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Grand Hotel Pristina: Where Guests Tote Guns, Cameras

Published July 2, 1999 in The Christian Science Monitor Leave a comment

Once Serif Turgut was attacked by a mob of Serb demonstrators in front of the hotel. A receptionist came out to rescue her, joking, “We can give up Serbia but not our guests.”

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A Family Who Crossed Kosovo’s Ethnic Divide

Published June 29, 1999 in The Christian Science Monitor Leave a comment

When Milka Jakupi first met her husband in a Belgrade movie theater in 1966, Yugoslavia was still a country where love mattered more than ethnic background.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I reported from the former Soviet empire for 25 years for NPR, Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg, and others. My first book, Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine, is now available from Columbia University Press.

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