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DARK SECRETS: Yugoslavia | Vintage Vibes

Ratko Mladić is still viewed as a hero by many Bosnian Serbs. It’s a reminder how divided my country remains today

I was a 19-year-old living in Banja Luka, the second-largest city in Bosnia, when Yugoslavia began falling apart. What I remember most is the shock and speed with which my normal life and those of my friends abruptly ended.

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Ratko Mladić obituary

Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide for the Srebrenica slaughter and other crimes against humanity

The Guardian - UK

Who was Ratko Mladic? The warlord convicted of genocide who boasted of being a ‘Serbian God’

Mladic was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for war crimes committed during the wars in Yugoslavia during the 1990s

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Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic dies aged 84

RATKO Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since the Second World War, has died in prison at age…

The National (Scotland)

‘If we exhibited all the Balkan jokes, we wouldn’t have opened’: a trip to Slovenia’s Bullshit Museum

In the heart of old Ljubljana, a mannequin with a bucket on its head welcomes visitors to a new and ambitious project – a museum focusing on the varied and sometimes antagonistic humour of the former Yugoslavia

The Guardian - UK

He survived 7 near-death disasters and then won the lottery: The unbelievable story of Frano Selak

In parts of the former Yugoslavia, stories often travel faster than the records that might confirm them, carried in conversation, retold in passing, and gradually shaped into something that sits between biography and folklore. Frano Selak is one of those names that keeps resurfacing in that space. A man born…

The Times of India

Final case at UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda atrocities comes to an end

The U.N. courts set up to prosecute the atrocities committed during the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide have held their final session

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Canada should be wary of embracing ‘total national defence’ to ward off an American invasion

As the Donald Trump administration in the United States continues to threaten Canadian sovereignty — including a recent suggestion that Alberta could secede from Canada and join the U.S. — Canadians, like many others in the world, finds themselves in a period of extreme uncertainty.

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Dushan Chimbur obituary

Other lives: Supporter of the Lifeline Humanitarian Organisation who arrived in the UK soon after the second world war as a displaced person

The Guardian - UK

Fiume o Morte! review – darkly comic reconstruction of D’Annunzio’s Yugoslavian coup

Igor Bezinović uses local residents of what is now Rijeka in Croatia to re-stage the vainglorious Italian protofascist’s ragtag takeover of the Adriatic port city

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not in our genes to give up’: Veljko Paunovic on coaching Serbia and how England changed him

Serbia coach faces England with a tough battle to qualify for the World Cup on his hands but he still believes football owes his country, he tells Sid Lowe

The Guardian - UK

A voice that broke down barriers: Crowds fill Sarajevo to mourn beloved folk singer

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Sarajevo to honor Halid Beslic, a beloved Bosnian folk singer

The Independent UK

Niki Pilić obituary

Croatian tennis player who found himself at the centre of the 1973 player boycott of the Wimbledon Championships

The Guardian - UK

Which nationalities have featured in First Division but not Premier League?

Plus: consecutive 3-2 defeats, more capital underachievers and a post-Christmas slump for the ages

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Is Zagreb military parade a reflection of a new Balkan arms race?

The Croatian army parade commemorated the 30th anniversary of Operation Storm, the mission in which Croatian forces seized ethnic Serb-held territory in August 1995.

International Business Times

Belgrade Show Plots Path Out Of Balkan Labyrinth Of Pain

Life in 1990s former Yugoslavia was a nightmare of war, economic collapse and an all-powerful mafia.

The Guardian - AU

Out of the Woods by Gretchen Shirm review – a compelling reflection on bearing witness

For her fourth novel, the former lawyer draws on her experience working as a legal intern in the UN tribunal for former Yugoslavia

Al Jazeera

Israel’s war on Gaza deadliest conflict ever for journalists, says report

More journalists killed in Gaza than in both world wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined, report finds.

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Serbia is facing its largest-ever protest movement – why is Europe looking away?

On November 1 2024, the roof of a newly €55 million renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second biggest city, collapsed and killed 15 people. The deaths sparked Serbia’s largest wave of student-led anti-government protests since Yugoslavia’s disintegration in 2000.

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European Championship-winning captains

From the inaugural tournament in 1960 to the present day, a look at the captains who led their nations to European Championship glory...

The Guardian - UK

Bojan Bujić obituary

Other lives: Lecturer at Reading and Oxford universities with a specialist knowledge of the the musical landscape of Europe

The Guardian - UK

How one engineer beat restrictions on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia

In Lewis Packwood’s book Curious Video Game Machines, Voja Antonić explains how he built a home computer and published instructions for anyone to make their own

The Independent UK

Fury in Belgrade as iconic Hotel Yugoslavia to be demolished

It was a five-star hotel boasting one of the biggest chandeliers in the world made of 40,000 Swarovski crystals

The Guardian - UK

Three review – Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war

Aleksandar Petrović’s 1965 interlinked stories focus on the changes wrought in one young Yugoslavian by the brutality of the war and its aftermath

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Best Euros images

Featuring fans, players, celebrations and more, a selection of the best images from the European Championship...

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