For many years Albania was an isolated country, but in recent decades it has opened to tourists and we are gradually becoming more familiar with its many spectacular heritage sites. The remarkable Baptistery of Butrint is included among the most important late Roman and early Byzantine sites anywhere in the Balkans. Today the baptistery is […]
Posts Tagged ‘mosaics’
Christian Symbols Hidden in Ancient Pagan Mosaics of Butrint Baptistery
November 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy
Assessing Russia’s economic Achilles heel
July 3rd, 2016 Awake Goy
For three days this month, June 16-18, I had the opportunity to participate as a panelist in the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia. I’ve been in Russia many times since the Ukraine US-backed coup d’état of February 2014, and the deliberate escalations of NATO military and economic tensions and sanctions against […]