In American politics, the rigorous subjecting of political statements to fact-checking is a relatively recent phenomenon. Promoting accountability is never an easy task, particularly in countries just emerging from authoritarianism.
Many Serbs are not truly interested in the political fate of Kosovo, instead seeing themselves as hostages of Kosovo's drama for decades. It is arguable that these new pressures provoke old wounds and revive dormant traumas.
By Aleksandar Vasovic and Justyna Pawlak BRUSSELS, April 19 (Reuters) - Serbia agreed to cede its last remaining foothold in the count...
The same U.S. news media that are conveying the preciousness of children so terribly harmed in Boston are scarcely interested in children like Guljumma.
If you want the people of Iran to rise up against their leaders, why give the leadership an easy target to blame for the economic conditions that adversely affect the standard of living of average people?
Lady Thatcher invited me to her home as the Special Envoy as well as BiH UN Ambassador. The home, conversation, and the tea served was what one would expect: neat, direct, and English.
Nikolić's and Jeremić's promotion of historical revisionism that denies genocide and accentuates ethnic chauvinism negates what many in Washington and Brussels may wishfully want to see as a more politically progressive Serbia.
The United Nations, which is supposed to represent the best of our collective aspirations for justice and human rights, yesterday represented the worst.
The president of the U.N. General Assembly decided to hold an all day debate on whether international justice promoted reconciliation. But his real purpose was to undermine a war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia because of a perceived bias towards Serbs.
A public debate at the UN on April 10 will serve up a revisionist denial of the worst killings in Europe since the end of World War II: the ethnic slaughter in the former Yugoslavia that horrified the world in the 1990s.
VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia -- He went from house to house in the village at dawn, cold-bloodedly gunning down his mother, his son, a 2-year-old cousin and ...
The Secret History is a compelling account of the court intrigues of a treacherous emperor in a crumbling empire.
Established in 2006 by USAID but now an independent organization, NALED is devoted to promoting economic development in Serbia.
After 1989, some of the dissidents of East-Central Europe went back to their original job. Others threw themselves into politics, as Vaclav Havel somewhat reluctantly did. And then there was the smallest category of them all: the dissidents who turned professional.
The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Serbia is comparatively low. Nevertheless, those who live with the disease report that they are stigmatized, ostracized, and have difficulties gaining access to treatment.
It's not easy to find people in East-Central Europe who will put in a good word for government. Danilo Vukovic currently works for an NGO in Serbia, but he has also worked in government. He has a more charitable view of the Serbian government than many of his colleagues.
Even today, the country in Europe with the largest population of internally displaced persons (IDP) is Serbia. More than a decade after the end of the wars in former Yugoslavia, more than 200,000 people remain in limbo in Serbia.
We can say all we want to say, in favor or against Djindjic's politics, but thanks to him, history advanced in big steps forward -- and without him, history limps and crawls back into the dark.
February 17 marked the fifth anniversary of Kosova's independence. It has been a honor and a pleasure to stand by the people of Kosova as they have moved from tragedy to triumph over the last 20 years. But the struggle is not yet over.
NIS, Serbia -- To Bratislav Stojanovic, the best way to cope in the world of the living is to descend among the dead. The 42-year-old homeless man ha...
By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 02/06/2013 05:24 PM EST on LiveScience Scientists have unearthed a jawbone from an ancient huma...
Magnificent Century, the Turkish historical soap opera, has been renamed Suleiman the Magnificent for Serbian release. The relevance of this Turkish TV program couldn't be more obvious to a Balkan people striving to invade the Schengen Fortress of the European Union.
In Europe, the TV weather reporter might be closer to the outside elements than viewers think. Homeless people are being recruited to give the fore...
One of the major problems plaguing the Balkans in particular is impunity. People commit crimes, and they get away with it.
As Sundance heads into its mythic second weekend -- of which many have heard but few dare endure -- all trappings of mainstream movie civilization fall away: plot resolution, reliable narrators, temporal continuity.
