Croatia’s musical legend Oliver Dragojević (pictured above), whose career lasted 50 years, passed away at the age of 70, one year after his lung cancer was diagnosed. Dragojevic gained a huge following in the former Yugoslavia with his romantic hits...
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Despite being the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest in the Republika Srpska, tourism is still something of a new concept in Banja Luka. That...
Bosnian band Dubioza Kolektiv – who have recently received international acclaim across Europe, including the UK – have announced a set of UK gigs for the...
English-born but proudly Kosovan pop star Dua Lipa is set to headline the Sunny Hill Music Festival in Priština on August 10, the biggest music festival ever to take...
It is Saturday night and I am strolling along Nezalezhnastsy (Independence) Street in Minsk, the Belarusian capital. It is as loud as an area of inner city London might...
Almost 25 years have passed since the armed conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia, a breakaway republic in the northwest of the country. The war, which started on August...
Buddhist meditation teaches us that anger towards someone else is only a reflection of our own failures and fears. As this is true in everyday life, it becomes even more...
The village of Staro Zhelezare, near Plovdiv in central Bulgaria, has been turned into an open-air gallery by a Polish-Bulgarian artist couple, husband and wife...
It is hard to imagine living abroad without missing your national cuisine. Especially when the food from your country is exotic for your country of residence, and it is...
Craig Turp takes an off-season trip to the Bulgarian ski resort of Borovets and climbs Musala, the highest mountain in the Balkans.
Klaipeda is the largest of the resorts on what has become known as the Lithuanian Riviera. A busy harbour town most of the year, for the short Baltic summer it becomes a...
Since April 1, Europeans have been able to access the online content that they have subscribed to at home, wherever they are in the EU. The aim of the new rules is to...
