Word: serbs
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...received a suspended sentence for tax evasion.) Gaydamak fled France to avoid arrest - even though he is a member of the Legion D'Honneur, inducted by President Jacques Chirac most likely in gratitude for Gaydamak's help in securing the release of Frenchmen who'd been taken hostage by Serb paramilitaries in 1995. While in Israel, Gaydamak has been investigated for money laundering. He insists his business practices are clean and that he made the bulk of his money speculating in the Russian stock market...
...funded by a $10,000 donation from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation to rebuild a war-devastated athletic center in her hometown, Kolibe Gornje, Bosnia. Kobiljar said she hoped the reconstruction of the athletic center would promote peace by allowing the town to host the neighboring Bosniak, Croat, and Serb communities in competitions and tournaments, increasing interaction between the groups. She said she also hoped her plan would unite and empower the village’s residents by involving them in the project. “One of my biggest points of the proposal is that the only cost...
...backed proposal unveiled Feb. 2, the formerly Serbian province of Kosovo is about to become an independent state. Ethnic Albanians, who make up the bulk of Kosovo's population, welcomed a plan that brings them to the brink of fulfilling their century-old dream; Serbia and Kosovo's Serb minority have already rejected it, and they're struggling in vain to prevent its implementation. But as the wheels of diplomacy spin, the impact of this change on the lives of people on both sides of the border is a far more subtle thing than either side seems ready to admit...
...skepticism over the efficacy of the alliance, however, didn't start with President Bush. Clinton Administration officials had bitterly complained of the political meddling and command confusion that hampered NATO's 1999 air war to push Serb troops out of Kosovo...
...visitor can attest that they feel like two different countries. Cross the border into the Serb Republic from the Muslim-Croat Federation and Latin script road signs give way to Cyrillic, mosques to Serbian Orthodox churches. Locals prefer Serbian beer and loza, a grape brandy, and the only flags visible, even on official government buildings, are Serbia's red, blue and white rather than Bosnia's official blue and yellow. "We've got everything here," said Predrag Andelic, 50, over a cigarette and a bottle of beer. He's a war veteran from near the city of Prijedor, site...