Kazakhstan’s Dictator Makes Historic First Trip to Serbia
Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev’s first trip to Belgrade. The newest monument in Belgrade is a bust of Stalinist poet and traditional folk singer Jambyl Jabayev of…
Exonerating Milosevic: A Futile, Destructive Cause of Global “Anti-Imperialists”
Refik Hodzic takes on recent revisionist efforts to declare Slobodan Milošević “exonerated by the ICTY” — and challenges fringe perceptions of the Serbian dictator and former…
Live(ish) Blog: Team USA vs Team Serbia in Rio
Tonight, the undefeated (5 – 0) U.S. men’s basketball team will take on Serbia in the last competition for a gold medal of the…
Croatia's Lost Coast
Magazine
Kazakhstan’s Dictator Makes Historic First Trip to Serbia
Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev’s first trip to Belgrade. The newest monument in Belgrade is a bust of Stalinist poet and traditional folk singer Jambyl Jabayev of…
11 Inventors From Slovenia
Meet 11 inventors from Slovenia. There’s a bit of a wrestling match over Nikola Tesla. The inventor of a variety of contraptions, including an…
Depth Two: An Illusion-Destroying Documentary Thriller
Anja Petrovic attends director Ognjen Glavonic’s DokuFest screening of his documentary thriller Depth Two, which aims to destroy illusions about atrocities committed in Kosovo in 1999….
Talking “Everyday Rebellion” at DokuFest
Anja Petrovic reports from Dokufest on “Everyday Rebellion” in the region. Activists from Belgrade, Skopje and Prizren took part in a DokuFest panel entitled…
Queer As Turbofolk (Part VIII): Pain And Pleasure 1
Welcome to a Culture Wars Special of Queer As Turbofolk – today we’re debating the ethical implications of keeping hot guys in cages, racial…
The Zetra Project: Remembering the Concert That Tried to Save Yugoslavia
Remembering the Sarajevo rock show that tried to save Yugoslavia, 25 years later. The forgotten peace movement in Yugoslavia arguably peaked at a rock concert…
Commentary
Exonerating Milosevic: A Futile, Destructive Cause of Global “Anti-Imperialists”
Refik Hodzic takes on recent revisionist efforts to declare Slobodan Milošević “exonerated by the ICTY” — and challenges fringe perceptions of the Serbian dictator and former…
Live(ish) Blog: Team USA vs Team Serbia in Rio
Tonight, the undefeated (5 – 0) U.S. men’s basketball team will take on Serbia in the last competition for a gold medal of the…
How Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: Still Missing the Point, Reinscribing Stereotypes about Eastern Europe
A short response to Dr. Monika Nalepa’s August 2 rebuttal to our letter: “Here’s the academic evidence on cheating in post-communist countries” We, the…
Analysis
“Free” Music in Slovenia: the Struggle for Royalties from Radio
Musicians in Slovenia are losing royalties as radio stations exploit legal loopholes to avoid paying them their due. In a radio broadcast, the organization responsible…
Kosovo’s Creeping Radicalisation
Newspapers around the world have branded Kosovo an “ISIS hotbed” or “fertile ground for ISIS”. But what accounts for this trend? And what is Kosovo doing about…
Rigged Elections? A Chronology of Serbia’s Post-Election Crisis (24–30 April)
A chronology of Serbia’s post-election crisis, prepared by the Balkanist team. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) enjoys the greatest support of any…
