History of the Balkans

Despite being initially scheduled for February, the retrial of 13 Serb fighters for murdering dozens of civilians in the Croatian village of Lovas in 1991 will only start in September.

The Yugoslav People’s Army was responsible for war crimes around the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991, former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic told his trial at the Hague Tribunal.

Slobodan Milosevic and the Yugoslav People’s Army were in control of the wartime campaign in Croatia, not local Serb leaders, Goran Hadzic testified at his trial in The Hague.

THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has given Vojislav Seselj, who has been indicted by the Tribunal, a three-day deadline to declare in writing that he will comply with the conditions of a possible provisional release, the main condition being supervision by the Serbian authorities.

Bulgarian construction company Trace Group Hold AD has signed a contract for the finishing work on the Pirot-Dimitrovgrad section of the E80 motorway in Serbia.

The contract is worth EUR 19.6 M and the funding is provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), according to a media statement of the company, as cited by the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE)-Sofia.

Hague has "no comment" on compensation claim

THE HAGUE -- The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) said on Thursday that it is still unable to comment on a compensation request filed by Vojislav Šešelj.

THE HAGUE - The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said on Thursday that it is still unable to comment on a request filed by Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj, who is seeking EUR 12 million in compensation from the ICTY for what he claims is wrongful detention in the Tribunal's detention unit, where he has been held over the past 11 and

HAGUE - Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj has requested EUR 12 million in compensation from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for what he claims is wrongful detention in the Tribunal's detention unit, where he has been held over the past 11 and a half years, the ICTY has said.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic opened on Monday the Mammoth Park, part of the Viminacium archeological park near Kostolac, underlining that the site provides an unusual and modern way for young people to learn about ancient history.

Former police commander Vladimir Milankovic, convicted of offences that led to the deaths of 24 Serb civilians in Sisak during wartime, had his sentence increased from eight to ten years.