After the forced resignation of Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada, interim president Carlos Mesa has put together an "expert and independent government", but there are few guarantees that he will be able to lead the country out of a severe economic, social and political crisis.
Even the highest leadership of BiH could not agree on declaring a day of mourning at the state level because "that decision", in the words of Dragan Čović, the first person in the Presidency of BiH, "could not be implemented on the territory of the entire country".
There is a hint that the time when the Russian president and the oligarchy were allies in the fight against the communists is over. The oligarchy, which, if viewed from this angle, played a positive role in the early post-communist period in Russia, has now begun to interfere and hinder reforms, seeking to maintain the status quo
The High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petrič, made the harshest political decision so far in his mandate. He dismissed all the leading people of the Croatian Democratic Union from political and state positions
Moscow is like a magnet for me: it repels and attracts at the same time. The attraction is the people, many of them intelligent, talkative, interested, then museums, squares and brightly lit historical buildings at night
The problem with Afghanistan is that there is no mechanism of world diplomacy that could reach the Taliban leaders who within five years managed to bring under their control a whopping 90 percent of the territory of Afghanistan.
The new epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has caused a new wave of paranoia in Europe when it comes to livestock diseases. Our official authorities have raised "security measures to a higher level", and the public is more or less uninterested
Croatian political leaders, in addition to encountering the unwavering stance of the international community, also faced difficulties within their own – Croatian – territories.
The dramatic appeal of United Media employees shows what can happen when the media is controlled by the regime and corporations. It is happening in Serbia now. If the audience does not recognize this, an even blacker media darkness threatens
Aleksandar Vučić now has only the old, proven methods of classic dictatorships left, because these modern methods of insanity and poisoning the public are failing. And that, however, goes against his head
Vučić is not defending the state, but himself from the state. With a drum on his back and a guitar in his hands, this man-orchestra performs two or three of the same songs without hearing, with falsifications and falling out of rhythm. His government and politics are like that. In short - dangerous for the environment
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