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any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language

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The Baltimore Amer- ican, of March 17, 1845, relates a similar case of atrocity, perpetrated with similar impunity--as fol- lows:--"~Shooting a slave.~--We learn, upon the au- thority of a letter from Charles county, Maryland, received by a gentleman of this city, that a young man, named Matthews, a nephew of General Mat- thews, and whose father, it is believed, holds an of- fice at Washington, killed one of the slaves upon his father's farm by shooting him.
Nothing to do with Father, but Father was here, beside them, sullying it all, saying, Slav. I don't mind about Slavs but you'd better know.
The sentences "In a similar vein, Red Famine maintains that for the Nazis, Slavs were subhumans, 'perhaps one level above the Jews but slated for eventual elimination' as well (328).
A lecture-performance "The Tranny Tease" by famous Berlin's art collective "Slavs and Tatars" will take place in the Church of the Saviou in Baku at 19:00.
In "Afteur Pasteur," the collective Slavs and Tatars hailed the microbes as "original Other or foreigner." The exhibition's centerpiece was a fully operational street-vendor machine serving ayran, a yogurt-like dairy drink of Mongolian and Turkish origin that, like kefir and koumiss, is making inroads into Western markets as a health food.
The Scots even matched the Slavs in scoring - but the difference between the sides was that the Slavs scored first.
Contrast this unity with that of the Slavs. From Poland in the north to Serbia in the South, passing over Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Belarus, and the Slav hegemonic power (Russia), the Slavs' underlying language and culture has not prevented the huge hatreds we are now seeing convulsing in places like Ukraine.
The Slavs were not the first to have liturgy in the vernacular.
We know how that ended." Yes, blame Russia because the German and Austrian leaderships decided to use the assassination of the Archduke as an excuse to dominate the Orthodox Christian Slavs and Greeks in the Balkans.
The ethnic tensions between the Macedonian Slavs and the ethnic Albanians is set to cause the federalization and possible breakup of the Republic of Macedonia, according to Bulgarian analyst and former intelligence officer Krasimir Uzunov.