Issue 503 - August 10, 2001

Unlike the mainstream Serbian national intelligentsia, headed by the Academy and Dobrica Cosic, Kostunica never nurtured any illusions in connection with Milosevic

A mischievous monkey, a donkey, a goat and the clumsy teddy bear Mishka decided to perform a quartet... (from the introduction to Krylov's fable "Quartet" the moral of which is that the reason for the unsuccessful performance was sought by these players in their sitting arrangement).

Last Friday, Slobodan Milosevic gave a phone call to his fellow members of SPS (the Socialist Party of Serbia) Executive Committee from Scheveningen, The Hague. It was Zivadin Jovanovic's mobile phone that rang in the middle of an EC session, which he immediately connected to the already prepared speakers. Then followed a few times: 'hello comrades!'. This time, perhaps no to waste the time, there was no a five-minute-long ovation, typical in these situations.