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CAMPAIGNING
FOR SERBIA'S
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In July 2009
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia started the project planned as a public
awareness-raising, affirmative campaign that focuses the stakeholders crucial to the
county's Euro-Atlantic integration, and sensitizes general public and other stakeholders
in Serbia and abroad of the need for the country's Europeanization, accession to the EU
and Euro-Atlantic orientation. The campaign at the same time promotes the strategy for
stabilizing Serbia and the region, based on accession and integration. The main goal of
the project is to augment the civil society's pressure on Serbia's incumbent policymakers
to keep up with the promises on which they won the last election and make a breakthrough
in the movement towards EU and NATO partnership. To attain this object the project focuses
on key areas of Serbia's foreign and domestic policy, and provides alternative insights
and prognoses vis-a-vis the actual state of affairs that are largely circulated as on-line
magazines and by other means.
The project is realized with the assistance of National Endownment
for Democracy.
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 62
SERBIA
TRAPPED IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE: FROM REPUBLIKA SRPSKA TO KOSOVO
March 2010
Serbia's behavior - notably at international level - is dictated by its
proclaimed strategic goals and priorities summed up in the slogan "Both Kosovo and
EU." These are mutually opposed goals and contrary to the criteria and preconditions
for EU membership. Controversial behavior at both domestic and international scenes stems
from inner tensions and the pressure from the actors who actually determine
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 61
MACEDONIA:
UNDER CONSTANT PRESSURE FROM ITS NEIGHBORS
March 2010
Macedonia's statehood, nation or church have been denied by its
neighbors ever since its independence. Has it not been for EU, US and NATO it would have
been thorn by internal conflicts and, probably, by foreign aggression. However, despite
the multitude of domestic problems, Macedonia managed to survive and even obtain EU
candidacy and membership of NATO. These are the guarantees of its
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 60
SERBIA AND
THE WORLD IN 2009: STILL STANDING AT A CRUCIAL JUNCTURE
February 2010
Having applied for EU candidacy (in late 2009), the Serbian government
made the first real breakthrough in its proclaimed EU-oriented policy that can not be
revoked. Besides, the EU annual report was mostly affirmative for Serbia, the EU also
unfroze the Transitional Trade Agreement with it, whereas Serbia met the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 57
CONSOLIDATION
OF KOSOVO STATE AND BELGRADE'S RESPONSE
February 2010
After independence declaration Kosovo entered the phase of state
consolidation. While trying to prevent it at any cost, official Belgrade channeled all its
diplomatic energy into lobbying against Kosovo's international recognition. Its turning to
the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion about the legality of Kosovo's
independence...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 54
ANTI-EUROPEAN
BLOC GOES ON COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
January 2010
The Serbian cabinet's decision to apply for EU candidacy in late 2009
was a breakthrough in Serbia's history as a European country. The decision provoked
strong, though not necessarily overt, resentment of the anti-European bloc. Apart from
populist parties (DSS, SNP, SRS, NS, etc.) the bloc assembles the greatest part of the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 53
SERBIA AND
CROATIA: PAST STILL IN THE WAY
January 2010
Almost two decades after the end of the war and fourteen years after
the establishment of diplomatic relations, Serbia and Croatia still move from one crisis
to another - each reviving traditional and carefully cherished mutual animosities.
Belgrade is responsible for such oscillations in the first place: not only when it comes
to Croatia but also for the entire region...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 50
EU
CANDIDACY - A HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH
December 2009
After three decades of wandering, the defeat of the Greater Serbia
project and all the attempts to keep it alive, the Serb elite was divided over a crucial
issue: accession to EU. During his two-year premiership (2001-2003) Zoran Djindjic defined
Serbia as a European country. Contrary to all expectations, his...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 49
BELGRADE
AND BANJALUKA: TOGETHER FOR PARTITION OF BOSNIA
December 2009
Serbia's attitude towards Bosnia is the biggest stumbling block in the
way of regional stabilization. Serbia's aspirations towards Bosnia date back from the
Berlin Congress (1878), annexation crisis in 1908 to present. Serbia's national elite
accepted the Dayton Peace Agreement (1995) as the most...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 46
KOSOVO
ELECTIONS: A TEST OF MATURITY
November 2009
Local elections in Kosovo of November 15, 2009 - the first elections
organized by Kosovo authorities after independence declaration - resulted in a new, major
quality in the overall situation. Despite the pressure from Belgrade, a part of the Serb
community in Central Kosovo - considerable beyond all expectations - participated in the
elections and won...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 45
SERBIA AND
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: A KEY TO REGIONAL SECURITY
November 2009
Regional stabilization depends on consolidation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
As the basis for Bosnia's political arrangement the Dayton Accords have proved
insufficient since and need to be upgraded so that the country can function normally. The
international community has been aware of that for some time now and...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 43
MEDVEDEV
IN BELGRADE
October 2009
Belgrade hasn't had much opportunity to host notable heads of state
over the past two decades. Ex-Yugoslavia's disintegration and Serbia's role in the process
- as constants at the international agenda - have only logically brought to Belgrade high
officials of many countries, organization and institutions, but high-level visits were
truly rare...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 42
A FRESH
ADVANCE IN EURO-ATLANTIC ORIENTATION
October 2009
Ever since it consolidated its pro-European course the Serbian cabinet
has been confronted by the anti-European and anti-West "alliance" aware that
such development posed a threat to its ideological concept. Namely, it feels threatened by
the process forcing Serbia to put an end to the national and state...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 40
SANDZAK:
INEVITABLE RADICALIZATION
September 2009
For over two decades Sandzak - a part of Serbia bordering both on
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, and mostly populated by Bosniak minority - has been
exposed to the state orchestrated, repressive policy aimed at minimizing this minority
community. The attitude towards Islam and Muslims in ex-...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 37
REGULATION
OF THE MEDIA SPHERE RESISTED
September 2009
The character of the changes of October 2000 considerably influenced
the character of Serbia's democratization as well. As the new government did not distance
itself from Milosevic's policy, transition in Serbia has been burdened since not only by
that policy but also by the same people. That was best mirrored in the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 36
SOUTH
SERBIA AND ALBANIAN QUESTION
August 2009
South Serbia has been a neuralgic point ever since the opening of the
Kosovo status issue. After NATO intervention (1999) stability in three South
municipalities -- Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja -- has been directly connected to the
status issue. Both sides -- Serb and Albanian - hoped for partition, which would...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 35
THE
PRESSURE OF STRATEGIC CHALLENGES
July 2009
Notwithstanding the persistent antiNATO propaganda Serbia's membership
of NATO has become the most important geostrategic agenda that is being daily discussed
notably by the so-called expert circles. Several crucial domestic and international
factors have contributed to such intensified discussion. At...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 34
SREBRENICA:
TRANSITIONAL (IN)JUSTICE
July 2009
This year the world marked the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide
with more consideration than before. This only logically follows the messages sent to the
region, and particularly to Serbia over past months. US Ambassador to Bosnia - Herzegovina
Charles English said, "The world...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 33
PRO-EUROPEAN
BLOC CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
July 2009
In a way, the global economic crisis sobered up the entire world - and
Serbia to some extent. First of all, it laid bare the country's dramatic economic
situation. Serbia is still wasting its modest transitional potential on the delusion that
its aspirations towards Bosnia-Herzegovina are viable. Against the...
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