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Three main opposition groups in Montenegro say they will join forces to fight in the general election scheduled for October 16.

The "democratic coalition" unites three parties and groups considered civic and moderate in their orientation - the Civic Movement URA, DEMOS and the Socialist People's Party, SNP.

MOSCOW -  The large-scale project for destabilizing countries in the post-Soviet space is still in progress, Serbia's ambassador to Russia, Slavenko Terzic, told a conference timed for the 20th anniversary of the CIS countries institute.

Croatia has officially agreed to the opening of Chapter 23 in Serbia's EU accession talks, opening the way for the bloc to start defining a common negotiating position on the chapter.

The permanent representatives of EU member states reached consensus on the fulfilment of criteria for opening Chapter 23 in the accession negotiations with Belgrade on Wednesday, according to Tanjug.

Ugrešić, 67, is a literary historian and a sharp and lucid writer of novels and essays, in which she interweaves public and private, East and West and politics and cultures.

Former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was "poisoning himself with medication" while in custody of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY).

This is what former Hague Tribunal spokesperson Florence Hartmann has told Croatia's Express magazine.

BELGRADE - In a final ruling made on Thursday, the Higher Court in Belgrade decided that three officials of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) will not be extradited to the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, after a three-member panel of its war crimes department upheld the first-instance ruling that the prerequisites for it had not been met.
    

Bosnia needs to further develop its private sector, cut the public sector and fight pervasive corruption if it wants to increase its prosperity in future, experts say.

Increasing the private sector's share in the economy is of primary interest for Bosnia, Ian Brown, the Head of Office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Bosnia, EBRD, told BIRN on Monday.

"Thousands of artworks were stolen" during the war, and the crimes continued after the end of the conflict, Dzenan Jusufovic, the director of the Bosnian Centre Against Trafficking in Works of Art, told BIRN.

There is no accurate data on the issue, but large numbers of artworks have been stolen from both private and public collections, Jusufovic said.

According to the public opinion survey by the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies, KCSS, which was published on Thursday, 43 per cent of respondents would rather take action to protect themselves than call the police.

Haindl, who was appointed by Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is being deployed in a bid to help settle the political crisis in Macedonia, alongside the European Union and the United States, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.