Stories written by Vesna Peric Zimonjic
Vesna Peric Zimonjic is a freelance journalist working from the Balkan region with more than three decades of experience. She has contributed to IPS since the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in 1991. Vesna also conducts political analyses of the region and contributes to the London-based daily The Independent, BBC World Service and German Deutsche Welle radio and television.

HEALTH-YUGOSLAVIA: Hidden AIDS Begins to Surface

Serbia is learning to break the taboo on AIDS as it emerges from earlier years of isolation.

POPULATION-YUGOSLAVIA: Go West, Young Serb

A fifth of Serb university graduates have firm plans to leave, and more than half the rest are looking for the first chance to go.. As young Serbs leave in search for a brighter future abroad, sociologists are calling it "the stampede of generations."

POPULATION-YUGOSLAVIA: Go West, Young Serb

A fifth of Serb university graduates have firm plans to leave, and more than half the rest are looking for the first chance to go.. As young Serbs leave in search for a brighter future abroad, sociologists are calling it "the stampede of generations."

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Conflict Over But Divisions Remain

The wars between Serbs and Croats ended years ago, but a recent survey shows they are drifting further apart.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Conflict Over But Divisions Remain

The wars between Serbs and Croats ended years ago, but a recent survey shows they are drifting further apart.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbian Politics Veers Towards The Right

Most Serbians agree that the fall of former leader Slobodan Milosevic two years ago was a positive development for the stricken country however analysts say the hasty and drastic reforms that ensued hurt many Serbs and have resulted in an increase in anti-West and far right sentiments.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbian Politics Veers Towards The Right

Most Serbians agree that the fall of former leader Slobodan Milosevic two years ago was a positive development for the stricken country however analysts say the hasty and drastic reforms that ensued hurt many Serbs and have resulted in an increase in anti-West and far right sentiments.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Organised Crime Gang Hunted Down

The Serbian police have cracked down on a gang engaged in organised crime continuing from the days of former President Slobodan Milosevic.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Organised Crime Gang Hunted Down

The Serbian police have cracked down on a gang engaged in organised crime continuing from the days of former President Slobodan Milosevic.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Iraqgate rocks Yugoslavia

Only days after it removed suspicions it was making chemical weapons, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) is found to have been engaging in a secret arms trade with Iraq.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Iraqgate rocks Yugoslavia

Only days after it removed suspicions it was making chemical weapons, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) is found to have been engaging in a secret arms trade with Iraq.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Chemical Weapons Material to be Destroyed

As the world focuses on the disputes over chemical weapons in Iraq, Yugoslavia has decided to destroy stockpiled material that could be used to make chemical weapons.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Chemical Weapons Material to be Destroyed

As the world focuses on the disputes over chemical weapons in Iraq, Yugoslavia has decided to destroy stockpiled material that could be used to make chemical weapons.

POLITICS-SERBIA: Presidential Elections But No President

Serbia failed to find a new president Sunday after the turnout fell short of the minimum of 50 per cent. The process will have to be repeated by the end of the year when the five-year term of President Milan Milutinovic ends.

POLITICS-SERBIA: Presidential Elections But No President

Serbia failed to find a new president Sunday after the turnout fell short of the minimum of 50 per cent. The process will have to be repeated by the end of the year when the five-year term of President Milan Milutinovic ends.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbian Students Get A New View of History

Dozens of thousands of elementary and high school students started the new school year with the new history textbooks that are profoundly different from everything students learnt during the decade of rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbian Students Get A New View of History

Dozens of thousands of elementary and high school students started the new school year with the new history textbooks that are profoundly different from everything students learnt during the decade of rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

POLITICS-BOSNIA: Ethnic Parties Lead the Way

Parties that push separate identities are headed for victory in the general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

POLITICS-BOSNIA: Ethnic Parties Lead the Way

Parties that push separate identities are headed for victory in the general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Election Goes Into Second Round

Serbia failed to elect a new president Sunday and the second round on October 13 will see a decisive battle between President Vojislav Kostunica and deputy prime minister Miroljub Labus.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: DNA Lab to Solve Mysteries of the Missing

A new DNA laboratory has been opened in Belgrade in an effort to close the cases of more than 40,000 people still reported missing in former Yugoslavia.

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