Bulgaria has similarly resisted extremist pressures to foment trouble with its simpatico Slavic brothers in Macedonia.
He would have a new Slavic union a big vote-winner in both countries in his gift.
As do Argentines, Mexicans and Spanish. and the Slavic speaking Czechs, Slovaks and Serbians.
Kwasniewski, as an Eastern European, understands the mysterious Slavic soul probably better than Rice and Gordon Brown.
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And despite the general surge of Slavic pride, Moscow's recent Arctic foray was far from being an all-Russian affair.
The venue serves fantastic borsch, an arguably Slavic invention, and amazing potato pancakes.
Problems with the West may be making Ukraine's newly re-elected president, Leonid Kuchma, edge closer to his Slavic big brother.
Some have themselves photographed holding a tame owl, others gather round a busker crooning Slavic versions of Simon and Garfunkel.
In Belarus , the loudly proclaimed love of Mr Lukashenka for his Slavic brothers in Moscow seems to have been spurned.
In North America, for instance, the new Italian, Slavic and Germanic immigrants clearly had a choice of Spanish, French and English.
The Nazi empire would be Europe going eastward into the Slavic lands.
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Slavic indifference and obedience to fate will probably trump even social media.
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In Lee County, Slavic Germans, known as Wends or Wendish, settled nearby.
So far, his recently-shuffled right-of-centre coalition has been better at managing relations between Macedonia's Slavic and Albanian communities than its (ex-communist) socialist predecessors.
Hitler pushed east during WWII to annihilate the Slavic peoples in Ukraine and Russia so those lands could be populated with Germans.
When completed, this tree had sprouted branches representing all the main language groups in modern Europe: Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and so on.
Russia is currently in the throes of a massive demographic upheaval, one driven by a catastrophic decline in the fertility of its Slavic population.
That infuriates (Slavic) Macedonian-speakers, who see autonomy as tantamount to secession.
His reputation as more 'pro-Russian' than his rival was based on his support for the Commonwealth of Independent States and a special 'Slavic Union' within it.
Modern glass high rises occasionally demonstrate that Kiev reached the 21st Century, but luckily not often enough to forget that you are in the cradle of Slavic culture.
In February, the leaders of several Slavic organisations, together with the Communist Party, demanded at a meeting in the capital, Astana, that Kazakhstan should join the Russia-Belarus union.
If the two Slavic republics can patch up a deal, then it will be harder for Kosovo to resist international pressure to accept some sort of association with Yugoslavia.
When Moscow exploded in ethnic riots in December, a poll showed that more than sixty per cent of Russians felt suspicious of or irritated by people of non-slavic nationality.
Mr. Kirby decided to explore his Slavic roots he says his grandparents were Polish and after college he joined the Peace Corps, which sent him to the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
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At best, Macedonia's rulers have a small opportunity to satisfy the Albanians, who probably account for at least a third of the country's 2m people without hopelessly alienating the Slavic majority.
Greece can at least point to a relatively harmonious relationship with Bulgaria, to its north-east, although the presence of Slavic-speaking Bulgarian ethnic kin in northern Greece has not been friction-free.
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Politicians representing both the Slavic majority and the ethnic Albanians will meet to discuss the plan -- which is backed by the U.S. and NATO -- at the Lake Ohrid resort.
She was 25, tall and blonde, with a distinctive Slavic self-possession, an all-American sense of purpose and a rare knack for commanding respect while clad in a garter belt and thigh-high zip-up boots.
As an example of Catholicism at work in a grittily multicultural area, take the Jesuit church in Stamford Hill in north London, where Hasidic Jews have been joined by Hispanic and Slavic newcomers.
The pagan Slavic holiday of Korochun, celebrated on winter solstice, was more like Halloween: Evil spirits were at their most powerful on this night, until the new sun was resurrected and defeated them.
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