Influenced by Serbian ultra-nationalism and football hooliganism, Mr Vucic joined the far-right Radical Party aged 23. The Radicals sought a Greater Serbia by taking land from neighbouring countries.

Critics say it could inflame tensions among Serbian nationalists and ethnic Albanians. Albanian leaders applauded the pair. A pro-government Serbian newspaper said they had "humiliated" Switzerland.

This process underlay the rise of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Stalinist who came to power as the advocate of Serbian nationalism. While the media propaganda in Europe and the United States ...

Serbian nationalists and far-right activists have staged memorial marches for Zoran Vujovic, a 20-year-old who died in the US Embassy in Belgrade in 2008 after it was set on fire during a ...