VLADISLAV B. SOTIROVIC, Ph.D.

Articles in English by Vladislav B. Sotirović

THE MEMORANDUM ABOUT CREATION OF THE AUTONOMOUS RELIGION-LANGUAGE-BASED ORTHODOX STOKAVIAN SLAVONIC - SERBIAN GRAND DUCHY UNDER THE RUSSIAN PROTECTORATE WRITTEN BY THE KARLOVCI METROPOLITAN STEVAN STRATIMIROVIC IN 1804 (printed in Serbian in Slavistica Vilnensis, 2001)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/ovsiste/Stratimirovic's Orthodox Stokavian Slavonic-Serbian Grand Duchy under the Russian protectorate .doc

Shaping the Borderlands of Pax Sovietica Commonwealth in Central and Southeastern Europe: the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union during the Second World War (printed in scientific journal Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, Mokslo darbai, vol. 10, 2002, ISSN 1392–0448, pp. 65–82, Vilnius University Press, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2002)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/CPY-USSR 1941-45 corrected english.doc

The Idea of Greater Croatia in the Seventeenth-Century (printed in Conference proceeding material Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: Comparative and Trans-National Perspectives in Europe, Sodertorns hogskola, University College – Baltic and East European Graduate School, Fleminsberg near Stockholm, 2003, Sweden, pp. 149–189)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/ritter lietuva.doc

Nineteenth-century Ideas of Serbian ‘Linguistic’ Nationhood and Statehood (printed in scientific journal Slavistica Vilnensis, Kalbotyra 49 (2), 2000, ISSN 1392–1517, pp. 7–24, Vilnius University Press, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2000

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Vuk Garasanin sa pozadinom.doc

National Identity: Who are the Albanians? The Illyrian Anthroponymy and the Ethnogenesis of the Albanians, printed in Lithuanian in scientific-cultural journal Liaudies Kultura, 2002 vol. 3 (84), ISSN 0236–0551, pp. 31–43, April 2002, Vilnius, Lithuania

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Article on Illyrian-Albanian ethnogenesis sa pozadinom.doc

The map of Albanian ethno-historical lands according to the nationalistic claims by Albanian diaspora

Balkans and Russian national interest: Russia Between Euro-Atlantics integration and the myth of pan-Slavic solidarity, reciprocity and brotherhood, paper presented at the international conference: “Current Theoretical and Practical Tendencies in the Russian Studies”, May 12–13, 2006, Klaipeda, Lithuania. The conference is organized by the Slavonic Centre of the Klaipeda University, Russian State University “I. Kant”, Kaliningrad, and Russian General Consulate in Klaipëda.

Article “Balkans and Russian National Interest: Between Euroatlanticist Integration and the Myth of Pan-Slavic Solidarity, Reciprocity and Brotherhood”, is published in conference proceeding Siuolaikines rusistikos teorijos ir praktikos tendencijos (Theoretical and Practical Tendencies in Contemporary Russian Studies), Slavonic Center at the Humanities Science Faculty at the Klaipeda University and the Faculty of Philology and Journalism at the Russian State University of Immanuel Kant, ISBN 978–9955–18–189–7, pp. 151–155, Klaipeda, 2007

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/Russia today sa pozadinom.doc

The coat of arms of the Russian imperial Romanov's dynasty

THE BALKAN VLACHS – AN EXTINGUISHING ETHNOLINGUISTIC GROUP, paper presented in the Second International Conference in Stateless Cultures, December 4–6, 2002, Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference is organized by the Center for Stateless Cultures, Faculty of History at the Vilnius University, Lithuania. Paper is presentated under the title: “A Stateless Minority Threatened with Extinction: The Vlachs/Aromani in the Balkans”

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/THE VLACHS sa pozadinom.doc

ALBANIAN MILITANT EXTREMISTS SPONSORED BY ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS JEOPARDISE BALKAN AND EUROPEAN SECURITY

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/ALBANIANS AND Southeast Europe sa pozadinom.doc

The roads of Islamic terrorism to Europe via the territory of ex-Yugoslavia

BOSNIAN INDEPENDENCE AND TERRORISM

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/Balkans and Osama bin Laden sa pozadinom.doc

Published on the website "Oj Krajino": http://ojkrajino.com/content/view/100/1/

Bosnia and Hercegovina after 1995

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IDEOLOGY, NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL CLAIMS OF THE YUGOSLAVS: A HISTORIC OVERVIEW, paper presented at the international conference “Beginnings and Ends of Emigration: Life without Borders in Contemporary World” under the title Emigration, Refugees and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia 1991–2001 in the Context of Transforming Ethnographical Borders into National-State Borders, organized by Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Social Sciences Vytautas Kavolis Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Kaunas and The Lithuanian Emigration Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania, November 22–23, 2001, Kaunas, Lithuania

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/Nationalism of the Yugoslavs sa pozadinom.doc

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Collisions in South-East Europe: International Relations, Interests of Foreign Powers and ‘Albanian Question’, printed in Lithuanian language in scientific-cultural journal Naujoji Romuva, vol. 3 (556), pp. 42–47, October 2006/vol. 4 (557), pp. 53–58, December 2006, ISSN 1392–043X, Vilnius, Lithuania

