Slavonia

VUKOVAR – A bilingual sign on the police station building has again been smashed in Vukovar on Friday, the Vukovar-Srem police confirmed. The same sign, containing the building name in Latin and Cyrillic scripts, has been destroyed several times before, the Hina news agency reported. The police could not confirm whether a culprit has been

A policeman in Osijek, Croatia "threw a middle-aged woman onto the concrete and handcuffed her" for crossing the street against a red light.

This has been reported by the Croatian website index.hr, which noted the incident happened on Thursday morning, "and caused a good deal of attention among citizens."

The right-wing Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonia and Baranja party has been parading a uniformed party youth unit called the Slavonic Hawk Guard at its election campaign rallies.

Croats have launched a Facebook page designed to guide refugees to Western Europe through the Balkans. "Dear refugees: Welcome to Croatia," it begins.

The page collects helpful ideas for refugees and has a direct phone number that refugees can call and ask for help and directions.

A Croatian flag displayed near a playground in the town of Vinkovci has been set on fire in the night between August 10 and 11.

This has been reported by the Zagreb-based newspaper Vecernji List.

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia have traded threats over the construction of the Peljesac Bridge that is designed to connect the Croatian mainland with its southernmost region, cutting across the narrow exit from Bosnia's only coastal town of Neum to the open sea.

Relatives of Josip Reihl Kir and Croatian activists commemorated the 1991 murder of the police chief who was killed after trying to prevent armed conflict breaking out in the Osijek region.

GRADISKA - It is not a good thing that no one has been held responsible for the crime that has the characteristics of genocide, Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said in Gradiska, RS, at a commemoration ceremony marking the 20 years since the exodus of Serbs during the Croatian Army's Operation Flash.

VECERNJI LIST

Croatia's Economy Minister, Ivan Vrdoljak, on Wednesday said an independent committee would review bids for on-shore oil and gas tenders in eastern Croatia.

The government opened the offer for gas and oil exploration and exploitation in the continental region of Slavonia in eastern Croatia along the Sava and Drava rivers last July.