Editorial
THE YEAR OF REGAINED
CONSCIOUSNESS
By Sonja Biserko
The year 2009 will be remembered by global crisis but also by the
growing awareness that all major world actors - from US, China, Russia, Japan to EU - are
interdependent. Barrack Obama's election restored the world's confidence in US leadership,
while numerous initiatives by leading global powers demonstrated that the world is so
interdependent that no country can politically or economically dominate the...
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Kosovo and Serbia
AT THE END OF THE
ROAD
By Miroslav Filipovic
It is crystal clear to whoever saw Prishtina only once and spent
there a day only how much Kosovo sees itself is an independent state, how much its
citizens are intoxicated and exalted with their independence and what a fool Belgrade
makes of itself and of all of us.
Back in 2001 and well into 2003 the Zoran Djindjic cabinet - or at
least he personally - had a solution for the Kosovo question that was in Serbia's best
interest: the solution that implied not a long warfare, destruction, damage to national
economy and, most... More
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From a personal angle -
Serbia and Croatia
BETWEEN THE PAST AND
THE FUTURE
By Milan Simurdic
Ever since established in 1996, relations between Serbia and Croatia
have been going through numerous phases. There were different and contradictory periods in
these relations: from the mock cooperation and contention at the time of Milosevic and
Tudjman, through normalization and first signs of reconciliation once the winds of
democracy started blowing in these areas to the standstill on... More >>> |
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ABOUT THE "UNWELCOME" ELITE
By Latinka Perovic
I am always pleased to come to Zagreb, this time especially for the
occasion to speak about people from Serbia, who are no longer among us but who left
lasting traces in the books I've prepared for the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
Serbia along with introductory studies. I am referring to eight authors and nine books.
Why have we published these books in the first place? I'll use some statistics to answer
this question. Out of eight authors only one is alive. By force rather... More >>> |
