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Romanian Nationalists Weave Xenophobic Parable From Poaching Death Of 'Arthur The Bear' May 10, 2021 17:04 GMT Share share Print BUCHAREST -- Ascendant right-wing populists in Romania have seized on the illegal trophy killing of a brown bear ascribed to Liechtenstein's royal family to blame "foreigners" as the driving factor in the country's social and economic woes. Romanians and outside ecological groups were outraged by reports last week that Prince Emanuel -- a nephew of Liechtenstein's reigning Prince Hans-Adam II who lives in Austria -- had killed the massive male bear, nicknamed "Arthu...

Montenegro's Limited Coalition Hammers Away At Perilous Religion, Nationality Issues May 07, 2021 13:14 GMT Share share Print PODGORICA -- Still rutted with historically fraught questions of religious and national identity, Montenegro's political path took a sharp turn in August. That's when a diverse coalition of Serbian nationalists, populists, centrists, socialists, environmentalists, and anticorruption campaigners won just enough votes to edge out the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) that had run the former Yugoslav republic for 30 years. A record turnout among Montenegro's some 540,0...

share Print The list of Dragan "Palma" Markovic's official positions during his three-decade stampede through the ranks of Serbian politics is long. The 60-year-old is currently a lawmaker in the National Assembly, chairman of the coalition party United Serbia (JS), and city council president of Jagodina, a quaint town 135 kilometers southeast of Belgrade. He was also mayor of Jagodina for eight years until 2012, lifting up its bedraggled postindustrial profile with new trappings of tourism like an artificial waterfall, an aquapark, a zoo, a stadium, and a sprawling shopping center. Markovic ...

'Infodemic,' Politicization Dampen Early Success Of Serbia's Vaccine Rollout March 02, 2021 19:00 GMT Share share Print BELGRADE -- Serbia's hard-fought head start using an early embrace of non-Western vaccines at the risk of jilting its EU neighbors could be disintegrating at a crucial phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Demand for any of four vaccines Serbia offers is lagging behind supplies in one of the former Yugoslavia's most closely followed countries, despite the arrival of at least 2 million doses and an open door to vaccination for anyone who wants it. Two of the shots -- Pfizer/BioN...

DNA Shows Ancient Siberians Domesticated Dogs, Who Then Helped Settle America February 05, 2021 13:16 GMT Share share Print Scientists have long sought an indisputable link showing when humans first domesticated dogs, steering a few receptive gray wolves' descendants toward lives as lapdogs. The origins of their "domestic relationship" is one of the most hotly debated questions around dogs' undying loyalty to their masters and humankind’s unparalleled reliance on dogs to get a leg up on other predators in a frequently hostile environment. Now, a team of interdisciplinary researchers has use...