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Editorial
IN
THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY
By Sonja Biserko
Reluctantly and against the grain on the one hand and
faced with grim realities (economic collapse) and EU demands to finally
cut the Kosovo knot on the other, Serbia entered a new phase in its
relations with Kosovo: it gave up on it and begun searching for a
formula for Serbs in the North instead. There is nothing unusual about
the fact that the entire enterprise is now in the hands of those who are
the most responsible for Serbia’s collapse: only they could explain to
citizens why things must be done as they must. And they deserve to be
supported in their endeavor because Serbia cannot...
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Serbia and Croatia
WHAT IS SERB PROGRESSIVE PARTY AFTER?
By Aleksandar Sekulović
President Tomislav Nikolic’s scandalous statement
about Croatian Premier Milanovic “phony” visit to Serbia laid bare the
main foreign policy objective of Serb Progressive Party /SNS/ and
Nikolic himself: to fight against Croatia. This only logically follows
upon “Radical careers” of SNS leaders: manifestation of anti-Croatian
sentiments was a benchmark of the actions they took part in together
with Seselj. President Nikolic has even taken up arms against Croats –
an episode of his career that dominates individual and collective memory
and is...
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Ten Years Later
TEN
MORAL AND POLITICAL DUTIES
By Vladimir Gligorov
The first dispute within the coalition that won the
May 2000 elections was over replacement of high ranking security
officers. Then they confronted over the cooperation with ICTY. And when
they finally parted ways over a national strategy Premier Zoran Djindjic
was assassinated. Motives behind his assassination have not been cleared
up since 2003. It is these days only that we might witness a definite
change of the political strategy. On the other hand,
institution-building and fight against organized crime still have a long
way to go. Why the motives for the assassination...
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