The recent flurry of nationalist rhetoric in Bosnia brought to mind something I read a couple of months ago. In March this year, former Bosn...

I got a blast from the past this afternoon, when someone re-posted a column I wrote last year, on the eve of "Homeland Thanksgiving Day...

Ananova.com reported on 24 July that a Belgrade cafe was forced (presumably by local authorities) to change its name, after U.S. Embassy of...

The Washington Post is usually somewhat tragicomic in its imperialist cheerleading and dripping Russophobia (which often turns into Serbopho...

Sometimes the sheer absurdity of the world we live in, the wrongness of it, tends to overload my synapses and I just stop paying attention ...

Ever since the "October revolution" of 2000, the majority of people in Serbia - and at the very least, the deafeningly vocal minor...

UPI reports that, after over 100 years, Montenegro and Japan are about to conclude a peace treaty. Back in 1904, the Principality of Monte...

The drama over Montenegro's separation from Serbia that has taken place over the past two weeks has been but an interlude in the much bi...

A joke I heard this morning: A Montenegrin asks a Serb, "So, where are you going this summer?" "Turkey," answers the ...

Lew Rockwell raises a valid question concerning the "trial" of Saddam Hussein: on what grounds, exactly, does one put a governmen...

I don't suppose it will really matter if the 55.4% of votes supposedly giving Montenegro independence in this weekend's referendum a...

According to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti , Italian police released transcripts of wiretapped conversations between Albanian crime lords...

I know Balkan Express has been on-and-off lately, but if you'd like to keep reading it, you may want to consider sending a contribution ...

After the narrow defeat of the proposed constitutional amendments in the Bosnian legislature last week, the Social-democratic Party of Bosni...

The problem with being jaded is that few things surprise and outrage any more. For instance, when I saw what Dick Cheney said in Vilnius las...

Last night (April 25), Serbian authorities forcibly closed BK Television. According to the ANEM (Independent Electronic Media Association), ...

I've been in Bosnia for the past three weeks, and deprived of reliable internet access, so I haven't been able to post anything abou...

While in Bosnia-Herzegovina this past month, I saw reports of student riots in France over the new employment law, and thought: "Wait a...

A strange story appeared in the New York Times on March 5 . (A version of the story also ran in Australia's The Age the following day ...

Prologue: Tuesday afternoon I received a phone call from a friend in Washington, who told me of information from a trusted source that ...