Byzantine Blog

Great work!
Would you please add our blog:

Kosovo Here

Thank you!

PS Julia Gorin talked about us in her blog

Thank you, Nina!

I have seen the Kosovo Here blog through Julia's entry few days ago and, while I appreciate the effort, I must say I'm not particularly impressed to find yet another place on the web that simply collects articles from the Western mainstream media about the Kosovo-Metohia issue.

Hello Svetlana,

Thank you for posting my comment together with the link.
We thought we were different since we collect only and only mainstream
media, Senate and scientific institutions articles that speak for themselves and that are most trusted among average Americans.

We are not using any Russian, leftist or any Serbian media. That's why we thought that we were different.

Are we not?

Thank you again!

Nina, I didn't know that the purpose was to be different—different is also the one who wears fruit salad on their head—I thought the purpose was to help.

And, frankly, I don't see how collecting "mainstream and mainstream only" articles about Serbia helps anything and anyone. Why would anyone think that presenting the North American audience with the selected information from their own mainstream media and their government is special or helpful to Serbs at this point?

I think this is wrong perspective or, at least, useless exercise, because anyone who wishes to read what the western mainstream says about Serbs today can simply go to Google News, type "Serbia" in the search box and read much more than what you can manage to post on your blog. So, what's the purpose of your blog?

What would be helpful is if that same audience would be presented with the current, up-to-date information and translations of the articles from Serbia and Serbian lands. That is something they can't read or find, even if they really want to, unless the Serbs translate and offer that information.

In other words, I think that web sites that simply collect already existing articles from the West are just giving more of what is readily available to anyone who knows how to use internet (which is just about everyone that uses it), instead of giving some of what isn't and should be made available, and that is the Serbian perspective, current events in Serbia and Serbian views.

But that's only my opinion. Of course you are free to do whatever you think is the best.

P.S. I also think that insistence on the form ("western mainstream only") which then dictates the content is very limiting and unintelligent: why would your group do that? Why would you insist on excluding everything that comes from "Russian, leftist or any Serbian media"?

This is not only offensive (some of the best, most comprehensive and most truthful pieces are today published exactly in the media you discard out of hand, including the unofficial, independent media sources, while almost everything published in the western MSM regarding Serbia today is, to say the least, incorrect, put together to further the pigheaded, counterproductive and misguided Washington/Brussels official policy), it is also debilitating in the sense it automatically prevents you from offering a wide range of views.

Besides, don't you think you are sending a rather weird message in claiming to struggle for the Serbs' right to their state and freedom, while at the same time you don't trust what the Serbs themselves have to say, or the Russians—the representatives of the other superpower that is nothing but the best friend to Serbia at its darkest hour?

I'm sorry, I just don't get it, what's the logic behind what you're doing?

Svetlana, I thank you for your time and keep doing a great job!