Independence of Croatia

The legal amendments address the problems of around 5,000 people whose parents were Croatian Serbs but were living in Serbia when they were born, when both Serbia and Croatia were part of Yugoslavia.

Both then and now, Tudjman and Plenkovic, the 20th century nationalist and the moderate conservative, suffered from the same ailment - selective, deliberate amnesia.

Neither of them can remember - or bear to remember - Yugoslavia.

Erased: The die-hard Yugoslav behind the library

Witness Dejan Lucic told the retrial of Serbian State Security Service officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that the defendants did not send Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, to Croatia in 1991 to set up a training camp for rebel Serb fighters.

The Croatian government announced on Twitter that the entire delegation would return to Croatia, while the Zagreb-based media published a statement from the office of the Croatian Assembly President Goran Jandrokovic, who was in Serbia today.

Croatia's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs sent a diplomatic note to Slovenia on Thursday, Beta is reporting.

Zagreb urged Ljubljana not to unilaterally implement the arbitration ruling that Croatia does not recognize, regarding their maritime border.

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On October 8, Croatia marks the day in 1991 when the republic's parliament held a session in secrecy that severed all ties with Yugoslavia.

The assembly thus confirmed the parliament's earlier Declaration of Independence from Yugoslavia, passed on June 25, 1991.

Russia on Tuesday flatly dismissed a call by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic for Russia and Ukraine to draw on the experience on the peace agreement signed in Croatia in the 1990s.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late on Friday that the Serbian government was "astonished" by Croatia's decision "not to support Serbia's European path."

"The Republic of Croatia did not have a single valid reason to make such a decision," the government cited the prime minister as saying.

The Croatian interior ministry announced on Friday that the Bajakovo and Tovarnik border crossings with Serbia had been reopened to freight and passenger traffic.

"All cars, regardless of license plates, can enter the Republic of Croatia, as well as trucks," said interior minister Ranko Ostojic.

Politicians from Zagreb and Belgrade have been exchanging harsh words over the upcoming 20th anniversary of Operation Storm, which saw Serb rebels’ hold over Croatian territory crushed.