Helsinki Bulletin, No. 59
MONTENEGRO:
REGIME IN PODGORICA CONSTANTLY CRIMINALIZED
February 2010
Relations between Serbia and Montenegro aggravated after Montenegro's
recognition of Kosovo (October 2008) to which Belgrade responded by expelling the
Montenegrin Ambassador. When Podgorica and Prishtina established diplomatic relations
(November 2009) Belgrade withdrew its ambassador to Montenegro. Montenegrin President
Filip Vujanovic paid an official Belgrade to Serbia in May...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 58
RESOLUTION
ON SREBRENICA: DEBATE OPENED, NOTWITHSTANDING
February 2010
President Tadic's initiative for a parliamentary resolution on
Srebrenica triggered off a debate that laid bare the proportions of Serbia's frustration
manifested in its denial to face up the recent past, the Bosnian war in particular. The
existence of Republika Srpska /RS/ - actually the very fact that it exists for fifteen
years now - strengthened the Serb mainstream elite's belief about full attainment...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 56
SERB
PROGRESSIVE PARTY: A PRETENDED TRANSFORMATION
January 2010
Serbia's entire political establishment and some other elites - those
in the judicial branch in particular - welcomed the transformation of a part of the Serb
Radical Party /SRS/ into the Serb Progressive Party /SNS/. There is no doubt that Vojislav
Seselj's inappropriate behavior before the ICTY that compromised SRS was among the reasons
why some Radicals decided to form a separate party...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 55
NEW
PATRIARCH - NO BASIC CHANGES
January 2010
A change at the throne of the Serb Orthodox Church /SPC/ will
effectuate no major changes in the SPC structure, organization and functioning or, for
that matter, in its secular ambitions. In this context, newly elected Patriarch Irinej
(Gavrilovic), former bishop of Nis, guarantees continuity. In other words, SPC will be
trying to safeguard the space it has occupied at Serbia's public scene over the past ten
years, strengthen its...
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