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Serbia and Montenegro

26-29
18-20
15-19
30
12-15
60-69
15-18
18-20
20
14
20-26
533-544
256-264
327-337
126-145
473-486
296-307
Mar 2004Percentage margin by which a Milosevic-supported candidate won Serbia's presidential election last November : 12
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Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (Belgrade)

Mar 2004Percentage by which that election's turnout fell short of the threshold Serbia requires for lawful elections : 11
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Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (Belgrade)

Mar 2001Ratio of U.S. spending on the bombing of Serbia in 1999 to U.S. spending on Serbian election aid last fall: 80:1
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Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments (Washington)/U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington)

Oct 2000Estimated voter registration rate among Kosovo Serbs, whose leaders are calling for a boycott of this fall's elections there: 2
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Vienna)

Dec 1999Chance that an ethnic Albanian left Kosovo while Serbian troops controlled the region last spring: 1 in 2
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Pristina, Kosovo)

Aug 1999Ratio of eggs rolled on the White House lawn last Easter to bombs dropped on Serbia during its Orthodox holy week: 1:1
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The First Lady's Press Office/Federation of American Scientists (Washington)

Jul 1999Hours after NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May that the U.S. apologized to China: 23
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Harper's research

Jun 1999Year in which former Secretary of State Warren Christopher said that “Serbian influence” in Kosovo must be limited: 1993
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Hearing before the House Committee on Appropriations, 3/12/94 (Washington)

Jun 1999Chance that a Kosovar refugee crossing the Serbian border last April was a child: 1 in 2
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UNICEF (N.Y.C.)

Jan 1999Hours after Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic agreed to last fall's Kosovo peace plan that he closed two newspapers: 12
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Balkan Media &Policy Monitor (The Hague, Netherlands);

July 24, 2008Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade and awaits imminent extradition to The Hague, where he will face charges of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacres and the siege of Sarajevo. The former Bosnian Serb president, a psychiatrist and poet who in 1991 pledged to drive Bosnian Muslims down “the highway of hell and suffering,” had been living in the Serbian capital as a New Age guru, promoting alternative medicine and “Human Quantum Energy” under the name “Dragan David Dabic.” Serbia hoped the arrest would hasten its campaign to join the European Union, and it was reported that Ratko Mladic, the general who led Bosnian Serb forces during the war and is believed to be in hiding in Serbia, is protected by two bodyguards under orders to kill him in the event of his arrest.
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Telegraph

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New York Times

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Reuters

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Telegraph

August 20, 2007Two bears at the Belgrade Zoo, Masha and Misha, spent the annual beer-festival weekend feasting on a 23-year-old Serb, who was discovered naked, dead, and half-eaten in their cage. “Only an idiot,” said zoo director Vuk Bojovic, “would jump into the bear cage.”
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CNN

July 25, 2007 Serbians awaiting a U.N. Security Council decision on Kosovar independence told reporters they no longer cared whether Serbia retained the disputed province. “Kosovo means absolutely nothing to me; I have never been there and I never will go there,” said 38-year-old anthropologist Jelena Simovic. “I am fed up with Kosovo. I just want to live normally.”
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AP via International Herald Tribune

May 31, 2007 Serb farmers were exchanging cows for penis-enlargement surgery.
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Independent Online

September 16, 2006On the advice of his witch doctor a Serbian premature ejaculator had sex with a hedgehog and had to be hospitalized for pricks.
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The Sun

June 3, 2006Montenegro declared independence from Serbia.
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Chron.com

March 19, 2006Eighty thousand people mourned Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade.
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ABC News

April 16, 2004 Serbia's constitutional court suspended a law that gave financial benefits to Slobodan Milosevic and other Serb war criminals.
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Associated Press

March 31, 2004 Serbia's parliament agreed to pay salaries and benefits to Slobodan Milosevic and other war criminals.
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Associated Press

November 22, 2003The United Nations war-crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia heard testimony from Miroslav Deronjic, a former Bosnian Serb politician, that Radovan Karadzic gave the order in 1995 to slaughter the Muslim men and boys of Srebrenica: "At one moment, he said the following sentence to me: 'Mirsolav, all of them need to be killed — whatever you can lay your hands on.'"
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New York Times

November 13, 2003The president of the rump Yugoslavia apologized for "any evil or disaster that anyone from Serbia and Montenegro caused to anyone in Bosnia-Herzegovina."
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Agence France-Presse

October 14, 2003Happy Serbs accidentally shot down a small plane when they fired guns into the air at a wedding.
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Reuters

August 7, 2001In Yugoslavia, Serbs were still digging up mass graves.
July 10, 2001A mass grave was found in eastern Bosnia that was believed to contain over 200 victims of the Srebrenica massacre, where about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Serbs in 1995.
July 3, 2001 Serbia's prime minister gave Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague to be tried for war crimes even though doing so was technically illegal; the prime minister of Yugoslavia resigned in protest.
February 27, 2001A war-crimes tribunal convicted three Serbs of sexually enslaving Muslim girls and women during the Bosnian war.
January 9, 2001Exposure to depleted uranium, which was used in NATO's bombings of Kosovo, Bosnia, and Serbia, was thought to be responsible.
November 28, 2000 Slobodan Milosevic was reelected president of the Socialist Party of Serbia.
November 28, 2000Madeleine Albright asked to meet with Serbia's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, at a meeting in Vienna; she was snubbed.
November 21, 2000 Serbs, having thrown off their dictator, were waiting, in the dark, for international aid to help them pay for electricity.

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