Ethnic groups in Croatia

VRGINMOST - I want you to be proud of your Serbian names, to be ashamed or afraid of no one, and to have the right to say what you expect from both Serbia and Croatia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Serbs in Vrginmost, Croatia, on Tuesday.

Nevertheless, Dodik gave statements to the media, Croatia's daily Vecernji List is reporting.

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina told RTL that the president of Serbia had brought "a message of peace to Croatia" and that it "seemed to him things could start getting better."

Grabar-Kitarovic addressed the media and the public in Croatia over the increasingly tense relations between Serbia and Croatia, created by mutual accusations over an exhibition about Jasenovac at the UN headquarters, opened by Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

County court in the Croatian coastal city Split issued one-year prison sentence for two Croats who beat a Serb on Orthodox Christmas in 1998.

Serbian Ambassador to Croatia Mira Nikolic on Thursday refused to receive a protest note at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Asylum Protection Centre, an NGO in Serbia, has told BIRN it is considering launching a lawsuit against Serbia over the death of Medina Husein, an Afghan migrant who lost her life, aged six, near the Serbia-Croatia border earlier in November.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has commented on the acquittal on Monday of Naser Oric by saying that Serbia will have to fight for justice by itself.

BELGRADE - State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nemanja Stevanovic on Tuesday slammed as shameful and hypocritical the actions of Croatian officials who are glorifying Ustashism and crimes committed in WWII and fostering an anti-Serb hysteria, grossly violating fundamental human rights in the 21st century and protesting the unveiling of a monument to Major Milan Tepic, a h

ZAGREB - Serbs and Croats will have to be allies in the future, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Zagreb's Vecernji list in an interview, announcing a visit to the Croatian capital in November.

Vucic said he saw but did not understand the problems between Croatia and Serbia and Croats and Serbs.

BIRN’s new film ‘Your House was My Home’, about how war forced villagers in Serbia and Croatia to exchange homes with each other to save their lives, premieres on Al Jazeera Balkans on Tuesday.