Word: serbia
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...options were very limited in this case. Plavsic's problem is that she's not particularly popular at home, and it's difficult to imagine her hiding in small villages in the hills like Radovan Karadzic does, and she can't really seek refuge in Serbia because she's not really popular there, either. It's also possible that the Hague prosecutors have made some sort of deal, and that she will be treated differently because she has surrendered voluntarily and possibly agreed to cooperate with the tribunal. So it was the best she could do under the circumstances. Also...
...think he'll certainly be tried in Yugoslavia, but the question is whether he will also be tried in the Hague. The judiciary here wants to bring him to court in Belgrade, not only for war crimes but also for corruption and other things he's done inside Serbia. It's more probable that he'll first go to trial here. But the Hague tribunal will keep pressuring Yugoslavia to deliver him. Either they'll deliver him for a trial - after which he could serve his sentence in Serbia, because the Hague may not require that he remain in custody...
When Vojislav Kostunica swept to the presidency in Serbia last fall in an orgy of street celebrations and political intrigue, Zoran Djindjic was largely out of sight. But last week Serbia's dynamic opposition leader returned to the stage as the country's first post-Milosevic Prime Minister. It's a crucial job. As Kostunica struggles to preserve the defunct Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro, Djindjic will have to jump-start the moribund economy and modernize the country, while selling the world on the idea of a new Serbia...
...presidency? Think again. The post-ballot maneuverings of Al Gore and George W. Bush were nothing compared to what Slobodan Milosevic tried in Yugoslavia when, to his astonishment, an election went against him. On Sept. 24 Vojislav Kostunica, head of the center-right Democratic Party of Serbia, who had the support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic. At Milosevic's strong urging, a runoff was called. The opposition cried fraud...
...child who has not experienced personal trauma but has witnessed social strife is Magda Anastasijevic, 8, who lives in Serbia. Thanks to the international sanctions put in place after Serbia's war in Kosovo, the Harry Potter books have only just begun to appear in translation. But Magda's father knows English and has read all four Harry Potters aloud to her, simultaneously translating the original into Serbian. "I like Harry Potter because he never gives up," she says, "even though sometimes his best friends are against him." She knows that Lord Voldemort, the archvillain in the Potter books...