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...trailed substantially in most pre-election polls). However, Nikolic may have the upper hand in the runoff, particularly because he is expected to receive the support of the Socialist Party, whose candidate got 6% of the vote. Nikolic is a deputy of the Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is currently under trial for crimes against humanity for his wartime activity. Both Seselj and Nikolic were close associates of late President Slobodan Milosevic, who died during his own war crimes trial in the Hague...
...Tadic can only win if he gets sincere support from the Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica," Goran Svilanovic, a former Serbian Foreign Minister tells TIME. "The key to Serbia's future lies in [Kostunica's] hands." Kostunica, who shares power with Tadic's Democratic Party in the government, could help turn out support for the incumbent from moderate nationalists. However, Kostunica has an uneasy relationship with Tadic; and the Prime Minister's recent rhetoric has become increasingly anti-Western, referring to Western support for Kosovo independence as "ripping out the heart of Serbia." So far, he has refused to comment...
...Kosovo's Serb minority remain implacably opposed to the idea. On the eve of the final round of talks this week between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs aimed at negotiating a solution to Kosovo's status (legally, it is now no more than a province of Serbia), Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica vowed that Belgrade would "never let an inch of its territory be taken away." Kosovo Serbs warned of "permanent instability" if Kosovo is granted independence. And Russia, a key ally, continued to back Belgrade to the letter...
...trial of Serbian ultranationalist leader Vojislav Seselj may be the last of the major Balkan war-crimes trials to be heard by the Hague Tribunal, but it is also unique for other reasons: Unlike the rest of the politicians and military commanders indicted by the Tribunal, Seselj is not accused of physically hurting anybody, or of being part of a chain of command that ordered mass murder and other abuses. Instead, the politician whose trial began Wednesday is accuse of inciting war crimes by churning out inflammatory speeches and disseminating "poisonous ideas...
...last summer, the U.S., Russia and the European Union decided to give the two sides until December to make their own deal on Kosovo's status. But after a late September parley in New York produced few results, even the idea of talking appears dead. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has declared: "There can be no negotiations on Serbia's integrity and sovereignty...