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🇺🇦❌☦️🇷🇴 The Ukrainian government has denied the request made by the Romanian Orthodox Church which tried to register itself with the Ukrainian Ministry of Religious Cults and open up a bishopric in the Cernăuți (Chernivtsi) Oblast.

In the place of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which served the Romanian minority in Cernăuți until the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces with the help of national security forces seized many of the churches belonging to the UOC, Ukraine has refused to right the wrong made by the USSR in 1944 when it kicked out the Romanian Church and forcefully confiscated and transferred the churches to the Russian led UOC. To its credit, the UOC allowed the use of Romanian in its churches where a Romanian community lived.

Kiev has decided to fully support the schismatic (some would say, outright heretical) Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) which firmly rejects the use of other languages in religious services other than Ukrainian. This is just another attempt done by Kiev to assimilate the Romanian minority in Ukraine by forcing the Romanians in Cernăuți to pray in Ukrainian only.

Step by step Kiev eliminated Romanian from its schools and now it has eliminated Romanian from its churches. Next up: the imprisonment of those that speak Romanian at home following the Austro-Hungarian model seen in Transylvania more than a century ago.

@Wallachian_Gazette
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🇲🇰 North Macedonian PM warns that the largest Albanian party in the country will attempt to destabilise the nation this autumn This comes after that party sought international support for their proposal to federalise North Macedonia by creating an Albanian…
🇲🇰 Leader of largest Albanian minority party says Macedonians will learn to work with Albanians or they will cease to exist

This comes amid talk in the country of plans to destabilise North Macedonia and create a separate ethnic Albanian territorial entity.

#NorthMacedonia #Albania @balkan_grad
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🇬🇷 Terrible fires broke in Greece and almost reached Athens, whose surroundings have been evacuated

#Greece @balkan_grad
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🇺🇸🇷🇸 This seems to be the United States' position on lithium mining in Serbia

Do you agree?
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🇷🇸🇽🇰🇺🇸 - The West is pretty clear with KFOR protecting the Iber bridge that the open season for Kurti to sabotage Western policy in the Western Balkan is over.

Vucic gave the West the lithium it needed for its reindustrialization despite facing protests, he sent some stuff to Ukraine, and for the West its enough to accomodate him, as the calculus the US make in the Western Balkan is that peace shall be maintained and that "institutionnal normalcy" shall come second to the first objective, especially in a de facto entity like Kosovo that isn't even a UN member.
🇷🇸 Were you wondering about the Serbian youth's thoughts?

I know so, that's why I'm bringing you the results from the latest annual research of the Youth Coordination Organization of Serbia (KOMS) entitled "Alternative Report on the Situation and Needs of Youth in Serbia for 2024"

The research was conducted among a representative sample of 1,210 respondents between the ages of 15 and 30 and was presented on the occasion of the International Youth Day on August 12. These are the results:

👉 73% voted in last December's parliamentary and local elections, and a similar percentage would vote in next week's elections if they were held.

🗳 39% believe in Democracy as the best form of government (an increase sin last year).

👑 1/5 choose the Monarchy as the best form of government.

🗺 On the foreign policy front, the East is more popular than the West

🇺🇸 58% of young people do not support Serbia's membership in NATO, while 1/5 support some form of cooperation.

#Serbia #NATO #Monarchy #Youth #Democracy
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🇷🇸🇲🇰 Blerim Ramadani, a terrorist who had an internationally recognized warrant for extradition to Serbia for war crimes, mysteriously escaped from captivity in North Macedonia

Before he could be extradited he was transferred to house arrest and escaped. Serbia demands an official explanation for this. There are suspicions that this was facilitated by people loyal to DUI, the largest Albanian minority party of North Macedonia.

This political party released a statement about the issue stating that it was “shameful to Albanian heritage” that another Albanian party in the government coalition was prepared to allow the extradition to take place.

Via @waffairsblog #NorthMacedonia #Serbia @balkan_grad
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🇭🇷 Croatia to reinstate mandatory military service amid rising regional tensions

#Croatia @balkan_grad
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🇷🇴 Romanian economy grew by 1.5% in the first 6 months of 2024

#Romania #GDP @balkan_grad
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🇷🇸 Serbian Gazet remembers that today but in 1552 the first book was printed in Belgrade

The book, whose title is "Four Evangels from Belgrade" was printed in cirylic alphabet and is known as one of the most valuable prices of Serbian culture and alphabetization.

#Serbia @balkan_grad
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🇷🇸 Serbs sharing this on X, do you think it is likely to happen soon?

#Serbia #Kosovo
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🇷🇴💥🇺🇦 A naval mine was discovered early this morning on the shore on the Chituc spit, some 13 km to the north-east of the village of Vadu, Constanța county.

Sappers were called to defuse the mine. Video of the defusal.

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🇷🇸 - Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Duric says that Serbian embassies in two European capitals received terrorist threats in the past 24 hours.
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🇬🇷🇾🇪⚡️- The Greek Ministry of Shipping reports that an oil tanker, Sunion, was attacked by Ansar Allah while traveling near Yemen through the Red Sea
🇷🇴⚡️- Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Romania, following another police raid on their home in a second investigatory probe.
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🇷🇸 - Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Duric says that Serbian embassies in two European capitals received terrorist threats in the past 24 hours.
🇨🇭🇷🇸 Serbian Minister of the Interior says that after Serbian embassies in Austria and Germany, Serbian Embassy in Switzerland also received threatening messages, all sent by the same person: an ethnic Albanian with swiss nationality living in Kosovo
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