A well-known veteran and former-Yugoslav official from Montenegro, Veselin Đuranović, says Serb nationalists are strong and they’re seeking to reunite Montenegro, Serbia, and Bosnia’s Republika Srpska into one country. Đuranović, an adamant opponent of Russia’s destabilizing role in Southeast Europe, …
Skanderbeg was a Serb
Or how Serb national ideology constructed the image of the Albanian as an enemy — by Olivera Milosavljević (1951–2015)
Old plan to get rid of Albanians
This is absolutely bullshit. The president of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolić, says that Albanian culture in Kosova (Kosovo) is no more than 50 years old. That’s why he says his government won’t recognize Kosova as independent and will continue to claim …
Trust in the game: How sports can improve Serb–Albanian relations
…Serbia came to Albania, played football, won the game, and earned the applause of Albanians, the victims of Serbian racism and violence in the wars of last century and the Belgrade stadium last year. The indigenous people showed the virtues
Say Yes to Racism
I updated my profile picture on Facebook this Friday. But this time I had nothing colorful to share. It was simply a black-and-white image—not of me, or any living thing. I merely posted a graphic file containing a monochrome logo …
What’s More Serious?
What is more serious? To put the Serbia–Albania soccer incident in an American context, let’s ask: is it a KKK crowd chanting “kill all the n****s,” or a banner with MLK’s picture flying into a stadium reserved for Whites only? …
Anniversary of Nato’s Kosovo campaign
March 24, 1999 — The U.S.-led NATO troops begin the 78-day aerial campaign against Serbia and the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to stop the genocide in Kosova (Kosovo). I remember the evening of 15 years ago when Western jets …
Serbia’s economic nonsense
Kosovo’s reciprocating to an export ban by Serbia may lead to incorrigible economic losses for the latter. Even if access to the Kosovar market resumes, Serbian products may no longer be able to regain prominence, having been replaced by domestic …