Mystery over new Russian weapon

[SerbPVO]

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russia has designed a "revolutionary" weapon that would make the prospective U.S. missile defense useless, Russian news agencies reported, quoting a senior Defense Ministry official.

The official, who was not identified by name, said tests conducted during last month's military maneuvers would dramatically change the philosophy behind development of Russia's nuclear forces, the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies reported on Monday.

If deployed, the new weapon would take the value of any U.S. missile shield to "zero," the news agencies quoted the official as saying.

The official said the new weapon would be inexpensive, providing an "asymmetric answer" to U.S. missile defenses, which are proving extremely costly to develop.

Russia, meanwhile, also has continued research in prospective missile defenses and has an edge in some areas compared to other nations, the official said.

The statement reported Monday was in line with claims by President Vladimir Putin's that experiments performed during last month's maneuvers proved that Russia could soon build strategic weapons that could puncture any missile-defense system.

At the time, Col-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, explained that the military tested a "hypersonic flying vehicle" that was able to maneuver between space and the earth's atmosphere.

Military analysts said that the mysterious new weapons could be a maneuverable ballistic missile warhead or a hypersonic cruise missile.

While Putin said the development of such new weapons wasn't aimed against the United States, most observers viewed the move as Moscow's retaliation to the U.S. missile defense plans.

After years of vociferous protests, Russia reacted calmly when Washington withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 in order to develop of a nationwide missile shield. But U.S.-Russian relations have soured again lately, and Moscow has complained about Washington's plans to build new low-yield nuclear weapons.

[ALBANIAN]

as that nuclear ship that is exploding, or as Kiev?

[RomanS]

as that nuclear ship that is exploding, or as Kiev?

wtf are you talking about

[ALBANIAN]

The submarine Kursk, sorry not kiev.
And the Piotr the Great. A russian admiral said it's exploding.
Instead constructing these dangerour and expensive things, why don't you by bread for the children, or try to result the alcooholic problem.
I keep misunderstanding you!

[Argyll]

This has the potential to get ugly here..........Albanian your sensitivity knows no bounds........the jest about the Kursk was in poor taste.


Permski..........don't rise to it.

[RomanS]

I'll do my best Argyll.

Albanian
The two headed eagle on your flag. Very original isn't it?

[Argyll]

I'll do my best Argyll.

Albanian
The two headed eagle on your flag. Very original isn't it?

Oh I don't know Permski a 2 headed bird has it's advantages ;)

[HELEX]

Oh I don't know Permski a 2 headed bird has it's advantages

Maybe the Eagle grew up near a russian nuclear Power Plant?

Sorry, couldnt resist.... ;)

[5jumpchump]

Hey that two headed eagle ! I used to drink that beer !

[RomanS]

Here is ours
http://www.systemalondon.org/img/russian_eagle.gif

since the early Tzar Dynasty

http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/russia_flag_mw.gif


Whats the Albanian story?

Stealing ours or accidental replica?

[MaDuce]

What is it Osama Bin Ladens magic carpet. Whatever it is it will prolly fall out of the sky and hit Moscow

[ALBANIAN]

I'll do my best Argyll.

Albanian
The two headed eagle on your flag. Very original isn't it?

Division of Roman empire, at the V century.
Half of Albania was under western empire under the Roman Catholic Church, half under the Byzanth Orthodox Church.
In these years slaves were in the plains and tunders of siberia, just learning to have the fire.
Serbs arrives in europe at VI century, a period known in the History as "the Barbaric Invasion".
During the war against turkisk empire, our National Hero Gjergk kastrioti Skenderbeg, made this bander as a symbol of the unity of the nation!

[RATKO]

are you still stealing telephone poles and wires? Do you still shoteach other testing your rifles that you stole from Albanian army baraks in 1997? Do you still kidnap tourists for ransom?

