Issue 430 - March 18, 2000

There are simply not enough inspectors and policemen who could stifle all the Serbian voices who are clamoring for change; the biggest independent media in Serbia is the impoverished and degraded Serbian people

One of the regime officials has recently threatened the opposition parties that this time there will be no Gonzalez and OSCE to "hand over" the cities to them. So, they should see what they can do now!

The military exercises in Kosovo lasting three weeks could be viewed as something completely usual and regular, but the conditions under which they are taking place hardly seem reassuring. On the contrary

Along with the official one, Serbia also has a 'grey' budget, about which the Parliament apparently knows nothing, and which is of about the same scope as the official budget. The money which the citizens and the economy invest in paying their obligations towards the state goes directly into that parallel budget

The Arsenijevic family is afraid that it is about the abduction, that possibility cannot be rejected nowadays. But, having in mind all the circumstances and Maki's courageousness, the escape seems to be a more likely option