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Bosnia and Herzegovina has slipped further in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scale. It was revealed at the CPI presentation held in Sarajevo on 17 November, that Bosnia and Herzegovina had ranked a score of 3.0 - a score shared by countries between 99th to 105th position - in an index that covers 180 countries. The ( Read more... )

In an interesting, if not entirely unexpected, turn of events, the Hague has acquitted Milan Milutinović, Slobo's old golden child and shill, of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from Milošević's bloody 1999 campaign in the Serbian province of Kosovo ( Read more... )

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I love to first read drivel sanitized for mass-consumption such as this, wherein Karadžić was so sneaky and nobody knew his identity etc (paying lip service to mere suspicions that somebody knew), and then to contrast this with accounts from my friends and contacts in Serbia that gave me detailed descriptions of Radovan's appearance and the like ( Read more... )

There are times when I wonder where precisely in the individual's subordination to group think that survival instinct is subsumed and lemming urges take over ( Read more... )

• The EU and Serbia have finally signed the long-overdue SAA. A lot of non-Serbs in the Balkans are pissed. Isolationist Serbs in Kosovo protest and burn US flags and pictures of Boris Tadić.
• With Serbian elections looming, more troops are headed for Kosovo.
• Fiat is making preparations to buy the Zastava automobile manufacturing plant in Kragujevac.
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Serbia's war crimes prosecutor has brought charges against four Serb paramilitary police for participating in the 1999 Podujevo massacre in which 14 Albanian women and children were executed. Dragan Borojević, Zeljko Djukić, Dragan Medić and Miodrag Solaja, arrested last year in connection with the massacre, were members of the same Scorpions anti ( Read more... )