Apr 12 2008
Milorad Pejic has lived in the English town of Corby with his family in 1999. He settled in well, taking advantage of the large Serbian community found in the Northamptonshire town but also integrating well, for example finding employment as a...
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Apr 9 2008
The town of Vukovar is synonymous with two paradoxical ideas now: death and freedom. On the one hand the Croatian Baroque settlement on the Danube bordering Serbia is recognised as one of the biggest war crimes Europe has ever seen, the town being razed...
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Apr 8 2008
There are two interpretations for the victory of Filip Vujanovic in Montenegro’s Presidential election which was held this weekend. The first is that since the position of President is largely ceremonial, Vujanovic’s success shows that Montenegrins...
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Apr 6 2008
On Thursday the former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj was found not guilty of all the charges leveled against him by prosecutors for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Needless to say, the verdict was...
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Apr 2 2008
Sympathy must lie with Macedonia in its constant battle with Greece, a country which bullies and even questions the right to self determination of the Macedonians. Trying to play Zeus, Greece has made it clear that its status as a current member of both...
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Apr 1 2008
What does the future hold for Croatian football in Croatia? Sadly the outlook is quite grim and it is clear that there is a real drain on the domestic league as the best players are siphoned out by richer European clubs. There is a lack of money in the...
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Mar 27 2008
The circus surrounding the hunt for Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb political leader responsible for thousands of deaths during the 1990s, put on another performance yesterday. Under orders from their ringmasters, the Hague Tribunal, Italian clowns...
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Mar 24 2008
The Cold War, thoroughly thawed out over the last decade, seems to have been put back in the freezer this week as both Russia and the United States made it clear that they were picking sides. In the years following the Second World War the two...
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Mar 21 2008
Political protests at sporting events are nothing new, and moreover they should in general be welcome so long as they are made in good faith. They help to show the very importance of sport, namely that it is more than just sport. One does not have to...
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Mar 20 2008
Membership of NATO remains a goal for most of the countries that once comprised the former Yugoslavia. Till now, Slovenia is the only country which has been invited to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, a step which went hand in hand with its...
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