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...national feeling, may also radicalize Serbian politics and push moderate nationalists like Kostunica away from the E.U. and into Russian hands. "Serbia should not seek the company of those who support tearing a piece of our territory away," Leon Kojen, a former chief Serbian negotiator, told the Belgrade daily Politika. Russia's intransigence, meanwhile, is part of a general hardening of Moscow's stance on a range of issues affecting its border with E.U. and NATO member states. A forced resolution in Kosovo is bound to increase tensions between Russia and the Western allies...
...Jurij Bajec, an economist now fiercely critical of Milosevic who once worked under him at Belgrade's largest bank and later followed him into politics. Although Milosevic talked about economic reform, he slapped bans on writers and gradually purged dissenting voices from TV Belgrade and the influential Belgrade daily Politika. "The party leaders had been in a panic over signs of liberalization," says Djukic. "Milosevic understood this, knew which card to play and succeeded in getting them behind...
...government-sanctioned newspaper, Politika, denounced the lack of basic goods like soap and detergents. For the first time since World War II, the paper reported, the schools of Warsaw are infested by lice...
Petric once wrote journalistic film criticism for the daily publication, "Politika," in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His film reviews appeared in a weekly Monday supplement, and one day he was reading through it in a barbershop. "You're reading that crazy Petric," the barber observed. "Let me give you some advice: whenever he says a film is excellent, don't go, but if he says not to go to a movie, I guarantee you will enjoy it." That was the end of his career as a film reviewer...
...Politika Ekspres was fined for accusing Moscow of trying to exploit Yugoslavia's economic and social troubles...