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Kristina Islentieva and Filip Rutko attend the same school. They have the same teachers. Yet they live in different worlds. They barely know each other. Serbian and Croatian children don’t […]
Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic recently compared 1990s Croatia with the Croatian puppet-state under Nazi occupation. On August 5, the Montenegrin military attaché in Croatia attended the official celebration of the […]
The great success of the Croatian national football team in reaching the final of the World Cup in Russia has become another reason for deepening political, social and ethnic divisions […]
Croatia’s parliament voted on April 13 2018 by 110-30 in favour of ratifying the Istanbul Convention, the world’s first binding treaty on preventing and fighting violence against women. The convention, agreed in […]
Serbian Nationalist Leader Vojislav Seselj was convicted of wartime crimes on April 11 2018 by the UN court in The Hague. According to BIRN’s report, the UN court “partially overturned Serbian […]
As holder of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Bulgaria should pursue a policy of dialogue and balance, President Roumen Radev said on April 4 in a […]
Slovenian police have arrested 11 people, dismantling an international crime syndicate involved in sports corruption and illegal betting, with the assistance of Croatian police and Europol, Europe’s international law enforcement [… ...
Preliminary results from a toxicological test on December 1 have revealed “a concentration of potassium cyanide” in Slobodan Praljak’s blood, the Hague Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. On […]
Slobodan Praljak, a Bosnian Croat war leader, died after allegedly drinking poison at a Hague Tribunal sitting at which his 20-year jail sentence for war crimes was confirmed, a report on […]
Bulgaria and Croatia hope that direct air flights between the two countries’ capital cities will make a positive contribution to increasing mutual tourism, the foreign ministers agreed at a meeting […]
