Albania: Homemade Raki

October 24, 2006 in albania

Global Voices OnlineTuesday, October 24, 2006
“…After two weeks, the grapes were ready to be turned into raki. First they were loaded into the still…” – Step by step, Our Man in Tirana shows how a container full of homegrown grapes eventually yields 12 liters of homemade raki.

Notes on Montenegro and Transnistria

September 23, 2006 in Russia, [dmytro], [dromo], albania, moldova, montenegro, serbia, transnistria, ukraine

Global Voices OnlineFriday, September 22, 2006
In his yesterday’s Balkans Blog Roundup, Ljubisa Bojic quoted this passage on Montenegro by a Serbian blogger:
[...] I know how things operate down there. Its also a privatised state – I wonder how long it will be before the Europeans become intolerant of all those Russian businessmen who own hotels [...]

Central & Eastern Europe: International Women’s Day

September 11, 2006 in Russia, albania, czech republic, hungary, poland, serbia, ukraine

Global Voices OnlineWednesday, March 8, 2006
March 8 has been an official day off in Russia and Ukraine, and here are some bloggers’ reactions to the holiday – in Russia and Ukraine, as well as elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe.
Scott W. Clark of Foreign Notes, a Kyiv-based blog, is not happy about the universality of [...]