IWPR
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Opposition Mayor Velimir Ilic made a triumphant return at the first post-war anti-Milosevic rally, setting the stage for further demonstrations in other cities within Serbia.
As leaders from across the Balkans, the EU, Russia and the United States ready for this weekend's meeting on an economic and political stability pact for the region, old ties still bind former enemies in at least one area.
Heads of states who met Friday in Sarajevo to discuss a stability pact for the Balkans, will be ill-advised to use the West's experience in Bosnia as a model for Kosovo without a full and frank appraisal of their failures there.
On September 14, Chief Prosecutor Louise Arbour departs the Tribunal, leaving it a significantly different place from how it was when she arrived there on October 1, 1996.
Additional troops deployed in the Muslim-dominated region of Serbia have raised fears that Milosevic may stir up fresh conflict in his own backyard.
Once the Serbian media portrayed them as martyrs whose plight demanded war against Croats, Muslims and Albanians. Today, the forgotten victims of Belgrade's drive for a Greater Serbia, they live in squalor in collective centres in Serbia where mental illn
This week's meetings between Serbia and Montenegro have left the small republic in a state of confusion. Is Djukanovic backing slowly away from the idea of independence or buying himself space and time to cut free from the federation?
For weeks a 'dictatorship' of state-appointed deans and chancellors ensured that Serbia's universities failed to live up to their rebellious reputation and stayed out of the opposition's current anti-regime protest campaign.
The present situation in Kosovo makes learning impossible: there are no
Kosovo is a legal vacuum, with uncertain laws, missing judges and