Welcome to Yugoville


An archive of various articles on my travels in the former Yugoslavia. A lot has changed since I wrote these: Milošević is dead, Karadžić went New Age and Mladić went — hey where is Mladić? To read in chronological order, start at the bottom.

 

yugovideoletters-restaurantReturn to Sarajevo

A Dutch-funded project to re-connect survivors of the Balkans wars by video launches in the former war-torn capital. 

 

yugoarkantectureArkantecture

When one lives in a gangster society, one gets gangster architecture. Therefore  ‘A Field Guide to Serbian Gangster Kitsch’ is a very handy thing indeed. 

 

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Power Lunch

Is this “retired” General a war criminal?
Or just deeply conflicted? 

 

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Flying High with Mira

Sitting behind the psycho wife of Slobodan Milošević on a flight to Belgrade after she visited her husband’s jailed ass at the International War Crimes Tribunal… 

 

yugoBosnian-BugA Peckerhead in Bosnia

I had already visited Belgrade and Guca but it was only when I went to Bosnia for the first time that my brain truly got Balkanized. Meet the professor.

 

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