During what time period is the novel, Veronika Decides to Die, set?

In the early-to-mid 1990's, several regions in Eastern Europe that were once a single country called Yugoslavia participated in what has been variously described as a civil war or a war of aggression. Lingering social, political, and economic uncertainty after the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellite, Communist governments were a fertile breeding ground in which centuries old ethnic tensions resurfaced and became violent, with the result that thousands of people, soldiers and civilians alike, were killed. This is the social and political context in which Veronika decides to end her life, the violence and intolerance of the world around her being primary components of the "wrongness" she feels helpless to address.