Issue 178 - February 27, 1995

It seems that all the protagonists have a plan for ending the war, but that we have no plan for what is described as "Serbia is not at war"

Informed sources claim the specific effects of the joint Bosnian and Krajina Serb military command is small at present. They said it was aimed at attracting media attention

According to some estimates 26 JNA officers and soldiers were killed or shot in Bjelovar. The surviving officers and soldiers were captured and all the motorized units' equipment was confiscated. The Bjelovar garrison, just like the units in Varazdin, had been promised help which never arrived

It seems as if Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija have strategic plans, which exclude one another. The district authorities would like to incorporate the ethnic Albanians into the system little by little, but also to make the Serbs feel equal by re-colonizing the area. Ethnic Albanians oppose this tactic with passive resistance and by building mechanisms of a parallel state in all fields

The disintegration of former Yugoslavia resulted in a legal mess. A group of Belgrade School of Law professors try to come up with some answers

Is it possible that Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj, who is most agile in bringing together the scattered opposition, has read Jefferson in jail, so that the ideal of a free press has completely overshadowed his vision of an Enormous Serbia

By refusing to undertake a real and public devaluation, the state, through a series of indirect measures is trying to retain the buying power of its income (budget) by tapping the citizens (whose salaries have been frozen) and the economy hemmed in with restrictive monetary measures

Need creates strange bedfellows, on of Murphy's laws says. That is an excellent explanation of how the Serbian state TV foreign broadcasts desk, privately owned Victoria film company and journalist, formally retired, Svetolik Mitic got together on the Camera Recalls project.

The para-military commander Arkan and folk-star Ceca got married on Sunday, February 19. The whole thing was to have been conducted under ancient Serb customs but in fact it was strange combination of folklore and Hollywood styles