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...SURRENDERED. MILORAD LUKOVIC, 39, former paramilitary leader suspected of masterminding the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic; in Belgrade. Lukovic, a onetime backer of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic, headed a feared antiterrorist police unit called the Red Berets. After Milosovic's 2000 fall from power, Lukovic initially supported Djindjic's administration, but he was soon removed from his police post...
...with 53 seats the dss was far short of a majority too. A coalition with the Radicals was out of the question because of their openly extremist agenda, so it was widely expected that Kostunica would turn to the reformist Democratic Party, which dominated Serbian politics until its chairman Zoran Djindjic was assassinated last March. Kostunica and Djindjic never saw eye to eye on reform, and the DSS leader failed to do a deal with Djindjic's successors, Zoran Zivkovic and Boris Tadic. Kostunica then teamed up with two smaller centrist parties and turned to Slobo's old gang, whose...
...Radicals hold the largest number of seats will almost certainly sour the country's relations with its neighbors, the European Union and Washington at a time when the aid-dependent, recession-prone economy can least afford it. The country's sense of outrage climaxed in March when its leader, Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated by gangsters on a Belgrade street. His government reacted by launching a massive crackdown on organized crime that will culminate this month in the biggest trial in Serbian history, but no one has managed to replace Djindjic's energy and political will. The International Criminal Tribunal...
...enforcement branch, Europol - have been trying to crack down. Bulgaria, one of the world's biggest counterfeit havens, has broken up 13 euro print shops in the past 12 months. Serbian police closed down three rings over about the same period - "mostly medium-quality forgery" shops, according to Zoran Stajic, the lead investigator. And Polish police, relying on tips from their German counterparts, shut down a major operation in February in central Poland, confiscating €200,000 in fake notes. Investigations continue in all these countries, and police say new operations have sprung up in Lithuania, Moldova and Belarus. Counterfeiters...
...last time Serbian soldiers saw combat, they were being bombed out of Kosovo by U.S. Tomahawk missiles. Now they're all set to fight alongside their former American foes. During a trip to Washington this summer, sources tell TIME, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic pledged to send up to 1,000 troops to aid American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S., which is trying hard to persuade allies to share some of the military burden in Iraq, quickly agreed. The initial deployment: a mix of 250 army officers and members of the gendarmerie. "We don't need peacekeepers," says...