“The Balkan Peninsula for the Balkan peoples” was the formula which comprised the aspirations and aims of Russian policy; it precluded the possibility of the political predominance, and still ...

The 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo came in the midst of a bitter power struggle among major European powers in the Balkans. One hundred years and three devastating wars later ...

The international conference WWI and Its Balkan Connection organized with support of the Russkiy Mir Foundation was held in Belgrade on December 6-7. Among the participants are prominent experts in ...

Balkan academics, however, cannot reach such a consensus. A hundred years after the war, the question remains: What – if anything – have we, in the Balkans, learned from history?

Former foes from World War I will come together in Sarajevo to mark the war's centenary in June, their rivalries long buried though the conflict is still a source of bitter division in the Balkans. As ...

Statue of assassin who unleashed WWI unveiled in Sarajevo. 2. He was only 19 when he triggered the first global conflict. Author and historian Tim Butcher. ... His legacy in the Balkans was toxic.

Serbia unveils monument to WWI assassin 06/29/2015 June 29, 2015. Serbia has unveiled a monument to the man who sparked the chain of events leading to World War I. Gavrilo Princip, who ...

The assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne in Sarajevo in June 1914 happened in the middle of a power struggle among the major European nations in the Balkans. A hundred years and three ...

Serbia bore the greatest responsibility for the outbreak of WW1. ... Serbia, exhausted by the two Balkan wars of 1912-13 in which it had played a major role, did not want war in 1914.

Statue of assassin who unleashed WWI unveiled in Sarajevo. 2. He was only 19 when he triggered the first global conflict. Author and historian Tim Butcher. ... His legacy in the Balkans was toxic.

Serbia bore the greatest responsibility for the outbreak of WW1. ... Serbia, exhausted by the two Balkan wars of 1912-13 in which it had played a major role, did not want war in 1914.

Statue of assassin who unleashed WWI unveiled in Sarajevo. 2. He was only 19 when he triggered the first global conflict. Author and historian Tim Butcher. ... His legacy in the Balkans was toxic.