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RELIGION-BALKANS: Death of Patriarch Brings Controversies Into Spotlight

RELIGION-BALKANS: BELGRADE, Nov 23 (IPS) - It is not often that anything in Serbia can bring several hundred thousand people together, but that is exactly what happened Thursday when the Patriarch Pavle, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Serbian Orthodox Church,  Patriarch Pavle,  Slobodan Milosevic,  Ratko Mladic

BALKANS: War Crime Victims Stretch Wait for Justice

BALKANS: BELGRADE, Nov 10 (IPS) - The postponement of the trial in the genocide cases in the 1992-95 Bosnia war is further indication that victims of war crimes may never get justice. The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Radovan Karadzic,  Biljana Plavsic,  Google Inc.

BALKANS: Museum Speaks of Roma History, and Misery

BALKANS: BELGRADE, Oct 28 (IPS) - The Balkans gets its first museum on the Roma, to tell a story about one of the most underprivileged ethnic groups in the region. "This is practically the first museum of Roma culture in this part of ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  28 Oct 2009

BALKANS: Ultranationalists Face Ban

BALKANS: BELGRADE, Oct 5 (IPS) - Ultranationalist groups behind the violence in Belgrade last month face ban by the Constitutional Court of Serbia. The ban request by the public prosecutor's office followed the death of French football fan ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  5 Oct 2009

RIGHTS: Shelters Open for Battered Husbands

RIGHTS: JAGODINA, Central Serbia, Sep 26 (IPS) - One in three women is ill-treated by someone or other in family homes, survey after survey shows. And so the total of three men living in shelter in a small home for battered husbands may ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  26 Sep 2009

SERBIA: Media Wakes Up to New Curbs

SERBIA: BELGRADE, Sep 9 (IPS) - A controversial new law on media came into force in Serbia Tuesday, raising fears that freedom of expression will now be restricted by censorship or self- censorship. The law was passed hastily by the ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Slobodan Milosevic,  NATO,  European Union

BALKANS: Strike Wave Sweeps Serbia

BALKANS: BELGRADE, Aug 28 (IPS) - A very hot summer of workers' discontent has taken over Serbia. Some 33,000 people go on strike daily in 40 to 45 firms, according to union statistics. They are mostly employees of privatised companies who ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Slobodan Milosevic

BALKANS: Back to Arms, if not War

BALKANS: BELGRADE, Aug 18 (IPS) - The arms industry in Serbia is seeing record growth amidst the economic slum that has hit other industries. Military exports were worth 520 million dollars last year, and will reach 650 million dollars ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  18 Aug 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  United Nations

BALKANS: Civil Society Plays Matchmaker

BALKANS: SABAC, Western Serbia, Aug 8 (IPS) - Ljubov Obradinovic only cried when her neighbours complimented her that she was hardworking. "Vredna", they said. Except that in Ukraininan that word means "wicked". "Now that I know Serbian it' ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  8 Aug 2009

BALKANS: Church Hands Out Shock Treatment

BALKANS: BELGRADE, Jun 30 (IPS) - The torture of drug addicts who had turned to the Serbian Orthodox Church for help has sent shock waves across the country. The methods used at the Crna Reka monastery and its rehabilitation centre, some 30 ...

From VESNA PERIC ZIMONJIC, Inter Press Service,  30 Jun 2009

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