Serbia will apply for European Union membership by mid-2009, even if its preaccession pact with the bloc does not kick off, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic has said.
Past and present are deeply intertwined in the Balkans. But in 2008, the region appeared to look in a new direction -- the future. With independence in Kosovo and the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the region seemed ready to shrug off the weight of history. But is it?
Serbia has arrested 10 former Kosovar guerrilla fighters suspected of involvement in killings and abductions in the rebellious Serbian province of Kosovo in 1999, the office of the war crimes prosecutor said.
Russia and Serbia have signed a deal on the sale of a 51-percent stake in Serbian oil monopoly NIS to Russian gas giant Gazprom.
Leaders of Bosnia's biggest Muslim, Croat, and Serb parties have called for parliament to begin revising the constitution, a key condition for joining the European Union.
The European Union police force in Kosovo (EULEX) is working to get Serbian police to return to their posts within the Kosovar police force, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reports.
It might seem that 1,000 people signing up to a call for hatred on a social-networking website isn't that many, especially considering the torrent of hate propaganda that people in Serbia are exposed to. After all, every country has racist haters. The key in Serbia is how the authorities are reacting and will react.
Serbian forces have conducted special operations in an effort to locate former Bosnian Serb military leader General Ratko Mladic, who has been indicted for war crimes by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Serbia has yet to demonstrate it is cooperating fully with the UN war crimes tribunal in seeking the arrest of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, a top Dutch official has said.
Nearly 1,000 people have joined an Internet group on Facebook that glorifies genocide by proclaiming that the massacre at the Bosnian town of Srebrenica is a model for "fighting Islam," RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reports.
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari has received the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for his three decades of peace mediation work around the globe.
Sixty years ago, the UN adopted a milestone document that provided impetus to the human rights movement and inspired standard-bearers of peace, equality, and justice. How is it holding up?
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