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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Serbian Radical Party: The Hubris of Serbian Political Scene
Serbian deputy prime minister in charge of negotiating possible EU membership Miroljub Labus resigned to protest his government's “recklessness” with the future of its people.
The sight of the Radicals along with Milosevic’s Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) honouring the dead Serbian dictator with a minute of silence on 27th March was neither pleasing nor promising for new democratic Serbia.
The Chetnik Movement was re-baptised as Serbian Radical Party - a so-called opposition party.
www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=830   (2030 words)

  
  Serbian Radical Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Serbian Radical Party (Serbian: Српска радикална странка/Srpska radikalna stranka) is a nationalist political party in Serbia.
Serbian Chetnik Movement was formed after a split in the Serbian Renewal Movement in 1990.
The Radical Party's policies include implementing United Nations Resolution 1244 allowing Serbian police and Army to protect their citizens in the province of Kosovo, a NATO protected territory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbian_Radical_Party   (446 words)

  
 Presidential elections in Serbia
Serbian Radical Party managed to climb to the top of the Serbian political scene in the early nineties thanks to a wave of chauvinist hysteria that emerged after the final breakdown of the Yugoslav workers' movement in the late eighties.
But no matter how radical their rhetoric might be, under these conditions, combined with the growing divide of class forces on a global scale, the Serbian Radical Party could only carry Serbia in more or less the same direction as the DOS has so far.
The Serbian Radical Party and its thugs who carry the blood of our brothers and sisters on their hands are not a party the youth and the working class should stand behind in Serbia.
www.marxist.com /Europe/serbian_elections1103.html   (1619 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Serbian Radical Party ministers resign from Serbian government
Serbian Radical Party ministers resign from Serbian government
Belgrade, 14th June (Tanjug) - The presidential collegium of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) decided unanimously at an extended session on Monday that all SRS ministers in the Serbian government should resign.
The radicals also decided to leave the coalition with the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and the Yugoslav Left (JUL) after, as SRS leader Vojislav Seselj said, the coalition partners decided to accept the Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin plan, which is unacceptable to SRS.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-06/14/12575.html   (165 words)

  
 Serbia Update - European Forum
As expected the xenophobic Serbian Radical Party of Vojislav Seselj won the elections with 27,7% of the votes and also the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) of Slobodan Milosevic received a substantial part of the votes (7,7%), despite the fact that both leaders are imprisoned in The Hague.
The party left the government with the explanation that they could accept being pragmatic for a period during the turbulence and the state of emergency after the murder of Djindjic, but it was time to move on.
After Serbian President Boris Tadic was re-elected leader of DS at the party congress on 18 February 2006 in Belgrade, he presented his ideas for establishing a civil forum within DS, and urged party members to sharpen their political skills.
www.europeanforum.net /country/serbia   (8442 words)

  
 News @ Serbian Unity Congress | SRS proposes resolution on preservation of Kosovo and Metohija, Tanjug, March 03, 2005
The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Club at the Serbian parliament has submitted to the republican parliament a draft resolution on the preservation of Kosovo and Metohija within the territory of Serbia and proposed the adopting of this document by emergency procedure.
The Radicals also propose that "no-one be allowed to enter into any discussions or negotiations on relations between the provisional authorities in Kosmet and the central authorities in Serbia" until the Resolution 1244 has been implemented.
The Radicals also say that the province would have the right to organize its entire economic system, with the exception of the customs policy, and to draw up its own education programme, set up its security bodies, the police, but not the army.
news.serbianunity.net /bydate/2005/March_03/11.html?w=p   (346 words)

  
 News Story | Serbianna.com
Serbian leaders oppose independence for Kosovo, Serbia's southern province which has been an international protectorate since 1999 and remains a potential flashpoint.
Serbian leaders were angered by recent comments by a visiting senior British diplomat quoted as saying that Kosovo eventually would win independence from Serbia.
Nikolic's Serbian Radical Party is the single strongest party in the Serbian capital.
www.serbianna.com /news/2006/01212.html   (238 words)

  
 VOJISLAV SESELJ – DAY 3: SREBRENICA WAS THE WORK OF FRENCH INTELLIGENCE
Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Dr. Vojislav Seselj continued his testimony at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday.
Seselj explained that all of the Serbian Radical Party’s volunteers were members of the JNA and later members of the VRS or VRSK.
The Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) is the sister party of the Democratic Party (DS/DSS) in Serbia.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg082405.htm   (1120 words)

