Yugoslavia

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis wrote “A Speech of Hope for Greece” on Friday, the day when Greece didn’t pay its dues to the IMF. His text begins by casting the focus on US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes who traveled to Stuttgart in September 6, 1946, to deliver his historic “Speech of Hope“.

Around 25 new or completely redesigned hotels will open for the upcoming summer season along the Croatian Adriatic coast.

Croatian and foreign tourism companies have invested billions of Croatian kuna in hotels lately, far more than was invested in the last decade.

Slovenia's only nuclear plant Krsko said June 4 it has initiated a preventive shutdown over technical problems in the system for monitoring the temperature.

Mira Markovic denies involvement in Curuvija's murder

Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, says she did not take part in the murder of Slavko Curuvija.

The media earlier this week carried reports, quoting an official police note, accusing Markovic of "giving the order to kill Curuvija."

Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, says she did not take part in the murder of Slavko Curuvija.

Mira Markovic, president of JUL, according to operative data organized a meeting at which it was agreed to murder Slavko Curuvija.

The wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, an official police note reveals, told Vlastimir Djordjevic, then head of the Department of Public Security of the Serbian MUP, that the owner of Dnevni Telegraf and Evropljanin must be liquidated.

"The Forest" documentary, by Sinisa Dragin, is a film "about how art can influence politics," said journalist and film critic Cristian Tudor Popescu on Thursday evening at Studio Cinema, where the first national screening of the production took place.

A congress of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, on Tuesday elected a new leadership for the new four years, electing Bakir Izetbegovic as president while choosing a deputy president, eight vice-presidents and a new main board.

People from all over the former Yugoslavia gathered in the Croatian village of Kumrovec, the birthplace of the leader of socialist Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, to celebrate his birthday.

One interesting travelogue recently focused on the land-locked country to Greece’s immediate north, the one-time Yugoslav republic known today – in some quarters and especially in Greece – as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM).

The neophyte’s country’s leadership has, since 1991, insisted on the “Republic of Macedonia”.