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...hero's welcome such as Serbia has rarely ever seen: More than 50,000 people gathered in a central Belgrade square on Sunday night to welcome home Marija Serifovic, the winner of the 2007 Eurovision Song contest. Prior to her arrival from Helsinki, police cleared the 10 mile road from the airport into the city in order to speed her passage, and a banner draped across the City Hall read "Ave Marija...
...Serbia, I won for all of you!" the 22-year-old singer said to the cheering crowd. "It's a new chapter for a new Serbia...
...Days before Saturday's Eurovision finals, the country almost plunged back into bad old days, as the Serbian parliament chose as its Speaker the ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic. Nikolic, a former vice-premier in the government of Slobodan Milosevic, caused an outrage when he vowed to cut Serbia's ties with the West and eventually merge the country with Russia - not an easy task, considering that the countries are not neighbors. Nikolic was forced to resign only hours before Serifovic's plane landed from Helsinki...
...attack was a reminder that six years after Milosevic's fall, Serbia is becoming increasingly violent, and virulent nationalism is on the rise again. There have been more than 100 politically motivated assaults in the past three months alone, and hate speech is increasingly common in the media and politics. The targets are human-rights activists, journalists and politicians who dare to stand up against the nationalists. One reason for the nationalist revival is the U.N.'s push toward independence for Kosovo, a province mostly populated by ethnic Albanians, but cherished as a historic heartland by most Serbs. Another...
...response of the authorities, something positive may yet come out of the ordeal. Within hours, the director of Serbian police showed up to tell me that finding the attacker is a top priority. President Boris Tadic came over to express his support. Rade Bulatovic, the head of Serbia's main security agency, whom I had often criticized, phoned and offered help. Expressions of outrage and offers of help also came from judges, politicians, diplomats, colleagues and ordinary Joes. And on Monday at noon, traffic was blocked for five minutes in all of Serbia's major towns and cities...