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YUGOSLAVIA: Tough Posture Shifts Serbian Protests into New Phase
After allowing opposition protests to run and run for two weeks, authorities in Serbia have raised the stakes by suddenly hardening their posture.YUGOSLAVIA: Protesting Voters Boycott Re-Run City Council Elections
Voter turnout in Wednesday's re-run municipal elections in districts lost by the ruling Socialist Party was predictably low, as boycotting opponents of the government continued their street protests for a eighth day instead.YUGOSLAVIA: Protests Continue In Serbia After Vote Annulments
The Serbian opposition 'Zajedno' coalition Monday called on its supporters in Belgrade to boycott any attempt to restage local elections annulled by the courts on request of the ruling Socialist Party (SPS).YUGOSLAVIA-FILM: “Pretty Village, Pretty Flame”
It is April 1992, the first day of war in Bosnia. But the friends do not know that the conflict has already erupted.YUGOSLAVIA: Milosevic Coalition Wins Majority In Federal Parliament
With the votes fully counted, the ruling coalition of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic has won a clear majority in federal parliamentary elections here -- but failed to secure the 75 percent margin needed to change the constitution.YUGOSLAVIA: Milosevic’s Coalition Leads Election Count So Far
With more than half the votes in Sunday's elections counted, the party of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic and its allies appear to be drawing comfortably ahead.YUGOSLAVIA: Federal and Local Elections to Test Milosevic
On Sunday voters in what's left of Yugoslavia will decide on the composition of a 138-seat federal assembly and municipalities without the shadow of the conflict that marked the stuttering if irreversible breakup of this once powerful European nation.YUGOSLAVIA: Kosovo Albanians Drop Six Year Boycott To Fight Polio
The embattled ethnic Albanian community in the Serbian province of Kosovo have found themselves on the same side as their Serb 'oppressors' in a war against a common enemy -- a war against the crippling disease of polio.YUGOSLAVIA: Did West Press Avramovic To Quit And Save Milosevic?
After 11 days of raising the hopes of the Serbian opposition, former national bank chairman Dragoslav Avramovic, may have tipped the fractious parties back into the political hinterland by withdrawing his offer to lead them.REFUGEES: Plight Of Refugees From Across The Former Yugoslavia
Hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced persons left by the wars in the former Yugoslavia are simply resigned to the fact that they will never go home -- and the vast majority now do not even want to try.YUGOSLAVIA: Prime Candidate Challenges Milosevic For First Time
In the first concerted challenge to the rule of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, the historically fractured Belgrade opposition is uniting under a credible candidate, former central bank governor Dragoslav Avramovic.YUGOSLAVIA: Outer Wall Of Sanctions Still Chokes Milosevic’s Hopes
Almost drowned out by the enthusiastic hooting of the official Belgrade press, Yugoslav experts are saying that the lifting of another belt of U.N. sanctions will not quickly restore economic normality to Serbia and Montenegro.CROATIA-INFORMATION: Don’t Insult the President!
When public prosecutor Ivanka Tramoziljka urged the jailing of two reporters last week she invoked no national security provision, nor did she cite any press code violation as a basis for the demand.#24/09/1996 10: 37
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is under increasing pressure from Bosnian Serbs threatening to undermine a fragile election process devised by the West to try and keep the war-torn state together.YUGOSLAVIA: Bosnian Serbs Vow to Respect Dayton Accords
Much nervousness surrounded the wait for Bosnian Serb reaction to last weekend's election results, most of all to the Serbs' defeat in the race for the top spot on the new three member collective presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina.BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Count Goes On, But Izetbegovic Slightly Ahead
Bosnia-Hercegovina had to wait another day for a final result in the electoral battle between the three most nationalist candidates from the country's three main ethnic factions.BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Bosnian Serbs See Victory In Ballots And Battle
Bosnia's Serbs expressed quiet confidence Monday that they will be the real winners of the weekend's landmark vote in Bosnia-Hercegovina.BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Bosnian Serbs Ready To Vote For Division
Saturday's national elections have given Bosnia's Serbs a chance to voice their own plans for their country -- plans that stand in defiance of Western desires to see Bosnia- Hercegovina recreated as a multi-ethnic unified state.YUGOSLAVIA: Countdown to The Complex Elections
Expectations are high in Bosnia- Hercegovina as the troubled territory prepares for perhaps the most complex elections in the history of Europe, set for Sep. 14./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ YUGOSLAVIA: Beating A Reluctant Path To The IMF And World Bank
Starved of foreign capital and ill-placed to take full advantage of October's expected lifting of a last set of punitive U.N. sanctions, Serbia is silencing its nationalist dissenters and burying its differences with its rival neighbours.YUGOSLAVIA: Beating A Reluctant Path To The IMF And World Bank
Starved of foreign capital and ill-placed to take full advantage of October's expected lifting of a last set of punitive U.N. sanctions, Serbia is silencing its nationalist dissenters and burying its differences with its rival neighbours.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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