[ALBANIAN]

are you still stealing telephone poles and wires? Do you still shoteach other testing your rifles that you stole from Albanian army baraks in 1997? Do you still kidnap tourists for ransom?

No. We only go with serb girls (too hot and disponible) , five cigarettes a blowjob, ten ****, 20 ass.

[UkrainianAmerican]

are you still stealing telephone poles and wires? Do you still shoteach other testing your rifles that you stole from Albanian army baraks in 1997? Do you still kidnap tourists for ransom?

No. We only go with serb girls (too hot and disponible) , five cigarettes a blowjob, ten f***, 20 ass.
OUCH!

[ALBANIAN]

Whats the Albanian story?

Stealing ours or accidental replica?

1225 B.C.
Earliest known Illyrian king, Hyllus, dies.

We have a gloriuos story, at the times you still were tha same you are now, beasts.

Fourth Century B.C.
King Bardhylus unites Illyria, Molossia (Epirus) and part of Macedonia. The Illyrian kingdom reaches its peak.


358 B.C.
Illyrians are defeated by Philip II of Macedonia.


312 B.C.
King Glauk of Illyria expels Greeks from Durrës.


232 B.C.
King Agron dies, the Illyrian throne is occupied by Queen Teuta.


165 B.C
Romans capture King Gent of Illyria and send him to Rome. Illyria is now under Roman control.


First Century A.D.
Christianity comes to Illyrian populated areas.


9 A.D.
Emperor Tiberius of Rome subjugates the Illyrians and divides present day Albania between Dalmatia, Epirus, and Macedonia.


395 A.D.
Division of Roman Empire leaves lands presently inhabited by Albanians under the administration of the Eastern Empire. Fourth Century - Seventh Century Goths, Huns, Avars, Serbs, Croats, and Bulgars successively invade Illyrian lands. Eighth Century Slav tribes settle into the territories of present-day Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, and assimilate the Illyrian populations of these regions. The Illyrians in the south avert assimilation.


732
Illyrians are subordinated to the patriarchate of Constantinople by the Byzantine Emperor, Leo the Isaurian.


1054
Christianity divides into Catholic and Orthodox churches. Christians in southern Albania are left under the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople and those in the north under the pope in Rome.


1081
Albania and Albanians are mentioned for the first time in a historical record, by Byzantine emperor. Twelfth Century Serbs occupy parts of northern and eastern Albanian inhabited lands.


1204
Venice wins control over most of Albania, but Byzantines regain control of the southern portion and establish the Despotate of Epirus.


1272
Forces of the King of Naples occupy Durrës and establish the Kingdom of Arbëria, the first Albanian kingdom since the fall of Illyria.


1385
Albanian ruler of Durrës invites Ottoman forces to intervene against a rival.


1389
Albanians join Serbian-led Balkan army that is defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Kosova.


1430
Gjergj Kastrioti is born.


1443
After losing a battle near Nis, Skenderbeg with a group of Albanian warriors defect from the Ottoman army and return to Kruja.


1444
Albanian principalities unite at Lezha under Skenderbeg, who is proclaimed chief of Albanian resistance.


1449
Albanians, under Skenderbeg, rout Ottoman forces under Sultan Murat II.


1468
Skenderbeg dies.


1478
Kruja falls to Ottoman Turks; Shkodra falls a year later. Subsequently, many Albanians flee to southern Italy, Greece, Egypt, and elsewhere; many remaining are forced to convert to Islam.


Early Seventeenth Century
Some Albanians who convert to Islam find careers in Ottoman Empire's government and military. Seventeenth Century and Eighteenth Century About two-thirds of Albanians convert to Islam.


1822
Albanian leader Ali Pasha of Tepelena assassinated by Ottoman agents for promoting autonomy.


1830
1000 Albanian leaders invited to meet with Ottoman general who kills about half of them.


1835
Ottoman Porte divides Albanian-populated lands into vilayets of Janina, Manastir, Shkodra, and Kosova with Ottoman administrators.


