Word: zagreb
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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...
...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...
What's your favorite book? -Zora Brozina, Zagreb, CroatiaI loved A Wrinkle in Time. I dearly love Flowers for Algernon. There is an unpublished manuscript that I think is going to soon be published. It's by a guy named Rich Gold who died way too young. It's called The Plenitude. It's an obscure reference, but one that I hope will become less obscure over time...
...same goal, and its institutional reform has caused EU representatives to hint at membership before the end of the decade. A progress report brought out on Tuesday pointed out, however, that important issues like judicial reform and bureaucratic corruption need to be addressed before a EU flag flies in Zagreb...
...triggered by events at a soccer match between the two countries, while Croatian nationalists still mark the start of their war with Serbia not from the day the first shots were fired, but from a violent confrontation at a May 1990 match between the Croatia-based Dinamo Zagreb and Serbia's Red Star Belgrade...