Word: serbians
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...Perhaps it will. But just in case, Russia is looking to make another movie to shore up its version of the conflict. Renowned Serbian director Emir Kusturica declined the project last month following a meeting with its Russian backers in a Moscow nightclub. But don't be surprised if those behind the film sign someone else up and Russian moviegoers soon get yet another take on a familiar subject...
...While on the run, he was protected by 80 armed men and was able to visit his wife regularly; in 2004 he published Miraculous Chronicles of the Night, a novel set in 1980s Yugoslavia, which won a Serbian book prize. A year later he released a book of poems, Under the Left Breast of the Century...
...boycott has cast a pall over the tribunal, which was set up 15 years ago by the U.N. Security Council to try those responsible for atrocities committed during the war. Many survivors and relatives of victims fear that Karadzic's trial will play out similarly to that of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who used repeated stall tactics to drag out his proceedings for three years before eventually dying in custody. Many of the problems stemmed from the decision by the tribunal to allow Milosevic to defend himself - he used the court as a soapbox, delivering rambling political speeches. Karadzic...
...obviously trying to derail the whole trial," Natasa Kandic, a Serbian human-rights activist, told TIME by telephone from Belgrade, the Serbian capital. "I hope that the tribunal has learned some lessons from Milosevic's case and that they'll continue with the trial and disregard his games and claims that the court's unfair...
...allow the proceedings to continue. But this could actually lead to further delays. "If they enforce a lawyer upon him, they would have to allow that person at least two years just to get acquainted with the case," Goran Petronijevic, one of Karadzic's many legal advisers, said on Serbian television. "That is much longer than the delay we have asked...