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Serbia: Controversy Over Draža Mihailović's Rehabilitation

Draža Mihailović was a commander of the Chetnik movement during World War II. In 1946, he was captured by the communist Yugoslav authorities, convicted of war crimes and executed. The ongoing tribunal for his rehabilitation has been supported by some professors and politicians in Serbia, but the public is divided.

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The Balkans: Debating Angelina Jolie's Film and the Legacy of War

Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, has received much publicity, both positive and negative, in the Balkans, adding fuel to the ongoing debate on the legacy of the wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

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

Macedonia: Views from Abroad on Protests Against Police Violence 6 July 2011
Croatia: EU Membership Approval 23 June 2011
Technology for Transparency: Final Report 22 May 2011
The Balkans: Online Hit Song Highlights the Diaspora State of Mind 1 May 2010
Croatia: A New President, A New Path 20 February 2010

Latest stories about Croatia

14 March 2012

Europe: Will ACTA Treaty Pass After Protests?

Written by Suzanne Lehn · Translated by Danielle Martineau · Governance, Law

The ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty (ACTA) by the European Parliament has been delayed in expectation of an opinion from the European Court of Justice on its conformity with fundamental rights.

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15 November 2011

Macedonia: Veles Says “No” to Lead Poisoning, Government Remains Ambiguous

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Disaster, Environment

After the massive protest against restarting of the lead smelting factory in the city of Veles, the citizens feel cheated by the declarative support shown by the politicians from the ruling parties, and demand clear answers from PM Nikola Gruevski on whether the poisoning will continue. Filip Stojanovski reports.

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4 September 2011

Macedonia: Euphoria After Basketball Victory Over Greece

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Sport, International Relations

Filip Stojanovski reports on web reactions to the Macedonian national basketball team's victory over Greece at the EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania.

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24 August 2011

Croatia, Serbia: A Flag of Friendship

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Ideas, History

Two young adults from Croatia and Serbia have created a mixed Serbo-Croatian flag, as a gesture of reconciliation between the two countries. Some netizens have condemned the initiative, others seem to approve of it.

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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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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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15 July 2010

Croatia: Police Breaks Up Peaceful Protest in Zagreb

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Breaking News, Governance

Croatian police broke up a peaceful protest against usurpation of public space in the center of Zagreb and arrested at least 11 civic activists. Once again, Twitter is the main source of immediate info and photos (#Varsavska).

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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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4 April 2010

The Balkans: Similarities Between Facebook and Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Written by Filip Stojanovski · History, Humor

Filip Stojanovski translates a list of of similarities between Facebook and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY).

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Updates about Croatia

8 January 2012

English

Spotted by Locals: Experience cities like a local features a few dozen locations, including CEE cities of Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Prague, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius, Warsaw, and Zagreb. A random sample post from Zagreb, Croatia: Hrelić Flea Market – The Aleph of Zagreb; from Bucharest, Romania: The Haunted House – Armenian Neighbourhood; from Sofia, Bulgaria: Nissim – A True Old-School Bookstore.

• Veronica Khokhlova

9 December 2011

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

• Filip Stojanovski

2 November 2011

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Croatia Online examines some of the past and present hopes and concerns related to Croatia's plans to join the EU in July 2013.

• Veronica Khokhlova

26 October 2011

English

Bill Kralovec of Bill's Blog recounts the story of the Adriatic prison island of Goli otok - the Alcatraz of Yugoslavia - where Yugoslavia held its political prisoners during the reign of Tito.

• Vilhelm Konnander

9 October 2011

Croatian

Serbia Insajd, a Hungarian blog about South-Eastern Europe, reports [hu] that the Rijeka Court has banned Franjo Jurčević, a Kastav-based Catholic priest, from writing homophobic blog posts [Jurčević's blog, hr: http://zupnik.blog.hr/]. The court has also ordered Jurčević to publish the court decision in two national dailies at his own expense.

• Marietta Le

1 October 2011

English

Alan Jakšić of Balkan Anarchist writes about LGBT and homophobia in Serbia, Croatia and elsewhere in the Balkans.

• Veronica Khokhlova

10 September 2011

English

Benita Hussain of Matador Network interviews Daniel Lacko, “a sponsored outdoor adventurer writing the largest ‘WELCOME' in the world while exploring the Croatian coastline”; Lacko's travel blog is here.

• Veronica Khokhlova

24 August 2011

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Croatia Travel Blog links to an article about “Croatia's top five holiday islands,” which appeared in The Guardian earlier this week, and adds five more islands to this list.

• Veronica Khokhlova

17 August 2011

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Zagreb Diaries writes about peka, a Croatian way of slowly baking food “in a cast iron pan that is covered with a cast iron lid, and then covered in hot coals.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

9 August 2011

English

At OpenDemocracy.net, Milan Marinkovic writes about history, politics and ethnic identities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At Balkan Anarchist, Alan Jakšić writes about his own Croatian Serb identity and some of the political issues related to it.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Comments on "Croatia"

The Balkans: Debating Angelina Jolie's Film and the Legacy of War

Besides personal impressions, there is also a content analysis of the scenes of violence in the film showing that: 1. All...
I find it terribly biased and it simply reignites public opinion that was shaped by misleading news media. For...