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Our article 'Minorities and the Making of European Welfare' is published and available online - introduction to the special issue 'Ethnic and Social Minorities in European Welfare'

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Gonna tell my kids this is how the First World War started..

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‘Nuclear codes and plans to invade Iran? Down the hall on the left, room marked “gents”’

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How it started How it ended

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there’s overcompensating and then there’s, er, this .. 👀

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Beginning of semester vs end of semester

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The Prince and Princess of Wales

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Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C

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Kids , the year 2022 saw what historians now agree is the worst Instagram post in human history: Gerhard Schröder’s wife miming a prayer for peace from her window view onto St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow …

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By popular demand - more from inside the Czechoslovak embassy, Berlin.

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2 years

the discourse right now...

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Austria - Hungary

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Czechoslovak embassy, Berlin, 1970s..

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‘Later that day I started to wonder..are all men like Prigozhin..making big spectacular gestures but then refusing to commit at the pivotal moment? Was I, like Putin, running scared from true love? Was Miranda my Lukashenka, trying to pick up the pieces of my bad choices in men?’

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4 years

Gender reveals but for German nouns.

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How to recognise Prague’s social classes ? It’s simple: the city’s aristocracy live near green line metro stations, the middle classes favor the red line, and yellow is for proletarians..

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Happy Death of Stalin Day to all who celebrate

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#Brexit expectation vs. reality

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Choose your fighter ..

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Sending love and strength to Prague friends this morning

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The Habsburg Empire after 1867:

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Every date I have ever been on 😂

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Little known fact: North Macedonia’s national anthem is Wonderwall by Oasis.

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The first word of each national anthem in Europe

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Ha! The BBC auto-subtitles changed ‘Sergei Lavrov’ into ‘sir gay lover of’ 👌😂

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Central Europe after the Treaty of Trianon:

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Monday

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5 years

A massive relief map of Montenegro, commissioned by the occupying Austro-Hungarian army in 1917. It is scaled precisely at 1:10,000 and features detailed models of towns and villages (also depicted at scale). Truly remarkable.

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It’s possible they thought they were attending Godard’s funeral ..

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3 years

General Boris Gromov crossing the ‘Friendship Bridge’ into Uzbekistan, 15 February, 1989 - the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan.

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8 months

To speak honestly I cannot find justification to stay on this platform with it's owner leering witlessly at people under genocidal attack.. I want to leave but I know if I do I would lose many valuable networks established on this site...anyone else feel the same?

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11 months

‘Later that day I started to wonder, are we all just “former Soviet republics” still trying to get over that one bad breakup from long ago?’

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11 months

We have new guidance on AP Stylebook Online, recommending that writers avoid the shorthand former Soviet republic(s) for any of the group of 14 countries besides Russia that existed within the former Soviet Union, unless clearly relevant to the story.

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9 months

‘I am equally anti-Putin, anti-Azov, anti-Wagner and anti-NATO. I am working toward a just Peace for the peoples of Ukraine, Russia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. I am, in other words, a humanist internationalist. What are you?’

Yanis Varoufakis

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9 months

I am equally anti-Putin, anti-Azov, anti-Wagner and anti-NATO. I am working toward a just Peace for the peoples of Ukraine, Russia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia. I am, in other words, a humanist internationalist. What are you?

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John Paul Newman

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Krtek and Ježek are safe and happy because they fly responsibly and never through fog 😃 🚁

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11 months

please sir, I want to read more Tweets..

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2 years

Lost track of the number of genocides being celebrated in this image..

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3 years

Happy Saint Vitus Day Everyone!

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3 years

lunch!

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11 months

Burgasko beer and Tsatsa are my holiday sponsors ..

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John Paul Newman

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11 months

Friends take a moment to read this powerful and poignant piece by Victoria Amelina.. I’ll be assigning this in my courses next semester. Frankly it belongs on any syllabus concerned with European history right now.

Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the meaning of home

The long read: Before she was killed by a Russian missile strike, the acclaimed novelist and war crimes researcher wrote about growing up in Moscow’s shadow, and how she came to understand what being...

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Recently divorced Heinrich XIII is going through a bit of a mid-life crisis, the symptoms of which include wearing a lime green jacket and plastic sunglasses, drinking champagne in pub beer gardens for lunch, and trying to organise a far-right military coup.

