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		<title>Crowdsourcing promises relief in Chilean Earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two powerful earthquakes in the last two months have brought to light the ability to crowdsource disaster relief and harvest information through social media. Once such resource is Ushahidi- originally founded in Kenya as a website mapping incidences of violence following a disputed eleciton in 2008, the site proved very succesful with 45,000 users in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=122&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balkan Oscar Longlist Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickygilbert</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albania]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Nuic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just under 2 months until oscar night (March the seventh), and with the shortlists announced in less than a month,  I thought I&#8217;d take this opportunity to have a look at the candidates for Oscar recognition coming from Balkan cinema. Albania:  &#8220;Alive&#8221;, director Artan Minarolli The film looks at Albania&#8217;s struggle to reconcile tradition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=111&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serbian &#8216;Insajder&#8217; Journalists Face Threats from Hooligans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickygilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brankica Stanković, the celebrated journalist who heads the Serbian broadcaster B92&#8242;s flagship documentary strand &#8216;Insajder&#8217;, has claimed she has received death threats after her most recent broadcast. Insider is the most respected investigative programme in the country and has just revisited the football clubs of Serbia after an investigation into football and the mafia back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=107&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No pride for Serbia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belgrade&#8217;s long awaited gay pride parade, due to pass through Belgrade&#8217;s city centre today (20.09.09), was prevented from taking place on police orders. What can only be described as a capitulation by the Serbian authorities has ended with a ban on all public gatherings from Belgrade&#8217;s City centre, this has prevented the pride march and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=102&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Murder Before Albanian Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickygilbert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Albania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fatmir Xhindi, the Albanian Socialist politician, was murdered this weekend as the elections approach in 2 months time. Xhindi was shot by men armed with AK47s near his family home in Roskovec. Xhindi was deputy leader in one of Albania&#8217;s socialist parties. Xhindi was hit with six bullets and died on his way to hospital [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=55&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis?  What Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://nickygilbert.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/crisis-what-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickygilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems at times to those of us in the UK that the &#8216;Credit Crunch&#8217; will be a long, dark, unbearable period the awfulness of which is yet to be discovered. I asked a good friend of mine, Igor Cvijanovic, a Bosnian (Serbian-Bosnian) living in Northern Serbia,  about whether the &#8220;crisis&#8221; had hit, as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=46&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising Fall Threatens Serbia&#8217;s Media</title>
		<link>http://nickygilbert.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/advertising-fall-threatens-serbias-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickygilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with some joy I bring you this blog entry&#8230;.  Entirely selfish joy.  For this summer I was to be going to Serbia to carry out my MA  (readers should be aware I lived there for 3 years from 2005 to 2008), and I was afraid there was no real story to tell other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=5&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kosovo- It&#8217;s still there.</title>
		<link>http://nickygilbert.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/kosovo-its-still-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickygilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[****** UPDATE******* Electricity is back on in the Serbian village of Silovo. Kosovo Serbians have been protesting today after spending nine days without electricity. The Kosovo Electricity Company says the Serbian villages were not targetted for any ethnic reasons but due to a failure to pay bills. The level of unemployment amongst Kosovan Serbs is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=41&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balkan League Could Show the Way for Eastern European Football</title>
		<link>http://nickygilbert.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/balkan-league-could-yet-save-eastern-european-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickygilbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[**BEWARE: THIS BLOG CONTAINS GRAUITOUS USE OF YOUTUBE MONTAGES** The UEFA President Michel Platini&#8217;s visit last week to Belgrade culminated in a press conference where the erstwhile attacking midfielder spoke positively about the possibility of a pan-balkan league which would hark back to the good-old days of Yugoslav football. There was a time when some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=21&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Macedonia&#8217;s New Leader will struggle to solve the FYROM Farce.</title>
		<link>http://nickygilbert.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/macedonian-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: IVANOV WON A LANDSLIDE VICTORY George Ivanov is the candidate for the awkardly named VMRO-DPMNE party in the Macedonian election , which goes to its run-off over today. Ivanov won 35% of the vote. His opponent  Ljubomir Frckoski, of the  Social Democrat Union (SDSM), received 20 per cent of the vote. Who ever wins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickygilbert.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6646830&amp;post=9&amp;subd=nickygilbert&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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