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POLITICS: Europe Sends New Year Cheer for Serbs
Serbs can look forward to better prospects in the New Year, having scored two major diplomatic victories in recent weeks that may help integrate their country with Europe.RELIGION-BALKANS: Death of Patriarch Brings Controversies Into Spotlight
It is not often that anything in Serbia can bring several hundred thousand people together, but that is exactly what happened Thursday when the Patriarch Pavle, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), was buried in a monastery graveyard near Belgrade.BALKANS: War Crime Victims Stretch Wait for Justice
The postponement of the trial in the genocide cases in the 1992-95 Bosnia war is further indication that victims of war crimes may never get justice.BALKANS: Museum Speaks of Roma History, and Misery
The Balkans gets its first museum on the Roma, to tell a story about one of the most underprivileged ethnic groups in the region.BALKANS: Ultranationalists Face Ban
Ultranationalist groups behind the violence in Belgrade last month face ban by the Constitutional Court of Serbia.RIGHTS: Shelters Open for Battered Husbands
One in three women is ill-treated by someone or other in family homes, survey after survey shows. And so the total of three men living in shelter in a small home for battered husbands may seem unmentionably small in comparison.SERBIA: Media Wakes Up to New Curbs
A controversial new law on media came into force in Serbia Tuesday, raising fears that freedom of expression will now be restricted by censorship or self- censorship.BALKANS: Strike Wave Sweeps Serbia
A very hot summer of workers' discontent has taken over Serbia. Some 33,000 people go on strike daily in 40 to 45 firms, according to union statistics. They are mostly employees of privatised companies who have not been paid salaries or social and health security benefits for months now.BALKANS: Back to Arms, if not War
The arms industry in Serbia is seeing record growth amidst the economic slum that has hit other industries.BALKANS: Civil Society Plays Matchmaker
Ljubov Obradinovic only cried when her neighbours complimented her that she was hardworking. "Vredna", they said. Except that in Ukraininan that word means "wicked".BALKANS: Visas Eased, Except in Muslim Areas
Almost two decades after the break-up of former Yugoslavia, people from some of the new states that emerged have been granted visa-free travel to the European Union (EU) from the beginning of next year.BALKANS: Media Could Be in the Dock Over War Crimes
Journalists are in the dock now for their role in provoking the wars of the 1990s across former Yugoslavia that left more than 100,000 dead.BALKANS: Church Hands Out Shock Treatment
The torture of drug addicts who had turned to the Serbian Orthodox Church for help has sent shock waves across the country.BALKANS: Now Fighting to Invite Serbs
Two decades back many people in what was once Yugoslavia were fighting Serbs. Today some are fighting to invite them over.BALKANS: Flirting With Marx, for Old Times’ Sake
Few visitors to Belgrade miss the pedestrian Knez Mihailova Street. Apart from its colourful stores and boutiques, it is known for its street vendors selling DVDs, CDs, T-shirts, international and Serbian magazines, and books.BALKANS: Religion Makes a Worrying Call
Five-year-old Admir does not come from a Muslim family, and so among the early lessons he is learning in school in Sarajevo is that he is out while most others are in.BALKANS: SOS Shops Tell the Economic Story
The new century brought new growth across the Balkans after the turbulent 1990s. But the advance is proving short-lived as the global recession hits the region hard.BALKANS: Cluster Bombs Threaten Thousands
An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the NATO bombing campaign. The danger is gravest in the south, close to the border with Kosovo.BALKANS: Fallout of Bombing 'Continues to Kill'
Ten years after the NATO bombing of Serbia, concern is rising over a rise in the number of reported cases of cancer.BALKANS: Images Bring the Wars Back
The guns have been silent in the Balkans for more than ten years now, but their images and echoes continue to torment thousands, the first study on health among war veterans in Serbia shows.
Q&A: Truth Brings Reconciliation
The guns have been silent for 10 years across what was Yugoslavia, but more than 130,000 violent deaths still cast a long shadow on the region.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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