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/lepenica/The Southeastern Europe in international relations 1900 with theme.doc

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The Great Economic Depression in The Weimar Republic

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Great Economic Depression.doc

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Diplomatic Preparations for The Creation of The First Balkan Alliance, 1861-1864

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Preparations for first balkan alliance 1861 1864 sa pozadinom.doc

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The New Approaches to Women's History in the Yugoslav Historiography, printed in Lithuanian language under the title “Moteru istorija jugoslavijos istoriografijoje” (“Writing women history in Yugoslav historiography”) in scientific-cultural journal Kulturos Barai, 2001 vol. 5, ISSN 0134–3106, pp. 83–85, May 2001, Vilnius, Lithuania

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Writing women's history sa pozadinom.doc

Serbian national costumes from Shumadija region c. 1930

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The Balkans: Crossroads of civilizations and political spheres of influences, printed in Lithuanian language (“Balkanai: Civilizaciju ir politines itakos sferu kryzkeleje”) in scientific-cultural journal Naujoji Romuva, 2001 vol. 2 (535), ISSN 1392–043X, pp. 17–22, July 2001, Vilnius, Lithuania

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Balkans on Crossroads sa pozadinom.doc

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Development of the Idea of South Slavic Unification, published in Lithuanian language under the title “Pietu Slavu Unifikacijos Idejos Raida” (“Development of the Idea of South Slavic Unification”), in scientific-cultural journal Naujoji Romuva, 2003 vol. 2 (543), ISSN 1392–043X, pp. 50–55, September 2003, Vilnius, Lithuania

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/idea of yug.doc

Ethnographic map of the Yugoslavs from WWI

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TURKEY, GREECE, ITALY AND SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA, article is presented at the 11th Annual Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association (East Sandwich, MA 02537, USA), Luneburg, Germany, May 28-31, 2008.

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Sotirovic Mediterranean Security.doc

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Making Boshnjak Ethnonational Identity by Creation of Bosnian Language in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Sandzak, 1993–2007, article is published in conference ("European Studies: Dialects and Language Politics") proceeding book "Acta Humanitarica Universitatis Saulensis", pp. 121-136, Siauliai, 2008

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/oplenac/Boshnjak identity and Bosnian language.doc

"Bosanchica"

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THE CROATIAN NATIONAL REVIVAL MOVEMENT ("THE ILLYRIAN MOVEMENT") AND THE QUESTION OF LINGUISTIC NATIONAL DETERMINATION OF THE SOUTH SLAVS, 1830-1847

(integral version of the text)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/meraklija/ILLYRIAN for naujoji romova.doc

Shorter version of the article is published in Kragujevac's scientific journal "Nasledje"

Printed shorter version in 2006 in "Nasledje", No. 4, Kragujevac, Serbia

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The Idea of Pan-Slavic Ethnolinguistic Kinship and Reciprocity in Dalmatian and Croatian Literature, 1477-1706 (published in "Literal History", Belgrade, No. XXXVIII, 2006, 130, pp. 561-569)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/meraklija/Idea of Slavic Reciprocity in Knjizevna Istorija Instituta za Knjizevnost i Umetnost u Beogradu 2006.pdf

The area of former common Serbo-Croatian Language

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Kosovo and the Caucasus (political comment)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/meraklija/Kosovo and the Caucasus.pdf

published in Lithuanian language in Vilnius daily "Respublika" on 10. 11. 2007.

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NATO's Ring Around Serbia (political comment)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/ovsiste/Adriatic.doc

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BELGIAN "LABORATORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION" (political comment)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/meraklija/Belgija ENG sa pozadinom.doc

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Kosovo Knot (political comment)

Shorter version published in "Veidas", No. 48 2007, p. 38

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/meraklija/Solutions for Kosmet ENG.doc

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WILL SERBIA BECOME RUSSIAN GUBERNIA? (POLITICAL COMENT)

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/meraklija/Serbia President Elections 2008 ENG.doc

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KOSOVIZATION OF EUROPE!?

(political comment, published on the "Oj Krajino" website)

Link: http://ojkrajino.com/content/view/116/1/

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U.S.A. AND THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL REGIONAL AND GLOBAL SECURITY

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/shatornja/USA%20and%20Balkans%20ENG.doc

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EXPORT OF "KOSOVO REVOLUTION"

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/shatornja/Macedonian%20Question%20ENG.doc

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THE BALKANS - EUROPEAN "POWDER KEG"

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/shatornja/Balkans%20ENG.doc

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"The Disintegration of Serbo-Croat Language and Linguistic Policy in Bosnia-Hercegovina: Making Boshnjak Ethnonational Identity by Transformation of Regional Dialect into the Bosnian Language", Acta Humanitarica, Universitatis Saulensis, Mokslo darbai T4 (2007), Europos studijos: dialektai ir kalbos politika, Siauliai, 2008, p. 121-137