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...other analysts say Lukovic may have been motivated to carry out the assassination to prevent his arrest on war crimes and drugs charges, but concede that his evidence is likely to raise new obstacles to the prosecution. The biggest beneficiary could be the Serbian Radical Party, whose leader, Vojislav Seselj, is now facing war-crimes charges in the Hague. Even if the Radicals fail to win the presidency, diplomats say the accusations now leveled against its reformist rivals, which have been backed by the current government, could turn back the political clock. Shortly before the trial got under way last...
...unable to attend the hearings because of illness, let alone deal with such a serious matter as the continuation of the trial or a request for a retrial," Tomanovic told Serbian radio station B92. In Belgrade Milosevic's supporters, invigorated after forming an alliance with newly-elected Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, are triumphant. "The trial has collapsed," Ivica Dacic, a former aide to Milosevic and a leader of his Socialist Party of Serbia, told reporters. "Even if it resumes, Milosevic's defense will easily prove that all charges against him are false." But Milosevic's opponents aren't giving...
...Prime Minister at Last SERBIA Breaking the political deadlock following December's parliamentary elections, moderate nationalist Vojislav Kostunica accepted the post of Prime Minister in what will be a minority government. The coalition, including Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia and three smaller parties, will rely on the support of Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia. The deal blocks the hard-line Serbian Radical Party from taking power...
...Vojislav Kostunica...
Rarely has politics made stranger bedfellows than the allies who came together in Serbia last week. Vojislav Kostunica - leader of Serbia's largest centrist party and the man who defeated Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 to become the last President of Yugoslavia - struck a deal with Milosevic's own Socialist Party (SPS) to secure the position of Serbian Prime Minister. Milosevic himself, on trial in the Hague for war crimes, will have no influence on government policy, but what many regard as an unholy alliance is prompting fears that Serbia is lapsing into its bad old nationalistic habits. Kostunica's Democratic...