Slobodan Milosevic

Gaddafi, Tito, UN: Libyan crisis impact on Balkans

Over the past few days many comparisons have been made between the Libyan war and the Balkan crisis of the nineties as western powers come up with the same humanitarian arguments they used then to justify their intervention in Libya now. But what is the connection? A closer look at the double standards and political games played during bombing campaigns

by Miguel González Lázaro @ // 29/03/11

slobodan milosevic, libya, barack obama, belgrade, josip broz tito, muammar al-gaddafi, washington

Serbia: football violence, gay pride violence, anti-west violence?

‘The Serbs are experts at shooting themselves in the foot,’ said interior minister Ivica Dacic, after the world watched Serbs riot in the streets of Belgrade and later, Italy. Is it all down to an extreme right burgeoning fear of the west?

by n- ost @ // 19/10/10

slobodan milosevic, football, protest, homosexuality, politics, serbia

War criminal Karadzic wants a 'fair trial' at the Hague

During Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic's last appearance before the Hague at the end of August, judge Iain Bonomy resisted attempts to challenge the validity of the trial. Karadzic is to report ‘irregularities’ at a special hearing on 17 September

by Mira Galanova @ // 17/09/08

slobodan milosevic, european court of justice, trial, european court of instance, massacre, tactic, analysis

Serbia in the EU: at what cost?

On 30 July captured war criminal Radovan Karadzic was extradited to the Hague. It’s just one sign of Serbia’s desire to be in the European Union, in the hope of better times to come for its wounded pride

by Fernando Navarro Sordo @ // 28/07/08

slobodan milosevic, eudebate2009, tribunal penal internacional, european elections 2009, enlargement, war, nationalism

Radovan Karadzic: 'the Osama Bin Laden of Europe' captured

The Serb government woos the European Union, after a twelve-year hunt for the former Bosnian Serb war president came to an end on 21 July. The second-most wanted man after Bin Laden (as nicknamed by Richard Holbrooke, broker of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement), is a multiple genocide suspect in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia. Perspective/ archive

• Read the special edition Radovan Karadzic: 'the Osama Bin Laden of Europe' captured
• Serbia: rising nationalism imperils Mladic, Karadzic hunt
• Serbia’s Radovan Karadzic, prisoner bus line number 73
• Remembering Srebrenica

Branislav Djordjevic: 'We don’t know what Europe wants from us Serbs'

On January 21 2007, Serbia sees its first general elections since the new democratic constitution was approved in October last year. The big parties are favourites to win in a country that seems unsure of where it’s going

by Fernando Navarro Sordo @ // 19/01/07

slobodan milosevic, economy, bologna process, journalism, politics, immigration, elections

Slobodan's long shadow

Slobodan Milosevic’s death has left some of Serbia suspicious of international justice and Europe more generally. Most however, want to move on

by dragana nikolic solomon // 29/05/06

slobodan milosevic, ratko mladić