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...ZORAN BABIC, a councilman in the Serbian village of Zitiste, where a 10-ft. (3 m) bronze statue of Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone's famous movie character, was revealed...
...elections, but moderates hope to block it from power by forming a coalition. The Democratic Party, the strongest moderate group, has named Bozidar Djelic as its choice for Prime Minister. It would be Djelic's second foray into politics, having been Finance Minister under reformist PM Zoran Djindjic, who was assassinated in 2003. Djelic spoke with Time's Dejan Anastasijevic in Belgrade...
...Serbia was close to arresting Mladic as recently as January, says this official. Back then, police picked up retired Colonel Jovo Djogo, the former chief of Mladic's security detail, who remains in custody. The senior official says that defense minister Zoran Stankovic told Del Ponte to expect Mladic within eight weeks. "We were sure that [Djogo], who was in charge of Mladic for so many years, knows where the general is. But he is not talking." The chances of Mladic being brought in by the end of March, says the official, are now minimal. That would set back Serbia...
...plan, the country would openly look to the West for trade and inspiration. Today, 800,000 Yugoslavs live in Western Europe, mostly West Germany, as guest workers, while their countrymen are also free to travel to the West, and openly aspire to a Western style of living. Says Zoran Mandic, 23, a clerk in a Belgrade bookstore: "Compared to the Bulgarians and the Poles, I am doing very well...
Serbia's tabloids know who killed Zoran Djindjic, the Prime Minister assassinated on a Belgrade street just over a year ago. It was Big Tobacco, angry at his planned sale of the lucrative state-owned tobacco company. Or it was Britain's sas, punishing him for asserting too much independence from the West. Or it was the CIA because, well, because they're the CIA. One former government official even insisted to Time that Djindjic ordered a fake hit on himself, so that in the aftermath he could impose a state of emergency and cement his hold on power. According...