I: News from Yugoslavia

["Silvano Tartarini" <bebitartari@ftbcc.it>]

Cari amici, sono le ultime notizie in arrivo dalla Yugoslavia. Sono in
inglese. Le passo come sono arrivate. Un caro saluto, Silvano.

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Da: Zene u crnom
A: Sandra Venturelli ; Rosa Rinaldi ; Odilla Maria Dal Santo ; Milena
Zulianello ; Elisabetta Donini ; Carla Casalani ; Berretti Bianchi ; Luisa
Morgantini ; Simona Lanzoni
Data invio: marted́ 23 maggio 2000 15.41
Oggetto: News from Yugoslavia


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ANEM MEDIA UPDATE: RADIO B2-92 COVERING SERBIA
May 19, 2000 -- Radio B2-92 has stepped up the distribution of its program
by satellite. More than thirty radio and seventeen television stations in
the ANEM network are now able to obtain and disseminate large quantities of
information from Belgrade including reports from the daily protest rallies.
Many stations are able to carry the protest coverage live from the
satellite. ANEM is hopint to be able to provide full 24-hour satellite
coverage very soon. The Radio B2-92 program is being broadcast around the
clock on the Internet to provide programming feeds to stations outside the
satellite slots.

ANEM Television programs are also being more widely distributed. Special
reports of between ten and twenty minutes are being distributed via
Television Montenegro's satellite (Eutelsat Hot Bird, 13 degrees E, 12 380
vertical polarisation, 27500 3/4) between 21.00 and 22.00 CET. These
reports include news from Belgrade and inland Serbia and are distributed to
local stations in Serbia. They include reports from ANEM and other
indpendent television stations and production houses. In addition to this
emergency program, Television Montenegor's satellite is carrying the daily
program "Stop the Violence" on Tuesdays. This is produced by ANEM/B292 on
Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, VIN on Wednesdays and TV Mreza on
Thursdays. These programs are also distributed on VHS cassetes to towns
without independent television stations for screeing on video projectors or
television sets in clubs, cafes and restaurants. Two journalists from Radio
B2-92 were injured while covering the protests on May 18. They are not in a
serious condition. Legal representatives and journalists from Radio B2-92
made another attempt today to enter their premises in the Beogradjanka but
were refused permission even to collect personal belongings. Police are
still occupying the station's newsroom.



B2-92: Resistance!
B2-92 EMERGENCY NETCAST SCHEDULE (24 hours non-stop on Internet)
09.00 - 09.30 - Central morning news
09.30 - 10.45 - Emergency news programme
10.45 - 10.55 - News in English
11.00 - 15.00 - Music & news
15.00 - 16.00 - Emergency news programme
16.00 - 17.00 - Music & news
17.00 - 17.30 - Central daily news
17.45 - 17.55 - News in English
19.30 - 21.30 - Emergency News programme
(including rallies reports & Central evening news)
21.30 - 09.00 - Music & news

NET RADIO B2-92
Real Audio:
http://www.freeb92.net/live.ram
http://prenos.beonet.yu/radio/b2-92.ram
http://dat.co.yu/freeb92
MP3:
http://raserver2.xs4all.nl:8000/playlist.pls?mount=/live&file=dummy.pls

B2-92 SATELLITE BROADCAST
Satellite position:
HOT BIRD 5 (analogue), 13 degrees East,
vertical polarisation, video 11114, audio 7.74
Broadcast schedule (GMT+1):
08:50 - 11:00
15:00 - 16:00
17:00 - 18:00
19:30 - 21:30

B2-92 SATELLITE BROADCAST ON INTERNET (Real Audio)
http://www.radio.rai.it/live/b92.ram



Latest News
May 23, 2000, all times are GMT+1
   FreeB92 news bulletin


For the latest news updates, please visit our page in Serbian.

