Word: srpska
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...have been prompted by the U.S. and E.U.'s renewed pressure on Serbia to deliver Mladic or face economic sanctions. "We definitely see some movement on this issue," a senior Western diplomat says. "There's room for optimism." Karadzic, meanwhile, is allegedly hiding in the southeastern part of Republika Srpska (RS), a Serb-controlled entity in Bosnia. RS President Dragan Cavic has a unique proposal. "If I was in Karadzic's shoes, I would opt for a drastic solution," Cavic told a local newspaper. "One such solution is suicide, and that is something I would choose...
...pilgrimage has always seemed to be a phenomenal waste of time. Upon hearing that the Pope was coming to Bosnia, I was at first apprehensive. The logistics of seeing the Holy Father are not simple, and he had decided to speak in Banja Luka, the capital of the Republika Srpska, a locale markedly hostile to Catholics and Muslims in Bosnia...
...idea of adapting a play by Slawomir Mrozek, a Polish émigré author, to the context of Yugoslavian integration today came from Jack Dimic, originally from Republika Srpska, now a student at the Lee Strasberg Institute for Theater and Film in New York. The project was realized with the assistance of Zarko Lausevic, a renowned Serbian stage and screen actor now in the United States. Emigrants themselves, Dimic and Lausevic partly depicted their own life stories—a political emigrant from Belgrade and an economic emigrant from Bosnia, an intellectual and a gastarbaiter—roommates...
...Bosnia, by not sticking to the spirit of the 1995 Dayton peace accord and allowing the wartime leadership of Republika Srpska to put down roots in the postwar power structure, the West left room for much of the war scum to float back to the top. These men pumped out heavily separatist and anti-Western propaganda while they obstructed the implementation of Dayton's provisions for reunification. Two weeks ago, as the delicately stitched-together nation seemed to be recovering, the Serbs in their republic voted out moderate President Biljana Plavsic, a key part of Western plans to build...
...behind in achieving the treaty's goal of a unified Bosnia before U.S. peacekeepers are scheduled to leave next summer, and no closer to the cherished goal of bringing Karadzic to the court of justice in the Hague. Backing Plavsic is a gamble, but in the quagmire of Republika Srpska, admits a State Department official, "there don't seem to be alternatives. She's the only one who's stepped up to the plate...