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BALKANS: Media Bowing Under Pressure
The ways of Serbian media have come into focus again after the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) declared earlier this week that Serbian media must practise professionalism and respect human dignity.
ENVIRONMENT-BALKANS: Much Energy Now Goes to Waste
After years and even decades of neglect, Balkans nations are seeing a new awareness of environmental issues. But across Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia waste management remains a serious problem.BALKANS: Serbia Hopes for Postponement of Kosovo Independence
Serbia has expressed particular satisfaction after the United Nations failed to agree a new Security Council resolution aimed at supervised independence for Kosovo.BALKANS: Some Get Lazier, Others Work Harder
Contrary trends arise in Serbia these days, where official statistics show Serbs are a lazy nation, while those who seek new opportunities show otherwise.BALKANS: Music Brings Political Harmony
The northern Serbian city Novi Sad and capital Belgrade have become multi-ethnic centres of the Balkans over the past five days with the hosting of the EXIT festival and the Saturday concert of the Rolling Stones.ALBANIA: Preserving a Beauty Called Biodiversity
It takes a short walk from the famous Velipoja beach in Shkodra town on the Adriatic coast to put behind the stresses of modern life, and the beach attractions themselves.ALBANIA: But Where Are the Differences
People across the Balkans have much in common, forget the conflicts of the recent or distant past, and the efforts of politicians to convince them how "different" or "distinctive" they are.ALBANIA: Tourism Brings Environmental Challenge
It was not so long ago that Albania, a tiny nation of 3.1 million in the western Balkans remained off route for hundreds of thousands of tourists who rushed to the Adriatic coast for their summer vacations.BALKANS: Smokescreen on Crime Lifts
State involvement in organised crime through the 1990s stands exposed following the arrest of 11 persons in a giant cigarette smuggling operation.BALKANS: Linking Arms With Iraq
Weapons from the Balkans wars of the 1990s are beginning to arm conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-placed officials have revealed.SERBIA: Quiet Welcome of Foreigners Belies Insular Image
Serbia may be viewed by some as intolerant and somewhat nationalistic due to its role in the wars of disintegration of former Yugoslavia, but many of the people arriving from distant foreign lands are finding a hospitable home here.SERBIA: PM’s Assassins Get 40 Years in Prison
The most-watched criminal trial in modern Serbian history ended Wednesday, as the mastermind behind the assassination of reform-oriented Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and the shooter himself both received 40-year prison terms.SERBIA: A Government At Last
Serbian leaders finally reached agreement on a new coalition government Friday, more than three months after the inconclusive January elections.BALKANS: Serbia Plunges Back into the Past
Serbia took a plunge into its dubious past with the election of ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic from the Serbian Radical Party as parliament speaker, the second most powerful position in the country.RELIGION: Serbian Church Advances into Public Space
After decades in the shadows of communist rule, the Serbian Orthodox Church is fighting for a bigger presence in public life.SERBIA: Dubious Hopes From a Retired Big Brother
In talk of traditional friendships internationally, there is still talk in Belgrade of "Russia and Serbia, the long established allies." What is right is another matter.MEDIA: Grenade Attack Shocks Serbia
For five minutes from noon Monday, traffic stood still at mot places in all 165 municipalities of Serbia, in protest against a hand grenade attack against leading investigative journalist Dejan Anastasijevic.RIGHTS: Landmark Ruling in Srebrenica Killings
The sentencing of four men to a total of 58 years in prison for the massacre of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 comes as a landmark ruling, even if it does not satisfy all.BALKANS: Send Me A Dalekoumnozitelj, I Am Croat
Forget the past, they say, because the language it left in the Balkans is too mixed up with Serbs and Bosniaks. Croat linguists are now producing a language of their own. If you want to send them a fax about this, you'd have to call it a dalekoumnozitelj.BALKANS: Serbs in New Fear of Wahhabis
The detention of seven young "Wahhabis" in the southern Serb region Sanjak has set off new fear of the spread of Islamists in the region.WATER DAY: The Danube May Never Be Blue Again
Austrian composer Johann Strauss wrote the Blue Danube waltz in 1867, but 140 years later the waters of the river are not quite blue, and no one is sure they will be again.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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