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BALKANS: Zagreb and Belgrade Recognise Each Other For What They Are
Zagreb and Belgrade put five years of hostility behind them Friday and signed an agreement on mutual recognition and normalising of relations at the headquarters of the federal Yugoslav government in Belgrade.CROATIA-ECONOMY: Slow Tourism Stifles Growth
For the sixth summer in a row, tourist resorts along the beautiful Dalmatian coast of Croatia are empty. Cafe and restaurant owners sit idle, waiting for tourists -- who are not coming.YUGOSLAVIA: Eastern Slavonija Slowly Goes Back to Croatia
When the Croatian army crashed through the rebel Serb held enclave of the Krajina a year ago this week, most thought the smaller Serb held enclave of Eastern Slavonija would swiftly follow.CROATIA: Serbs Still Fearful One Year On From ‘Operation Storm’
In the fierce divisions created between the people of the former Yugoslavia since 1991, it is easy to forget how many 'Yugoslavs' have, by marriage, birth or simple fate, ended up as citizens of what only later became an 'enemy' nation.YUGOSLAVIA: New Law On Citizenship Creates Uncertainty For Millions
Despite strong protests by human rights organisations and opposition parties, the federal parliament of Yugoslavia has adopted a law on citizenship that leaves large sections of the population in doubt about their status.CROATIA-INFORMATION: Press Freedom for Whom?
Croatian president Franjo Tudjman had a convenient rejoinder when a group of visiting journalists asked him about freedom of the press the other day: he showed them a recent edition of Feral Tribune.YUGOSLAVIA: Psychics, Prophets And Psuedo-Psychologists
Thousands of bewildered and alienated Serbs are turning to an underworld of unlicenced psychoanalysts, mediums, para-psychologists and spiritual 'healers' in an attempt to make sense of the world around them.BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA: Bildt Battles Karadzic In Power Struggle
United Nations Bosnia peace coordinator Carl Bildt flew to Sarajevo for more talks Tuesday as his high stakes gamble to test his authority by ousting Bosnian Serb 'president' Radovan Karadzic appeared ready to end in failure.YUGOSLAVIA: Serbia’s Stance Further Isolates Karadzic
Official Belgrade joined in condemning the ousting of Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Rajko Kasagic, sacked by his president Radovan Karadzic Wednesday, as the struggle for power in the troubled republic intensified Friday.YUGOSLAVIA-ECONOMY: Bye Bye ‘Grandfather’, Hello Hyperinflation?
Dragoslav Avramovic has been hailed by supporters as a saviour who, during his tenure at the Yugoslav Central Bank, mounted the tiger of hyperinflation and brought it under control.SERBIA: Ethnic Cleansing Does Not Begin At Home
Five years of conflict in the former Yugoslavia created a jumble of regions occupied by single ethnic groups, but in a brutal paradox, the main sponsor of this war of 'ethnic cleansing' remains a centre of ethnic diversity.YUGOSLAVIA: Bank Chief’s Grip On Money Supply Angers Milosevic
"My head has stayed on my shoulders -- so far," says Yugoslav Central Bank governor Dragoslav Avramovic, musing on his clashes with the ruling Socialist Party here.YUGOSLAVIA: Still the Cigarette Smugglers’ Paradise
"I can't afford to travel to the West... at least I can afford foreign cigarettes" said a middle-aged citizen of this capital purchasing his favourite American brand from a street dealer here the other day.YUGOSLAVIA: A ‘New’, Serb-Only Sarajevo?
For centuries the ultimate gesture of statehood, political ambition and nationalist grandeur has been the construction of a new capital city from scratch: St Petersburg, Brasilia, Canberra, Abuja.YUGOSLAVIA: Just Like Old Times — The Party Congress Gathers
In communist days the approach of an annual party congress was the cue for official Belgrade TV to fill its evening news programmes with the minutiae of its organisation.YUGOSLAVIA-HEALTH: Don’t Get Sick
Wars, economic crisis and international sanctions have decimated Serbia's once-extensive state health care services. Now the wry advice given in Belgrade is: 'Get sick only if you have to'.YUGOSLAVIA-HEALTH: Don’t Get Sick
Wars, economic crisis and international sanctions have decimated Serbia's once-extensive state health care services. Now the wry advice given in Belgrade is: 'Get sick only if you have to'.YUGOSLAVIA: Christopher in Belgrade, Rehn in Srebrenica
Even veteran Yugoslav journalists were hard put to recall a similar display of pomp and ceremony.HUMAN RIGHTS-SERBIA: Milosevic Will Call The Police If Threatened
With the Bosnian peace still not secure and many enemies at home, Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic agreed to 20 percent cuts in his army at the Dayton peace talks. Why? Because if he ever needs military help, he can always call the police.YUGOSLAVIA: Serbia On The Drugs Crossroads
The somberly-dressed security men are pouncing all over Serbia -- their target, the drug smugglers and producers who are feeding a growing narcotics market in the country as well as running a busy drugs supply route to Europe.YUGOSLAVIA: Serbia On The Drugs Crossroads
The somberly-dressed security men are pouncing all over Serbia -- their target, the drug smugglers and producers who are feeding a growing narcotics market in the country as well as running a busy drugs supply route to Europe.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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