Word: nationalistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Milosevic was perhaps the cheeriest on the dais at Dayton, since by ending the war he also brought an end to the U.N.-imposed sanctions that were crushing Serbia's economy. Though he is regarded as the man who provoked the war, with his nationalist speeches and calls for a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia, he was also the key to last week's peace agreement. U.S. diplomats knew his past but credited him nevertheless with pragmatism and a willingness to compromise. As the boss of Serbia, he could make decisions and cut deals on the spot...
...commission also rejected the nationalist Derzhava movement of former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi for more flagrant infractions of the same rule that Yabloko violated. Both parties were subsequently reinstated by a ruling of the Russian Supreme Court, but the scandal underscored just how shaky the legal foundation was for Russia's new electoral system. It also showed how, in the absence of clear signals from the top, loyal servants of the President's, like commission chairman Nikolai Ryabov, could quickly move to assert their own personal authority by an overzealous interpretation of the rules...
...Russian nationalist and would-be president Vladimir Zhirinovsky finally has broken his silence over an incident in the parliament last Saturday when he choked Yevgenia Tishkovskaya, a female legislator, and pulled her hair during a political debate. As usual, he did himself no favors. Commenting on Tishkovskaya's 100 million ruble ($22,000) lawsuit against him, Vlad opined: "Such women dream of being raped, but no one wants them." As for the impact on his political future? "It will bring me more votes," he boasted...
...imposed by the U.N. For months Milosevic had been trying to make some deal to get those sanctions lifted. Discussions of such a deal have hinged on Milosevic's willingness and ability to make his Bosnian Serb clients negotiate a peace. Always more of an opportunist than a true nationalist, Milosevic has for some time appeared willing to sell out his brethren Serbs for the sake of unshackling himself from sanctions...
Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic may dupe the international community, but the man who started the war cannot become a peacemaker overnight. Even if Milosevic is being honest about his new intentions of becoming a peace broker in the war, internal nationalist pressures, especially from the Serbian Orthodox Church, will eventually prevent any softening of his position. And just as Milosevic cannot change overnight, neither can genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia be remedied overnight. The inhuman wounds need time to heal. The solution to the region's problems requires, first and foremost, patience...