Kyrgyzstan: US Bolsters Strategic Plans for Region
The American military deployment in Kyrgystan appears to be Washington's latest attempt to support its long-term policy in the region.
The American military deployment in Kyrgystan appears to be Washington's latest attempt to support its long-term policy in the region.
Tribunal Update 102: Last Week in The Hague (16-20 November)
For the first time since March 1998, when violent clashes erupted between Serbian security forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in the Yugoslav southern province of Kosovo, international diplomats sound optimistic.
Macedonia and Bulgaria have achieved a substantive breakthrough, on language, minority and other issues. But not without fierce debate at home.
You’d have to be insane not to go crazy in Belgrade today: the hip urban capital is now a ghost-town, with only phantom rallies for Milosevic and incredible war mongering on the airwaves. Above it all, the sirens wail.
The new state-approved management of the formerly independent Radio B-92 held a party to mark the station's tenth birthday on September 8 - despite the fact that, before they took it over in March, B-92 was a major thorn in the regime's side.
The international community has sacked 22 obstructionist Bosnian officials from across the divides and barred them from elected office, in yet another attempt to kickstart the moribund peace process.
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic cherishes a dream of a military axis stretching east from Belgrade to Beijing. But his ambition rests on the future of other would-be presidents - including George Bush Jr. and Gennady Zyuganov.
The United States needs Kyrgyzstan more than ever, but authorities in Bishkek are telling the Americans to show them the money.
Prosecution is given more time to present its case after two new witnesses are introduced.