Serbs Choose Local Leaders in Tight Race
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Serbs chose local leaders Sunday in elections expected to be an even race between candidates loyal to former President Slobodan Milosevic and pro-Western reformers.
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An ally of late hardline President Slobodan Milosevic could return to power in Serbia's closely contested runoff election Sunday, ahead of a potentially explosive split by the province of Kosovo.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and popular Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu faced off in a tough presidential election on Sunday seen as key for the Balkan country's European Union accession path.
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Serbs went to the polls in local elections on Sunday in the first test of voter opinion since they chose pro-Western President Boris Tadic in June.
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BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 20 -- An ally of the late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic edged ahead of the pro-Western incumbent in Serbia's presidential election Sunday but failed to win an outright majority, according to independent monitors and partial official results.
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Serbia's pro-Western president Boris Tadic has won re-election in a contest with nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, but his narrow victory may only have set up a fresh struggle over the country's future course.
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Bosnians voted Saturday in local elections in which the main Muslim, Serb and Croat nationalist parties are expected to confirm their dominance nine years after the end of the 1992-5 war.
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Serbia's president and party leaders were to meet Monday to map out their strategy concerning the UN plan for Kosovo, which most Serbs see as granting independence to the contested province.Comment
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Serbia is heading for a showdown next month between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a liberal favoring the West following the first round of a presidential election.
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Serbia voted on Sunday in a knife-edge presidential election that could decide whether it turns its back on the West in response to the imminent loss of the breakaway province of Kosovo.
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The run-off vote for the position of president of Romania is expected to produce a narrow victory for either the outgoing prime minister Adrian Nastase or centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu.
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Serbia to hold presidential poll seen as key to the country's future, with the two candidates neck-and-neck.
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Serbia on Sunday held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and ...
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Bosnians turned out in large numbers for parliamentary elections on Sunday to choose politicians who will lead the deeply-divided impoverished Balkan nation after international supervision ends next year.
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Bosnians voted Saturday in local  elections in which the main Muslim, Serb and Croat nationalist  parties are expected to confirm their dominance nine years  after the end of the 1992-5 war.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's  general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky  endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.  protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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Serbia voted on Sunday in a knife-edge  presidential election that could decide whether it turns its  back on the West in response to the imminent loss of the  breakaway province of Kosovo.