Impressions of Serbia re: current political developments...
"I'm safely installed in Belgrad and at work. So far everything is going very well. It a really exciting time to be here in general, because of the arrest on Monday of Radovan Karadzic. All of Serbia is talking about it. Despite a few protests, which were relatively small, and police interventions, the city is calm. I think the majority of Serbs think this is a positive development. We'll see what the weekend brings...
One of the most striking things about the city is the destroyed buildings that you find in a few locations. These are building blown up during the NATO campaign in 1999 that were never repaired. Now they sit there as stark reminders of the recent past. I think past governments left them as reminders of what the west had done, in hopes of maintaining an anti-west attitude in Serbia. Something which would provide the Right Wing parties with power."
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