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Oliver Ivanović

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It is the people that are supposed to be the focus of attention and not the territory: An interview with the Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanović

Before the war Oliver Ivanović worked as a factory manager and as a professional karateist. After the beginning of the NATO led operations Ivanović organized his students at the karate class to take part in the defence of Kosovska Mitrovica against Albanians. Mr. Ivanović was among the one thousand five hundred Serbians defending the bridge over Ibar River, which eventually managed to stop the exodus…

Radovan Karadzic alias healer Dragan Dabic. Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com

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Serbia after the arrest of Radovan Karadžić – the condition of the discussion about relations with the EU and the stance on own past

After thirteen years, Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb heading Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992 – 1996, was among the last to be taken to the International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in order to face charges of war crimes committed during the worst military conflict in Europe in the 1990’s. That’s why the notion that not only his active political work, but also his arrest and extradition…

Allocation of seats in Serbian parliament. Source: cesid.org

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Old new Serbian dilemmas

Not even the constitutive session of Serbian Skupština on 11th June, 2008, has given an answer to the question how the future ruling coalition will look like. Official as well as unofficial coalition talks, which have been lasting for more than a month, hasn’t born any concrete results yet. It seems that Serbia has been facing the same dilemma like in 2000 when the political battle was under way between…

Protester for the independence of Kosovo calls for the "Great Albania". Source: http://www.kosovo.net

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Solution to the Kosovo status and its economic reconstruction in the future

Kosovo is a territory which is hard to define. We are the witnesses to this Balkan phenomenon even nowadays. It is a conflict playground of various ethnic minorities and interests – in other words, it’s a spot of contrasts which has no parallel in modern Europe. Moreover, the Kosovo area is the cradle of Serbian spirituality, the territory of Serbian medieval heroes who, risking life and limb, defended Europe…

Former Croatian General Ante Gotovina. Source: www.dborovcak.hrvati-amac.com

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Serbia has not coped with the past

On June 24, 2007 in Zagreb, the Serbian President Boris Tadic made a public apology to Croatians for the Serbian army „causing disaster by some of their actions in the Serbo-Croatian war in the 1990s”. The gesture was at that time interpreted as a positive and sensible political step, which could influence improvement of the relations between the states of former Yugoslavia, especially between Serbia and Croatia…

Ethnical structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The Dayton System crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot exist without burning political issues. The Constitutional Court of this country has outraged the public opinion by the statement that the national or in fact state symbols of both entities comprising this state, namely the Republic of Serbia and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, are unconstitutional, because they promote the predominance of one, or rather, two ethnic groups…