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Violence produces crowd bans in Bosnia and Serbia [Apr 09, 2012] Bosnian club Borac Banjaluka and Serbia's Radnicki Kragujevac have both been banned from staging home matches while Partizan Belgrade and Vojvodina Novi Sad are awaiting their punishments following a wek of violence in the former Yugoslavia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Violence produces crowd bans in Bosnia and Serbia [Apr 06, 2012] BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnian club Borac Banjaluka and Serbia's Radnicki Kragujevac have both been banned from staging home matches while Partizan Belgrade and Vojvodina Novi Sad are awaiting their punishments following a wek of violence in the former Yugoslavia. The Bosnian Football Federation has ordered Borac to play six home games behind closed doors after crowd trouble forced their cup match ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Women in Black: The voice of peace in Serbia [Apr 05, 2012] They have been beaten, spat at and cursed. Jeered, mocked and ignored. But a few dozen women dressed in black regularly stand silently on Belgrade's main streets. They hold signs demanding an end to war, advocating human rights or reminding people of the bloody ethnic clashes in the former Yugoslavia that Serbia itself had triggered in the 1990s. [via YahooNews] More >>

ART: Serbian perspectives [Apr 03, 2012] "On Normality: Art in Serbia, 1989-2001" at American University's Katzen Arts Center isn't about normality as we know it. This mixed bag of paintings, photographs, videos and installations surveys artworks from the civil war years in the former Yugoslavia. Far from being a downer, the exhibition is ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbian police arrest suspects in Stojkovic house attack [Mar 30, 2012] Serbian police said on Friday they had arrested a former senior soccer official and four other men suspected of hurling a hand grenade onto the lawn of a home belonging to former Yugoslavia midfielder Dragan Stojkovic. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gay-themed movie overcomes Balkan divide [Mar 24, 2012] Gay-themed movie overcomes Balkan divide Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 02:38?a.m., Thursday, March 22, 2012 "The Parade," a black comedy made by a Serbian director, has been the biggest box office hit in the former Yugoslavia in years, even as it challenges both the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Gay-themed movie overcomes Balkan divide [Mar 24, 2012] Gay-themed movie overcomes Balkan divide Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:49?a.m., Thursday, March 22, 2012 "The Parade," a black comedy made by a Serbian director, has been the biggest box office hit in the former Yugoslavia in years, even as it challenges both the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

ART: Serbian perspectives [Mar 15, 2012] "On Normality: Art in Serbia, 1989-2001" at American University's Katzen Arts Center isn't about normality as we know it. This mixed bag of paintings, photographs, videos and installations surveys artworks from the civil war years in the former Yugoslavia. Far from being a downer, the exhibition is ... [via YahooNews] More >>

EU leaders decide to grant Serbia candidate status [Mar 05, 2012] SERBIAN PRESIDENT Boris Tadic has said the European Union?s decision to make Serbia an official candidate for membership is a ?great achievement? which opens the path to prosperity and helps turn the page on the bloody recent history of former Yugoslavia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Grenade explodes at home of Red Star Belgrade legend Dragan Stojkovic [Feb 26, 2012] ? Former Yugoslavia captain insists he was not the target ? Stojkovic thrown out of Red Star cafe by fans last month Unidentified assailants threw a hand grenade which exploded in the garden of the family home of the Red Star Belgrade legend Dragan Stojkovic in the southern Serbian town of Nis, police said on Sunday. "An investigation was launched immediately," Nis police spokeswoman Lidija ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Resurgent Serbia [Jan 26, 2012] As peace has returned to most of the Balkans, countries in the region, including those that broke off from the former Yugoslavia, are opening their doors to tourists. And Serbia, despite the unsettled conflict with Kosovo to its south, is no exception. [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia below average salary in ex-Yugoslavia [Dec 26, 2011] BELGRADE -- The average salary on the territory of former Yugoslavia totals EUR 550, and the average wages in Serbia are by some 30 percent lower. [via YahooNews] More >>

UN Prosecutor Wants Probe Into Fugitives' Hiding [Sep 13, 2011] The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia has urged Serbia to find out who helped the two last war crimes fugitives evade justice for years before they were arrested this summer. [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia extradites last major war crimes suspect [Jul 22, 2011] AMSTERDAM/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia extradited the last ethnic Serb wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to The Hague Friday, in a symbolic moment for the once-pariah Balkan nation's European future. [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia TV apologizes to viewers over propaganda [May 25, 2011] JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia Two decades after its reporting helped fuel the worst bloodshed in Europe since World War II, Serbia's state-run television has apologized to viewers throughout the former Yugoslavia for serving as the key propaganda tool of late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s. Radio Television of Serbia ? or RTS ? said in a statement posted on its ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia TV apologizes to viewers over propaganda [May 25, 2011] BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ? Serbia's state-run television has apologized to viewers throughout the former Yugoslavia for war propaganda and hate speech broadcast during the era of late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic. [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia state TV apologizes to viewers for Milosevic-era propaganda [May 24, 2011] BELGRADE, Serbia ? Serbia?s state-run television has apologized to viewers throughout the former Yugoslavia for war propaganda and hate speech broadcast during the era of late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic. Radio Television of Serbia said in a statement posted on its web site Tuesday that the station?s program was ?almost constantly and heavily abused? as a propaganda tool of Milosevic?s ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia TV apologizes to viewers over propaganda [May 24, 2011] The Serbian state television building destroyed during NATO's bombing campaign which led to the deaths of 16 workers in an alliance missile attack on April 1999, seen in front of the new building, in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Serbia's state-run television has apologized to viewers at home and in the other countries of the former Yugoslavia for the war propaganda and hate ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia state TV apologizes to viewers for Milosevic-era propaganda [May 24, 2011] BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ? Two decades after its reporting helped fuel the worst bloodshed in Europe since World War II, Serbia's state-run television has apologized to viewers throughout the former Yugoslavia for serving as the key propaganda tool of late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s. [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia TV apologizes to viewers over propaganda [May 24, 2011] BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia's state-run television has apologized to viewers throughout the former Yugoslavia for war propaganda and hate speech broadcast during the era of late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic. [via YahooNews] More >>