I feel today that in me flows the blood
Of all my forbears heroic and wild,
And well understand on this evening dull,
Why the games of war I loved as a child.
And I despise sadness, forget the pain,
For I feel in me surging like the tide
The blood of martyrs who silently died
On hideous stakes horribly impaled.
True, with my nature I have wrestled long
And—the will finding the way not in vain—
Succeeded on this rude and ancient wood
To graft at last a new and noble strain.
Though I may cry when the blue-haloed moon
Sets sail along the celestial apse,
Or when the sirene songs of ancient woods
One night into malignant silence lapse,
Nevertheless I feel beneath fresh shoots
And recent grafts as strong as in the past,
Like potent food arising from the roots,
The inexhaustive might of braves forepassed.
Then all is gone. Forgotten is the pain,
And one by one they all come to my side,
Old braves and martyrs who silently died
On hideous stakes horribly impaled…
Much Ado About Nothing: Serbia, EU Sign Pact – Sort Of The already high stakes in the battle for the future of Serbia were raised again on Tuesday, when Serbian officials signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union. With less than two weeks left before the general elections, the move was supposed to be a boost for the Europhile bloc...
07. May 2008. 07:11
Russian humanitarian aid to Kosovo Serbs The Red Cross has started distributing Russian humanitarian aid to the ethnic Serbian communities in Kosovo which declared independence from Serbia. Gracanica, some five km from Kosovo’s capital Pristina, with a population of 13,000 is one of the 22 Serbian inhabited areas that received the Russian aid...
27. April 2008. 06:25
Easter in Gračanica monastery Bishop Artemije of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija diocese, celebrated Easter liturgy in Gračanica monastery
01. May 2008. 04:32
Western pressures on Serbia and the Alternatives The government of Serbia underwent a period of severe crisis following the unilateral declaration of independence by the Albanian leaders in its southern province of Kosovo and Metohija on February 17. Three weeks later Prime Minister Kostunica called early parliamentary elections, thus acknowledging the collapse ...
06. May 2008. 04:19
Kosovo 'organs sale' probe urged Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into claims that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo abducted and killed Serbs and may have sold their organs. The claims, relating to 1999, had been set out in a book by former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.
Human Rights Watch said it had new evidence to back up the allegations...
Bishop Artemije: Eeaster message With these all-joyous words, my dear and faithful spiritual children, we greet and celebrate the holiest of all Christian holy days which church hymns call the “Feast of feasts” and the “Celebration of celebrations.” The Feast of the Resurrection of Christ completes and gives meaning to all other Christian holy days...
03. May 2008. 07:05
Peacock: Is Kosovo really an independent state? The declaration on 17 February was nothing more than meaningless words with no substance. If Kosovo wants a proper status and genuine self-rule, then it should return to the negotiating table and find a solution acceptable to both itself and Serbia...
14. August 2007. 04:31
Bishop Jefrem of Banjaluka arrived at ... Bishop Jefrem of Banjaluka arrived at Banjska monastery on the occasion of the monastery St. Archdeacon Stephen slava celebration. Bishop Artemije and Bishop Jefrem will serve Divine Liturgy, tomorrow at 9 am....
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Khristenko says Russian-Serbian relations are strategic During a meeting with Serbian Infrastructure Minister Velimir Ilic, Russian Minister of Industry and Energy Victor Khristenko stressed the strategic character of relations between Serbia and Russia, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Energys said in a statement on Friday...
15. April 2008. 08:53
USA knew but kept silent about depleted uranium he United States of America (USA) had information about the dangers of depleted uranium a whole year before the air strike campaign against then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in 1999, British physicist Keith Baverstock said in the second part of his interview published in the Frankfurt Serbian-language daily Vesti on Tuesday...
13. April 2008. 05:18
Srdja Trifkovic: Russia and the West: The Tragedy of 1204 Redux As the demographic, geopolitical and ideological challenge of global Jihad to the shrinking remnant of Christendom looms ever larger, the West appears hell-bent on cordoning off, fragmenting, and eventually destroying the only Eastern Christian power that could and therefore should be its partner in the joint struggle...
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Much Ado About Nothing: Serbia, EU Sign Pact – Sort Of
Bishop Artemije of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija diocese, celebrated Easter liturgy in Gračanica monastery
In the Monastery of Gračanica Palm Sunday was celebrated by His Grace Bishop Artemije at a pontifical liturgy with clergy and monastics assisting. 
Bishop Jefrem of Banjaluka arrived at Banjska monastery on the occasion of the monastery St. Archdeacon Stephen slava celebration. Bishop Artemije and Bishop Jefrem will serve Divine Liturgy, tomorrow at 9 am....
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