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/ 2 December 2003
The most famous and influential Georgian in world politics since Joseph Stalin, Eduard Shevardnadze, finally bowed out last weekend after controlling his small, but strategically crucial, country for more than a generation. This is how Shevardnadze went from glasnost hero to hated lame duck.
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/ 18 November 2003
Sinisa Mihajlovic seems to have a Faustian fascination with controversy. Lazio’s Serbia-Montenegro international heaped more shame on himself and his team during their 4-0 home defeat by Chelsea when he spat at Adrian Mutu. Anyone who has followed his career, though, will not have been surprised.
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/ 19 September 2003
Saudi Arabia, in response to the current upheaval in the Middle East, has embarked on a strategic review that includes acquiring nuclear weapons. This new threat of proliferation in one of the world’s most dangerous regions comes on top of a crisis over Iran’s alleged nuclear programme.
Four Kosovan Albanian children who survived a Serbian massacre and were given the right to live in the northern city of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, went to court in Belgrade this week to tell their story to a war crimes trial .
The co-producer of Roman Polanski’s The Pianist and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List is set to go on trial for corruption in Poland, writes Ian Traynor.
Serbian commentators and Western diplomats have been talking darkly about the ‘capture of the state’. Twosniper bullets that killed Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. His murder and the boldness with which it was executed raise the question: who is really running Serbia?
On a beach by the grey waters of the Black sea, scores of young American airmen are racing against the clock to get ready for war.
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/ 12 February 2003
Vàclav Havel’s departure marks the end of an era. The Czech Republic president recently stepped down after an extraordinary career that spanned 40 years.
Poland and the United States underlined their friendship this month by signing an agreement on the biggest military package in Europe in years – and the most substantial ever in former communist Eastern Europe.
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/ 29 November 2002
Yugoslavia is the hub for East European arms smugglers and military experts who have been supplying Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with crucial equipment and know-how to help him frustrate a United States air campaign against Iraq.