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NATO Remains Obstacle to Bosnia Forming New Government
Chairman of Bosnian Presidency Milorad Dodik (R) and Member of Bosnian Presidency Sefik Dzaferovic (L) Caption, Photo: EPA/Fehim Demir
Period with no elections shows opportunity: Turkey's vice president
Turkey will gain strength and sustainability during the next four and a half years with no elections, according to Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay.
Bosnia Court Jails Syria Fighter for Three Years
Munib Ahmetspahic. Photo: Bosnian state court
Bosnia's top court, the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has sentenced Munib Ahmetspahic to three years in prison for fighting unlawfully in Syria, which the court deemed an act of terrorism.
Bosnia, Serbia Unlikely to Copy Belgium’s Genocide Denial Law
The Srebrenica massacres were classified as genocide by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice.
Mayor’s Life Offers Cautionary Tale of Bosnia’s Lost Hopes
At that time, state building reached its apogee and a thousand flowers were blooming with ideas about constitutional reform. It was not then nearly as politically radioactive a concept as it later became.
Bosnia Marks Anniversary of Ahmici Village Mass Killings
The commemoration ceremony on Tuesday. Photo: N1.
Tributes were paid in Ahmici in Bosnia's Vitez municipality on Tuesday to the victims of the massacre on April 16, 1993, when 116 civilians including elderly people and children were killed by Croatian Defence Council fighters.
Serb Leader’s War Drums Stir New Fears in Bosnia
Some 24 years after its 1992-95 war ended, Bosnia and Herzegovina's fragile stability - and with it the stability of the Balkan region - appears hostage to the whims of a politician notorious for his political strategy of 'shoot first, ask questions later'.
Targeting ‘Turks’: How Karadzic Laid the Foundations for Genocide
The regime of Radovan Karadzic was not totalitarian in the sense that Nazism or Stalinism were; yet it was a regime that existed solely for the purpose of murder - the physical annihilation of non-Serbs, or more specifically, Bosnian Muslims.
Let me quote from Karadzic's court verdict a description of some of the events that took place in Rogatica in eastern Bosnia during the war:
Slobodan Milosevic’s Widow Mirjana Markovic Dies
Mirjana Markovic in 2001. Photo: Koca Sulejmanovic/EPA.
Mirjana Markovic, the widow of the former president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, died in hospital in Moscow on Sunday, Serbian media reported.
Markovic is reported to have undergone surgery several times in Russia recently, after which her condition deteriorated. The cause of death was not immediately made public.
Prime Ministers of 16 Central and Eastern European countries and China Met in Croatian city of Dubrovnik
Prime Ministers of 16 Central and Eastern European countries and China met in Croatian city of Dubrovnik. At noon the Plenary Session of the Eighth Meeting began in 16 + 1 format. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov will sign an agreement on the opening of a Global Center for Cooperation with China in Bulgaria.
Bosnian Serb Autistic Teen Allowed to Return to School
An empty classroom at the primary school Photo:EPA-EFE/Leszek Szymanski POLAND OUT
Natalija Trivic, Republika Srpska's Minister of Education and Culture, confirmed on Friday that 19-year-old Slavko Mrsevic, who has autism, may attend graduate classes with his peers after he was initially barred from attending high school.
Report: New Russian ambassador is someone who knows us well
The daily Blic writes this, and adds, referring to its diplomatic sources, that Chepurin will continue his career in the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Sickness Delays Justice in Bosnian War Crimes Trials
But their trial remains on hold due to Djuric's sickness.
Nedim Salaharevic, who saw his brother, Edin, being killed in Vlasenica, told BIRN that he had been waiting for justice for years.
"This is yet another blow to victims … Djuric and Kraljevic were rulers of life and death in Vlasenica. I saw it with my own eyes, I watched them kill my brother, Edin," he said.
Croatia Welcomes Chinese Leader to 16+1 Summit
The Adriatic city of Dubrovnik, Croatia's best-known tourist destination, on Thursday and Friday will host the 16 + 1 summit, a Chinese initiative to strengthen business ties between China and 16 countries from Central and Eastern Europe.
Vucic, Thaci expect nothing; meeting may have different goal
This motive could be, according to media reports, to exert pressure on Belgrade to agree to continue the dialogue with Pristina, without Pristina abolishing its taxes on Serbian products first.