but only one of that era’s leaders earned the nickname “Butcher of the Balkans.” Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic exploited ethnic tensions with remarkable efficiency. After his death ...

The country was melded together after World War I from six major Slavic groups and its post-communism breakup has largely followed ethnic lines ... created in the Balkans since 1989.

Resolving the issue could inaugurate a new era of progress in the Balkans. Or it could precipitate ... Under Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, the ethnic Albanians who comprise 95 percent of ...

Geneva, July 24 (UNHCR) - The U.N. Refugee Agency said Tuesday it was concerned about reports that Macedonian Slavs were fleeing ethnic Albanian areas in the ... the darkest days of the past decade in ...

The match was interrupted before the end of the first half with the appearance of a small flying object – a drone – carrying a flag and map of the ... metaphor of the Balkans as a powder ...

Political rights and the Yugoslav wars When talking about political safeguards for ethnic groups in the Western Balkans, it is important to point out that disputes over ethnic rights and ...

since the West decided to intervene in the Balkans in the 1990's. The issue is whether NATO will aid the ethnic Albanians in their apparent quest for a greater Albania, which would be carved out ...

LJIPJAN, Serbia and Montenegro -- Naser Bytyci and Branko Smilic are dentists who pulled teeth from fighters on opposite sides of Kosovo's ethnic war ... All over the Balkans region, the violence ...

The comment, I think, reflects the broad and growing gap between the things politicians in the Balkans are spending most of their time on -- ethnic disputes and arguments about ancient history ...