PRISTINA -- At least since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, common ground has been all too rare in the Balkans, and, where it exists, it has tended to be a source of bitter ...

The Serbian language is being studied alongside Albanian at the University of Pristina in Kosovo for the first time since the war ended in 1999 - part of a new programme intended to help bridge ethnic ...

The Montenegrin Party asked Serbia’s premier to uphold ethnic Montenegrins’ constitutional rights and ensure their language is put into official use in the town of Vrbas, where many of them live. The ...

There is nothing wrong with referring to Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian as separate languages, in the same way as Hindi/Urdu, Swedish/Norwegian, Flemish/Dutch is. But it is a purely national and ...

Language learning has played a big role in Afsaneh’s life. As an Iranian, she grew up speaking Farsi. As an adult, she became an English teacher, and on arrival in Belgrade as a refugee in 2018 she ...

Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian are three languages. They are not one language. They are not three "similar dialects". They are not or have ever been one language. All three, official standard languages ...

MOSCOW — Goran Paskaljevic’s haunting “When Day Breaks” is Serbia‘s nomination for consideration in the foreign language Oscars. The film stars Mustafa Nadarevic (“No Man’s Land”) as a retired music ...