Bulgaria has similarly resisted extremist pressures to foment trouble with its simpatico Slavic brothers in Macedonia.
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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The venue serves fantastic borsch, an arguably Slavic invention, and amazing potato pancakes.
Some have themselves photographed holding a tame owl, others gather round a busker crooning Slavic versions of Simon and Garfunkel.
In North America, for instance, the new Italian, Slavic and Germanic immigrants clearly had a choice of Spanish, French and English.
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.
When completed, this tree had sprouted branches representing all the main language groups in modern Europe: Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and so on.
That infuriates (Slavic) Macedonian-speakers, who see autonomy as tantamount to secession.
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.
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.
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.
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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