Part I The Serbs and Serbia On the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, no single ethnic group had an absolute majority but the Serbs have been the most numerous nation having a simple majority. According to the 1981 census, the Serbs counted 36,8%, the Croats 19,8% followed by the Muslims (today Bosniaks) […]
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Serbia’s ‘Balancing’ Act Is An Empty Slogan To Disguise Pro-US Policies
Serbian President Vucic just discredited his own over-hyped “balancing” act between Russia and the West over the weekend after he de-facto recognized the NATO-occupied Province of Kosovo & Metohija under the cover of “economic normalization” and then committed to moving his country’s embassy in “Israel” to Jerusalem, both of which […]
A New Dawn Rises In Montenegro
The “Democratic Party of Socialists” just lost its first election in Montenegro since the end of communism, heralding an exciting new era of democracy in this tiny Balkan country where such a concept has long laid dormant under the heavy-handed rule of Milo Djukanovic, who had up until this point […]
Indicting Hashim Thaçi: The Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office Gets Busy
When it comes to the touchy, violent matter of Kosovar affairs, history keeps company with the devils of nationalism and vengeance. Serbia remains scornful of the aspirations of the territory, whose legitimacy it does not recognise; Kosovo remains spiteful of Serbia’s continued interest, and attempts, at any given turn, to […]
Military Cooperation Between Russia And Serbia
The strategic partnership established between Russia and Serbia has been reaffirmed with the spread of the pandemic of the Coronavirus in Serbia. Serbia was poorly prepared for the Coronavirus, so it sought help from Russia. On behalf of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, President Vladimir Putin, […]
The Multi-Party Elections In Serbia In 1990 (II)
Part I The Elections of 1990 The independent public opinion research on possible results of elections suggested that in September 1990 the most popular were three parties and their leaders. The highest numbers of votes could expect Miloshevic’s SPS (26%), the other two most supported were Dragoljub Micunovic’s DS (13%) […]
The Multi-Party Elections In Serbia In 1990 (I)
It is the 30th anniversary of the first post-WWII democratic elections in Serbia and the rest of the ex-Yugoslavia. My aim in this article is to elaborate on the feature of the multi-party elections in Serbia in 1990 and to give an answer to the crucial question why did Slobodan […]
The Post-WWII Albania And Kosovo
As in neighboring Yugoslavia, the communist revolutionary guerrilla forces, established by the aid and crucially supported by the Yugoslav communists led by local Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha, took over the power in Albania in 1944.[1] From 1945 to 1948 Albania was under the strong influence of Titoist Yugoslavia and […]
The Western Kosovo Meta-Mythology And Serbian Ethnohistory
A national trauma which the Serbs after the fall of the Serbian national state and the Ottoman occupation experienced after June 20th, 1459[i] can be compared with that felt by Judea’s Jews after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.[ii] Since Serbia soon found […]
The Croatian National Revival Movement (1830–1847) And The Serbs (III)
Part I,Part II The question of Dubrovnik (Ragusium/Ragusa)? I. Derkos and J. Drašković promoted the štokavian dialect of Renaissance and Baroque literature of the Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusium/Ragusa) as a Croatian one–an act which created among the Croats a national conscience upon the Ragusian cultural heritage as solely a Croatian […]
War On Identity – The Abuse Of Kosovo Toponym
Every now and then we are being bombed by some terms in order to get used to them and accept them as something regular, accurate and correct. Such a thing happened with the toponym of Kosovo. The same method was applied in Bosnia and Hercegovina, i.e with the toponym of […]
How Yugoslavia Was Created: The 1917 Corfu Declaration (IV)
Part I, Part II, Part III Opposite conceptions about the process of the Yugoslav unification and the internal political organization of the new state It is very important to notice that during the Corfu Conference the opposite conceptions about the solving of the Yugoslav Question did not exist. Namely, there […]
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