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The latest stories from the Balkans and everything to its East.
A History That Never Happened: The Yugoslav Space Program
Harm Rudolph Kern reviews director Žiga Virc’s Houston, We Have a Problem, a work of docufiction that blends…
Croatia vs. Turkey: Remembering the Mostar Football Violence of 2008
As Croatia and Turkey face off at the European championship, Albinko Hasic takes a look…
Historic and Cultural Preservation in Bosnia: Abandoned and Forgotten
Bosnia-Herzegovina is currently experiencing one of the largest tourism growth rates of any country in the world.…
“Brancusi is Mine”: Modernist Sculptor as National Hero in Romania
The Romanian government has launched a new crowdfunding campaign so the public can pitch in…
Kosovo’s Creeping Radicalisation
Newspapers around the world have branded Kosovo an “ISIS hotbed” or “fertile ground for ISIS”. But what…
Traumatic Reckoning on Celluloid: The Case of Post-Yugoslav Film
Dragana Obradovic on Dijana Jelača’s Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (Palgrave 2016), “the first…