I am thinking of doing a blog, how many times a week do you think I should post?...

This is one of the more useful reads I have had today....

I noticed that the time you wrote your coment was a bit early in the morning. Had you drank your coffee maybe you would have been more polite towards me. But anyhow...I don't mind. As a French proverb goes: "The spit of the frog cannot catch the white dove."

I'm not going to comment on your affiliations with the UDBA... Not necessary. Now there are two possibilities concerning your comment about you seeing no churches during the 70s and the 80s in Albania: either you're ILL-INFORMED...or you're a LIAR. I'll let you choose between the two.

For the benefit of the others who read OUR early mornings entries the communist regime that was established in Albania after WWII (with the help of the Yugoslav Communist Party) forbade religion in Albania in 1967. At that time many religious objects were destroyed. No wonder you did not see many of them (none, according to your claims). The communist regime had many of them razed to the ground. However, the ruins of old churches were still there during all times. I come from what is now Northern Albania Mr. Pavlovich and I can tell you one thing or two about the north of Albania. That's where religion was still practised even under the nose of one of the most dictatorial regimes in the world. In my village we celebrated Easter and other religious feasts even then..albeit not openly (my family of Muslim origin and other families of Roman Catholic belief). The church was always there...although it was not functional and people buried their dead in its yard all the time..even during communism. That information might help you a little bit to refresh the memory or awaken it to the Reality as IT IS and not as you want it to be.

Let me also give you a lesson of history. It's free of charge. You can better use your money for caviar and champagne.

Albanians have been stable boys and Grand Vezirs in the Ottoman empire...just like other people from other ethnicities! They have been soldiers and generals throughout history..they have been illiterate and scholars...they have been brick-layers and great architects that have designed objects that pertain now to the world heritage... The problem you have is not that you don't know or you don't understand..you just don't want to accept that Albanians can be good, or create good things, or that ultimately are a force to be reckoned with...But it's not only your problem...it's a general problem you seem to have on a national level...Too bad, how sad...

Because you're left with little to argue you resort to personal insults. I'll not deal with them. Spreading lies and being disrespectful to others will not earn you any admiration. I don't expect words of this kind as the ones used above to come from a learned person as yourself..but then being a good person and reasonable is not only a matter of education.

One thing to understand here - Serbia is not in alliance with Russia, not a close friend, not a darling - none of a kind. Yes, indeed languages are very close due to some quirk.
In general people have been indoctrinated in Russia that Serbia is not our friend. Stalin and Tito were not friends. So, we had known very well that the reason for the 1st World War was - Serbia, that Russia got drugged into the war - because of Serbia. That resulted in communists coming to power etc. etc. So people say here - "we really don't want to get into a 3rd world war bacause of Serbs AGAIN".
Back during soviet time there were two kinds of international travel passports - one for "friends" (Poland, East Germany, Bolgaria, Chechoslovakia etc.), it was relatively easy to travel there as a tourist. To travel to the West there was a differenct kind of a passport. In order to get such one had to go through a lot of approvals and it was possible to obtain the "capitalist" passport only after "socialist". So the point of this excursion into history .... guess which kind of passport was required to travel to Yugoslavia? "Capitalist", it was technically treated as the Western country.

Now, what Russia stands to gain from Kosovo's independance:

1) EU is not Russia's friend. Another muslim state in EU is bad for EU.
2) conflict with Serbia and EU - more brownie points
3) PRECEDENT - There are 3 de-facto independent states around Russia that Russia would gladly recognize - Osetia, Abhasia and Pridnestrovie. These are de-facto countries, and there is a potential in Crimea, Baltics, Eastern Ukraine. Russia was cut very unfavourably with lots and lots of Russian population left outside of Russia. The other way round... Chechnja is obedient now, and I don't see other serious claimers for independence now. Tatarstan is anclave inside the Russia territory and have been part of Russia for 600 years, and then initialy it was Russia that was occupied by Tatars, so I don't see them willing to leave in practical terms.
4) many nations all over the world would hate US for this precedent - more brownie points

Now, of course all that is not good for the US. I still do not understand and never understood the whole point about Kosovo - my theory is that neo-cons are really not educated at all about history and Serbi/Russian relations, so they THOUGH that with Kosovo they will cause a lot of pain to Russia. In fact it acted only as a trigger for Russia's understanding that is should protect it's own interests in the first place, since US would try to do any kind of harm and damage to Russia, even imaginary harm, or non-harm, but not for the lack of desire and trying.

I don't believe it. He makes it up. In what capacity did he visit Albania's northern part? As a businessmam, I very much doubt it or, may be, he must have been participating in some cloak-and-dagger operation there. But why should we question what he says. It is most likely that he must have visited Kosova or I'd better say that part of it which lies to the north of Albania.