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5 years

'This is fine' : the Church of Christ's Resurrection in Podgorica features a fresco of Tito, Marx, and Engels burning in hellfire 😂

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3 years

Happy birthday Václav Havel ! (waiting here at a bus stop in London, June 1968)

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5 years

Today is Gavrilo Princip’s 125th birthday 🎂

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John Paul Newman

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1 year

Kharkiv National University building March 2022. The work of the Russian invaders, But sure warmongers on both sides and the real enemy is at home. Total and discrediting dereliction of duty and absence of solidarity/support from large parts of @ucu ..

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1 year

A hideous scene from UCU Congress earlier today. A Ukrainian victory would mean "subjugation and oppression" by "American imperialism". "The main enemy is at home!" The UCU backs the "Stop the War Coalition". It wants Ukraine to be left defenceless. Foul.

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What in the Mother of Christ is that .. 😵😵😵

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Hitler visiting Mariupol, 1941 ..

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3 years

Švejk is 100 years old! Czech newspaper includes a map of his many peregrinations, including his favourite Prague haunts, his daft Budějovice ‘Anabasis’ , and his unfinished journey to the front (unfinished because he was captured by his own troops) ..

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11 months

It’s not a coup it’s a special political operation

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John Paul Newman

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4 years

'Habsburgers' - a burger-bar chain throughout CEE with burgers themed around royal dynasty ('Franz Josef Emperor-Sized Triple Decker' 'Franz Ferdinand Spicy Jalepeno with Princip Sour Sauce') Looking for feedback and partners on this exciting business plan. DMs are open.

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Honestly if this is not a perfect cover for a history of Czechoslovakia in the 60s then I don’t know …

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3 years

‘Yes, this is the Russian jury...12 points for Moldova..thank you..’ #Eurovision

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6 months

The very definition of a cursed image, from 1986: Maradona wearing a ‘No Drugs’ strip whilst Platini’s says ‘No Corruption’ 😬

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4 years

@cosovschi and how about this?

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2 years

Not sure about this new season of Emily in Paris tbh ..

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9 months

Looks like a real tour-de-force - can't wait to read it.

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5 months

28 October 1939: students of Charles University Prague protesting the Nazi occupation of their country. An institution with a long and fine tradition of resilience and courage.

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His account of the conflict in Kosovo is complete and utter rubbish ..

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On NATO in Serbia.

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Budapest, 1987.

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Tsatsa and birra is the proletarian caviar and champagne you know it I know it everyone knows it

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2 years

Interwar English-language historiography of Central Europe is something else .. 👀

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2 months

‘pro-Ukrainian propaganda’ inadvertently got Pellegrini and Fico elected is one of the weirdest and most wrong-headed takes I’ve seen come out of the Slovak elections. Even posited as a question rather than a full-blown argument it seems quite ridiculous and unserious to me.

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Czechoslovakia had it all: factories, beasties, and castles. Also fish.

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I'm in deep shock tonight. All love and solidarity to friends in Prague tonight - and especially those at Charles University, to the survivors of this unfathomable act of violence and to the families/loved ones of its victims.

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4 years

Šopska salata is Bulgarian, invented in 1950s to sell to Czechoslovak tourists visiting the Black Sea. The ingredients match the colours of the Bulgarian national flag. No kidding this time. It’s true. 🥗 🇧🇬

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7 years

The DUP have arrived to take their cabinet posts...

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God help you if you come out onto the streets and protest waving an EU flag instead of one with a hammer and sickle and on it. You will receive practically no support or solidarity from western leftists.

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The law being protested in Georgia is that any NGO with 20% or more of its funding coming from a foreign source must…declare it. That strikes me as perfectly sensible. Regardless of whatever else is happening.

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Liz Truss is prime minister but *you* have still got imposter syndrome?

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Easter! When the Lindt chocolate bunnies come to life

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City Hall, Ruse, Bulgaria.

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I don’t get Chomsky’s/others argument that Russian invasion fears ‘over a century’ can rationalize its assault of Ukraine.. could easily be flipped - don’t then countries invaded occupied by Russia have invasion fears too? Could they not be assuaged by joining, e.g. NATO 1/2

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THREAD: A year ago, I interviewed Professor Noam Chomsky about Russia, Ukraine and not only. He said I didn't let him talk and at some pointed left the interview. I finally got around to posting parts on interview here: (considering the limit, will do it in parts) 1/...

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More minimalist/modernist tourism posters from interwar Yugoslavia:

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Super weird how Daniel Craig has both a license to kill and a license to be the loans manager at Barclays Bank telling me he’s very sorry but my application for an overdraft extension has been rejected back when I was a graduate student.

