Commenting on my post about linguistic idiocy , reader "Kris" asked a perfectly reasonable question: Do you consider Croatian, Bos...

Not being a follower of the Daily Kos , I didn't notice a post that appeared on that site on July 8 until very recently. Apparently, som...

On July 15, the EU proposed the lifting of visa restrictions on Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia (FYROM). The quisling regime in Belgrade ha...

New column over at Antiwar.com : At a meeting in March 2009, Secretary Clinton presented her Russian counterpart with a red button that ...

When Karl Malden passed away on June 30, I tried - without much success - to write up a short obituary paying tribute to an unusual Hollywo...

I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech. But there's freedom of speech, and then there is calumny. A debate, however heated, is one...

On June 24, Bulgarian authorities arrested Agim Ceku , formerly a general in the Croatian Army and the terrorist KLA. They did so pursuant t...

Last month I wrote about the Skull Tower , a unique monument to the Ottoman legacy in the Balkans. To recap briefly, it is a structure made ...

Normally I wouldn't comment on Iran; what happens there is none of my business. But the whole post-election mess there has me wondering....

Following a tour in Belgrade, Banja Luka, Bijeljina and Toronto, the Lord Byron Foundation for Balkans Studies held a conference in Washingt...

Russia Today interviewed me about Biden's visit, earlier this morning ( link ): The very fact that Biden, hero of the "Bo...

I'm old enough to recall the last Congress of the Yugoslav League of Communists (SKJ), in January 1990. After their demands (to scrap th...

On May 7, 1999, during the NATO offensive against Yugoslavia, an American bomber dropped a precision bomb into a corner office of the Chines...

If there was just one thing I could show someone seeking to understand the Serbs, I would take them to a hill northeast of Niš (Ниш), and s...

Economic crisis, pestilence, wars and rumors of wars... Even allowing for the hype generated by the power-seeking governments and their medi...

I wrote about the "Srebrenica Genocide Blog" just yesterday , as a bastion of Muslim propaganda. Looking more closely at the site,...

For years, the "Srebrenica Genocide Blog" has been dedicated to the shrill repetition of the official line about what happened in ...

The British, having already embraced a total surveillance state, are now favorably looking at Japanese research about spiking the water: Ver...

Mustafa Ceric, head of the Islamic Religious Community in Bosnia, likes to travel around the world and pose as a "moderate" and ...

My post from the other day on mixed marriages in Bosnia caught the attention of the Witch-King , and I thank him for it. His conclusion mad...