History of Serbia 1903 constitution. The 2007 elections confirmed the pro-reform and pro-European stance of the Serbian Parliament, in which Boris Tadic's party doubled his representation. On 3 February 2008, Tadic was re-elected as President.<br>The Serbian government passed through weeks of severe crisis after the unilateral declaration of independence of its southern province of Kosovo on 17 February 2008, which was gradually recognized by the United States and numerous European Union countries. The crisis was fuelled by the demand by Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) to the Democratic Party (Serbia) (DS), which held governmental majority, of a
Boris Birshtein high level ministers in Canada, including Charles McMillan, the former advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. McMillan helped the country device a market reform programme in the early 1990s. Canadian MP and former trade minister Monte Kwinter once said of Birshtein relationship with the former Kyrgyzstan president, Askar Akaev; “You talk about being at the foot of the president, well, those two were inseparable.” In 1993 Birshtein became the subject of unproven allegations that he had used Seabeco to loot millions of dollars from the former Soviet state treasury. The investigation was launched at the behest of Boris Yeltsin.