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The latest stories from the Balkans and everything to its East.
My Jewish Family in Romania, Past and Present
In the 1890s, two Jewish men from Moldavian towns roughly 230 kilometers apart left Romania…
The ‘Balkan Route’ is No Such Thing
I met an 18-year-old last week, who had walked from Bangladesh to Belgrade. The circles…
“Irrational Optimism” and Bosnia’s IT Ticket to a Stronger Economy
Bosnia-Herzegovina emerges as a new tech hotspot with high hopes that it can soon compete…
The Spoils of Tourism: Kotor’s UNESCO World Heritage Status
Montenegro’s Boka Kotorska, or Bay of Kotor, is as vast and impressive as a Norwegian…
They Say, They Say, That the Russians Are Leaving
A firsthand account of Montenegro’s first summer in NATO. Not since Fredo Corleone’s fishing…
In Conversation: Milorad Pupovac, Leader of Croatia’s Serbs
Over the weekend, a group of far-right protesters in Croatia burned copies of the Serb minority…