From a t.A.T.u. fanpage about this song:

In 1998, Alexander Voitinsky began a music project with a friend of
his Ivan Shapovalov. They held an audition by the little money and
found Lena Katina, a member of kids band Neposedy, a daughter of
famous composer Sergey Katin. They had only a little money and their
project didn't easily progress.

In March 1999, NATO began to bomb Yugoslavia, where Voitinsky's
brothers and sisters lived in her capital Belgrade. And they were
killed by bombings. Out of this tragedy, Voitinsky made a song. The
song, named Yugoslavia, were sung by Lena Katina.

After that, the initiative of the project was taken by Shapovalov. He
made a groupe consists of Lena Katina and her friend Yulia Volkova.
The group was named TATU and TATU made great success. On the
other hand Voitinsky left the project.

Voitinsky's Yugoslavia became a phantom song. However, after the
successes of TATU, an interview with Voitinsky was broadcasted and
Yugoslavia was used as the background music. Yugoslavia, quite
different from TATU's image, was the song that moves people.

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