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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 70
SHIFT IN
BELGRADE'S KOSOVO POLICY AND ITS IMPACT
November 2010
The political atmosphere in Serbia has changed signifi cantly thanks to
a shift in the attitude of the political leadership to Kosovo. Following submission of the
joint EU and Serbian resolution to the UN General Assembly, and the International Court of
Justice's advisory opinion on the independence of Kosovo, Serbia's political life has
undergone some...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 69
NATIONAL
BOSNIAK COUNCIL ELECTION:
TEST FOR SERBIAN GOVERNMENT
October 2010
For the past two decades, Sandzak has been a crisis point which could
rapidly be activated and come to the forefront. Belgrade policies served to radicalize the
Muslim population in Yugoslavia ahead of the wars of the nineties. One of the theses used
to justify them is that radical Islam brought Yugoslavia down. Nor did...
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PRIDE PARADE AND PARADE OF VIOLENCE
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 68
FOREIGN
POLICY U-TURN:
THE FAILED MANIPULATION OF KOSOVO
September 2010
The opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's
independence, Serbia's agreement to a joint resolution on Kosovo with the EU in the UN
General Assembly and the refusal of a London court to extradite Ejub Ganic at Serbia's
request all testify to the Serbian national program coming up...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 67
MEDIA IN
SERBIA: LOST AND LOBBYING FOR THE STATUS QUO
August 2010
Serbia's media scene is merely a reflection of society's loss of
bearings and moral devastation. This is especially so because, like all other national
institutions, the media gave full support to the national projects embodied by Slobodan
Miloševia at the end of the twentieth century. Above all, the media's weakness is seen in
its attitude to the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 66
INTERNATIONAL
COURT OF JUSTICE DELIVERS ADVISORY OPINION ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE: A TURNABOUT IN THE
INTERPRETATION OF THE YUGOSLAV CRISIS
July 2010
On July 22, 2010 the International Court of Justice /ICJ/ delivered an
advisory opinion on Kosovo independence - Kosovo's Declaration of Independence, ruled the
ICJ, did not violate the international law. For Serbia, this piece of news...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 65
WEST
BALKANS AND EUROPEAN UNION AFTER THE MEETING IN SARAJEVO
June 2010
The EU - Western Balkans Ministerial Meeting of June 2, 2010 in
Sarajevo was a failure in terms of the messages stemming from it. After the Sarajevo
meeting the ten-year endeavor to bring the Western Balkans closer to EU looks like a
paradox: Europe has never before been farther from the Balkans. Even though the...
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ARREST OF RATKO MLADIC IS
SERBIA'S MORAL OBLIGATION
Fifteen years have passed since the genocide in Srebrenica and the main
culprit of that crime Ratko Mladic is still at large. This is a moral mortgage which
prevents us from moving forwards. Many new generations are hostage to this mortgage and
the lack of government's readiness to fulfill its obligations toward the Hague Tribunal.
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PRESS RELEASE
The United Nations and Genocide: On behalf of the Mothers of
Srebrenica, German human rights activists build a "Pillar of Shame" against
United Nations' arrogance
Berlin/Sarajevo, 13.05.2010
The 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide will be marked by a new
form of a memorial: made of 16,744 shoes (representing the 8,372 victims), two gigantic
letters, 'U' and 'N', cast in shimmering white concrete will be erected against the
arrogance of the United Nations. "The Pillar of Shame will... More >>> |
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 64
TURKEY: A
FACTOR OF REGIONAL STABILITY
May 2010
Over the past year Turkey has emerged as a major factor in the Balkans.
Turkish diplomacy mediated not only between some countries - between Serbia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina in the fi rst place - but also in sensitive, internal disputes. Serbia
has been in the focus of Turkey's activities as a potential generator of regional
instability. This primarily refers to Serbia's attitude towards Republika Srpska, but also
towards...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 63
SERB
PROGRESSIVE PARTY PREPARES THE TERRAIN FOR ELECTIONS
April 2010
Serb Progressive Party (SNS) is vigorously preparing the terrain for
elections - either early on which it insists or regular scheduled for 2012. Its major
objectives at this stage are to attract as many as possible voters of Serb Radical Party
(SRS) and to demonstrate its power at local elections called in certain towns in Serbia.
