On the death of John Gotti

19June 2002 Zoran Jevtović

Mafia and mythology

Mafia movies will always be popular because people want to watch the same story a thousand times. There will certainly be more films about the Yakuza or the Russian mafia, but for a long time those double-breasted suits with striped white pinstripes, that kissing of a bare hand, that severed head of a favorite horse will be a reason for fantasy, but also for prejudice. Although 1992 is considered the final Cosa Nostra due to the arrest of John Gotti, the mobster myth will live on for a long time, just as cowboy movies outlasted Buffalo Bill.

European elections - France

19June 2002 Frano Cetinić

Record win

Six million French voters, who cast their vote for far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen on April 21, were left without a single representative, which together with fifteen and a half million abstentions means that every second Frenchman is not represented in the National Assembly.

America and the intelligence services

19June 2002 Duska Anastasijevic

War after war

After a series of revelations suggesting that the 11/50 attacks could have been at least delayed, if not prevented, if only someone in the intelligence community had done their homework properly, the US administration and the heads of the CIA and FBI are facing with a series of unpleasant questions: what is the use of close to XNUMX billion dollars from the budget for financing the services in charge of security, if the people whose task it is to connect the dots, from which they will be shown a meaningful figure, use those papers to make airplanes and try to hit the trash can with them

Slovenian return

19June 2002 Svetlana Vasović-Mekina

The first time after - the escape

The pomp and excitement that followed Janez Drnovšek's visit to Belgrade and the protocol speeches about "never better relations" between the countries were supposed to hide the fact that the agreement on two important agreements - on free trade and air traffic - failed again.

"Vremena" reporter in the East

12June 2002 Davor Konjikušić

The last European oasis of communism

In addition to the lack of resources, uninterestingness for investors and with a relatively marginal position in Europe, the only importance Moldova can have for foreign countries is as a transit country towards the Black Sea. The burning problems in this Eastern European country would probably be solved much sooner if the international community had any greater interest in Moldova. Like this, in one part of this country, God seemed to say good night

Anniversaries - "Today" 1982–1992–2002

12June 2002 Teofil Pančić

"ripple" price

Although it is the nature of newspapers to pass away and be forgotten, Zagreb's "Danas" is remembered very vividly by everyone from Planica to Bitola - even those who have never smelled it.

Afghanistan

12June 2002 Duska Anastasijevic

Distribution of winning tickets

At the same time, it is very important for the stability of the country that the transitional government, as the new government will be officially called after the session, be as representative as possible, because the degree to which it will be able to cope with the arduous task of general reconstruction of the country will depend on the legitimacy it will enjoy in the eyes of the citizens.

French elections

12June 2002 Frano Cetinić

Talicni Jacques

The expected big electoral victory of the right next week will mark the greatest concentration of power in the hands of one man and one party. The president who had the lowest electoral support in the history of the Fifth Republic, in just a month and a half and after the referendum re-election - which is due to a large-scale historical traffic accident - has a majority in all levers of power: in the parliament, the senate, the provinces

Francuska

06June 2002 Frano Cetinić

Since the election - two trips

The left constantly repeats that the victory of the opposing camp in the parliamentary elections - which according to public opinion polls is more than certain - would mark the beginning of "social regression".

Interview: Dr. Heinz Duhart, historian

06June 2002 Slobodanka Asst

A new view of the Balkans

"Today in Germany the prevailing belief is that the recognition of some former Yugoslav states was both quick and hasty. But now the perception of Yugoslavia has also changed."

India-Pakistan crisis

06June 2002 Aleksandar Radić

In the nuclear crosshairs

Even the mildest assessment of the possible development of the crisis shows that all the elements needed to create a war already exist and that all that remains is for one of the parties to throw the ball that will trigger an avalanche of reckoning of millions of soldiers

Summit of the Heads of Central European States

06June 2002 Svetlana Makina

Alan Ford in the Alps

The entire meeting was decorated from the beginning and accompanied by a ceremony that was supposed to give the guests a royal atmosphere and to reduce the discomfort of the hosts that many things did not turn out as they had planned.

Francuska

30May 2002. Frano Cetinić

And after the elections - elections

According to polling institutes - the Delphic oracles of postmodernist democracy - the moderate right could win around 40 percent of the vote in the first round and an absolute majority in the National Assembly in the second.

Cuba and the USA

30May 2002. V.S

Useless volume

Just a few days after Jimmy Carter's historic visit to the island, which has been under the US embargo for 40 years, the current US president renewed his vocabulary of threats addressed to Fidel Castro, whom he calls "one of the world's last tyrants".

The American president on a European tour

30May 2002. Duska Anastasijevic

Russian advance to the West

By all accounts, Bush felt much more comfortable in Russia chatting with a president of whom he himself did not have the best opinion until recently, than in the capitals of traditional allies. He stayed in Russia for three days, while he spent less than a whole day with his German and French hosts. At first glance, one gets the impression that the talks in Berlin and Paris were much more tense than those he had with the former KGB officer in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Ministerial incident in Macedonia

22May 2002. V. Zahariyev

Naughty "brother Ljube"

The leader of the largest opposition party SDSM, Branko Crvenkovski, demanded the immediate resignation of Minister Boskovski, whom he called "an elementary accident that walks on two legs".

Dutch elections

22May 2002. Duska Anastasijevic

Something new in the West

The social democrats across Europe are increasingly losing their initial charm with which they managed to oust the Christian Democrats and conservatives ten years ago.

Jubilees - half a century on the British throne

22May 2002. Slobodanka Asst

Who can do it better than her?

Elizabeth II surpassed Britain's most popular monarch; according to a BBC poll it is the "virgin queen" Elizabeth I, who reigned for 45 years but has yet to reach Queen Victoria's reign of 64 years

USA and Saddam Hussein

16May 2002. Duska Anastasijevic

Buying time

What the US is trying to secure before engaging in military action is the same kind of motley national coalition that was established during the operation against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. But in order for the weapons to rattle again, it is necessary that they first fall silent in the Gaza Strip

Francuska

16May 2002. Frano Cetinić

Under Chirac's flag

That everything is possible in the course of the upcoming June parliamentary movements is also evidenced by the example of the left, which managed to ask its electoral base - which in the first round sanctioned Prime Minister Jospin for not pursuing a sufficiently left-wing policy - to ask and, what is the strangest thing, to receive in the second round, support for... the candidate of the right, President Chirac

Opening of secret files in Croatia

16May 2002. Milos Vasic

Assembling a tragic mosaic

Recently published parts of the transcripts from the VONS (Council for Defense and National Security) meetings have added to the already well-known picture of a conspiracy between Belgrade and Zagreb for mutual population exchange. When planning ethnic cleansing and resettlement, Tuđman and his team were less concerned about what Belgrade would say, because they were in agreement with Milosevic, and much more about how the international community could react.

Netherlands

08May 2002. R.V

A political earthquake

Apart from the shock in the Netherlands - this is the first political murder that has ever happened in this country - the assassination will reverberate in Europe as well, where lately there is an increasing reaction to emotions.

Myanmar

08May 2002. Duska Anastasijevic

The first gesture of goodwill

What prompted one of the most notorious regimes in the world to release Suu Kyi from house arrest and release hundreds of political prisoners from prison? There is no doubt that the junta has nowhere else to draw money to maintain an expensive system and invest in weapons while millions of citizens are starving.