BALKANS:  Watch Out, She's Watching
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BELGRADE, Aug 25 (IPS) - Every other person now seems a spy of sorts.  Bugging devices, secret cameras and other surveillance equipment  are no longer the exclusive tools of the police; more and more,  ordinary people are beginning to use such devices.
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SKOROBISTE, Serbia  - In the sweltering heat of the Balkan summer, the stray dogs cannot even muster a bark as a NATO foot patrol makes its way through the hilltop village of Skorobiste in southwest Kosovo.
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The BBC's Nick Hawton visits a bunker said to have been used by Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.
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BELGRADE, Nov 29 (IPS) - Three Balkans nations, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina  and Montenegro, have been invited to join the Partnership for  Peace (PfP) programme by leaders gathered at the North Atlantic  Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Riga, Latvia.
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As eastern Europe improves privacy safeguards for its citizens, western Europe and the United States are stepping up surveillance. The U.S. and Britain rank with China and Russia as the among the most intrusive of governments.
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They have watched elections in the Balkans, in Asia and South Africa, but the complexity of the US presidential election every four years is enough to give a headache to even the most seasoned international observer.
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Hmmm. Bosnia, 2001. It's May and I'm on my way to Croatia. What a beautiful country this is, even after the war that tore neighbours and families apart.
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I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled "Dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia." Although the rest of post-communist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the ...
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TUZLA, Bosnia  - Sajma Alic took up knitting in 1995 to keep her mind off the fate of her husband, who stayed in besieged Srebrenica while she fled with their baby, two of hundreds of thousands made refugees by Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
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TIRANA, Jul 4 (IPS) - People across the Balkans have much in common,  forget the conflicts of the recent or distant past, and the  efforts of politicians to convince them how "different"  or "distinctive" they are.
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The shortest route from Kosovo  to Albania&#39;s sparkling Adriatic coast makes a big dog-leg  through the long, deep glens of neighboring Macedonia.
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In the battle to bust Eastern European carding syndicates, the biggest obstacles are sometimes the foreign law enforcement agents protecting them. By Kim Zetter.
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ZENICA, Bosnia -- They met in 1985 as Syrian immigrants in Croatia, two students in their 20s grappling with a language and a culture they didn't understand.
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One  night in 2003, on the wintry streets of Kosovo, a group of thugs stalked and beat Gramoz Prestreshi almost to death. Police in the war-scarred Balkan province laughed and called him names. The emergency room workers made him mop up his own blood. It was a sordid but hardly unusual episode in...
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Two years ago, Croatia's prime minister dropped in on Sofia Skoric's home and munched on bread she had baked for him. It was a gesture intended to show that the hard feelings many harbored toward minority Serbs after the country's bloody 1991 war were gone.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings _ along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings _ have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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BELGRADE, Oct 4 (IPS) - A dubious joint venture between science and  politics has resumed with new claims that Croats are the oldest  people in the Balkans.