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Dancing Alexander-style, Down Under

15 March 2010 | By Sinisa-Jakov Marusic

Sinisa-Jakov Marusic The issue of national identity is taken seriously by Balkan people – including the least serious among them.


Serbs Mark Sixth Anniversary of Riots in Kosovo
17 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Six years after ethnic Albanians attacked Serb enclaves in Kosovo in what became the worst single attack against Kosovo Serbs since the 1999 war, reconstruction of damaged property is ongoing but Serbian officials believe that conditions for the return of the Serb population have not yet been established.

Albanian Parties Fail to Compromise Over Crisis
19 March 2010 |

Albania’s parliament held a marathon hearing on Thursday, discussing until the early hours of the morning an investigative commission that would look into alleged irregularities in the June 28 parliamentary elections.

Dolic: Rape of 17-year old girl
19 March 2010 |

A protected Prosecution witness says she was raped by "soldier Dole" in 1993, identifying indictee Darko Dolic as the person who raped her.



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Dancing Alexander-style, Down Under

Skopje | 15 March 2010 | By Sinisa-Jakov Marusic

The issue of national identity is taken seriously by Balkan people – including the least serious among them.


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.




 
 

Living together. For some those two words are like the green or red wire on a bomb; choose the wrong one, and there’s going to be an explosion.


More Croatians are planning not to go on summer holidays this year because of the financial crisis, according to the results of market research conducted by GfK in February.


The newest Bulgarian shopping mall, “Serdika Center”, was formally opened in Sofia Tuesday.



Trencherman needed the benefit of his significant girth on a trip to this famous Belgrade haunt.


The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History, By Jason Vuic


Tim Burton’s latest film, Alice in Wonderland, is easily his most visually stunning yet, showing just how vividly the magic can be put on the big screen. Burton has lined a top-notch cast in front of a green wall allowing him to let his imagination fly, but limiting the actors’ opportunity to give vent to their expressions.