Crime and Politics in Macedonia
Opposition politicians and media have intensified accusations of government collusion with organised crime in Macedonia following the murder of three police officers on routine patrol.
Opposition politicians and media have intensified accusations of government collusion with organised crime in Macedonia following the murder of three police officers on routine patrol.
Russian media are rapidly souring on the Chechen campaign, while the government retains tight controls on information leaking out of the embattled republic.
Tribunal Update 159: Last Week in The Hague (10-14 January 2000)
Tribunal Update 159: Last Week in The Hague. (10-14 January 2000)
Tribunal Update 159: Last Week in The Hague (10-14 January 2000)
The transfer of power following the recent election in Croatia is oddly slow, impeded by the absence of a law regulating a change in government and the hesitation of the out-going administration to let go.
News of the opposition victory in Croatia has raised hopes of better relations between the two countries - and of a victory for opposition parties in Bosnia.
With corruption and self-interest still plaguing the Bosnian political scene and Western aid money on the decline, Bosnia welcomed the year 2000 with a mixture of hope and trepidation.
Serbia's health-care system is on the brink of collapse, and with medicine short, the country's infrastructure damaged by the war, and an influx of refugees from Kosovo, infectious disease is rising.