Word: miodrag
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...concerning relations with Russia and the E.U. has already put a serious strain on the ruling coalition, and most analysts agree that Serbia is heading towards early parliamentary elections this spring. "The coalition whose members can't agree about the country's basic policy has lost its meaning," says Miodrag Zec, an economic expert from Belgrade University. "We should have parliamentary elections in May, if not earlier...
...Miodrag Stojkovic's biggest fear is that "people think we're crazy scientists creating the latest Frankenstein." That's because the Serb, 40, a researcher with the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, could become the first person to use cells from a cloned human embryo to treat disease. Last week he got approval from the British government to conduct such an experiment...
...behalf of the "martyrs" of Kosovo. Such displays leave some Serbs wondering whether their country's three-year experiment with Western-style democracy is coming to an end. "Serbs are mad as hell and the Radicals, especially, are positioning themselves to get that protest vote," said Miodrag Popovic, an Apple computer salesman in Belgrade. "I am definitely worried." Should he be? Even if the Radical Party wins more votes than the competition on Dec. 28, analysts say it won't get the majority needed to form a government - and finding a coalition partner will likely prove impossible. "It would...
...Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia, in the third case filed against him so far. Evidence from recent exhumations of mass graves may be included in the indictment charging Milosevic with the deaths of possibly thousands of people between 1992 and 1995. A former Yugoslav navy admiral, Miodrag Jokic, surrendered to the tribunal to face charges relating to killings in Dubrovnik in 1991. GERMANY Libyan Involvement A Berlin court convicted four people and implicated the Libyan secret service in the bombing of a local nightclub 15 years ago that killed two American soldiers and a Turkish woman...