Eight children and a security guard killed as a student uses two guns and two petrol bombs in preplanned school attack. A 14-year-old suspect in Belgrade killed eight of his schoolmates and a security guard, in a rare mass shooting that has shocked Serbia and the surrounding Balkan region. But later, I saw a member of security fall to the …
BELGRADE, Serbia — Well before Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was using the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to ostensibly offer justification for the invasion of a sovereign European country. Putin’s arguments, repeated several times since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, appear to follow this line: If different ex-Yugoslav republics and the former Serbian …
