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...Dejan Anastasijevic: Things certainly don't look good at all for Macedonia. Nobody on either side of the ethnic divide in Macedonia had expected such a rapid escalation. The only way to interpret the rebels' success in sustaining a military challenge in an urban area deep inside Macedonia is that they have much more support among the local ethnic-Albanian population than anybody expected. But both communities - the ethnic Albanians and Macedonia's Slavic majority - are now radicalized, and both are losing faith that this can be solved by political means...
Over in Belgrade, where people had stormed the city two months ago in order to ensure that their popular vote was respected, Serbs were wide-eyed. "Everybody was totally astonished," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "First it was announced that Bush was elected, then it was announced that he hadn't won. The joke here was that the mayor Cacak should be called out with his bulldozer [a reference to the key moment in the anti-Milosevic protests when police vehicles were bulldozed aside...
Over in Belgrade, where people had stormed the city two months ago in order to ensure that their popular vote was respected, Serbs were wide-eyed. "Everybody was totally astonished," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "First it was announced that Bush was elected, then it was announced that he hadn't won. The joke here was that the mayor Cacak should be called out with his bulldozer [a reference to the key moment in the anti-Milosevic protests when police vehicles were bulldozed aside...
Yugoslavia's new President, Vojislav Kostunica, met with TIME's Andrew Purvis and Dejan Anastasijevic in Belgrade...
...Reported by Dejan Anastasijevic/ Belgrade and Massimo Calabresi/Washington