Travel Bans Are More Effective Than Most Sanctions
Economic sanctions against Yugoslavia have hit disproportionately against ordinary Serbs. Travel bans, by contrast, are successfully targeting Milosevic's elite.
10 Nov 05
Balkans
Violence, Scandals And Fugitives - Politics, Bosnian-Style
Attacks on returnees, corruption scandals and political manoeuvering... Bosnia's elections are months away, but the campaigning seems to have started already.
10 Nov 05
Election Campaigners Ask If NATO Has Outstayed Its Welcome
Though campaigning for the Macedonian presidential elections does not officially start until October 1, the political debates are underway and the top topic is the continued presence of NATO forces in the country.
10 Nov 05
Devaluing The Dinar, Like It Or Not
The dinar in the pocket of Serb consumers is worth less by the day, yet the official exchange rate of six to the German mark remains unchanged.
10 Nov 05
Djukanovic On A Mission, Increasingly Far From Home
Montenegro's president is trying to reconcile Serbia's feuding political forces, while at home his fellow citizens make it clear they wish to be as close to Europe as possible - and as far as possible from Serbia.
10 Nov 05
Muzzling The Media
The Milosevic regime is resorting to increasingly draconian measures to control Serbia's media.
10 Nov 05
Belgrade Generals Threaten A Battle With An Empty Rifle
According to the old Serbian proverb, 'an empty rifle does not fire'. It is easily used in connection with the threats of a handful of generals, who want to send the Yugoslav Army back into Kosovo, and soon.
10 Nov 05
Living The Life Of Behgjet
Behgjet Pacolli, the Kosovo Albanian multi-millionaire who weds Italian pop icon Ana Oxo tomorrow and whose business links with the Kremlin may yet bring down Boris Yeltsin, is living proof that fact can be stranger than fiction.
10 Nov 05
Montenegro's Relations With Belgrade Get Sourer By The Day
Amid charges of coup attempts and Belgrade's cold shouldering of Podgorica's effort to renegotiate its federative relationship with Serbia, Montenegro slips closer to outright confrontation.
10 Nov 05
Bosnian Graft Charges Cue The Return Of 'The Untouchables'
In response to reports of rampant corruption in Bosnia, a latter day Elliot Ness, backed by a team of 'Untouchables' from the United States, is back on the case.
10 Nov 05
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