Balkans

Hiding Under The Black Rain

Ecologists say the authorities in Serbia are concealing the extent of the ecological and health threats caused by NATO bombing.

10 Nov 05

Cacak's Voice Of Reason

Opposition Mayor Velimir Ilic made a triumphant return at the first post-war anti-Milosevic rally, setting the stage for further demonstrations in other cities within Serbia.

10 Nov 05

Tightening The Noose

The arrest of Radoslav Brdjanin, under a sealed indictment from the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, has renewed speculation in Republika Srpska as to who else might have been indicted for war crimes.

10 Nov 05

Death Of The Yugo

Kragujevac was the birth place of the former Yugoslavia's best-known export, the Yugo. Now the car is dead and the city appears equally moribund.

10 Nov 05

Kosovo's New Masters Slow To Learn From Bosnia Experience

Heads of states who met Friday in Sarajevo to discuss a stability pact for the Balkans, will be ill-advised to use the West's experience in Bosnia as a model for Kosovo without a full and frank appraisal of their failures there.

10 Nov 05

Winning Team?

The former communist Ivica Racan and moderate Croat nationalist Drazen Budisa have teamed up to defeat Croatia's ruling HDZ in parliamentary elections which have to take place no later than January next year.

10 Nov 05

Blighted Retirement

Pensioners are the group within Serbian society which has fared worst during the past decade, yet they are now expected to tighten their belts once again.

10 Nov 05

Tribunal Defence Lawyers Reject Belgrade Journalist's Charges

Belgrade journalist Milovan Brkic alleges that Milosevic's secret police handpicked a team of defence lawyers to defend Serbs appearing before the Hague Tribunal but ordered them to bury evidence linking the regime to the crimes - even if that meant drivi

10 Nov 05

Comment: Serbia Seeks An Exit from History

Now the epoch of Milosevic is over – and it surely is – Serbs must learn to free themselves from the burden of history and the destructive desire to make and remake it, over and over again.

10 Nov 05
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