Serbia And Montenegro: Former Guerrilla Backed for Office
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A former ethnic Albanian guerrilla commander widely believed to be under investigation for war crimes is being pushed to become prime minister of Kosovo, a prospect that is causing alarm among international ...
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Serbia's pro-Western president Boris Tadic has won re-election in a contest with nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, but his narrow victory may only have set up a fresh struggle over the country's future course.
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Serbs face a choice between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a liberal favoring the West in a presidential election run-off next month.
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The association of Serbia and Montenegro does not have a historical perspective and it is not a perfect solution either for Montenegro, or for Serbia, announced Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic in ...
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Serbian hardliner Tomislav Nikolic led reformist Boris Tadic in the presidential race, unofficial estimates suggested Sunday, but a second-round run-off was still expected in the crucial elections.
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BELGRADE, Oct 9  - A former head of security for the Bosnian Serb army has surrendered to authorities in Belgrade and was to be transfered to the UN war crimes court in The Hague late Saturday, the Serbian government announced.
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President Stipe Mesic won about 49 percent of the votes in Sunday's election, compared with 20 percent for his closest rival, conservative government minister Jadranka Kosor, who is trying to become the ...
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A nationalist candidate won the first round of Serbia's presidential election on Sunday, setting up a run-off with the pro-Western incumbent that will shape Serbian ties with the EU after the expected loss of Kosovo.
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Serbia on Sunday held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and pro-Western reformists.
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BELGRADE, Serbia â As the dispute over Kosovoâs future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the worldâs best known statesmen â all of them dead.
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The police of Serbia and Montenegro detained a group of former senior government officials led by former Minister of Transport and Telecommunications Marija Vukosavljevic on corruption charges, an Interior ...
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Serbia's electoral commission has barred observers from the United States and Britain from monitoring its presidential election this month.One member of the commission said the decision late Thursday came because the two nations backed Kosovo's drive for independence from Serbia.The United States and most EU nations have backed independence for the southern Serbian province, which has been run by the United Nations since 1999, when a NATO air war forced Belgrade to end a crackdown against Kosovo Albanian separatists. Read more
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"We will get him because we are not forgetting him."  BRUSSELS  - Fugitive former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is in Serbia and should be arrested by the end of the year, chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Tuesday.She said Mladic, wanted on genocide charges over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Muslims, was probably moving around more than in the past because the recently appointed Serbian government is seriously trying to arrest him."Mladic is in Serbia because all the indications we have from the authorities, also in Serbia, are that he's there," she told a news conference at the European Policy Centre after talks with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. Read more
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Serbia's newly re-elected president Boris Tadic pledged at his inauguration Friday that he would never stop fighting against independence for Kosovo.
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The pro-western Serbian president, Boris Tadic, wins re-election, narrowly defeating his nationalist challenger, Tomislav Nikolic
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BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's pro-Western president narrowly defeated an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in a closely contested election Sunday only days before an expected declaration of independence by the breakaway Kosovo province.
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PRISTINA, Serbia -- Kosovo's parliament elected a former rebel leader as prime minister Wednesday, a vote foreshadowing a declaration of independence from Serbia.