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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.


Feith: ICJ Opinion May Ease Tensions
09 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Returned Asylum Seekers Arrive in Region
12 March 2010 |

A bus carrying Macedonian and Serbian nationals who unsuccessfully sought asylum in Belgium arrived in the two Balkan countries on Thursday after departing Brussels the previous day.


Hodzic et al: Custody Debate
12 March 2010 |

The State Prosecution asks the Court to extend custody of three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are charged with crimes committed in Trusina village, Konjic municipality, in April 1993.



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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

| 02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.


Goodbye President Not-Tudjman

London | 26 February 2010 | By Marcus Tanner

Croatia’s president, Stjepan Mesic, has left office and been replaced. Or at least, I think he has – because I read nothing about it in the British, or American, press, unless it was brief news item.


Vetevendosje

Pristina | 23 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

Their name is scrawled over hundreds of walls across the country, the name chanted at demonstrations and their comments featured in the press on an almost daily basis.


Skopje 2014 – A Recipe for Urban Disintegration

| 16 February 2010 | By Bertan Selim

The plans by the authorities in Skopje to give the city a facelift, and the mushrooming of statues in the city centre, have been marred by controversy and met stiff resistance from some city residents.


Bring on the Elections!

| 10 February 2010 | By Denis Dzidic

You know elections are round the corner when the gloves come off! In any other year, when asked to comment on a particular event, verdict or protest, politicians give vague answers, saying they aren’t really fully informed about the issue. But, behold, election year has arrived and they all seem to throwing around big words like  “liar”, “scandal” and even “terror”, when describing even the most anodyne occurrences.


Love Hurts

| 05 February 2010 |

It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.




 
 

Next month, Croatia’s anti-smoking laws will take effect and lighting up in most bars will be restricted.

 


Belgrade Alternative Guide is a project set up by 10 young Serbians who see it as their responsibility to show visitors the true Belgrade.


Demand for office space in Sofia increased towards the end of 2009. By the end of 2009, rental values were 22.5 per cent off their summer 2008 peak and this more realistic pricing brought renewed interest in the sector, according to Elta Consult, a commercial property agency based in Bulgaria.



Accidentally good food on the banks of the Danube.


A powerful new novel follows the fortunes of five Bosnians, trying and not always succeeding, to find their way home.


Lebanon is a film about a group of young Israeli soldiers who were part of the force that invaded the Lebanon in 1982. Along with ‘Waltz with Bashir’,the acclaimed 2008 bio-pic, this is another significant film which examines the controversial military conflict. Samuel Maoz, the director, re-lives his military days, through this small masterpiece of frantic, claustrophobia and humanity.