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John Paul Newman

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1 year

Now the semester is done, I’m Putting out the recorded/digital parts of my ‘Central and Eastern Europe under Communism’ course in case anyone is interested (and feedback is welcome !😊) via @YouTube

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this beauty is going straight into my teaching materials on the Trianon complex 👌😂

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Outstanding. Estimated 100,000 Georgians on the street protesting the passing of the law but a UK leftist find it perfectly sensible so what the hell are they all complaining about ??

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The law being protested in Georgia is that any NGO with 20% or more of its funding coming from a foreign source must…declare it. That strikes me as perfectly sensible. Regardless of whatever else is happening.

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25 December !

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The spiritual sequel to ‘NYU student hated exchange-year in Florence’ article that nobody asked for and nobody wanted ..

I moved to Germany and regret it. I've felt unwelcome by the people, and not even the great...

Stephanie Vollmer said that her healthcare and safety were better in Germany than in the US, but she said that she often experienced microaggressions.

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Kraków from above.

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Macedonian girl did it first. Activist Jasmina Golubovska, 2015.

Georgian warrior in Ukraine🇬🇪(young)🇺🇦

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Georgian girl🫡

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definitive proof that vaccines work

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The Spanish sensation has done it 🇪🇸 @carlosalcaraz triumphs over Novak Djokovic, 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in an all-time classic #Wimbledon

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The Barbenheimer of my childhood.

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4 years

New album cover..

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3 years

Colleagues, here's my unpopular opinion on events in US: It is actually possible to explain and understand the violence on Capitol Hill without at all bringing up 'the Balkans' or 'ex-Yugoslavia'. Just, try it.

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Statement of the Irish Association of Russian, Central, and East European Studies on Ukraine @iarcees #Ukraine

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Gender Studies is not a danger to anyone - yet this is not the first time we’ve been told that the discipline is ‘irrelevant’, ‘arcane’, ‘ideological’, ‘of no public interest’ We know where this leads: in Hungary an entire academic field ‘murdered’...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban bans gender studies programmes

'I do not know what the animosity will be from other people in Hungary if they find out I’m studying gender studies,' says student affected by ban

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Branch manager of Barclays Bank in Horsham on a corporate weekend in London shakes hands with jocular but vaguely menacing bouncer before going in to Soho strip bar.

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Homeowner ! 🔑 😀

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Prague, 1968.

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Sinead O'Connor won the Classic Irish Album and used her speech to tell refugees in Ireland they were very welcome, that she loved them very much and that she wished them happiness. Morrissey appeared on a US Talk Show wearing a pin of the fascist 'For Britain' party. So...

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Morrissey rips "insulting" Sinead O'Connor tributes from members of the music industry and media: "You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you."

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Irish Independent piece in full for those interested ..

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NO NO NO : same arguments deployed in support of arms embargo during war in Bosnia, results would be similarly catastrophic: surrendering the military advantage to an already far better equipped aggressor and abandoning to die a people who are fighting for their lives.

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English boy meets and falls in love with a Balkan girl. This is a picture of their dads meeting for the first time at the wedding.

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Actual age of Serbia vs. the age Elizabeth Olsen thinks it is..

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2 years

Geneticists at the University of Thessaloniki have reconstructed this image of how Saints Cyril and Methodius, the 'Apostles of the Slavs', might have looked

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John Paul Newman

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Stalin monument at Letná, Prague, being blown into oblivion with 800kg of explosives. Happy Death of Stalin Day everyone.

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1 year

And with this map I hereby close all epistemological enquiry into the meaning and location of Central Europe. Please do not @ me.

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Published today!

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John Paul Newman

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1 year

Is this the first post-motion response from the UCU President ? Because if so it’s small-minded stuff, given the seriousness of the matter at hand.. those dissenting members she speaks of surely want more from her by way of comment/explanation than a petulant dig at Paul Mason?

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UCU stands against every single war and for you to suggest otherwise is an absolute disgrace. I didn’t agree with the motion that passed, and I know that neither do many UCU members. But we won’t take lessons from you on this or any other matter.

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Burgas Pier

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John Paul Newman

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Nature is healing. The Marian Column has returned to the Old Town Square in Prague. Originally put up in 1650 in celebration of Habsburg victory over the Swedes during the Thirty Years’ War , it was torn down (as a symbol of Habsburg oppression and domination) at the end of WW1.

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Applying for the funding / spending the funding

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2 years

Haludovo Resort, Malinska, Croatia - then, and now..

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