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HEALTH-YUGOSLAVIA: Living Through a Trauma
Serbia is a country where a large sector of the population is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, psychologists say.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbian Opposition Seek Help From Moscow
Serbian opposition leaders are due in Moscow later this week to protest against the recent government takeover of opposition media outlets - all highly critical of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbian Society Faces Turmoil
The conflict of the past few years has seen a total collapse in Serbia's major institutions.DEVELOPMENT-YUGOSLAVIA: Reconstruction Successes – Fact Or Fiction?
A year after the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, air strikes against Serbia, the government media continues to talk about major reconstruction successes but in reality this appears to be more fiction than fact.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Two Decades Later Tito’s Heritage In Ruins
Twenty years after the death of Josip Broz Tito, symbol of post-World War II Yugoslavia and liberal communism with a human face, his heritage is literally in pieces.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Government Turns Up The Heat On Opposition
Political analysts here say they are worried by the increased vitriol emanating from the Slobodan Milosevic regime.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Remembering The Dead
The church bells tolled solemnly as over 2.000 people gathered to remember 16 employees of Radio Television Of Serbia (RTS), killed during the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, rocket attack on April 23 last year.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Opposition Parties Ride Wave of Public Support
Serbian opposition parties may face a tough battle to topple the Slobodan Milosevic regime, but they can do so if they remain united, political analysts here say.RIGHTS-SERBIA: Human Rights Violations Go From Bad To Worse
"We know we have no rights at all. In our courts one can be sentenced without any proof for anything.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: The Death Of A Journalist
A black plaque adorns the entrance to the apartment block where, exactly one year ago, unknown assailants brutally gunned down journalist, Slavko Curuvija, 50, in broad daylight.ENVIRONMENT-YUGOSLAVIA: NATO’s Chemical Warfare
Fears are growing among Serbia's public on possible health hazards following confirmation from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, that it used depleted uranium (DU), in its air campaign against the country last year.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Tensions high between Serbia and Montenegro
Nine years after the former six member Yugoslav federation fell apart in bloody wars, it appears that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), made up of Serbia and tiny Montenegro, is heading in the same direction.POPULATION-YUGOSLAVIA: The Land Of The Old
The alarm bells are sounding - Serbia is becoming a country of the old as fewer and fewer babies are being born.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: The Land Of Refugees
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) has the largest refugee population in Europe housing at least 750.000 of the over two million people displaced during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: One Year On…The Trauma Still Lingers
Friday marks the first anniversary of the 11 week long North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, air campaign against Serbia.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Government, Opposition in Separate Moves to End Isolation
Hoping to end the isolation of the Belgrade government Yugoslavia is seeking new friends in what critics call "remote countries" little known by the Serbian public.MEDIA-YUGOSLAV: Government Cracks Down On Independent Media
The government has launched a crack down on the country's independent media.YUGOSLAVIA: Education System In Tatters Under Sanctions
For years teachers in primary and high schools all over the country have complained that chalk and blackboards are all they have at their disposal -- even motivation appears to be out of stock.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Fears Of War As Tension Escalates
Fears are growing that the tense situation in southern Serbia, around Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac bordering Kosovo province, may escalate into another war situation.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Belgrade Clamps Down On Terrorism
The brutal assassination of Yugoslav Defence Minister, Pavle Bulatovic last week has placed the government under intense pressure to act on the growing lawlessness in the country.POLITICS-YUGOSLAV: Ethnic Albanians Languish In Serb Prisons
Eight months after the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), ended its bombing campaign against Serbia, the fate of thousands of Kosovo Albanian prisoners, remains undetermined.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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