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Balkans: Online Platform Tracks Reports From Areas Hit by Record Snowfall

Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie was concerned about the reception of her director's debut movie, 'In the Land of Blood and Honey', in Bosnia and Serbia, and some of her fears turned out to be justified. Sasa Milosevic reports on the virtual battle that Jolie's film has caused.

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Serbia: Arrest of Ratko Mladic

Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb military leader was arrested today by police in Serbia, the country's president, Boris Tadic, confirmed on national television. General Mladic has been on the run since 1995 facing charges of genocide for his role as Bosnian Serb military commander during the 1992-95 civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Serbia: One Pair of Shoes, One Life 14 July 2010
The Balkans: Online Hit Song Highlights the Diaspora State of Mind 1 May 2010
Central & Eastern Europe: Swine Flu (aka “California 0409”) 8 May 2009
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Karadžić in The Hague 2 August 2008
Serbia: African Bloggers' Reactions to Karadžić's Arrest 23 July 2008

Latest stories about Bosnia Herzegovina

5 August 2011

The Balkans: Over Half of the Population Uses the Internet

Written by Danica Radovanovic · Development, Education

Danica Radovanovic reports on the findings of a study of Internet usage in the Balkan region.

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2 March 2011

Video: Impressive Urban Downhill Bike Races

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Sport

Downhill mountain bike races usually take place in the countryside, with cyclists dodging trees and other obstacles on a gravity assisted trail. These videos show downhill races in a very different light: right in the middle of a city or town.

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30 November 2010

Central & Eastern Europe: Initial Reactions to WikiLeaks' Cablegate

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · RuNet Echo

While other regions feature a lot more prominently in the collection of U.S. embassy cables published by WikiLeaks thus far, a few countries of the CEE region do appear in the kickoff edition of Cablegate. Below is a small selection of initial reactions from the region's bloggers.

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22 October 2010

Serbia: Children Get Military Training in Russian Camps

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Education, History

In the prime of the newest public discussion on patriotism and the origin of violence in the Serbian society, newspaper Danas reported that two years ago Serbian children, aged 11 to 15 years old, had spent 16 days in scout camps in Russia, where they were being trained to assemble and dismantle weapons, to throw bombs, and to fire rifles. Sinisa Boljanovic translates some of the reactions to the case.

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14 July 2010

Macedonia: The Curse of ‘Bipartisanship'

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Elections, Humor

Veteran Macedonian bloggers express the widely held opinion among their compatriots who are not sympathizers of political parties about feeling hostage to a system without independent alternatives.

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31 May 2010

The Balkans: Violent Treatment of Animals

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Governance, Law

Almost every day, dogs or cats are exposed to torture by cruel people who record their cruelties and publish the videos on the internet. Since the war, crime and various forms of violence have become a regular occurrence in the Balkans region.

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Updates about Bosnia Herzegovina

29 January 2012

Bosnian

Using the Facebook page [bs] “Moj grad, moja sigurnost, moja odgovornost” (”My city, my security, my responsibility”), Sarajevo residents are uploading pictures of illegally parked cars and reckless drivers, trying to convince the authorities to take action and protect pedestrians. According to the administrators of the page, there has been enormous response from the people who decided to take the problem of transport culture into their own hands.

• Jasmina Babic

14 January 2012

11 January 2012

Updates

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, will be answering questions in a live online chat on January 12, 2012 (8pm EST) about the new film she wrote and directed about the Bosnian war, “In the Land of Blood and Honey”. Questions can be submitted in advance on the Facebook page for the film.

• Solana Larsen

9 December 2011

English

Jovana Tozija wrote lovingly about making ajvar, a traditional favorite winter provision in Macedonia and some other post-Ottoman countries.

• Filip Stojanovski

10 September 2011

English

Amila Bosnae writes about being disturbed by the casual mentions of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina “in random books or movies”: “But the book simply goes on, like I didn’t just get shocked right back into the ugly world where that exact war shaped my life.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

1 September 2011

English

Sarah Correia of Café Turco writes about the month of Ramadan (Ramazan) and Eid ul-Fitr (Bajram) in Sarajevo.

• Veronica Khokhlova

15 August 2011

English

Eric Gordy of East Ethnia writes about the Balkan dimension of the July 22 terrorist attacks in Norway: “[…] [Anders Breivik] has the revelation that his path to violent idiocy began with his shock at the Kosovo bombing campaign in 1999. So to the other sets of concerns he understands badly, he added the history of the Balkans, and his main, heavily quoted and cribbed source on that (as well as on some theological topics!) is one Srđa Trifković.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Comments on "Bosnia Herzegovina"

Balkans: Online Platform Tracks Reports From Areas Hit by Record Snowfall

Please do not forget Bulgaria - situation there is so hard - snow and floods... I wrote one update and...

"an not proved claims" I bet you typed that with a straight face too. How sad. There are literally miles upon miles...
Unlike you I will not go down on your level of commenting that is full of hatred, jealousy, an not...
Its good for Serbs that the movie portrayed only the genocide committed in Bosnia and not the rest of the...