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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 46
KOSOVO ELECTIONS:
A TEST OF MATURITY
November 2009
Local elections in Kosovo
of November 15, 2009 -
the first elections organized by Kosovo authorities after
independence declaration - resulted in a new, major quality in the
overall
situation. Despite the
pressure from Belgrade, a part of the
Serb community in Central Kosovo -
considerable beyond all
expectations - participated...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 45
SERBIA AND
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA:
A KEY TO REGIONAL
SECURITY
November 2009
Regional stabilization
depends on consolidation
of Bosnia-Herzegovina. As the basis for Bosnia's
political
arrangement the Dayton Accords have
proved insufficient since
and
need to be upgraded
so that the country can
function normally. The
international community...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 44
RADICALIZATION:
A CONSTANT THREAT TO
DEMOCRATIC FORCES
October 2009
In the second half of 2009 violence in Serbia was
among key topics prevailing in the media and political circles
alike. Despite the fact that neo-Nazi and "patriotic" organizations,
wellorganized groups of football fans and other movements
ideologically close to them are here both main promoters and...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 43
MEDVEDEV IN BELGRADE
October 2009
Belgrade hasn't had much opportunity to host
notable heads of state over the past two decades.
Ex-Yugoslavia's
disintegration and Serbia's role in the process - as constants at
the international agenda - have only logically brought to Belgrade
high officials of many countries,
organization and
institutions, but
high-level...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 42
A FRESH ADVANCE IN
EURO-ATLANTIC
ORIENTATION
October 2009
Ever since it consolidated
its pro-European
course
the Serbian cabinet has
been confronted by the
anti-European
and
anti-West "alliance" aware that such development
posed a threat
to its
ideological concept.
Namely, it feels threatened by the
process forcing Serbia to put an end to...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 40
SANDZAK: INEVITABLE
RADICALIZATION
September 2009
For over two decades Sandzak - a part of Serbia
bordering both on Bosnia-
Herzegovina and
Montenegro, and mostly
populated by Bosniak minority - has been
exposed to the state
orchestrated, repressive policy aimed at minimizing this minority
community. The attitude towards Islam and Muslims in...
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TRAGIC DEATH OF THE
YOUNG FRENCHMAN THE
LAST
WARNING
Belgrade, September 29, 2009
For the Serbian society, the tragic death of the
young Frenchman Bris Taton
should serve as a final warning that
fascization is
in full swing and that
citizens, the same as
governmental institutions, should start coping with it seriously.
One cannot but be worried over the fact that this tragic death is
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 39
SERBIA: GRADUAL
RECOGNITION OF
KOSOVO REALITY
September 2009
Serbian government
elected in spring 2009
retained an ambivalent
attitude towards the Kosovo issue - an
attitude best reflected in the Democratic Party's /DS/ slogan "Both
Kosovo and EU." The cabinet relocated "defense of Kosovo" to the
domain of the international law (UN, ICJ) intent to either...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 38
ETHNIC MINORITIES IN
SERBIA: A STATE OF
PERMANENT TENSION
September 2009
Adoption of a minority law was a major
precondition to FR of Yugoslavia's (Serbia's) admission to the
Council of Europe after the change of the regime in October 2000.
Ever since the position of ethnic minorities in Serbia has been
constantly supervised by international factors...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 37
REGULATION OF THE
MEDIA SPHERE RESISTED
September 2009
The character of the changes of October 2000
considerably influenced the character of Serbia's democratization as
well. As the new government did not distance itself from
Milosevic's
policy, transition in Serbia has been
burdened since not only by
that policy but also by the same people. That was...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 36
SOUTH SERBIA AND
ALBANIAN QUESTION
August 2009
South Serbia has been a neuralgic point ever
since the opening of the Kosovo status issue. After NATO
intervention (1999) stability in three South
municipalities --
Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja -- has been directly
connected to
the status issue. Both sides -- Serb
and Albanian - hoped for...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 35
THE PRESSURE OF
STRATEGIC CHALLENGES
July 2009
Notwithstanding the persistent antiNATO
propaganda Serbia's membership of NATO has become the most important
geostrategic agenda that is being daily discussed notably by the
so-called expert circles. Several crucial domestic and international
factors have contributed to such...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 34
SREBRENICA:
TRANSITIONAL
(IN)JUSTICE
July 2009
This year the world marked the anniversary of the
Srebrenica genocide with more consideration than before. This only
logically follows the messages sent to the region, and
particularly
to Serbia over past months. US...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 33
PRO-EUROPEAN BLOC
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
July 2009
In a way, the global economic crisis sobered
up
the entire world - and Serbia to some extent. First of all, it laid
bare the country's dramatic
economic situation. Serbia is still
wasting its modest transitional potential on the delusion that its...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 32
SERBIA BETWEEN
STATUTE AND REGIONS
June 2009
When will Vojvodina's draft statute find its way
to republican MPs? The answer to the question spoke of various
deadlines
- firstly it was March, then May and now the summer
extraordinary session of the Parliament and even early autumn 2009.
Asked...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 26
SYMMETRIC OR
ASYMMETRIC SERBIA?
May 2009.
A public debate on
constitutional revision
begun
even before Serbia's new 2006 Constitution was declared.
Dissatisfied with the constitutional frame for Vojvodina's autonomy,
the province's autonomists
mostly insisted on the
issue. At the
Third
Vojvodina Convention last December they once...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 25
NATO - YES OR NO? (2)
May 2009.
Early April discreet raising of the issue of the
military-security position of Serbia (after Croatia and Albania
became full members of NATO),1 seems to have triggered off a major
alarm among the influential
members of the
conservative block.
Urging of few politicians, analysts and commentators that Serbia
should re-assess...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 24
NATO - YES OR NO?
April 2009.
In early April a debate on relations with the
most important military - political alliance, the NATO Pact, has
(un)expectedly been launched. Only several
days after culmination of
anti-NATO campaignon the occasion of the 10th anniversary (24th
March) of the NATO operation in the then Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, "Allied...
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To
all EU
member-states'
governments,
European Parliament,
EU Commission,
Embassies of EU
member-states in
Belgrade
Belgrade, 2 February 2009
Your Excellencies,
This is to appeal for your reconsideration of the current situation
in Serbia and region, because, in our view, new international
circumstances that additionally affect the...
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