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Mr Panos speaks out: the roots of the Greek financial crisis

Panos

Hello Germany, Mr Panos delivers his message from the Hellenic people all over the world: the Greeks have been playing a trick on you from the beginning Check out the rest of Mr Panos’ comments on his video blog.

Provocation or sexploitation?

Models 12 magazine editorial

The controversial Bulgarian fashion editorial featuring images of beaten and disfigured models caused an outpour of contempt across the Internet. Is it ‘art’ or mere sexploitation? Titled ‘Victim of Beauty’, the editorial of Bulgarian 12 Magazine features models with facial

Hey politician, what’s so funny?

Kamerades politician 7

The documentary photo collective Kamerades have put together a little photo collection of Serbian politicians laughing their asses off, despite failing to form a government a month and a half after the May elections, plunging the country deeper in recession

Whitefaces and Augustes: Albanian politicians laughing their asses off, but nothing is funny

Albanian politicians 5

Albanian politicians survive election after election, only because of their sense of humour: with the country’s natural resources deteriorating every day, buffoon trials that fail to deliver criminal high officials to justice, political games that only serve the interest of

Balkan warriors: stars of the small screen

nedzad klicic

They got the looks, charisma and some cash lying around to produce a video. Well, at least they think so. The audience reactions are not always what they were hoping for There’s some mysterious force that makes muscled Balkan men

The afterlives of the Yugoslav red passport

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Once upon a time, the Yugoslav passport was a highly sought-after commodity. However, after the dissolution of the socialist federation, things got a bit complicated (via Citizenship in Southeast Europe) During a summer dawn in 2005, our šinobus, the small

Behind the mirror: the invisible lives of Serbian transvestite sex workers

These girls got balls: Serbian transvestite prostitutes in a cabaret performance in Belgrade

Serbian transsexual prostitutes offer a peek into their lives on the Belgrade streets and the violent sexual abuse they suffer from the police. And they do it in a killer on-stage performance Last week, in a theater in central Belgrade,

The real Balkan prom

Bulgaria prom

Bulgarians know how to get to the point Yes, prom is that special event in your life when you celebrate the useless years you spent in high school getting drunk, cheating on maths and trying to get laid. It’s also

Sitting in the dark

Greece

The Huffington Post blogger writes for Bturn, offering her personal, wrist-slashing account of the lives of ordinary Greeks in times of economic downfall Teaneck, NJ: In the card section at Walgreen’s, there are no Sympathy cards labeled ‘Loss of a

Eurovision: high camp from Balkan to Baku

Bebi Dol

This year’s annual event celebrating all that is gauche, glittered and benignly nationalistic, will be the most controversial Eurovision competition of all time. Of course, the countries of the former Yugoslavia will continue to baffle Western critics by voting across