Issue 311 - September 20, 1997

It will soon be ten years since the endeavour of returning the Serbian people its dignity had commenced. Those rounded figures always tend to seduce one, making him believe that life unfolds in accordance with mathematical rules

When elections are held in civilized countries, the main elections issues are usually well known by everyone - whether they concern foreign or domestic policies, economic policies, legal system policies, healthcare system policies, the system of education, or social services

Why does the press keep insisting on differences between political parties and their top officials? Is it perhaps because without such elocutionary distinctions it would be very difficult to distinguish one candidate from another?

While exam fever is hanging over the majority of schools and the deans and associate deans are trying to figure out how to pay the miserable wages for June/July and prepare the new school year, the party in power is starting its offensive under the leadership of JUL

"The electoral battle" for Brcko (along with those for Mostar and Drvar) was one of the fiercest "battles" over the last weekend

Public service had been on strike in Belgrade before. However, the one that started on 15 September will be remembered by many a citizen of Belgrade as a black Monday

There is no post-war elections in either Serbia or Croatia without diplomatic breakthroughs in normalizing relations, or without promises which sound good in the elections campaigns of ruling parties