Croatia

An experiment highlights the extent to which racial and religious prejudice remain alive in Croatia. From Balkan Insight.

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Legislation and protests marked the latest battle in the war for control of the country's universities.

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Teachers enjoyed stature, but facts and creativity were absent in the communist classroom.

Though paid well and valued for the role they played, most journalists before 1991 knew which bold lines not to cross.

Artists were unshackled by the enormous changes of 20 years ago, but that didn’t necessarily mean they thrived.

By running graphic images of a wartime murder, a Croatian paper reinforces some of the most durable falsehoods about the “Homeland War.”

Remembering the tastes and other pleasures of a country that fell apart 20 years ago.