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Widow Of Assassinated Serbian Premier Enters Politics

(RFE/RL)

November 16, 2006 -- The widow of the assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic today announced that she is entering politics.

Alleged Djindjic Assassin Says Police Extracted Confession

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November 16, 2006

Ruzica Djindjic will top the ticket of her late husband's Democratic Party in January 21 parliamentary elections in Serbia.

Speaking to reporters in Belgrade, she said she wants to finish the job her husband started before he was assassinated in 2003.

Ruzica Djindjic is a close friend and supporter of Serbia's pro-Western president, Boris Tadic, her husband's successor at the helm of the Democratic Party.

(AP)

'Outsider' Jolie Puts Bosnia's War Story On World Stage

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"The main impression...after being 15 minutes in her presence is that she is not frightened," a colleague says of Natasa Kandic (above).

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Zoran Laketa lost his father and brother in the war

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, One Family, Three Armies, And A Lost Generation

Zoran Laketa knows what it's like to fire a gun and wonder if the soldier on the other side of the front line just might be his brother. Or his father. More