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Every morning Alexander Vesna, 63, makes the same journey to his bank in the center of Kiev. He stands in line for five or six hours before he is allowed to take out a maximum of 300 hryvnia ($35). "It's my money," he says. "But they won't let me have...
...deposits since November. As banks struggle to come up with enough cash to meet demand, one has even proposed a scheme of exchanging deposits for homes that have been repossessed. "I have to come here every day to stand in line in the cold, with no food or toilet," Vesna says. "But what else can I do?" (See pictures of Ukraine's neighbors, Russia...
...Vesna Pesic, vice president of the Serbian opposition group Civic Alliance for Change, said she agreed focusing only on removing Milosevic is counterproductive...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Perhaps scenting blood in President Milosevic's recent concessions, protesters in Belgrade are vowing to press on. "It's only the first round," opposition leader Vesna Pesic told demonstrators who returned to the streets for a 79th straight day of protests. "We have to change the entire system, step by step, until liberty. We demand economic reform, we demand freedom, we want to live in dignity." Milosevic's bill ceding the 14 election victories to the opposition has been submitted to parliament. And that, clearly, is where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed...
...police on a bridge degenerated into a widespread beating of protesters that continued through the night. Police chased students through the streets, into stores and university buildings, beating them and dragging some of them away for arrest. At least 80 were reported injured. Casualties ranged from pro-democratic leader Vesna Pesic to cameramen from APTV, Reuters Television and CNN. Draskovic said he was chased by police and shots were fired at his car as he fled. "Tonight, a crime was committed against the people of Belgrade," said Draskovic. ?Actions like these cannot stop the demonstrations, and can only raise...