requests

At your Request Soc. 446...

War in the Balkaans, some alternative media:

Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future - peace media source
Radio Free Europe

ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON KOSOVO/BALKANS SITUATION
RADIO

World Radio Network
WRN 1280 AM
Website (for schedule): www.wrn.org
**the service from Radio Austria is pretty good, as are others (check
webpage for times)

Radio B92 (independent station in Serbia, closed by government on 4/2/99)
Website still in operation, contains current news: www.b92.net/ (**website
warns readers to be suspicious of all news sources, even theirs); "real
audio" option available also
*News prior to ban: http://monmee.calstatela.edu/%7Esii/odrazb/latest.html

E-MAIL/INTERNET SERVICES

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Website: www.rferl.org/newsline
*to receive (free) daily transmissions by e-mail, type "subscribe" in
        subject line, and mail to newsline-request@list.rferl.org
*you will receive a two-part transmission each day; Part I is news from
        Russia/Central Asia, while Part II consists of news from Southeastern,
        Central and Eastern Europe.
For archived reports: www.osa.ceu.hu/web1arch/rferlorg.htm

Turkistan Newsletter: Balkan Bulletin: (articles from various sources):
To subscribe, send empty message to:
turkistan-n-subscribe-request@nic.surfnet.nl
CivilSoc (free elec news/info service-project of Seattle-based Center for

Civil Soceity International: www.friends-partners.org/~ccsi

FAIR-L: fair media contacts: www.fair.org/media-contact-list-html
        News on Yugolsavia: www.fair.org/international/yugoslavia.html
        E-mail service: send message "subscribe FAIR-L enter your full
        name" to LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU

WEBSITES

Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org/hrw/campaign/kosovo98/
**up-to-date reports on human rights violations (with pictures) in the
region; links

Open Media Research Institute (OMRI): www.omri.cz/newsstan.html
**provides numerous links to newspapers and journal in
        central/eastern/southeastern Europe, several in English, or with
        "translation" options
**Example of site based in Czech Republic: www.enp.cz, Electronic News
        Presence--included a rather long and critical article written by a
Serbian
        woman and entitled, "Gender and Survival: Serbia in the 1990s" (a
one-line
        quote: "To speak at all about Serbian regimes results in a certain sense
        of necrophilia." www.enp.cz/99/14/clanek5__blagojevic.html/
**website for Kosovo's (former) independent newspaper, Koha ditore, is
        listed (www.kohaditore.com), however, considering events there, be
        suspicious of what is now printed. Check also www.koha.net/index.htm
**OMRI has its own monthly journal, Transitions, on issues and events in
        Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, Central Asia and the
        Caucasus, which you can access directly from the OMRI website.

News on/from Kosovo: http://www.yurop.com/kosova/

BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/home
www.news.bbc.co.uk/

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) www.icrc.org/english)

Amnesty International www.amnesty.org

Freedom House www.freedomhouse.org : monitors humans rights

Committee to Protect Journalists (www.cpj.org)

Links to East/Central Europe:
http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~amgrose/ceepg.html
                                www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html/REESweb/
                                www.pitt.edu/~ian/ianres.html/
                                www.centraleurope.com
Kosovo Crisis Center : www.alb.net.com/misc-pages/links.htm

Links to various foreign news sources: http://pppp.net/links/news/
Moscow Times: www.moscowtimes.ru/13-Apr-1999/todays_issue.htm
The Day (Ukrainian press): www.day.kiev.ua

For "Serbian NGOs Appeal" see: http://www.greekhelsinki.gr

Balkan Media & Policy Monitor: http://mediafilter.org/MFF/Monldx.html
(on free press , censorship--sponsored by the Netherlands' Ministry of
Culture) **4/14/98 issue on Kosovo:
http://mediafilter.org/monitor/mon.59-60/mon.59-60.html

"OFFICIAL" PERSPECTIVES

"International Information"(though apparently US-government-produced):
www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat

Council of Europe: http://stars.coe.fr

European Union: http://europa.eu.int

UN High Commissioner on Refugees: www.unhcr.ch

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe: www.osceprag.cz

Links to European government pages: www.gksoft.com/govt/en/europa.html

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: www.ebrd.com

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: www.oecd.org

Int'l Monetary Fund: www.imf.org

U.S. State Department: www.state.gov (they have an "ethnic cleansing
report" for Kosovo)

PLACES TO SEND DONATIONS: