Russia

Direct Dialogue: a Moment of Truth for Kosovo

LEAD: Reasons why Kosovan leaders must constructively talk to Belgrade

6 Sep 05

Corruption and stalled reforms seen as the root of Bucharest’s failure to meet EU membership criteria

6 Sep 05

Bucharest opposes neighbouring Moldova's swing back to Moscow.

6 Sep 05

America may have offered Milosevic's most trusted general lenient tribunal treatment in exchange for testifying against his old boss

6 Sep 05

A senior Albanian official has been implicated in a major drug trafficking operation.

6 Sep 05

Slobodan Milosevic's twisted perception of recent history turns the anniversary of defeat in Kosovo into victory celebrations.

6 Sep 05

There's growing speculation that the Yugoslav president is planning to flee the country.

6 Sep 05

Up until the last moment, no one knew whether the old despot would slip his noose again. But then the incredible happened.

6 Sep 05

Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu may be swept back into power on a wave of nostalgia for the Communist era.

6 Sep 05

Kostunica intervenes to help avert an escalation in violence between the Serbian forces and Albanian rebels in the south of the country

6 Sep 05

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