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...greater mistrust of the United States and an astonishing ability to excuse the sins of anyone willing to challenge it. So it is not surprising that the largest anti-war protests to date have been organized by extremist groups like the International Action Center, which supports ex-Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. If the United States really is the greatest threat to world peace, then leaders like Milosevic and countries like North Korea are bravely standing up to the evil hyperpower to return the world to a state of equality among nations...
Ever since they ousted Slobodan Milosevic two years ago in a popular uprising, Serbs have had trouble finding someone to fill his shoes. The bitter rivalry between Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and Yugoslav federal President Vojislav Kostunica has poisoned the political air, slowed the transition to a free-market economy and paralyzed the machinery of state. It also alienated the electorate. Three times in the past three months, presidential elections - dominated each time by Kostunica - have failed to muster the more than 50% of eligible voters required for a valid ballot. The current office holder, Milan Milutinovic, a relic from...
...During the Bosnian war, the veteran Serbian politician threatened to level the Croatian capital, Zagreb, with a nuclear bomb. Paramilitary units under his leadership did not carve out enemies' eyes with pocket knives, he once told a reporter, they used rusty spoons. He's even accused ex-President Slobodan Milosevic of being too tolerant of minorities. That resumé might be a liability in some parts of the world, but not in Serbia, where the leader of the Serbian Radical Party, 48, is expected to get 30% of the vote in presidential elections scheduled...
...against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. In effect, Plavsic admitted Bosnian Serb troops co-operated with Yugoslav army units - evidence that could be used to help secure the conviction of former President Slobodan Milosevic. BELARUS My God Is Your God The Senate approved a bill that would restrict the activities of small religious communities and help entrench the dominant position of the Orthodox Church. The bill banned organized prayer by groups of less than 20 people and prohibited religious communities that have been...
...hand over Bobetko - and the U.N. war-crimes court. A second front has opened, too, along domestic political lines. Prime Minister Ivica Racan's weak center-left coalition faces a population that largely regards Bobetko as a titan of Croatia's three-and-a-half-year independence war with Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. "Bobetko is a national hero," says one Zagreb man, reflecting the view of up to 80% of the population. Sending Bobetko to the Hague would be political suicide for Racan. Given the overwhelming support for Bobetko, cooperating with the prosecutors would doom his coalition, if not immediately...