MONTENEGRO POST-REFERENDUM: FARAWAY CONSENSUS
By Igor Peric
At the time of the 'celebration' staged on St. Vitus' Day in the
year of 1989 to mark the 600th anniversary of Prince Lazar's passing from earthly to
heavenly kingdom, when a certain Montenegrin (by origin), playing with history and
politics, opened Pandora's box of the Balkans, hardly anyone among the rallied would
wager that Montenegro, largely swept by an identical heavenly euphoria and mythomania,
would one fine day in May turn out for a... More >>> |
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DIVORCE EPILOGUE: INTEGRATION PROSPECTS AND ONGOING
DISINTEGRATION
By Nikola Samardzic
If the nature of the state union of Serbia and Montenegro recalled the
authoritarian epoch, will its disappearance mark the end of its specific politics? Or,
will Serbia become a scene of orgies resembling those that, inspired by the Memorandum,
shook most of the second Yugoslavia? Could it be that after a decade and a half,
conditions have again been created favoring the continuation of a criminal exploit? The...
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SERBIAN ARMY'S "NEW BEGINNING": "GLORY"
AND THE FLIP SIDE OF WAR TRADITION
By Stipe Sikavica
Even when the results of the referendum in Montenegro became official
the orthodox Serbian nationalists found it hard to accept the truth that the "small
Montenegrin boat" dared to leave the convoy of "Serbian lands". The
question about the survival of this boat in the stormy ocean of cruel international
relations, especially in view of the challenges of global and regional terrorism,
concealed their concern that the army... More >>> |
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BELGRADE'S NATIONALISTIC FRUSTRATION: FRUSTRATION OF THE
DEFEATED
By Ivan Torov
For Serbia's nationalistic elite the outcome of Montenegro's
referendum independence was the hardest blow ever. The time - the months to come, rather
than years - will show that even Kosovo's "parting" from Serbia will not be so
traumatic and dramatic experience as "the betrayal of Serbian brothers," "the
blossom of the Serbian nation." Nowadays it doesn't matter much what caused such
bitter feelings... More
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