Montenegro holds 1st vote since split
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Montenegrins voted Sunday in the first parliamentary elections since the tiny state split from Serbia &#151; a ballot that could prove key to the new country's aspirations to become a member of NATO and the European Union.
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Bosnians have begun voting in the third post-war local elections, which are expected to confirm the dominance of the ruling nationalist Croat, Muslim and Serb parties.
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Bosnians have begun voting in the fifth general election since the 1992-1995 war, expected to determine whether the Balkans country will continue on its path towards integration with Europe.
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Slovenians started voting on Sunday in a presidential election which might give the country its first right-of-centre head of state since it broke away from Yugoslavia in 1991.
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East Timorese voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election that could put the impoverished, young country on a new path after communal violence last year.
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Voting began on Sunday in Serbia's presidential election, a tight race between pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hard-line challenger Tomislav Nikolic.
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Slovenians began voting on Sunday in the country's first general election since joining the European Union, and polls suggested the ruling center-left government might lose its majority in parliament.
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The real mystery for Montenegro is how its prime minister will choose to lead the country into a future seemingly free of the baggage of the former Yugoslavia.
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East Timor counted ballots Sunday a day after the impoverished nation&#39;s first legislative election since its independence in 2002.
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Croatians voted on Sunday in presidential elections likely to give incumbent Stjepan Mesic, credited with putting the former Yugoslav republic on the road toward the European Union, a second term.
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Croatians voted in a presidential  election on Sunday, and liberal incumbent Stjepan Mesic was  expected to win a second term and help take the former Yugoslav  republic into the European Union in 2009.
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The gas-rich nation gets its first multiparty election on Sunday, with a vote that experts say is stacked.
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Bosnian Serbs appear to have voted for the continuing division of their country in national elections.
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East Timorese voted on Saturday in a  parliamentary election that could put the impoverished, young  country on a new path after communal violence last year.
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Bosnia's main Muslim, Serb and Croat nationalist parties led Sunday in an early count for local polls, but voter turnout fell below 50 percent for the first time.
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Montenegrins vote in the country's first post-independence poll, in a test for PM Milo Djukanovic.
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Bosnians voted Saturday in local elections in which the main Muslim, Serb and Croat nationalist parties are expected to confirm their dominance nine years after the end of the 1992-5 war.