  
 Sobaka :: Radically Better Doom: Vojislav Seselj and the Serbian Radical Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Indeed, the layer of the population that the Radicals are targeting with their propaganda are the poorest of the poor.
Nikola Pasic, the leader of the Popular Radical Party from the beginning of the 20th century, was a liberal in terms of the economy, domestic and foreign policy, and the program of his party was based on teachings of Svetozar Markovic, the first Social-Democrat in the Balkans.
When in 1997 the Radicals formed a coalition with the Socialists, they were the ones who proposed new laws that suppressed and almost disabled the freedom of speech in Serbia, abolished the autonomy of universities and enabled the police to persecute anyone who would politically or in any other way oppose the regime.
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2004/seselj.html   (10806 words)

  
 Yugoslav Daily Survey, 98-03-24
Tomislav Nikolic (Serbian Radical Party), born in 1952, a deputy in the Republican and Federal Assembly.
Vojislav Seselj (Serbian Radical Party), born in 1954, law graduate, Ph.D., a federal deputy and the president of the Municipal Assembly of Zemun.
Dragan Todorovic (Serbian Radical Party) born in 1953, engineer, republican deputy and the Vice*President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/yds/1998/98-03-24.yds.html   (4130 words)

  
 Serbian nationalism from the "Nacertanije" to the Yugoslav Kingdom
The Radical Party's rival was the paternalistic Progressive Party, which favored government by a well-qualified elite so that liberal reforms, better education and planned economic growth would eventually benefit all Serbs.
Serbian texts were filled with tales of heroic martyrs who killed or were killed for their country, from folk-poetry about Kosovo to the story of Prince Michael's murder in 1868.
Serbian leaders retained a vision of a centralized country united around Serbia, as described in the Nacertanije and painfully pursued in past wars and crises.
www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect13.htm   (4590 words)

  
 BALKAN MEDIA & POLICY MONITOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A nationalist faction of the Socialist party is dissatisfied with the growing influence of the Yugoslav Left in the coalition.
Afterwards, the Radicals' influence fell, but they were still needed by the regime, which found their ideology much easier to swallow than that of the democratic opposition bloc.
Several prominent individuals in his party from the Serbian countryside, as well as some of the rank and file, are beginning to see that Draskovic's political carrier is on a downward trajectory, and that nominating him again would only speed up his and the party's demise.
mediafilter.org /Monitor/Mon.53-54/Mon.53-54.BETA2.html   (1803 words)

  
 Serbian Radical Party Riding High, Ultranationalist Party Riding High in Serbia After Crucial Vote - CBS News
Many Western analysts had feared the fiercely nationalist Serbian Radical Party, whose leader is currently on trial for alleged war crimes in The Hague, would be the biggest winner of this weekend's parliamentary vote.
The Radicals can't form the next government on their own, but they may try to persuade Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica to join them in a right-wing coalition _ perhaps by offering to let him serve as prime minister in the new government.
The Radicals' election platform was drafted by their leader, Vojislav Seselj, who is awaiting a trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2007/01/24/ap/world/mainD8MRSS501.shtml   (791 words)

  
 History 1991-present
Vojislav Seselj and his nationalist populist party reemerged on the political scene and Milo Djukanovic, the reform-minded politician increasingly critical of Milosevic's regime, was elected President of Montenegro.
The issue of nationalism continues to loom on the political horizon in Serbia as the Serbian Radical Party's presidential candidate for elections scheduled for June, 2004, enjoys the highest levels of support among the population.
Serbian development toward democracy and market reforms is dependent on favorable international conditions that would make the option of integration into the European community attainable and attractive.
www.unc.edu /~kgrim/SerbiaGroupSite/history6.htm   (2003 words)

  
 Serbia Info / Facts and Figures / Assembly of Serbia
Party of Serbian Unity (coalition comprised of: Party of Serbian Unity, Party of Serbian Progress, United Pensioners' Party, Peasants' Party of Serbia) - 14 deputies.
The National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in its current makeup was constituted according to the results of the elections held on December 23, 2000.
Dragan - Palma Markovic (Party of Serbian Unity)
www.serbia-info.com /facts/assembly.html   (250 words)

  
 Serbian Radical Party surge may complicate reform | csmonitor.com
The Serbian Radical Party, an ultra- nationalist grouping allied with former Yugoslav president and indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic, won almost one-third of the votes, according to unofficial results.
The Radical Party is led by Vojislav Seselj, currently imprisoned in The Hague while he awaits trial for war crimes, though that did not stop him running for parliament.
The alliance of pro-Western parties that has ruled Serbia since Milosevic was overthrown by a popular uprising in October 2000 has been riven by disputes, tainted by corruption scandals, and rendered unpopular by the hardships brought on by free-market economic reforms.
www.csmonitor.com /2003/1230/p07s01-woeu.html   (888 words)

