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SERBIA HAS TO BEHAVE
REALISTICALLY
By Sonja Biserko
Serbia got a new cabinet after the three-month bargaining over its
composition. The agreement on the DS-DSS coalition was reached before the January 21
election. It was reached in the informal circle of Dobrica Cosic who gave his blessing to
both Kostunica and Tadic. Basically, the new cabinet is what Serbia is - no more and no
less. Serbia's political landscape was laid bare in the week before the cabinet was
formed. Vojislav Kostunica's attempt to once more scare the world with the Radicals... |
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HOW DEEP IN TROUBLE ARE WE?
By Bojan al Pinto-Brkic
Premier Kostunica's new cabinet, enthusiastic and dynamic as it is (and
quite unlike his previous one), managed to take, in the first month of its mandate, two
out of eight steps towards resolution of a decade-long problem. It extradited Zdravko
Tolimi and Vlastimir Djordjevic to the tribunal in The Hague. Now the trials for the
Srebrenica genocide and the warring campaign in Kosovo should be in full swing, while
Serbia a nicer place to live in. What only overshadows those extraditions is... |
OUR PUTINISTS
By Teofil Pancic
My dear, what a team! What an eclectic mélange of exalted priests,
deeply moved Bolsheviks, maddening National General Practitioners, overwhelmed Poets,
stupid but wise-looking foreign policy commentators, a variety of low-brow petty politics
fauna (true, including some premiers) and, of course, that endemic sort of "ordinary
people" - particularly represented by Retired Public Servants! Ergo, what a mélange
of all those countless eccentrically formatted factors that at sundown sit in circles
outside neighborhood supermarkets and emptily philosophize! And all of them in chorus
praise and bow to... |
KOSOVO: WHAT’S THE MOSCOW TIME?
By Miroslav Filipovic
It's harder for Russia than for Serbia. A superpower should not make
mistakes and that's exactly what might happen. Russia has to make a key choice - if it
exercises the power of veto and the United States and the European Union recognize Kosovo
nevertheless, Russia will be left isolated and ashamed, while its stand on Kosovo
proclaimed empty-worded muscle-showing. Once formally proclaimed independent Kosovo will
still remain in the same place and will be "ours" inasmuch as we smoothly
communicate with Kosovo authorities. That could be a new beginning for the Serbian... |
Serbia and Kosovo in Big Powers' Hug
VOLUNTARY MERCHANDISES TO BARGAIN WITH?
By Ivan Torov
Despite the international community's optimistic announcements,
assessments and promises of some six or so months ago that the chapter of the final or
some other status of Kosovo would be closed relatively soon and without major turmoil,
things have considerably changed in the meantime. As if the process of untangling the
Kosovo knot has lately taken such course and proportions that its outcome became hardly
predictable... |
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