to 5 pm; Saturday: 9 am to 3 pm; or by appointment
Edgebrook offers local specialty shopping with a unique blend of eclectic boutique shops, excellent restaurants and convenient service-oriented businesses, where there is truly something for everyone. Please visit edgebrookshops.com for a list of merchants and events happening. Owned and operated by Orput Companies, Inc.
Edwards West is a popular destination for families to enjoy the sights, tastes, and activities of an apple orchard and farm market. For a fun family outing, enjoy the experience of picking your own apples, pumpkins and raspberries. Visit the play area featuring the wooden bus and train, the corn cribs, the wagon slide and our animals in the "Petting Farm." Stroll through the over 100 year old dairy barn with displays of bright colored apples, freshly squeezed cider, fresh apple cider donuts, and wonderful gift items that are on display.
Open August through November, come visit our farm this fall to share in our rustic culture and enjoy a taste of the season. Many varieties of apples to taste. Also available, in season, are raspberries, pumpkins, home-made goodies, and our famous apple cider donuts. Take a horse drawn ride out to the orchard to pick your own apples too. Family tradition starts here! There's a petting zoo too.
CITY:Poplar Grove
Enders Flowers at Edgebrook Shopping Center
Fresh and exotic flowers plus garden gifts.
Exclusively Yours Leiza-George
A shopping experience like no other, this store has floor-to-ceiling gifts from around the would. Its specialties include handmade oak and Amish furniture, jewelry, linens, cards, Christmas items and more.
Stop by and see their new location in Winter Plaza in Belvidere. Many wonderful gift items, fresh flowers, green plants, personalized service, and silk arrangements for home and office. Delivery all around the world -- AFS and Teleflora wire services.
Fran's Fantastic Antiques, Collectibles
Shop for a unique inventory of antiques and collectibles including antique toys, furniture, linens, rugs, jewelry, books, "ETC". Stop and shop country. You will not believe what is under their roof! Awesome!
Large European and American furniture from 1840's to 1930's: armoires, sideboards, tables, bureaus, chairs. More than 1,000 stained and beveled glass windows, some matching. Owner makes several annual European buying trips.
Gensler Gardens is a family owned operation specilizing in greenhouses and locally grown vegetables.
CITY:Loves Park
Hailey's Winery, established in 2009, specializes in handcrafted wines from grape varieties native to Illinois, as well as other varietals, and seasonal fruits. Owned and operated by two women, Hailey's is a fully functioning winery, producing and bottling award-winning wines in Byron, Illinois location. We strive to offer a variety of wines and an enjoyable experience for each guest, and want our visitors to feel completely at ease with wine tasting and selection. The winery is open year round, with tastings available any time during business hours, monthly live music, and tasting room rental for private celebrations. We carry specialty cheeses, sausage, chocolates, craft beer selections, and gift items. Guests may gather, relax and enjoy our wines in the pleasant tasting room, or on our patio during warm weather.
This aquatic nursery has hundreds of water lilies, marsh plants, fish and related products. In business for a decade. Pond maintenance services available, call for an appointment.


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