Word: slavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than a millennium, the cultures of east and west have collided in this mountainous corner of the Balkans, and each of today's conflicts exposes layers of the past. Friction between the various republics may reflect the conflict between Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy, or Islam and Christianity, or Slav and Turk, or Slav and German. Yugoslavs do not even share an alphabet: Serbia uses Cyrillic script; Croatia and Slovenia, Roman. As the old British dictum went, Yugoslavia is a small country with big problems -- six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets and one political party...
...movie ends, a bitter drama. Einstein's biographers brushed her off as a gloomy Slav and a sloppy housekeeper, not quite bright enough to follow her husband into the new world of relativity, as if she deserved obscurity...
...envoys and their boat flung into a pit, where they were buried alive. She next asked that the Drevlianians send their leading men to provide an escort, then offered them a bath, locked them in the bathhouse and set it afire. Thus avenged, Olga became the first Slav ruler to convert to Christianity, and the Orthodox Church allied itself to the ruling family by making her its first Russian saint...
Senior Communist leaders, opposition members, representatives of the Turkish minority and Slav nationalists met yesterday to try to defuse the situation. On Monday, they called for an end to further large protests or strikes and the tensions appear to have eased...