1861
First school known to use Albanian language in modern times is open in Shkodra.


1877-78
Treaty of San Stefano, signed after Russo-Turkish War, assigned Albanian-populated lands to Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia; but Austria-Hungary and Britain block the treaty's implementation. Albanian leaders meet in Prizren, Kosova, to form the League of Prizren. The League initially advocated autonomy for Albania. At the Congress of Berlin, the Great Powers overturn the Treaty of San Stefano and divide Albanian lands among several states. The League of Prizren begins to organize resistance to the Treaty of Berlin's provisions that affect Albanians.


1881
Ottoman forces crush Albanian resistance fighters at Prizren. The League's leaders and families are arrested and deported.


1897
Ottoman authorities disband a reactivated League of Prizren, execute its leader and ban Albanian language books.


1908
Albanian intellectuals meet in Manastir (Bitolja, Macedonia), at the Congress of Manastir to standardize the Albanian alphabet using the Latin script. Up to now, Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic script had been used.


1912
May. Albanians rise against the Ottoman authorities and seize Shkup (Skopje, Macedonia). October. First Balkan War begins, and Albanian leaders affirm Albania as an independent state.

November. Albanian delegates at Vlora declare the independence of Albania and establish a provisional government. December. Ambassadorial conference opens in London and discusses Albania's fate.


1913
May. Treaty of London ends First Balkan War, Second Balkan War begins November. Treaty of Bucharest ends Second Balkan War. Great Powers recognize an independent Albanian state. Demographics are ignored, however, and half of the territories inhabited by Albanians (such as Kosova and Chameria) are divided among Montenegro, Serbia and Greece.


1914
Prince Wilhelm of Wied is installed as head of the Albanian state by the International Control Commission. His rule ended within six months, with the outbreak of World War I.


1918
World War I ends, with Italian armies occupying most of Albania, and Serbian, Greek and French armies occupying the remainder. Italian and Yugoslav powers begin struggle for dominance over Albanians. In December, Albanian leaders meet at Durrës to discuss Albania's interests at the Paris Peace Conference.


1919
Serbs attack Albanian cities; Albanians adopt guerilla warfare. Albania is denied official representation at the Paris Peace Conference; British, French and Greek negotiators decide to divide Albania among Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia. This decision is vetoed by American president Wilson.


1920
January. Albanian leaders meet in Lushnjë and reject the partitioning of Albania by the Treaty of Paris, warn that Albanians will take up arms in defence of territory, and creates bicameral parliament. February. Albanian government moves to Tirana, which becomes the capital. September. Albania forces Italy to withdraw its troops and abandon claims on Albanian territory. December. Albania is admitted to the League of Nations as sovereign and independent state.


1921
November.Yugoslav troops invade Albania; League of Nations commission forces Yugoslav withdrawal and reaffirms Albania's


1922
August. Ecumenical patriarch in Constantinople recognizes the Autochephalous Albanian Orthodox Church. September. Ahmet Zogu assumes position as Prime Minister.


1923
Albania's Sunni Muslims break ties with Constantinople and pledge primary allegiance to native country.


1924
March. Zogu's party wins elections for National Assembly, but Zogu steps down after a financial scandal and a assassination attempt. July. A peasant-backed insurgency wins control of Tirana; Fan S. Noli becomes Prime Minister; Zogu flees to Yugoslavia. December. Zogu, backed by Yugoslav army, returns to power and begins to smother parliamentary democracy; Noli flees to Italy.


1926
Italy and Albania sign First Treaty of Tirana, which guarantees Zogu's political position and Albania's boundaries.


1928
Zogu pressures the parliament to dissolve itself, a new constituent assembly declares Albania a kingdom and Zogu becomes Zog I, "King of the Albanians."


1931
Zog refuses to renew the First Treaty of Tirana. Italians continue with political and economic pressure.


1934
After Albania signs trade agreements with Greece and Yugoslavia, Italy suspends economic support, then attempts to threaten Albania.


