Back then, the Bulgarians regarded Belgrade, Serbia's capital, with its comparatively well-stocked shops and amenities, as more or less part of the West.
When Djokovic got back to the locker room, his team delivered the news that his first coach, Jelena Gencic, had died earlier Saturday in Belgrade, Serbia, at the age of 76.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) The Serbian government on Monday approved a potentially landmark agreement to normalize relations with breakaway Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put the Balkan rivals on a path to European Union membership.
In short, Milosevic has reason to believe that -- by obscuring the continuing, direct relationship between Serb policy and the Bosnian Serbs' malevolent activities -- further progress can be made toward his goal of establishing a "greater Serbia" even as he seeks relief from international sanctions against Belgrade and protection of Serbia proper from Western military strikes, should they occur.
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He is living in Belgrade, capital of Serbia and Montenegro, and witnessing markets in transition.
Pressed up close to the administrative border with Serbia and linked to Belgrade economically, the area seems de facto partitioned from the rest of Kosovo, if formally under K-For and Unmik control.
Most importantly, the foregoing steps must be accompanied by an ultimatum warning Serbia and its surrogates that a failure promptly to cease hostilities and begin immediate disengagement from Bosnia and Croatia will result in strikes against military and economic targets in Belgrade and other rear areas in Serbia.
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Unless the format goes back to a straight knockout competition, previous champions like Scotland's Celtic or Serbia's Red Star Belgrade will probably never even get the chance to repeat the successes that often defined their history especially if the big teams in England open their checkbooks to compensate for this year's failures.
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At the time, Vuk Draskovic, the best-known opposition leader, was in Montenegro, where a stand-off continues between westernisers, who dream of detaching the republic from Serbia, and politicians loyal to Belgrade.
In Belgrade later that day, she told Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's president, to turn over three indicted soldiers or risk further isolation.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- The man tipped to be Serbia's next interior minister says he will put former president Slobodan Milosevic under 24-hour surveillance.
Serbia has dropped its demand for international talks on Kosovo's status following its declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 - a declaration condemned by Belgrade.
We should tell Serbia that because of Milosevics Naziesque acts, Belgrade now faces an unpalatable reality regarding Kosovo: formal independence for this once-Serbian province that before the killings was 90% ethnic Albanian.
Police in Serbia raided the offices in the capital, Belgrade, of the movement Otpor (Resistance), which has been leading opposition to President Slobodan Milosevic in the run-up to elections at the end of this month.
On December 16, Vitali Churkin -- a veteran and thoroughly cynical public relations flack for Soviet communists -- used an international conference in Geneva to denounce the international pressure being brought to bear on Serbia and expressed Moscow's solidarity with Belgrade.
Across a range of prickly issues, from relations with Turkey and Bulgaria to sanctions-busting in the early 1990s during the Bosnian war (when fuel and spares were shipped illegally from Greece to Serbia), political leaders in Athens and Belgrade have stuck together in times of crisis.
Unruly academics at Belgrade University, the last real bastion of free thought in Serbia, have been sacked.
On an earthly plane, football fans in Belgrade have been jeering the president, while reservists in southern Serbia have blocked roads demanding back pay.
Germany was one of the first countries to recognise Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 and has been an outspoken critic of Belgrade's refusal to accept the split, he adds.
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Serbia led the United States 2-1 overnight in Belgrade with Djokovic favored to beat the giant Isner to clinch the tie, but he was given an almighty scare before winning 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-7 6-4.
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Day one between Serbia and the Czech Republic had ended all-square in Belgrade.
On August 25, Ivan Stambolic, former president of Serbia and once pro-Milosevic, disappeared while jogging near his Belgrade home.
One is Serbia's leader, Slobodan Milosevic, still in power in Belgrade and still ready to make trouble wherever he can.
Or perhaps other ethnic minorities in Serbia Hungarians, Serbian-speaking Muslims or Albanians in Belgrade might be picked on as Mr Milosevic's next victims.
After studying philosophy in Belgrade, he moved to Kosovo, where, during the two decades before Serbia quashed the province's autonomy in 1989, ethnic Albanians ruled the roost.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority broke away from Serbia in 1999 after an armed campaign which led to Nato intervening against Belgrade.
None of this is a guarantee that the Belgrade regime is about to fall, but it does suggest that it could lose control if Serbia's infrastructure starts to break down.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- NATO missiles blasted apart a passenger train in southern Serbia on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 16, Serb officials said.
An example of the club's political leanings came when AEK played a friendly in Belgrade against local side Partizan in April 1999, a fortnight into NATO's bombing campaign of Serbia, in a show of solidarity.
In Belgrade, in what the State Department called her toughest meeting ever, she demanded that Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's leader, implement democratic reforms and turn over Serb war criminals.
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