Issue 346 - May 23, 1998

Namely, there are no rules. What is at stake is sheer force. Just like in the case of the decision regarding electronic media frequencies. Just like in the case of dissolving and replacing the Federal Government

It is not certain whether Montenegro will separate from Yugoslavia in the near future — at least not easily and peacefully. However, it is certain that the future is not on the side of Yugoslavia

Momir Bulatovic did in only six weeks what took Mirko Marjanovic more than six months: forming a government

Slobodan Milosevic cannot bare a foreign trade deficit in our dealings with the world, at least where politics are concerned: as soon as he gives the world something, he charges it to the people of Serbia

The meeting between Milosevic and Rugova might not have brought significant improvements on the ground, but at least things didn't get worse.

Hidayet Hisseni, 44, is a former vice-president of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo (LDK). Today, he is one of Ibrahim Rugova's hardest critics

The students' uprising, along with many windows, was shattered by a police intervention in Pristina. Although official supplies are "above average", a food shortage is obvious and so is the rise in prices

When Zarko Spasic was found missing, his family did not go to the Serbian police. They went to the British Embassy, the American Information Center in Pristina, the International Red Cross, the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo and the Kosovo Parliamentary Party (PPK). The PPK told them that they should talk to the police.

Rich beneath and fighting above the surface, Kosovo today is plagued by war and poverty. The Serbs keep talking about the past, their monasteries and other sacred values, whereas the ethnic Albanians can think of nothing but an independent republic of Kosovo.

Conducted chaos “on the air” served the republican and federal ministers of information with shameful boasting as how in Serbia one thousand media blossoms bloom. In short, aside from a few exceptions, the remaining work under the illusion of freedom of speech-- they gave licenses mainly to broadcasters without news program.

The Government appoints rectors, deans and — professors. With the new law, it annuls both faculty and university councils as the last remnants of university self-rule