Economics
Yugoslavia: Now For The Hard Part
Can Kostunica revive the economy?
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For 13 years, the people of Serbia watched President Slobodan Milosevic divide the once-prosperous Yugoslavia, start four wars that cost more than 200,000 lives, and incite the wrath of NATO, which bombed them for three terrifying months last year.
In the end, however, it was a combination of economic meltdown and humiliating international isolation that drove hundreds of thousands of Serbs onto the streets to topple the "Butcher of the Balkans." From students to coal miners, the Serbs made it clear they wanted to improve their economic lot--and to live in "a normal country."