Balkans Drama Enters Final Act Although supporters of separatist Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic celebrated victory on the evening of May 21, it took another 10 days and EU envoy Frantisek Lipka's tiebreaker vote to validate the results of the Montenegrin independence...
Montenegro's Separatists Win After seven years of frustrated attempts, the separatist regime in Montenegro celebrated victory Sunday night, as it managed to drum up the 55.5 percent of the votes necessary to win the independence referendum. What would be a landslide...
Balkans and the Imperial "Inevitable" "Ladies and gentlemen, it does not get much more disgusting than this." Chris Deliso, frequent Antiwar.com contributor and editor of Balkanalysis.com, thus described the occupation of Kosovo going on nigh seven...
Balkans vs. Imperial "Reality" The last days of April saw the failure of two promises Balkans leaders had made to their Imperial overlords. In Bosnia, opponents of the constitutional reform managed to pull off an upset and derail the American-sponsored amendments....
Spring in the Balkans News from the Balkans over the past week almost created the impression that this was just another ordinary region in the Empire's periphery, where local rustics practice entertaining eccentricities and cope with natural disaster. The greatest...
Review of Fools' Crusade by Diana Johnstone 317 pages, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2002 Books that have accompanied the 1990s Balkans wars have by and large been complete rubbish. There were, to be fair, some works worth reading. Yet the Balkans tragedy was...
Balkans "Endgame" on Schedule – or Is it? For a region with more history than it can handle, the Balkans is wrought with anniversaries and commemorations no matter the season. The end of March brought the seventh anniversary of NATO's attack that ended...
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Just as the gray houses and snow-covered ground emerge from the thick late-winter fog, the airplane banks sharply up, its engines straining for altitude. The captain apologizes; he could not see the landing lights, and on the...
Slobodan Milosevic, 1941-2006 In the morning hours of March 11, news came from the Scheveningen prison near The Hague: Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia, was found dead in his cell. It was the second death in Scheveningen in a week; on...
Promoting Terrorists, Again Milan Babic, onetime president of the breakaway Republic of Serb Krajina (in today's Croatia), was found dead in his temporary cell at the Hague Inquisition's Scheveningen prison on Monday, having reportedly committed suicide. Two years...
