Issue 443 - June 17, 2000

Can the regime's euphoric exuberance and the sluggish slumbering of the opposition change the citizens desire for change? What is the potential influence of the Montenegrin election test trial on the Serbian political scene

I was personally convinced on a number of occasions in the US that the war is still ongoing on this side as well, not only against Milosevic but against the Serbs and Serbia as well. No one says that out loud, yet hardly anyone here has the will to draw some fine distinctions between the regime and the people

At this stage of the "match" between two political alternatives, there are no real winners. What will happen next?

The coalitions of those who are in power and those who never had any power (if we exclude the occasional deals between a part of the Serbian opposition with Milosevic), are usually not models for successful political projects

'There is no land to cultivate, there are no jobs, it's so difficult to earn some money', concludes Milorad Obradovic, a refugee from the village of Kos, nearby Istok: 'People are different here'

The proposal on holding a donation conference for the reconstruction of Serbia after the change of government - the initiative of G 17 Plus, which was accepted by 20 parties of the opposition - will become a regular subject of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe. Mladjan Dinkic says for VREME that, not counting on the received support, it is significant for Serbia to obtain the chairs for the session of the Stability Pact. Then, a working group was formed, which will be in charge of all technical details concerning this proposal.

President of JUL (the Yugoslav Left), Dr. Mirjana Markovic did not find it necessary to fulfill the solemn moment with her words - all she had to say was carved into the monument itself. Namely, she wrote the text 'Perpetual Fire' signing the Serbian population underneath