Sports, raspberries, but no sea: five things about Serbia

Serbia, which will elect a president on Sunday, is forever marked by the Balkan wars of the 1990s that have since deprived it of direct access to the sea. Here are several things to know about Serbia, a candidate country for the European Union that remains a close ally of Moscow. It is a country proud of its national identity and also populated by a number of minorities, a small country in love with sport and good food. - Yugoslavia to independence - Serbs are like the Swiss and Paraguayans in that they have to travel abroad to vacation on a coast. Since Serbia's split with Montenegro in 2006, the Balkan country no longer has direct access to the sea. Seven ships from its military fleet sail the rivers, notably the Danube. Communist Yugoslavia, born at the end of World War II, was made up of six republics: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Follow...

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