Via Reuters' Krisztina Than.. Might I note the anti-immigrant sentiment, too?

Hungary will stand up for its rights within the European Union and wants autonomy for ethnic Hungarians living beyond its borders in central Europe, including Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday ( Read more... )

Over at IPS News, Vesna Peric Zimonjic writes about how the peoples of the former Yugoslavia are coping with the fact that their economies collapsed so thoroughly, such that GDP per capita and income are still well below 1990 levels.

Experts and analysts agree that the region, now comprising the newly independent nations or territories of Slovenia ( Read more... )

I've a post up taking a look at how the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina is becoming increasingly homogeneously Serb by population, thanks to assimilation and migration and whatnot, and suggest that the processes of a still famously multicultural Vojvodina are pioneering, really, comparable processes in other multicultural areas past the ( Read more... )

Two recent articles from The New York Times touching on the aftermath of the recent war in Georgia have caught my attention. Ellen Barry's "Soviet Union’s Fall Unraveled Enclave in Georgia" takes a look at the course of South Ossetia's alienation from Georgia as experienced by Ossetian Ireya Alborova.

It is not easy for Ireya Alborova to root ( Read more... )

A new article at Balkan Insight, Neil MacDonald's "Serbia Luring ‘Brownfield’ Investors", caught my eye the other day. In the autonomous Serbian province of Vojvodina, "brownfield" investments in an idle and decayed industrial economy seem to be taking off.

Strong economic growth forecasts, continued flows of remittances from Serbs working abroad ( Read more... )