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.
In the wake of NATO missiles falling on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and cluster bombs dropped over a hospital and a marketplace in downtown Nis, the Yugoslav government has seemingly decided to 'wait and see,' regarding the G-8 peace proposals.
In the wake of NATO missiles falling on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and cluster bombs dropped over a hospital and a marketplace in downtown Nis, the Yugoslav government has seemingly decided to 'wait and see,' regarding the G-8 peace proposals.
In the wake of NATO missiles falling on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and cluster bombs dropped over a hospital and a marketplace in downtown Nis, the Yugoslav government has seemingly decided to 'wait and see,' regarding the G-8 peace proposals.
In the wake of NATO missiles falling on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and cluster bombs dropped over a hospital and a marketplace in downtown Nis, the Yugoslav government has seemingly decided to 'wait and see,' regarding the G-8 peace proposals.
"People are like water - they always find the way out", says Dr. Jovan Maric, one of Belgrade's most prominent psychiatrists, commenting on the fear, anxiety and stress caused by NATO air attacks on Yugoslavia.
"People are like water - they always find the way out", says Dr. Jovan Maric, one of Belgrade's most prominent psychiatrists, commenting on the fear, anxiety and stress caused by NATO a0ir attacks on Yugoslavia.
NATO countries may be fighting their war against Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, but in the eyes of ordinary Serbs, four weeks of air raids have meticulously destroyed the works of many generations.
Apart from the razing of Yugoslav industrial sites and infrastructure, Nato air attacks are causing an ecological disaster that could endanger the Balkans as a whole, Serbian officials and ecology experts warned.
The sight of militant Serbian opposition leaders joining the Yugoslav Army is probably the clearest evidence of Nato's strategic failure in Yugoslavia, most analysts here agree.
The sight of militant Serbian opposition leaders joining the Yugoslav Army is probably the clearest evidence of Nato's strategic failure in Yugoslavia, most analysts here agree.
A hastily convened joint session of Yugoslavia's Federal Parliament decided Monday the country's entry into the Union of Russia and Belarus, but independent analysts are skeptical of its effectiveness.
After last week's big fuss, the 30,000 ethnic Albanian refugees who allegedly disappeared overnight in Macedonia have now also disappeared from media, their fate largely ignored.
Every morning, for the last ten days, Bojana - a teenager - wears her best clothes and a neat makeup to join the thousands who regularly attend rock concerts in Belgrade's central Republic Square.
Apart from the material damage, the most visible results of a week of NATO air raids against Yugoslavia are the growing unity of Serbs, a massive refugee crisis in Kosovo and the destabilisation of the Balkans, Yugoslav observers say.
Apart from the material damage, the most visible results of a week of NATO air raids against Yugoslavia are the growing unity of Serbs, a massive refugee crisis in Kosovo and the destabilisation of the Balkans, Yugoslav observers say.
Yugoslavia endured a third round of NATO air raids Friday with citizens fleeing for shelter when bombs landed on the outskirts of Belgrade and Podgorica.
The Serbian parliament unanimously rejected Tuesday Western demands for the deployment of NATO military forces in the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo, but left the door open for further negotiations.
Yugoslavia has again rejected western demands for foreign troops in Kosovo where renewed fighting cast a pall over the second round of international peace talks set to begin in Paris Monday.
Yugoslavia has totally rejected any foreign western demands for foreign troops in Kosovo where renewed fighting Friday cast a pall over the second round of international peace talks set to begin in Paris.
A new burst of fighting in Kosovo and an unwillingness by the Serbs and the region's pro-independence Albanians to agree on a peace deal set the stage for a complex decision Tuesday by the "contact group" dealing with the crisis.