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Dramatic Life and Foretold Death of Latvian “Press Queen”

Media biography: Emīlija Benjamiņa (1881-1941) Emīlija Benjamiņa – from a newspaper publisher in small Latvia to one of the wealthiest […]

July 12, 2018 / Robert Čoban

Dinosaurs’ footprints, Tito’s Cadillac and Šerbedžija’s Commune

The lyrics of Oliver’s song “Cesarica” are coming from the terrace of the Neptune Hotel on the other side of […]
September 29, 2018 / Robert Čoban

La grande belezza born in blood

Alessandro Siniscalchi’s tailor shop is located at the bottom of one of the passages off Viale Vittorio Venetto in downtown […]
May 5, 2019 / Robert Čoban

Spirits of Agatha Christie, Hemingway and comrade Broz

To all of you fans of the pre-war period, I would like to recommend George King’s novel called “Midnight at […]
May 23, 2019 / Robert Čoban

Tropical paradise on the beaches of a forgotten genocide

Most of the tourists who visit Zanzibar do not know much about the horrendous genocide that occurred on these exotic […]
June 24, 2019 / Robert Čoban

The subjects of Münchausen, Lenin and Sheriff

A road less travelled: Moldova and Transnistria Trapped in a “frozen conflict” from 1990, landlocked, poor, lying on the intersection […]

July 17, 2019 / Robert Čoban

How I Didn’t Catch the Last Train

This is a story about the railway stations in Bač, Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci, Petrovaradin and Belgrade, about how Serbia […]
July 17, 2019 / Robert Čoban

15 days and one century

November 1st, 1918 – 100 years since establishment of Banat Republic “Empress Karl and Empress Zita, why are you at […]
July 17, 2019 / Robert Čoban

Dramatic Life and Foretold Death of Latvian “Press Queen”

Media biography: Emīlija Benjamiņa (1881-1941) Emīlija Benjamiņa – from a newspaper publisher in small Latvia to one of the wealthiest […]
July 10, 2019 / Robert Čoban

Capri’s role in global revolution

How a war far away, thousands of kilometres eastward from the Mediterranean, led to the birth of a vivid Russian […]
June 24, 2019 / Robert Čoban

The subjects of Münchausen, Lenin and Sheriff

A road less travelled: Moldova and Transnistria Trapped in a “frozen conflict” from 1990, landlocked, poor, lying on the intersection […]