[ad#ad-160] A wave of protests demanding more democracy and less neoliberalism runs the former Yugoslavia. For ripple effect could extend to anything that was the Warsaw Pact. The last decades have been frustrating Although rarely gratifying daring with the film adaptation of a novel, I think in the case of…
Author: Balkans
Sarajevo home of the pain
The Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic, ‘oscar’ for ‘No Man’s Land’, returns to the war in the Balkans ‘Cirkus Columbia’ 16/07/2011 [ad#ad-160] A Danis Tanovic (Zenica, Bosnia, 1969) something has happened decades ago was much more common among artists, his life first, and his career, later, was marked by a war,…
Evict 200 people from fire in Croatia Island
The Croatian authorities on Friday evicted more than 200 people after the blaze swept through pine forests on the Adriatic island of Brac. [ad#ad-336-280] The state rescue service reported that dozens of firefighters were trying on Friday to contain the flames that have destroyed hundreds of acres of forest and…
Serbia won the Championship title Balkan Region
The selected team of Serbia completed its preparation course for the World Youth Volleyball with the degree obtained in Halkbank Women’s Championship, organized by the Association of Volleyball in the Balkans. [ad#ad-336-280] The Serbian will play the final with Greece by a 3 to 0 with partial 25/22, 25/17 and…
In communist countries the rock became a religion
The Yugoslav composer Goran Bregovic presented today at the Festival Grec in Barcelona his band for weddings and funerals. [ad#ad-336-280] Theirs is a curious case and also a good example of the complexity of their identity. Born in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 1950, Bregovic is a staunch supporter of the Yugoslav…