Dozens of Croat war veterans have protested in the Croatian town of Vukovar against signs that were written in both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets. The rally on September 3 comes a day after ...

The bilingual signs were put up in line with EU rules on minority rights Dozens of protesters in the Croatian town of Vukovar have torn down signs written in the Serbian Cyrillic script.

Vukovar was a modestly prosperous, sleepy, provincial town in eastern Croatia, near the border with Serbia, noted for its picturesque baroque architecture. That was before the war for Croatia's ...

A UN war crimes appeals court has ruled that a former Yugoslav army officer jailed for crimes at Vukovar in 1991 should serve 17, not five years. It found Veselin Sljivancanin's original conviction ...

Croatia says it will introduce signs in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts to respect Serb rights in the town of Vukovar, which was devastated by Croat-Serb fighting in 1991. Ethnic Serbs make up 34. ...

Vukovar is on the Srijem cycling route, which is connected to the European Euro Velo 6 Atlantic-to-Black-Sea route and is one of the points where cyclists often make an overnight stop.

Vukovar town, following heavy shelling during the war of independence, 1991 Croatia's progress to the European mainstream has been long and difficult, for the country has had to turn the page on ...

Vukovar, 'Croatia's Stalingrad', saw the first massacre of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. It would not be the last. In his seminal book on the wars on Yugoslavia, British journalist Misha Glenny ...