Croatia

A controversial play about the wartime murder of 12-year-old Serb girl Aleksandra Zec and her family by Croatian soldiers in Zagreb in 1991 has opened in the capital.

Croatian PM says Ukraine is "falling apart"

ZAGREB -- Croatian PM Zoran Milanović has said that Ukraine was disintegrating as a state, while Russia "crossed the line of what is permissible" when it comes to Crimea.

Speaking for Croatian Radio, he noted that the situation in Ukraine was "far too complex to be summarized in two sentences," and added:

BELGRADE - The identification of remains of 19 Serb victims killed during the armed conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995 in Croatia was carried out at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, in the presence of family members.

Josip Simunic lost his appeal at sport’s highest court against a ten-match ban for leading fans in a chant associated with the WWII fascist Ustase movement at a Croatian international game.

Croatia "won't put malicious obstacles" in front of Serbia

ZAGREB -- Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanović says that to him, Croatian citizens of Serb nationality are "fully equal to Croatian citizens of any other nationality."

A Croatian far-right leader said he had been libelled by the director of the memorial park at Jasenovac, a concentration camp where tens of thousands were killed by the fascist Ustasa regime.

Arsen Dedic as a film hero

As Fellini would say, 'my world is a world of circus and women' and I would add a world of children, work, animals and drinking, to a certain measure – the famous singer and song writer says.

The remains of civilian victims were exhumed near the village of Srb in Croatia, where there was an uprising against the wartime fascist authorities in 1941.

The head of the Serb National Council in Croatia accused the country’s courts of handing down ethnically-biased justice after a decision to auction a Serb wartime refugee’s house.

Several hundred people including top Croatian politicians gathered on Sunday at the monument to the Jasenovac victims to lay wreaths and attend a memorial service.

“At this site, a crime that was genocide was committed and it will always be painful and we will never forget it,” Croatian President Ivo Josipovic told the ceremony.