Russia vetoed the UN Security Council’s attempt to declare the Srebrenica massacre a genocide. Russians have an enormous resistance to declaring any genocide a genocide but they are especially reluctant to recognize genocide against Muslims for obvious reasons.
Srebrenica
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I’m assuming that another reason is that the perpetrators were their supposed orthodox brothers the Serbs who are Russia’s most loyal ally in that part of the world.
A few years ago I was posting sometimes on a board for foreigners in Poland and for some reason a weird Serbian nationalist kept posting about how Poland and Russia should become allies in some odd pan-Slavic project (apparently to be led by the Serbs).
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Yes, there’s definitely some weird fixation on the Serbs on Putin’s part.
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In unrelated news I’m soon heading off for a rest in the Queen City of the Danube and will most likely not be anywhere near a computer for a little over a week as I gorge on some of the unhealthiest food on the planet, swill down palinka and relax in scalding thermal baths built by the Ottomans (those are the plans at any rate).
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I always wanted to visit Hungary and try a real goulash instead of the Soviet canteen version I make. Have fun!
I’m on my way to Oxford but it will take a while since I hear that railway workers are on strike.
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I immediately thought of Chechnya.
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Exactly. 😦
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