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YUGOSLAVIA: Montenegrin Premier Survives Milosevic’s Squeeze
Serbia's strongman president Slobodan Milosevic has emerged embarrassed and possibly weakened by failure in his long battle to exert control over Montenegro, his country's junior partner in federation.CROATIA: Elections Draw Down Curtain On The Last Of ‘Greater Serbia’
Croatia goes to the polls Sunday with attention specially focused on the region of Eastern Slavonija, where Croatian Serbs must decide whether to vote in a Croatian election and bury their own failed rebellion for good./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ SERBIA: Privatisation, ‘SPS-Style’, Keeps The State In Control
The introduction, from Milan Beko, head of Serbia's new ministry for economic restructuring, was portentous enough.SERBIA: Privatisation, ‘SPS-Style’, Keeps The State In Control
The introduction, from Milan Beko, head of Serbia's new ministry for economic restructuring, was portentous enough.YUGOSLAVIA: Serbs Joining A Losing Army For 3,000 Dollars A Month
Serbia as a country is not now at war, but some Serbs have found the habit hard to break. They areaccording to an investigation by the Belgrade mediasigning up in their hundreds to fight in the Zairean conflict.YUGOSLAVIA: Free Media Next Target For Political Opposition
Every night at 7.30 pm, the streets of Belgrade ring with the cacophony of thousands of people banging pots and pans. For thirty minutes the deafening noise goes on. And stops precisely at eight.YUGOSLAVIA: Opposition Warns Of Blood, Sweat And Tears Still To Come
Serbia's parliament has confirmed that it will reinstate opposition gains annulled after November's local elections -- but the country's democratic opposition still fear a double cross.YUGOSLAVIA: Opposition Victory Recognised In Belgrade
The Belgrade electoral commission conceded defeat Wednesday and confirmed the opposition's victory in the Nov. 17 city council elections, meeting a key demand of the hundreds of thousands now on their eighth week of daily street protest./IPS BULLETIN OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS/ YUGOSLAVIA: Orthodox Christmas Eve Marked In Democratic Style
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church led a traditional midnight mass to mark the Orthodox Christian Christmas Eve, Monday, an event transformed into yet the largest demonstration of popular opposition to the authorities yet seen here.YUGOSLAVIA: Orthodox Christmas Eve Marked In Democratic Style
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church led a traditional midnight mass to mark the Orthodox Christian Christmas Eve, Monday, an event transformed into yet the largest demonstration of popular opposition to the authorities yet seen here./IPS BULLETIN OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS/ YUGOSLAVIA: Orthodox Church Support Boosts Pro-Democracy Protests
In a step forward for pro-democracy protestors in Yugoslavia, its government has accepted that the opposition won a majority in nine out of 16 Belgrade municipalities in Nov. 17 local elections, later annulled under state pressure.YUGOSLAVIA: Concessions To OSCE Will Not Halt Pro-Democracy Protests
In a step forward for pro-democracy protestors in Yugoslavia, its government has accepted that the opposition won a majority in nine out of 16 Belgrade municipalities in Nov. 17 local elections, later annulled under state pressure.YUGOSLAVIA: Protests Set to Continue into New Year
Violence has become a major factor in the daily anti-government protests staged in this capital and other cities for over a month.YUGOSLAVIA-ECONOMY: Protests and the Economy
Just the other day, Serbian officials were crowing that in 1997 the economy would begin to prosper again.YUGOSLAVIA: Opposition Defiant, but Fears Repression
Despite fears that President Slobodan Milosevic plans a crackdown on the massive daily marches which have continued here for five weeks, Serbian Opposition leaders are vowing to continue their protest.YUGOSLAVIA: Waiting, Protesting Opposition Plans Next Move
Confident the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will endorse its claims of widespread electoral fraud, Serbia's opposition leaders are looking ahead to the next stage of their battle against president Slobadan Milosevic.YUGOSLAVIA: Snall Gains In The Fight For Serb Democracy
Serbian public pressure is slowly forcing back the state; a court Monday restored a second opposition victory in last month's local elections and the likely arrival of foreign mediators has cheered the opposition still further.YUGOSLAVIA: Domestic And Foreign Pressure Provokes Reaction
A door to a settlement may have been opened by Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic's unusual invitation to the OSCE to send a delegation to Belgrade to collect "the true facts" about the daily anti-government protests rocking the nation.YUGOSLAVIA: Protestors Undaunted As Supreme Court Takes Party Line
Serbs continued peaceful mass protests here Monday, undaunted by their Supreme Court's weekend rejection of appeals against the annullment of Nov. 17 local elections in constituencies won by opposition candidates.YUGOSLAVIA-POLITICS: Who’s Who in Serbia’s Opposition
The protests which have drawn tens of thousands of people into the streets of this capital over the past two weeks are led by two men and a woman with contrasting physical appearances but bonded by common political purpose.YUGOSLAVIA: Yellow Revolution Targets State Grip On Media
Belgrade's 'yellow revolution' -- named for the eggs tossed daily by protesters at the city offices of state TV and the pro-government daily Politika -- is as much about freedom of the media as it is about last month's annulled local elections.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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