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...DARKO VOJINOVIC/AP A mother lets her son casts her ballot during the recent Serb parliamentary elections...
...have to convince Congress that he's committed to democratic reform and that he's serious about arresting suspected war criminals. Given his fierce resistance to the tribunal in the past - and with his government dependent on votes from Milosevic's party - few expect to see people like Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic on their way to the Hague anytime soon. "We are highly dependent on Western aid, and if the U.S. stops supporting us, others are likely to follow," says independent foreign investment consultant Milan Kovacevic. "We should hope for the best, but expect the worst." Kostunica will need...
MICHAEL JACKSON'S accessories are also winning fans for the prosecution. Jackson wore a Serbian medal of merit upside-down to his arraignment on child-molestation charges, infuriating some Serb veterans. The Order of the White Eagle is given for "brave behavior on battlefields," a historian told the Belgrade newspaper Blic. Braving a phalanx of paparazzi doesn't count...
...Western-style reforms and the return of Serbian troops to Kosovo. Seselj is in good company: his prison mate in the Hague, Milosevic, was recently heard on Serbian radio exhorting the faithful to vote for him on behalf of the "martyrs" of Kosovo. Such displays leave some Serbs wondering whether their country's three-year experiment with Western-style democracy is coming to an end. "Serbs are mad as hell and the Radicals, especially, are positioning themselves to get that protest vote," said Miodrag Popovic, an Apple computer salesman in Belgrade. "I am definitely worried." Should he be? Even...
...Small wonder that only 20% of Serbs in a recent poll said their country was headed in the right direction. Foreign debt is nearing $13 billion, compared to a GDP of around $10 billion. Industrial production continues to fall. Unemployment is at 35%. Serbs have tried and failed three times to elect a President (not enough people bothered to turn out) while the current coalition government's ceaseless infighting has "destroyed people's faith in the reform process," says one senior diplomat. All this is proving fertile ground for Tomislav Nikolic, the grim-faced Serbian Radical Party campaigner...