1935
Mussolini presents a gift of 3,000,000 gold frances to Albania; other economic aid follows.


1939
March. Mussolini delivers ultimatum to Albania. April. Mussolini's troops invade and occupy Albania; Albanian parliament votes to unite Albania with Italy; Zog flees to Greece.


1940
Italian army attacks Greece through Albania.


1941
April. Germany, with support of Italy and other allies defeat Greece and Yugoslavia. November. Albanian Communist Party founded; Enver Hoxha becomes first secretary.


1942
September. Communist Party organizes National Liberation Movement, a popular front resistance organization. October. Non-communist nationalist groups form to resist the Italian occupation.


1943
August. Italy's surrender to Allied forces weakens Italian hold on Albania; Albanian resistance fighters overwhelm five Italian divisions. September. German forces invade and occupy Albania.


1944
January. Communist Partisans, supplied with British weapons, gain control of southern Albania. May. Communists meet to organize an Albanian government; Hoxha becomes chairman of executive committee and supreme commander of the Army of National Liberation. July. Communist forces enter central and northern Albania. October. Communists establish provisional government with Hoxha as prime minister. November. Germans withdraw from Tirana, communists enter capital. December. Communist provisional government adopts laws allowing state regulation of commercial enterprises, foreign and domestic trade.


1945
January. Communist provisional government agrees to restore Kosova to Yugoslavia as an autonomous region; Yugoslav leaders bring Kosova under marshal law. Tribunals begin in Albania to condemn thousands of "war criminals" and "enemies of the people" to death or prison. Communist regime begins to nationalize industry, transportation, forests, pastures. December. Elections are held for the People's Assembly. Only members of the Democratic Front are permitted to participate.


1946
People's Assembly proclaims Albania a "people's republic"; purges of non-communists from government positions begins. People's Assembly adopts new constitution. Enver Hoxha becomes prime minister, defense minister, foreign minister and commander-in-chief. July. Treaty of friendship signed with Yugoslavia; Yugoslav advisors and grain begin pouring into Albania. October. British destroyers hit mines off Albania's coast. The United Nations and the International Court of Justice condemn Albania.


1948
June. Albanian leaders launch anti-Yugoslav propaganda campaign, cut economic ties, and force Yugoslav advisors to leave. Later on the treaty of friendship with Yugoslavia is abrogated; Hoxha begins purging high-ranking party members accused of "Titoism"; Soviet Union begins economic aid to Albania. November. Communist Party of Albania renames itself the Party of Labor of Albania.


1950
Britain and United States insert anti-communist guerillas into Albania; all are unsuccessful.


1955
Albania becomes a founding member of the Warsaw Pact.


1960
Albania sides with China on Sino-Soviet ideological dispute; consequently Soviet economic support is curtailed and Chinese aid is increased.


1961
Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations, Albania looks towards China for support.


1967
Hoxha regime conducts violent campaign to extinguish religious life in Albania; by year's end over two thousand religious buildings were closed or converted to other uses. Albania is declared "the world's first atheist country," religious leaders are imprisoned and executed.


1968
Albania condemns Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, subsequently Albania withdraws from Warsaw Pact.


1974
New constitution adopted in Yugoslavia. Autonomous units, including Kosova, become constituent members of the federation.


1976
New constitution adopted. Albania becomes a "people's socialist republic."


1978
China terminates all economic and military aid to Albania.


1981
Massive demonstrations occur in Kosova. Demonstrators demand Kosova become a republic in Yugoslavia. Yugoslav police and army presence is increased in Kosova.


1985
Enver Hoxha dies. Ramiz Alia is his successor.


1989>
Alia, addressing the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee, signals that radical changes to the economic system are necessary. In Yugoslavia, a new constitution is adopted in Serbia, which limits the autonomy of Kosova. The constitution passes without the approval of the parliament of Kosova.


