Issue 499 - July 13, 2001

The great auction in the federal government, a probable reconstruction of the republic government, a company which has "the money's here" written all over it, the love affair of the hedgehogs in DOS, a game concerning tempo, the donor's 270 DM and Velja Ilic the contractor, Montenegrin calculations and the eternal question: "Does this guy really know what he's doing..."

Everything is slowly settling after the excitement of this year's St. Vitius' Day: President Kostunica is complaining about a "coup d'etat", former President Slobodan Milosevic is bracing for a political self-defense before the Hague Tribunal, and Carla del Ponte is busy trying to extend his indictment

The 'Reform Team' is now compelled not only to put up with the burden of the helplessly primitive opposition and the problem of an old coalition party from the old Montenegrin film, but also a nervous and, at the same time popular, 'moderate conservatives' in its own rows - it will now have a chance to demonstrate its skills to impede a very complex inflation without the use of an absurd administrative force, especially as it is not so easy to find an appropriate cure in the manuscripts of worldwide financial institutions

The Hague's prisoner has covered a long road: from heroic kitsch, to the reconstruction and construction kitsch, to the innocence without protection kitsch