The guns were pointed at him, but Robert Međugorac wouldn’t budge. Minutes earlier, the 42-year-old father of five had heard gunshots shatter the Sunday-morning calm and had rushed out of his house with his roommate. Their neighborhood, near Zagreb airport, is popular with hunters. It’s legal to hunt there. But Međugorac and his friend stood […]
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All Eyes On The Balkans
BELGRADE, Serbia — Ljubinka Milinčić, the Serbian editor of the Kremlin-owned Radio Sputnik, is sitting in the crowded café at Hotel Moscow, the run-down luxury hotel in central Belgrade that serves as a daily gathering place for the city’s elite. She’s sipping tea and discussing the rising geopolitical conflict over the Balkans as a piano […]
EU: The Balkans risk becoming a ‘chessboard’ for big powers
AFP Brussels (AFP) – The EU warned Friday that the Western Balkans risk becoming a “chessboard” in a game between major powers, as Britain accused Russia of meddling in the region. Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said there was “profound” concern about a region where dangerous historic tensions were also flaring up. […]
