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...agrees. "We are not exporting revolution," he says. "We just happen to have some experience in resisting autocrats. After all the years of fighting Milosevic, it's in our blood." Otpor won its reputation for bravely taunting Milosevic's authoritarian regime by parading a giant effigy of the Serbian strongman in a prison suit and charging people a dinar to punch it. Some 9,000 activists were jailed or detained. Since then, the group has hooked up with student protesters in Belarus, Georgia and Ghana, among other countries. Ukraine's "Pora was not created by Otpor," Sikman says. "Pora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Activists | 12/5/2004 | See Source »

...have sold them all," gushed Miroslav Toholj, Karadzic's publisher and former Bosnian Serb information minister. Toholj explained that his publishing company printed only a small number of copies because critics panned Karadzic's previous books of poetry. "I'm surprised how good he is at writing fiction," says Serbian author Branislav Crncevic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fugitive's Romantic Fiction | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Ilija and Blaguna Trajkovic don't think much of democracy. Forced by an ethnic Albanian mob to leave their home in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, last March, and then obliged to stand by as the 19th century Serbian Orthodox church they had taken care of was torched, the Serb couple now live in a shipping container in the enclave of Gracanica, south of Pristina. In the past month, successive international delegations have urged the Trajkovics and 130,000 other members of the Serb minority living in Kosovo to participate in this week's elections for the Kosovo Assembly, the provisional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Local Poll or The Birth of a Nation? | 10/17/2004 | See Source »

...Then, in 1992, Fischer resurfaced to play a rematch with Spassky in Yugoslavia, where Americans were forbidden from doing business because of its government's support of Serbian aggression in Bosnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King's Gambit | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...want to leave Greece without looking in on some of its beautiful islands. But you don't have to jostle with the crowds on Mykonos, Santorini, Crete and all those other tourist magnets. Here are three lesser-known getaways: AGISTRI Once a haven for Albanian refugees fleeing Serbian expansion in the 14th century, this tiny island won fame in the 1980s when its lovely pebbled beach, Halikiada, became a favorite haunt for nudists. Today even the most buttoned-down visitors get hooked on Agistri's idyllic, unspoiled beauty. The island is just a two-hour ferry ride from the port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pieces of Paradise | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

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