Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The nostalgia for socialist Yugoslavia in some Balkan countries indicates dissatisfaction with present-day conditions, a historian who led research on the issue told BIRN.

Pera Film's "Forms and Politics of Yugoslav Experimental Film" program brings together lesser known films made by artists in socialist Yugoslavia between 1963 and 1987. 

The program will be held between March 10 and 12.

BELGRADE - The inviolabile Balkan borders the West forced on the former Yugoslav republics during the 1990s is now being called into question by none other than the West itself.

The interior and defense ministers of 13 European nations are meeting in Vienna on ways to prepare for a possible uptick in migrant flows once winter is over.

"Despite the rather poor first half, I still hoped for a victory," said legendary Montenegrin coach Veselin Vujović, who took over in May 2015 to turn the fortunes of the Slovenian team around.

"Before the match, we hoped the rivals would be tired, which only came true in the final part of the game when we staged an incredible U-turn," he said.

The CIA had its eye fixed on communist Yugoslavia from the 1940s, closely following developments until its final days in 1991.

After an American NGO, MuckRock won a case against the CIA, the agency had to make its already opened files more accessible. Last week, the online base of documents was opened to the public.

"The chocolate wars" in the former Yugoslav countries have progressed to another level - this time the involved sides are Slovenia and Croatia.

ITF has raised US $400m in donations, cleared more than 135 million square metres of land, and expanded its operations to Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Latin America since its inception. Ambassador Damjan Bergant, ITF's Chief Executive, speaks to The Slovenia Times about how a small operation has carved out an oversized role for good in the world.

Serbian Foreign Minister Dacic told at a press conference on Thursday that he might have been wrong to walk out of a meeting in Warsaw over comments he said were made by his Kosovo counterpart, Enver Hoxhaj.

"I might have made a mistake, but at that moment that was how I felt," he said.

Research by the Belgrade-based Research Publishing Center Demostat shows that Serbs see Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as second-best leader Serbia ever had, just after former Yugoslavia's president for life, Josip Broz Tito, the daily newspaper Danas reported on Wednesday.