Having been on something of a ‘Balkans kick’ recently, I decided to tackle Woodford McClellan’s political biography of Svetozar Marković...

The assassination of Aleksandar I Karađorđević , King of Yugoslavia on 9 October 1934, was a horrific crime and a tragedy for the South Sl...

It is by no means correct to state, as is so often done, that the Balkans were the ‘powder keg of Europe’. It was all Europe that provided...

San‘â I know I have complained a lot on this blog over the last two years about the stupidity and sheer evil of American war policy in Yem...

The multi-nation and political concept of Yugoslavia has always exerted a certain interest and intrigue in me – as much as, if not more so...

Today, 1 st October, is both the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God on the Orthodox New Calendar, and the Chinese National Da...

Ever since that World Bank / World Values Survey study came out demonstrating how Orthodox Christians tend to be worse capitalists than W...