  
 Milosevic-linked party wins elections in Serbia | www.azstarnet.com ®
The Serbian Radical party won 27 percent, said the independent Center For Free Elections and Democracy, whose polls have been highly accurate in the past.
The moderate nationalist Demo-cratic Party of Serbia was second with 17 percent, while the governing pro-Western Democratic Party was third with about 13 percent.
Both Milosevic and ultranationalist ally Vojislav Seselj of the Serbian Radical Party were candidates, despite being held for trial by the U.N. war crimes detention unit in The Hague, Netherlands.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/3801   (351 words)

  
 Vladimir Zhirinovsky
In fact, his party finished second in the party list vote (11.18%) and won 51 Duma seats (11.33%) in the December, 1995, parliamentary elections, so the LDPR now has the third largest Duma faction (behind the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Our Home Is Russia).
Of the 13 parties on the ballot, the LDPR was by far the best positioned to capitalize on such a mood of protest.
The seventh congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia nominated Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a candidate in the presidential election of June 1996, Russian media reported on January 10.
www.acs.brockport.edu /~dgusev/Russian/vzbio.html   (2093 words)

  
 Greater Serbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "Greater Serbian" concept was an offshoot of the Pan-Slavist movement of the mid-19th century.
The most notable Serbian linguist of the 19th century, Vuk Karadžić, was a follower of the view that all south Slavs that speak the štokavian dialect (in the central south Slavic language group) are Serbs who speak the Serbian language.
Serbian] rule and establish a completely free and independent state over the whole of its national and historic territory." Such sentiments were commonplace in Croatia at the time, which the Ustaše who were a tiny and unrepresentative minority successfully took the advantage of the situation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Serbia   (3635 words)

  
 White Eagles Serbian Radical Party [SRS]
The White Eagles were armed paramilitary formations, under the command of the Serb neofascist Vojislav Seselj, who were equipped by the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs during the war in Bosnian.
Serbian Radical Party [SRS] Chairman Vojislav Seselj [who was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in April 1998] was the leader of these para-military groups, which reportedly were involved in war crimes committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to the Society for Endangered Peoples based in the Germany.
Since 1995 the Serbian State Security Service has been conducting a campaign against the criminals who used to work for it, but are now only unpleasant witnesses to crimes.
www.fas.org /irp/world/para/white_eagles.htm   (248 words)

  
 Press Releases: Balkans, Serbian Constitution could delay Kosovo status
All the major Serbian parties have supported the new constitution adopted by the parliament on 30 September.
The status of Kosovo is a key part of the new constitution, and all parties agree that the southern Serbian province - under UN administration since 1999 - must be defined as an integral part of Serbian territory with a wide autonomy for the majority Albanian population.
The party left after Kostunica failed to extradite indicted war crimes suspect, Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, to the UN's court in The Hague and to reopen talks with the EU.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LZEG-6UYSCP?OpenDocument   (873 words)

  
 December 20, 1993 Vreme News Digest Agency No 117   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ivica Dacic, the spokesman of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), dryly commented on the elections in Krajina by saying that the elections are the internal matter of the people who live there.
Although the political parties close to the Serbian ruling party, like SDS of Serb lands, have had some success (the people of Vukovar have voted for Martic), in the last analysis SDS of Krajina celebrated their victory in the area and the Radicals got most of their candidates elected here.
He is close with the Radicals and this relationship was carefully nourished over the months of conflicts with Hadzic (together they hold a majority in the parliament which has 84 seats).
www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/117/t117-3.htm   (1141 words)

  
 Serbian Politics
Socialist Party of Serbia - in 1999 this party claimed to be a modern European social democratic party which supported political freedom, market economy, and a social welfare state.
Serbian Radical Party - right wing party founded by ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj who is known for using violence as a tool in political struggle.
Radical party supporters are calling for a boycott of any future elections since their candidate was eliminated in the first round.
www.unc.edu /~tweaver/politics.html   (707 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Strong pro-West Serbian leadership still lacking
In its latest report on Serbian political developments, the group concludes that the presidential election victory of Democratic Party candidate Boris Tadic represents a step forward for Serbia's pro-reform democratic forces but does not mark the end of the sharp divisions that have split the electorate so neatly in two.
Serbia's current government, led by Vojislav Kostunica of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), is considered unstable by analysts, as it is dependent on the support of the Socialist Party (SPS) of Slobodan Milosevic, who is now on trial for war crimes after being overthrown in a popular uprising in 2000.
The ICG said these incidents were orchestrated by members of the Radical Party and included beatings, threats, the destruction of graveyards and national monuments, and anti-minority graffiti.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=9285   (683 words)

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