Issue 69 - January 18, 1993

How is it possible that the Belgrade stock exchange is prospering in the most difficult year for the Serbian economy? Branislav Cosic, the director of the stock exchange answers this question for VREME readers.

For the second time in a month, Independent Radio-TV Studio B's equipment has been the target of an armed attack. Thanks to the presence of mind of the people from Studio B, who raised the alarm via their radio, and called Captain Dragan (ex-mercenary, now running veterans` aid foundation) for help, a new robbery was averted. Is Serbia turning into Lebanon?

Experience has shown that Karadzic regards the world's military force as an abstraction, but Geneva, with the help of Milosevic and Cosic seem to have made him doubt this a little. They probably told him that this was his best hour, and that after an intervention, his negotiating status would be somewhat changed

"Captured petrol" was the last in a series of affairs which marked the brief but passionate relationship between Mr Jezdimir Vasiljevic and the Montenegrin government.

The cultural blockade has banished Disney characters from Yugoslav newspapers and magazines for children, and it is pushing Yugoslavia into a spiritual ghetto.

Even though the management of Radio and Television Serbia explained that it was sending 1500 of its employees on compulsory vacation for the purpose of saving, it is obvious that this a clean-up in the most powerful media which wants to get rid of the people with whom the authorities disagree and who pose unpleasant questions