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POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Kosovo Albanians Struggle To Bridge Differences
Western diplomats are putting fresh weight behind calls for a 'Dayton-style' regional conference to bring the fighting in the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo to a halt.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA/KOSOVO: Army Challenged By Draftees’ Parents
For the last few days a small knot of mothers and fathers have gathered outside the headquarters of the Yugoslav Army General Staff in central Belgrade.POLITICS-BALKANS/RUSSIA: Moscow More Cautious Of NATO Than Belgrade
With NATO fighter-bombers prowling his borders, Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic apparently thinks it prudent to consent to Russian mediation in the deepening standoff between Belgrade and the West over the Kosovo crisis.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Milosevic Goes To Moscow
State-controlled Belgrade TV called it 'an invitation from Russian President Boris Yeltsin', but Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was summoned to Moscow, Monday, not asked -- and while there he is expected to listen, not negotiat e.ECONOMY-YUGOSLAVIA/KOSOVO: Kosovo’s Economy – Myths And Poverty
The province of Kosovo, it is said, has an almost mythical meaning for Serbs: it is seen as 'the cradle of the medieval Serbian state', the site of the most important monasteries in Serbian history, the official seat of the Orthodox church.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Milosevic Gets Tough With Domestic Rivals
Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, a civil war brewing in his own country, is playing tough with his opposition in the neighbouring republic of Montenegro, Serbia's junior partner in what remains of the Yugoslav Federation.POLITICS-KOSOVO: Milosevic And Rugova Levered Into Talks
News that Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic will have face-to-face talks with ethnic Albanian community leader Ibrahim Rugova, here Friday, comes not a moment too soon for the flashpoint province of Kosovo.POLITICS-SERBIA: Only Soccer Sanction Threat Disturbs Serbs
Hit by a new round of sanctions and facing war in its southern Serbian province of Kosovo, the Belgrade authorities advised Serbs everywhere -- to take a long May Day holiday weekend.SERBIA: No Effort Spared To Deliver Referendum Snub To West
Polling stations all over Serbia opened their doors Thursday for a referendum with a virtually guaranteed outcome -- that the Serbs will reject foreign involvement in resolving the crisis in the troubled Serbian province of Kosovo.POLITICS-SERBIA/KOSOVO: Serb Police In Tanks Unmoved By UN Embargo
Even government critics here think that the West's renewed arms embargo on Serbia is worthy but useless. Arms bans will do nothing to affect the crisis in its breakaway province of Kosovo either way -- as both sides already have guns to spare.POLITICS-KOSOVO/SERBIA: New Sanctions On Belgrade Deferred One Month
The United States failed Wednesday to push through its demand for new sanctions against Yugoslavia as a way to end Serbian violence against Kosovo's ethnic Albanian community.POLITICS: Ethnic Albanians Hold Own Elections In Kosovo, Sunday
Controversial elections to be held Sunday in Kosovo are designed as a key test of Ibrahim Rugova's leadership of ethnic Albanians in the troubled southern Serbian province.POLITICS: West Warns Kosovans That Independence Is Not An Option
Western countries have warned ethnic Albanians in the flashpoint southern Serbian province of Kosovo that they will not support their demands for independence.SERBIA: Milosevic Defies The World, Media Blamed For ‘Terrorism’
President Slobodan Milosevic's continued defiance over Kosovo in the face of international outrage has won the backing of his political opposition and is threatening to spill over into a crackdown on dissenting voices in the independent media.POLITICS: Kosovo Buries Its Dead, Tension High In Fractious Province
Ethnic Albanians from the flashpoint Serbian province of Kosovo buried their dead Tuesday, the casualties from the weekend's clashes with government forces.BALKANS: Criminals Given A Free Hand In The Balkan Wars
Horrific atrocities, ethnic cleansing and the destruction of once prosperous economies in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina have overshadowed one bitter reality -- some people actually benefited from the carnage.ECONOMY: Milosevic Fiddles While Serbian Economy Burns
The increasing economic squeeze on Serbia is driving striking workers onto the streets in protest, paralysing public services. Hundreds of thousands of public sector staff want to be paid on time, but the state lacks the cash to guarantee this.REFUGEES-BALKANS: Eastern Slavonija Goes Back To Croatia
On Thursday, a small cinema hall in Borovo Naselje, a suburb of the war-shattered Croatian city of Vukovar, became a place of history.POLITICS: Serb Vote Is Fourth Time Lucky For Slobodan Milosevic
It took four elections to get a result, but finally Balkan strongman Slobodan Milosevic has the man of his choice as president of Serbia -- Milan Milutinovic, 55, his present foreign minister.POLITICS: Serbia’s Fourth Presidential Vote Becomes An Icy Farce
Temperatures are at record levels below freezing, electricity, gas and petrol supplies are failing because the state hasn't paid the bills -- and now the Serbs are being asked to turn out Sunday to vote for a fourth time for a new president.POLITICS: Serbs Told To Keep Voting Until They Finally Get It Right
Like truculent schoolchildren forced to repeat a lesson until they get it right, Serbia is going to the polls again on Sunday, Dec. 7, in a third attempt to elect a new president, a process that many suspect will go to a fourth ballot.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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