I'll be traveling for a bit for the next two weeks. While it is possible I might post something within that time frame, it isn't ver...

For ten years now, I've been writing about the Balkans. Among other things, this has involved parsing through media reports, identifying...

Seventy years ago today, German armies crossed into Poland, introducing the world to "Blitzkrieg." The British and French declara...

I initially wanted to post my take on Marcus Tanner's peculiar piece (insofar as it was surprisingly common-sense from someone who's...

Wow, this is rich. The New York Times ran a story yesterday about last year's Russo-Georgian spat, titled "How Russia Defines Gen...

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...