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Balkan events possess a tendency to propagate themselves somehow and to generate talk. European history shows that Balkan events really have a certain capacity to self-propagate by leaving traces of themselves behind. Therefore it is possible to talk about Balkan Buzz. Because of the self-proclaimed independence processes that have brought to the breaking of Yugoslavia up to the 2008 Kosovo separation from Serbia, Balkans Buzz aims at identifying and discussing the rising concepts potentially buzz-able into Europe and beyond.
 
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Serbia's catalyst for stability

The arrest of Radovan Karadzic signals that nationalists no longer speak for Serbia.

by Elizabeth Pond for The Christian Science Monitor

 

With the arrest at long last of Radovan Karadzic on charges of genocide, Serbia has finally chosen 21st-century Europe over 19th-century chauvinism. We can all cheer, Serbs most of all, and thank the magnetic attraction of the European Union for this long overdue shift.

The country is now on its way to becoming a "normal, boring, democratic" Serbia, says Ivan Vejvoda, executive director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy in Belgrade.

Oddly enough, it all happened because the Democratic Party – the party that engineered the ouster of strongman Slobodan Milosevic in the 2000 Serbian election – has just joined the remnants of Milosevic's Socialist Party in a coalition government.

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A Leader Turned Ghost

By John F. Burns, The New York Times

CAMBRIDGE, England — With his arrest on Monday after more than 12 years on the run, Radovan Karadzic seems virtually certain to face trial in The Hague — and the prospect of life imprisonment — for his role in masterminding massacres that war crimes prosecutors have described, in indictments drawn up against him, as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of history.”

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Kosovo: The New 'Frozen Conflict'

by Brian Withmore, RFE/RL

When the European Union announced this week that it would be delaying the planned deployment of its police mission to Kosovo, it was more than your run-of-the-mill bureaucratic snafu.
To the contrary, analysts say the delay is the deliberate result of a coordinated strategy by Serbia and its ally Russia to sabotage Kosovo's fledgling statehood.
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In Perfect Harmony

by Armela Subasic and Amela Bulja, Transition Online

 An interreligious choir reminds Bosnians that the country’s differences need not preclude unity.

SARAJEVO | Conductor Josip Katavic recalls that the first time his choir Pontanima sang a Muslim song at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Anthony, “It was a great shock for everyone, including ourselves.”

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Serbia faces uncertain political future

IHT 

Serbia faced an uncertain political future Monday as nationalists and their pro-Western rivals scrambled to forge alliances that would let them take power after bitterly divisive weekend elections.

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