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Giulietto Chiesa on Russia-Georgia war: ‘Europe is responsible too’

In front | INTERVIEW
Giulietto Chiesa reacts (Photo: Wikipedia)

Three questions to the Italian journalist and MEP, who discusses the South Ossetian conflict, Europe’s mistake and why this was the worst European media coverage since the war in Iraq

by Viola Fiore // 20/08/08

ANALYSIS
(Foto: hanspodolja/ Flickr)

Russia shows who is boss after bombs on Georgia

On 12 August, the Russian president announced an 'end to military operations' against Georgia, which the latter claimed continued. The Kremlin's intervention shows who wears the geopolitical trousers in the Caucasus region, which comprises breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia

by n- ost // 12/08/08

INVESTIGATION
Karadzic's arrest, alongside Mladic's, was a key condition for negotiations on Serbia entering the EU (Photo: advocacy project/ Flickr)

Serbia in the EU: at what cost?

On 30 July captured war criminal Radovan Karadzic was extradited to the Hague. It’s just one sign of Serbia’s desire to be in the European Union, in the hope of better times to come for its wounded pride

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 28/07/08

INVESTIGATION
New Serbia candidate Velimir Illic sympathisers, before the first round of Serb presidential elections| Photo: LF/ GD

‘I didn’t see the war’ – Serb travel diary, part II

Between a war of information and the disinformation of war – how to judge the effects of the war in the former Yugoslavia. Second in our three-part series

by Laurent Francois / Gautier Demouveaux // 24/07/08

(Photo: VG)

Vesna Goldsworthy: 'Radovan Karadzic is related to me'

The Belgrade-born journalist and author of ‘Chernobyl’s Strawberries’, 47, on fighting cancer, the traumas of war, her eccentric grandmother and her war criminal cousin

by Natalia Sosin // 23/07/08

FEATURE
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Radar station for US anti-missile defence on Czech soil?

But it hadn’t banked on such a large opposition from two thirds of the population and such an angry reaction from its future neighbours. A return to the cold war?

by Agnès Baritou // 30/04/08

REVIEW
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (Photo: ©2007 PROKINO Filmverleih GmbH)

Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK

Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna

by Jens Wiesner // 25/04/08

Mujahideen Khan: 'we do not know who the Taliban is right now'

Afghanistan remains a huge challenge for NATO. Whilst officials met in the Bucharest's Parliament Palace from 2-4 April, a group of Estonian journalists cast an eye back with a mujahideen in the Afghan mountains

by Kadri Kukk & Nabeelah Shabbir // 08/04/08

FEATURE

The future is death metal-inspired art in Kosovo

Contemporary art is just one bright face of the Kosovo prism, from which the works of the likes of 29-year-old visual artist Artan Balaj refract

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 18/03/08

INTERVIEW
Kelmendi's mother's family spoke Albanian and Turkish (Photo:  ©MK/ Java)

Gheg or Tosk: dialect still divides Kosovo

The majority of Kosovars speak Gheg, but officially use Tosk for historical reasons. As Kosovo emerges in the form of an independent state, Migjen Kelmendi, former rock star and editor in chief of 'Java' magazine, discusses 'nationalist deliriums'

by Jean-Sébastien Lefebvre // 18/03/08

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