Yugoslavia

Devedesete.net, a website developed with historians from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, is intended to help educators teach about the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia and promote reconciliation.

A hearing on the possible rehabilitation of WWII Prime Minister Milan Nedic was told that the armed forces in occupied Serbia answered directly to the Germans, not the premier.

Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader was in Belgrade on Monday to discuss the extradition of a politician wanted in Romania for graft with his Serbian counterpart, Nela Kuburovic.

The meeting lasted an hour and, according to the Romanian minister of Justice, the two officials discussed Serbia's plans to join the EU as well as "mentioning" Sebastian Ghita's case.

Anti-NATO organisations in Montenegro will mark the 19th anniversary of the Western alliance’s bombing of Yugoslavia with a church ceremony that will also be attended by Russian war veterans.

A nine-day exhibition dedicated to the facts established by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia about the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo has opened in the Serbian capital.

They also demand that a street and a square be named after the former Serbian and Yugoslav leader, the daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting.

According to the paper, the initiative was handed over to the city authorities on Friday at at noon, and the initiative was also taken to the Presidency of Serbia.

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina spoke at a ceremony marking Serbia's Statehood Day, held in this village where the decision was made in 1804 to launch an uprising against Ottoman Turks, occupying Serbia at the time.

Dodik said this place "sublimates in the best way the Serb nation's historic striving toward freedom."

Serbian anti-fascists filed criminal and misdemeanour complaints against members of far-right groups for making Nazi salutes at a rally to commemorate WWII-era puppet government premier Milan Nedic.

Robert McCormick, chair of the Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy and American Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate, recently published a book through I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd. titled "Croatia Under Ante Pavelic: America, the Ustase and Croatian Genocide."

Solving the dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia could prove a daunting task, but it's key to improving bilateral ties, while avoiding tension and extreme gestures.

A stable FYROM is of vital importance to the region, as is the survival of the first Skopje administration that has managed to avoid hard nationalism.