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The general local elections of October 2000 marked the loss of control of the Democrats over the local governments and a victory for the Socialists. January 24 Following the collapse of several " get-rich-quick " pyramid schemes , in which hundreds of thousands of Albanians lost their life savings, enraged investors go on the rampage in the ...
Its main separatist movements today are Basque separatism and Catalan independentism. [ 9 ] Canada is a stable country but has separatist movements, the strongest of which is the Quebec sovereignty movement , which seeks to create a nation-state in Quebec, which encompasses the majority of Canada's French Canadian population.
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (the Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary ...
Map showing the borders of the Balkan states before and after both Balkan Wars.. The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, [1] which still controlled much of Southeastern Europe.
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
June 20: Representative Puniša Račić of the People's Radical Party shot Đuro Basariček, Pavle Radić, Ivan Pernar, Ivan Granđa and Croatian Peasant Party leader Stjepan Radić in the National Assembly.
The Western Balkans is a political neologism coined to refer to Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia, except Slovenia, since the early 1990s. The region of the Western Balkans, a coinage exclusively used in pan-European parlance, roughly corresponds to the Dinaric Alps territory.
2016: 8 September: 2016 Russian legislative election: 19 December: Assassination of Andrei Karlov: 2017 1–3 June St. Petersburg International Economic Forum [18] 17 June - 2 July 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup [19] 2018 18 March 2018 Russian presidential election [20] 25-26 March 2018 Kemerovo fire killed at least 60 people. [21] 14 June–15 July