Balkan i Kavkaz

Iz vrlo zanimljivog članka sa Economistovog Eastern Approaches bloga:

In Soviet times Nagorno-Karabakh was a mostly Armenian-populated autonomous region in Azerbaijan. In Yugoslav times Kosovo was a mostly Albanian-populated autonomous province of Serbia.

Armenians fought a war against the Azeris in the early 1990s, and the Kosovo Albanians against the Serbs in 1998-99. Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence in 1991. Serbia’s administration and security forces were expelled from Kosovo by NATO in 1999. The region was then run by the United Nations. It declared independence in 2008.

On the face of it there are plenty of similarities between Soviet breakaway statelets like Nagorno-Karabakh and Kosovo. But there are also many differences. No countries have recognised Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state, but more than 80 have recognised Kosovo. Western countries emphasise that they believe that the Kosovo case is not a precedent for others.

Koliko su se stvari promenile

Građani zauzeli vojne objekte u Novom Sadu

Grupa koju čine predstavnici više od 20 nevladinih organizacija, grupa građana, udruženja, ali i pojedinaca nešto posle 12 sati obila je kapiju napuštene kasarne “Dr Arčibald Rajs” u Futoškoj ulici kako bi taj objekat pretvorili u društveni centar.

Zvuči kao neka vest sa Njuza, a nije. 

Verovatno nema bolje ilustracije toga koliko su se stvari promenile u prethodnih 10-ak godina. Neko može činjenicu da se ljudi ne plaše da okupiraju kasarnu lošom, neko može da je smatra dobrom, ali niko ne može da ospori činjenicu da stvari nisu kao što su nekada bile.

Što se mene tiče, ovi događaji ponovo otvaraju pitanje upravljanja neiskorišćenom državnom (ne samo vojnom) imovinom.