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Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny is a former BBC correspondent, the author of 3 books on Eastern and South Eastern Europe, including The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (Penguin, 2001). He is currently writing a book on trans-national organised crime and globalization.

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Slobodan Milosevic's death robs the world of the justice he deserved and leaves the Serbia he once ruled a hard political legacy, says Misha Glenny.

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In the Macedonian elections, as in the Serbian, it seems you would be misled if you thought it was the national question that headed up the agenda.

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