1990
January. Demonstrations at Shkodra force authorities to declare a state of emergency. July. Young people demonstrate against regime in Tirana, 5,000 citizens seek refuge in foreign embassies. Albanian delegates of the parliament of Kosova declare the independence of Kosova from Serbia. Subsequently Serbia abolishes the parliament and government of Kosova, closes down the only Albanian daily, and takes over the state-owned television and radio. August. Government abandons its monopoly on foreign commerce and begins to open Albania to foreign trade. December. University students demonstrate in streets and call for dictatorship to end; Alia meets with students; multiparty system introduced; the Democratic Party, the first opposition party is established; regime authorizes political pluralism.


1991
January. First opposition newspaper Rilindja Demokratike begins publishing. March-April. First multiparty elections held since the 1920s; Labor Party wins over 67 percent of votes, Democratic Party wins around 30 percent. April. Alia reelected to President. Assembly passes law on Major Constitutional Provisions which provides for fundamental human rights and separation of powers and invalidates the 1976 constitution. June. Prime Minister Fatos Nano and rest of cabinet resign after trade unions call for general strike to protest worsening economic conditions and killing of opposition demonstrators in Shkodra. Party of Labor renamed to Socialist Party of Albania. Albania accepted as a full member of the CSCE. August. 18,000 Albanians cross the Adriatic to seek asylum in Italy; most are returned. People's Assembly passes law allowing private ownership, foreign investment and private employment of workers. September. A referendum is held in Kosova. Over 90 percent of voters vote for independence. December. Democratic Party withdraws ministers after accusing communists of blocking reform. Alia sets up new government headed by Vilson Ahmeti and sets March 1992 for new elections.


1992
March. Democratic Party scores decisive election victory over the Socialist Party in the midst of economic freefall and social chaos. Elections are held in Kosova; the Democratic League of Kosova wins the majority of votes; the elections are called illegal by the Serbian regime. April. Sali Berisha, leader of the Democratic Party, becomes first democratically elected president. September. Former President Alia and eighteen other former communist officials, including Nexhmije Hoxha, wife of late dictator Hoxha, arrested and charged with corruption and other offenses.


1996
General elections were again held in mid-1996, but the victory by President Sali Berisha's Democratic Party was tainted by accusations of fraud. Opposition parties eventually boycotted the parliament.


1997
Berisha was elected to another five-year term. Also in early 1997, several fraudulent investment schemes failed, costing thousands of Albanians their savings. Although the government promised to partially reimburse many investors, the combination of economic disruption and political scandal prompted Albanians in several cities first to protest, then to riot. By March, a sporadic rebellion had broken out and several parts of the country were virtually ungoverned. The southern part of the country, including the cities of Vlorë and Sarandë, was controlled by local militias or armed citizens defending themselves against looters. In order to prevent the outbreak of an all-out civil war, President Berisha appointed a Socialist, Bashkim Fano, to lead a government of national reconciliation and also agreed to hold early general elections in June. The new administration appealed for an international force to help restore law and order in the country. However, the multinational contingent led by an Italian commander, which arrived in April, was only mandated to protect the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the most destitute areas of Albania.

[Midtown]

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[ALBANIAN]

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[RATKO]

No. We only go with serb girls (too hot and disponible) , five cigarettes a blowjob, ten f***, 20 ass.
How childish
ALBANIAN truth hurts?

[ALBANIAN]

Do your special forces kill prime ministers again? Do serb girls give blowjobs for cigarettes , gas, coffe or chocolate? Do Badja, best serb police sell arms to bosnians and croats again, do Franki boys cut fingers for rings, do you rape again muslim, croat and albanian girls, do you cut childre heads, do you starve and die for slobo, and his son buys 36 ferrari and lamborghini, do you kill again children in mitrovica etc etc

[RATKO]

ALBANIAN you are a liar