Albright Eastern Europe

FILE - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, right, gives a speech at the opening of the bridge across Sava river in Brcko, Bosnia, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Sarajevo Sunday, June 1, 1997. The bridge was reconstructed and opened as a border crossing between neighboring Bosnia and Croatia. Foreground from left are international supervisor for Brcko, Robert Farrand, Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa and co-chairman of Bosnian Government Haris Silajdzic. A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia. Madeleine Albright was either loved or hated in the Balkans for her pivotal role during the southern European region's wars of the 1990s. Following the former U.S. secretary of state's death on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at age 84, how her legacy is viewed from the Balkans mostly depends on whether one was on the receiving or triggering end of the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)