Author: M Barbu

The bodies of the dead men, women and children, including a baby aged seven months, from the Kosovo town of Suva Reka were buried in pits in an army base in Prizren before being secretly transported to a new mass grave in the police compound at Batajnica, near Belgrade.

While the existence of the mass grave at Batajnica was uncovered in the spring of 2001, after the fall of the Milosevic regime, those responsible for the murders and the transportation have never been brought to justice – owing largely to police obstruction.

Women in Bulgaria are paying a higher price for the failings of the country’s healthcare system, which is increasingly dependent on older, poorly-paid female nurses and midwives.

Fifty-five years old, a nurse in Sofia laments that she does not have many younger colleagues. After all, younger nurses might cope more easily with the workload.

“I became unbearable, obsessed with odds, results and adrenaline,” said Mak, a 31-year old from Banja Luka in Bosnia, whose name has been changed to protect his identity.

It remains to be seen whether Serbia will keep its word and no longer indirectly arm Ukraine.

Serbia surprised some observers after its President and Prime Minister assured Russia that it’ll no longer indirectly arm Ukraine, which came after Russia’s Foreign Spy Service (SVR) said that Serbia hasn’t discontinued this trade that it first raised awareness about in late May. Serbia’s latest smooth-talking towards Russia is politically self-serving, however, since it preceded last weekend’s attempt to revive the protest movement which Moscow consistently assessed to be a Western-backed Color Revolution.