May 12, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
The EU, US and the OHR have urged Bosnia’s authorities to adopt a residence law at state-level and assure that returnee rights are respected, following unilateral action on the subject in Republika Srpska.
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May 12, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
Several hundred people staged protest marches from various Bosnian towns to Sarajevo, where they demanded the resignation of the Federation entity government.
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May 12, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
Twenty-two years after the Bosnian war began, there is still no consensus in the country about its causes, and because of continuing ethnic divisions, there may never be any agreement.
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May 12, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
The landmark Vijecnica city hall and national library has been reconstructed and reopened 22 years after it was shelled by Serb forces during the wartime siege of the Bosnian capital.
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May 12, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
Snakes from former Yugoslavia that are allegedly capable of crushing children to death are causing alarm in a plush part of central London.
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May 9, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
A witness said that ex-fighter Marinko Bjelica, on trial for war crimes in Kalinovik, vowed to commit murder at a school where Bosniaks were detained, in order to avenge his two sons.
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May 9, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
Around Gavrilo Princip’s home village in Bosnia, disputes over whether he was a hero or a terrorist have raised tensions ahead of the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.
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May 9, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
Edinburgh professor Nigel Osborne tells Balkan Insight that the plenum movement is a refreshing inspiration to the rest of the region on how to transform society from the bottom-up.
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May 9, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
Former Bosnian Croat fighter Zdenko Jakisa was arrested in the US state of Minnesota on suspicion of committing a series of violent crimes against civilians during the 1990s war.
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May 9, 2014 Balkans, Bosnia Hertegovina
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will pay his first official visit to Sarajevo on May 13 – a move seen as a step forward in relations between the two neighbouring countries.
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