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RAS - The International Serbian Organization is a not-for-profit enterprise striving to restore, improve and expand the achievements and heritage of the Serbian civilization and contemporary physical and spiritual wellness of Serbs worldwide, in cooperation with all ethically appropriate perennial and/or provisional allies.

RAS - The International Serbian Organization recognizes the contemporary endangerment of the physical and spiritual wellness and advancement of Serbs worldwide, including the threats to the Serbs' very existence in a number of locations in their traditional habitats. RAS adds its efforts to the global humanitarian labor tosave, preserve, improve and ensure Serbian lives through monetary and/or medical and nutritional aid to the Serbs in need.

RAS - The International Serbian Organization bears witness to thecurrent revision, reduction and eradication of Serbian spiritual and cultural fundamentals and contributions to the global multi-cultural heritage.

RAS strives to present, propagate, preserve and popularize the Serbian segment of the global human spiritual and cultural wealth through virtual media and human events while struggling to expose, oppose, counter and reverse the misuse, misrepresentation, defamation and destruction of the national spiritual and cultural treasures of the Serbian people.

In Focus

RAS - The International Serbian Organization has the pleasure to invite you to the:

WASHINGTON DC PREMIERE of "The Weight of Chains",
documentary film by the Canadian director Boris Malagurski

Avalon Theater 5612
Connecticut Avenue Northwest Washington D.C., DC 20015
Thursday, May 19th at 8pm

"The Weight of Chains" is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics.

BORIS MALAGURSKI (Director, Writer, Producer, Editor) Born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in the late 1980s. In 2005, Boris immigrated to Canada and immediately gained professional recognition for his work. His film "The Canada Project" (2005) won Best Film at the First Take International Student Film Festival in Toronto, and was shown on Serbian National Television several times. His subsequent productions were showcased on several other film festivals worldwide, including the International Film Festival in Palic, Serbia, while he was still in highschool.

"Kosovo: Can You Imagine?" (2009) was Malagurski's first political documentary which won him a Silver Palm at the Mexico International Film Festival, Best Film at the BC Days Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver and was broadcasted on Russia's first all-digital English-language TV channel Russia Today in over 60 countries worldwide.

More information on "The Weight of Chains" and the film trailer you can see at official website:
http://www.weightofchains.com/

Tickets are $20.00; RAS will donate 100% of the proceeds to help his new project:
http://www.belgradefilm.com/about.html

Tickets will be available at the door, but the number of seats is very limited, so please arrive earlier.
For questions, please send email to: rasinternational.info@gmail.com

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