Speaking Openly in Serbia
July 8, 2013 | Serbians who live with HIV report that they are stigmatized and have difficulties gaining access to treatment.
Articles by John Feffer
Competitive Suffering
July 8, 2013 | As we focus on a particularly appalling human rights problem within its own context, we must remember the old labor slogan that 'an injury to one is an injury to all.'
Two Cheers for the Serbian Government
July 3, 2013 | Residual anti-communist beliefs that current state structures are only cosmetically altered versions of the old system have had to be overcome.
Finding a Normal Path in Serbia
June 19, 2013 | Many ethnic Serbs fled -- or were expelled from -- Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo during those conflicts of the 1990s.
Slovenia and Bulgaria: a Tale of Two Reforms
June 11, 2013 | Slovenia has achieved the most economic success among East-Central European states transitioning from communism, Bulgaria the least.
Hungary: A Cancer in the Middle of Europe
June 6, 2013 | Something is dreadfully wrong with Hungary--and it could spread to the rest of Europe.
Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Divorce
June 5, 2013 | As is the case with most divorces, the "children" -- Czechs and Slovaks -- were not consulted.
Restoring Slovenia’s Erased
May 30, 2013 | A year ago, the European Court of Human Rights mandated that Slovenia pay compensation to the 25,000 people stripped of residency in the wake of the country's independence.
The City and the City
May 24, 2013 | Central Europe has become an Apartheid region where Roma and non-Roma inhabit increasingly separate and decidedly unequal worlds.
Yugoslavia: When a Country Actually Is Wiped Off the Map
May 23, 2013 | For many the decomposition of Yugoslavia into its constituent republics in the early 1990s was anything but smooth.