Roma people make up one of the largest minority groups in most countries in emerging Europe, and yet throughout history, Roma have met significant discrimination, from...
Tag - Yugoslavia
Ratko Mladić, the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, will spend the rest of his life in prison following a failed appeal against his sentence. The appeals chamber of the...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Serbs are split in their opinion of a new TV drama that documents the arrest of the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milošević, reflecting the divisive legacy he left...
Contemporary emerging Europe is a hub of car manufacturing, although with the exception of Škoda in Czechia and Dacia in Romania, the overwhelming majority of vehicles...
Imprisoned for belonging to a fascist organisation during World War II, Zlata Bartl would go on to create one of the most-used ingredients in Yugoslav cooking. As a...
What happens to weapons when war ends? Often, they end up in the hands of criminals and terrorists. A HALO Trust project in Bosnia and Herzegovina is making the...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
In the 1960s and 1970s, one of Yugoslavia’s most famous performers was a Belgrade traffic policeman, the inimitable Jovan Bulj, who turned directing traffic into...
Almost 40 years since it was published, there is no more faithful description of communist-era Central and Eastern Europe than Malcolm Bradbury’s brilliant Rates...
Europe has changed over the past decade. Joe Biden needs to take this into account and show greater awareness of where the European Union and its aspiring members stand...
Just in time for your Christmas shopping, we highlight six Nobel Prize winning authors (and six essential books – one by each author) from emerging Europe. Here’s...