It has been successful in both up to now. Its weaknesses...
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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...
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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...
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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 preconditions for
the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 59
MONTENEGRO:
REGIME IN PODGORICA CONSTANTLY CRIMINALIZED
February 2010
Relations between Serbia and Montenegro aggravated after Montenegro's
recognition of Kosovo (October 2008) to which Belgrade responded by expelling the
Montenegrin Ambassador. When Podgorica and Prishtina established diplomatic relations
(November 2009) Belgrade withdrew its ambassador to Montenegro. Montenegrin President...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 58
RESOLUTION
ON SREBRENICA: DEBATE OPENED, NOTWITHSTANDING
February 2010
President Tadic's initiative for a parliamentary resolution on
Srebrenica triggered off a debate that laid bare the proportions of Serbia's frustration
manifested in its denial to face up the recent past, the Bosnian war in particular. The
existence of Republika Srpska /RS/ - actually the very fact that it exists for fifteen
years now - strengthened the Serb...
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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 is meant for the same...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 56
SERB
PROGRESSIVE PARTY: A PRETENDED TRANSFORMATION
January 2010
Serbia's entire political establishment and some other elites - those
in the judicial branch in particular - welcomed the transformation of a part of the Serb
Radical Party /SRS/ into the Serb Progressive Party /SNS/. There is no doubt that Vojislav
Seselj's inappropriate behavior before the ICTY that compromised SRS was among the reasons
why...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 55
NEW
PATRIARCH - NO BASIC CHANGES
January 2010
A change at the throne of the Serb Orthodox Church /SPC/ will
effectuate no major changes in the SPC structure, organization and functioning or, for
that matter, in its secular ambitions. In this context, newly elected Patriarch Irinej
(Gavrilovic), former bishop of Nis, guarantees continuity. In other words, SPC will be
trying to safeguard the space it has occupied at Serbia's...
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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
country's scholarly elite...
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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...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 52
HOOLIGANISM
SPILLS FROM POLITICAL ONTO SPORTS TERRAINS
December 2009
Ex-Yugoslavia's bloody disintegration advanced violence into a way of
life. After October 5, Vojislav Kostunica, the Serb Orthodox Church and scores of various
organizations were preoccupied with rounding-
off an ethnic state and hence reshaped the
Serb nationalism. Kostunica's two premierships were...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 51
VOJVODINA'S
STATUTE: FIRST MAJOR STEP TOWARDS MODERNIZATION AND DECENTRALIZATION
December 2009
Adoption of Vojvodina's Statute is a major event indicative of an
irrevocable trend. Though obstructed and postponed so many times, the adoption of the
Statute is a step towards a new frame within which the province will be making better use
of its own resources and the...
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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...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 48
STATUS OF
KOSOVO
December 2009
Serbia has not recognized Kosovo's independence as a new reality in the
region. Its strategy for maintaining the status quo was meant to impose partition as a
result of the reality in the field. Ever since Kosovo's independence declaration, Serbia's
persistent diplomatic action has had a single goal - to impel partition of Kosovo.
Vojislav Kostunica's plan to win...
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A BRAVE, HISTORICAL DECISION
Belgrade, December 22, 2009
The Helsinki Committee welcomes the Serbian government's decision to
apply for EU candidacy. The decision irrevocably sets down the country's strategic
orientation and European option. After decades of wondering Serbia's political elite has
finally made a historical breakthrough that, at the same time, opens the door to a
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 47
STRUGGLE
OVER PATRIARCH'S LEGACY
December 2009
The funeral of Patriarch Pavle was more than a burial of a church
dignitary. The entire obsequial scenario - including memorial ceremonies - was above all
designed to demonstrate national unity and show that the entire Serb nation was mourning
as one. It is hard to tell who was a mastermind of that all. To all appearances...
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