The text Alckmin was reading from correctly mentioned “Slovakia” rather than “Yugoslavia” — a country in Southeast and Central Europe that ceased to exist in 1992. Alckmin, a centrist ...

Along Yugoslavia’s wild coast of Dalmatia ... Ivica stayed home brooding. So he was too old and too weak. “Budalastina [What poppycock],” he muttered. “I am stronger than all the men ...

reflecting on the divisions which tour apart the old Yugoslavia. Show more Michael Portillo is on the last stretch of his railway adventure through the Balkan countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina ...