Word: croatia
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...damage from last Thursday's bomb blast in downtown Zagreb that killed Ivo Pukanic, one of Croatia's top media moguls, and his advertising manager, Niko Franic, will not be confined to the casualties. The attack has cast doubt over whether Croatia can curb rampant corruption and organized crime and achieve its goal of joining the European Union next year...
...dismal conditions of war-torn Yugoslavia motivated Ugresic, a native of that country,c to write critical pieces on the futility and criminality of war. Her anti-war pieces, which were deemed anti-nationalistic, subsequently made her a target for Croatian media and political figures. Ugresicc eventually left Croatia in 1993. She categorized her works as “patchwork fiction,” a combination of personal memoir, critical commentary, and fiction. Ugresic also told the crowd that the “luggage of labels”—how she referred to the literary market?...
Georgia is the logical consequence of the naive foreign policy of both the U.S. and the E.U. toward Russia. The next trouble spot: Greece? Croatia? Montenegro? And Serbia, of course. Kosovo cannot stand on its own feet. It has no significant mineral resources, no significant agriculture and no significant industry that could attract foreign investors. Put alongside this the stationing of rockets in Poland, radar posts in the Czech Republic, and America's flirt-and-more with the states of the once "soft underbelly" of the (Soviet) Russian bear, among them Georgia. Russia had to react! We thought...
...1970s, the red-tiled resort island of Sveti Stefan was a summer retreat for the likes of Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas and Doris Day. But Montenegro slipped into obscurity in the 1990s. Djukanovic and others unwisely sided with Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic and sent troops into Bosnia and Croatia. It wasn't until 1997 that Djukanovic broke with Milosevic, a divorce completed nine years later with the declaration of independence...
...former chief of Croatia's brutal Jasenovac concentration camp, Dinko Sakic fled to Argentina at the end of World War II. There he resided until his capture in 1998; the following year, a court in Zagreb, Croatia, convicted him for his role in the torture and killing of inmates under his authority. When his guilty verdict was announced, the unremorseful Sakic responded with mock applause. The last known living World War II camp commander until his death on July 20, Sakic...