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  • Years after Milosevic, Serbia's illusions persist

    08/31/2005 3:27:34 PM PDT · by mark502inf · 64 replies · 1,090+ views
    IHT ^ | August 31st, 2005 | Roger Cohen
    The Serbian mistake of 1918, when the victorious kingdom gambled on [establishing] Yugoslavia, rather than consolidating a compact state of Serbia, continues to haunt Belgrade. Territory governed from Belgrade continues to shrink. Next year, Montenegro can call a referendum to decide whether to secede. -snip- Montenegro is not alone in contemplating exit. Negotiations are likely to begin this year on the status of Kosovo, formally part of Serbia, in reality a ward of the international community, and in the minds of almost all its ethnic Albanian citizens a putative independent state. What goes around comes around. Kosovo was the launching...