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Week in Review: Games and Gambles

From energy pipelines and pipedreams to election posturing and all the way to media freedom and the fight for justice, we take a look at the struggles, games and gambles which have marked this week’s selection of Premium stories. Pipedreams? The clock seems to be counting down time on Serbia’s …

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War Games: Replaying Yugoslavia’s Military Conflicts as Entertainment

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, others distort the facts completely. In Serbia, World War II-era Yugoslav Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito …

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Mostar’s Unpunished Massacres, Part 3: The Long Wait for a Memorial

Since the Uborak and Sutina massacres, the most serious war crimes in the Herzegovina region during the 1990s conflict, the victims’ families have been calling for a dignified memorial, but have faced indifference from ethno-nationalist political leaders. “Ihave an idea regarding Liska Park.” This brief statement made at the end …

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