Word: yugoslavia
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...premiere took place in New York last September, and the next performances are scheduled for April in Washington and San Jose. The finale is to take place next year in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia and Serb cultural center. As Dimic explains, the idea is to see if “those who stayed in Serbia can recognize someone of their...
...public hardening of its position, officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Wednesday demanded the immediate transfer of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague. A tribunal official arrived in Belgrade Wednesday for a series of legal meetings with justice officials to make the tribunal's position clear and to pass on Milosevic's arrest warrant and indictment to the relevant authorities...
From the beginning of yugoslavia's violent dissolution a decade ago, the feared endpoint was war in Macedonia. Every knowing pundit said the conflict that first grabbed the international community's attention in Slovenia in June 1991 would roll inexorably eastward. In time, they said, it would run up against the uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear...
...governments, led by Britain and Italy, agreed to send 30 police and immigration officers to the Balkans to help local officials contain the flow of would-be migrants. The former Yugoslavia is thought to house around 200,000 Chinese waiting to be smuggled into the European Union. At present, Chinese nationals do not need visas to enter the country...
Since the early 1990s, Western officials have feared a spillover of violence into Macedonia, the only Yugoslav republic to have won independence without bloodshed--thus far. The republic's 30% Albanian, 60% Macedonian-Slav mix is as volatile as any other in the former Yugoslavia, but a progressive government and Western aid have kept things stable. In recent weeks, however, a couple of hundred former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army attacked Macedonian army and police positions while another group assailed Serbian security forces in the nearby Presevo Valley--each in an apparent attempt to carve out additional territory...