Serbia Enlists Some Unlikely Faces
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"Ask anybody the name of a Russian film director, composer or even rock group and they will struggle, but they can name five or six American directors"  BELGRADE, Serbia - As the dispute over Kosovo 's future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the world's best known statesmen - all of them dead. via New York Times
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Dracula-style come-back still possible Vampire hunters wishing to prevent Slobodan Milosevic rising from his grave will now have to deal with security guards posted to prevent them driving a stake through his heart and thereby thwarting any ambitions the Serbian dicatator may have for a Dracula-style political comeback.â¦
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BELGRADE, Jul 25 (IPS) - Serbia has expressed particular satisfaction after  the United Nations failed to agree a new Security Council  resolution aimed at supervised independence for Kosovo.
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MALISEVO, Serbia-Montenegro In the words of one Albanian official, &quot;we&#39;re parting with 15 unfulfilled dreams.&quot;. Senior leaders from Kosovo and Albania, along with top UN and NATO officials, were among tens
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Serbia has the political will to  arrest top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, but some state  officials are still stalling, United Nations chief war crimes  prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Friday.
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BELGRADE, Aug 30 (IPS) - The ways of Serbian media have come into focus  again after the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in  Europe (OSCE) declared earlier this week that Serbian media must  practise professionalism and respect human dignity.
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Serbia faces a showdown next month between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a liberal favoring the West in a presidential election run-off.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings &#151; along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings &#151; have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.
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Some EU members, including Britain and several Nordic countries, have reservations about initiating talks with Croatia because of its failure to hand over wanted war criminals.
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Serbia has intensified its search for Gen. Ratko Mladic and two other fugitives amid concern that a U.N. war crimes prosecutor might file a negative report on the country's cooperation in hunting suspects, an official said Wednesday.
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NATO leaders on Wednesday invited their old enemy Serbia &#151; along with Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina &#151; to join a program considered a first step toward eventual membership in the alliance.
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Could other potential suitors be entering the picture?
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As Serbia is criticised over fugitive war crimes suspects, BBC's Gabriel Partos examines the impact on the Balkans.
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A U.S. diplomat said two top war crimes suspects _ Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic _ could be apprehended with a single phone call from Serbia's prime minister.Raffi Gregorian, deputy international administrator in Bosnia, told Bosnia's BHT1 television late Monday that the suspects were 'for sure' hiding in Serbia.'Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica can solve the issue of their arrest with just one phone call,' Gregorian said.Kostunica was traveling to New York for a Wednesday U.N. Security Council meeting on Kosovo and could not be reached for comment. He has repeatedly said that his government does not know where Karadzic and Mladic are hiding, and that authorities are doing everything in their power to find them. Read more
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Serbian President Boris Tadic is attempting to overcome the stigma of "the Milosevic experience" by joining international peacekeeping operations and trying to hasten the healing process in the violence-prone Balkan region.
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EU leaders in Brussels are expected to offer Serbia a fast track route to candidacy in a deal linked to Kosovo.
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Three Serbian tennis players have worked their way into the top 10, despite chaos in their homeland.