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POLITICS-CROATIA: Constitutional Cleansing Pledged
Croatia's newly elected president, Stjepan Mesic, has pledged to cleanse the country's constitution of excessive presidential powers.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Brothers In Crime
Last month's slaying of controversial Serb criminal turned war hero, Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan (47), has sparked a debate on the use of well known criminals during the war that disintegrated the former Yugoslavia.POLITICS-CROATIA: Voters Prepare For Presidential Polls
Croats go to the polls in February to elect a new president.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Speculation Abounds In Warlord’s Murder
Speculation abounds following the weekend murder of Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan who died in a hail of bullets in the lobby of a Belgrade hotel.//REPEATING//POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbia’s Fragmented Opposition Close Ranks
Serbia's fragmented opposition parties have closed ranks in an attempt to topple the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, in office since 1990.//REPEATING//POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Serbia’s Fragmented Opposition Close Ranks
Serbia's fragmented opposition parties have closed ranks in an attempt to topple the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, in office since 1990.POLITICS-CROATIA: Ruling Party’s Defeat Renews Hope For A New Era
The landslide victory by opposition parties in parliamentary elections in Croatia has renewed hopes for broader democratisation and for an end to international isolation after the autocratic rule of the late President Franjo Tudjman and his nationalist Croatian Democratic Party (HDZ).POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Party Militia Ignites Fear of Civil War
For some time now, fears are growing that the political climate in Serbia is leading the country towards a civil war.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Want to be Warm? Get Rid of Milosevic
While Yugoslav customs keep delaying a European Union (EU) heating-oil shipment for two opposition-controlled- Serbian cities, a number of people here feel they are again being unfairly punished by the democratic nations of Europe.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Emigrants Gather Around their Prince
Several hundred Serbian emigres and opposition representatives gathered this weekend in this Hungarian village around an unusual character - the English-born heir to the Yugoslav throne.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Abuses and Information War Continue
While the Russian chairman of the United Nations Security Council left Yugoslavia carrying a pile of human rights complaints, a UN forensic team said it had exhumed more than 2,100 corpses of ethnic Albanians from mass graves in Kosovo.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Montenegro Moves Towards Independence
For all practical purposes, Montenegro took last week the first step towards independence by adopting the German mark as a parallel currency to the Yugoslav dinar.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Watching Your Neighbours
It is just like in cold-war times, when Yugoslavia had enemies on both sides of the Berlin Wall and people were expected to watch out for foreign saboteurs.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Watching Your Neighbours
It is just like in cold-war times, when Yugoslavia had enemies on both sides of the Berlin Wall and people were expected to watch out for foreign saboteurs.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: NATO and Serbian TV Accused of Rights Crimes
NATO and the Serbian state television (RTS) will be accused of human rights violations and negligence before regional and national courts for the death of 16 television workers during a NATO air attack last April.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: NATO and Serbian TV Accused of Rights Crimes
NATO and the Serbian state television (RTS) will be accused of human rights violations and negligence before regional and national courts for the death of 16 television workers during a NATO air attack last April.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Opposition Vows to Continue Street Protests
The Alliance for Change , a Serbian opposition group, vowed Monday to continue its campaign of street protests against Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, in spite of last week's police crackdown and possible legal action against its leaders.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: The General Turned Politician
In the midst of growing protests against the government, the Yugoslav opposition scene was unexpectedly reinforced this summer with the figure of Momcilo Perisic, who was the Army chief of staff until November last year.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Slim Chances for a Multiethnic Kosovo
)Almost three months after ethnic Albanians refugees and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) began returning to the southern Serbian province of Kosovo, the prospects of a democratic multiethnic society look dark.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Power Struggle Begins in Earnest
With the opposition showing its strength on the streets of Belgrade and the ruling Socialists seemingly ready to face early elections, the struggle for power in Yugoslavia has started in earnest.RIGHTS-KOSOVO: Gypsies – ‘The Most Unwanted’
Caught in the middle of the Balkans' strife, the Gypsies of Kosovo have the absurd privilege of being "the most unwanted" in the land of ethnic hatred.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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