A director cast the beleaguered actor as Franjo Tudjman, the late Croatian leader, whom some call a patriot and others revile as an ethnonationalist zealot.
Category: War and Armed Conflicts
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A Balkan Leader Gets the Hollywood Treatment, Starring Kevin Spacey
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Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive?
The New York Times – Travel:Catch a glimpse of a storied tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, for hundreds of years, divers have leaped from a bridge in the southern city of Mostar.
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Elon Musk Foments More Geopolitical Controversy With Ukraine Internet Dispute
The New York Times – Business:The world’s richest man, whose Starlink internet service is critical to the Ukrainian Army, said he could not “indefinitely” fund the system’s use in Ukraine.
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War Colliding With Recession Risks Leave Energy Markets on Uncertain Path
The New York Times – Business:Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, along with governments’ reactions to that, might mean that prices rise. Or they could fall on fears of a global economic slowdown.
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How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War
The New York Times – Movies:For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and see their cartoonish heroes and villains.