I happend on demonstrations in front of Vancouver Art Gallery. I was holding a Bulgarian flag, the same one that one Bulgarian fellow, Michael, left us before moving to Prince Edward Island.

He said to my Bulgarian friend, Nikola: "I never missed the street demonstrations in last fifty days. Neither my Bulgarian flag did. I am very sorry that I have to go after my new job, but I trust you as my friend that you are going to bring this flag every day on the rallies, until the enemies of the World stop bombing Yugoslavia." 

I have to admit that I, on some way, enjoyed the demonstrations. It was a nice picture to see Serbian, Greek, formar Yugoslavian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian and all other flags together in the heart of a NATO country! All Slavic countries and Greece were in one place. I felt the power of the flags waving in the wind. I saw confusion on some "local" faces because Serbia was not alone in the war.

The war stopped and Vancouverites turned back to their ordinary lives. I tried to keep in touch with all my new friends. I explained them I wanted to build a website with all those flags in front of the Art Gallery on the main page. So I did. But I couldn't do anything alone. My Bulgarian friends, Nikola and Magdalina, and my Russian friend, Andrei, helped me to implement my vision.

It took me two years to build English-Serbian-English dictionary. But, any moment spent working on the dictionary is worth of doing it! The dictionary is twice larger than any other Slavic dictionary on the Web. Why I started building the site from the dictionary? I believe power is not in money; the real power is in education. We can win wars and keep the enemies away from us only by learning and being together. 

Because of that reason “SlavicNet” is meant to be "A Different Kind of a Web Site." First of all, it is going to be an educational site. One day you will find Serbian-Russian or Serbian-Bulgarian dictionary on the site. You will be able to download and install them on your computer for FREE . It is so because we are a bunch of volunteers. It is so because we fight wars with computers, not with machine guns and warplanes.