PROTEST RALLIES ON MONDAY
10:30 - Several thousands citizens throughout Serbia continued protesting
on Monday evening against attacks on independent Serbian media. Opposition
leaders announced at protest meeting in Cacak, where a few thousand people
had gathered, that the Serbian regime should be overthrown by ballots. In
Nis, Serbian Renewal Movement official from Soko Banja Dragoje Lekovic told
three thousand citizens he hoped the regime would be overthrown by civil
resistance. In Belgrade, several hundreds citizens have gathered sixth day
in a row in front of the City Assembly Building to express their protest
against seizure of Studio B. A few hundred citizens have protested in Novi
Sad as well. In Bor and Vlasotince, police has prevented protest rallies

POLICE PREVENTS PROTEST RALLY IN VLASOTINCE
10:00 - Police prevented protest rally of opposition parties in Vlasotince
on Monday, but around 500 supporters of the opposition walked along the
main street in the city protesting against the regime's takeover of
independent Radio-television Studio B in Belgrade, Beta news agency
reported. After a warning by a police commander, the president of Serbian
Renewal Movement's (SPO) district branch Nikola Popovic called on citizens
to go home, announcing a new protest in a week. Local authorities in
Vlasotince, i.e., Socialist party of Serbia and Yugoslav Left, have
requested from protest organizers 100,000 dinars to allow the rally.
Shortly before the rally, police did not allow vice-president of SPO from
Leskovac Bojana Ristic and Beta and Danas correspondents Milica Ivanovic
and Zoran Rakic to drive in the city, explaining their car should pass
technical inspection.

SUSPENSION OF TEACHING AT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
09:58 - A group of students of School of Architectures has decided to
suspend teaching at the school as of Tuesday 11 AM. They will demand
terrorism bill not to pass and independent media to continue working. The
people's movement "Otpor" has scheduled a students' meeting at the School
of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade on Tuesday noon.

PROTESTS AGAINST APPREHENSION OF MIROSLAV FILIPOVIC
09:36 - A group of journalists from Vranje protested on Monday against the
sentence pronounced by military investigative judge in Nis to Miroslav
Filipovic, daily Danas' and Agence France Presse's correspondent from
Kraljevo. Mr. Filipovic was sentenced to 30 days of imprisonment.
Correspondents of Danas, Blic, Beta news agency, Radio Free Europe and
Deutsche Welle from Vranje signed a protest "against attack on the Serbian
journalists". The president of Association "Local-press" and editor in
chief of "Novine Vranjske" weekly Vukasin Obradovic has called on Serbian
journalists, Association of independent journalists in Serbia and
International federation of journalists in Brussels to condemn the sentence
and join the protest. "Local-press will help 24 Serbian weeklies organize
protest meetings and panels until Miroslav Filipovic be released", said Mr.
Obradovic.

VUK DRASKOVIC ORDERS HIS REMOVAL FROM VOTER REGISTRATION LIST
09:30 - Serbian Ministry of Interior has not removed Vuk Draskovic, the
president of Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO), from the Voter registration
list, and Belgrade police has arrested a person suspected for the removal,
which was ordered by the leader of SPO himself, daily "Politika" reported
in its Tuesday edition, according to Beta news agency. At the protest rally
in Belgrade on May 15th, Mr. Draskovic announced he had been removed from
the voter registration list by the Serbian Ministry of Interior, with an
explanation that he had moved out in unknown direction. There are no
changes concerning the SPO president's registration of residence in central
data basis, Belgrade police concluded, according to "Politika". Belgrade
police has also arrested police trainee Milivoje Gajda, employed by
Belgrade Secretariat of Interior, who was ordered by his father, prominent
SPO member from Palilula District and by the SPO leader himself to remove
the leader's registration of residence from the Ministry of Interior's
central information terminal, in spite the fact he was not authorized to do
so, the daily reported and stressed that local authorities, i.e., Belgrade
City Assembly, were in charge for voter registration lists in the capital.

SERBIAN OPPOSITION MAYORS MEET ROAN
09:28 - In Vienna on Monday afternoon, Sombor and Kikinda mayors Goran
Bulajic and Paja Francuski, and vice-president of Nis Municipality Vladimir
Domazet visited the secretary general of Austrian Ministry of foreign
affairs Albert Roan, the OEBS presiding officer's special envoy for
Southeast Europe, and discussed the situation in Serbia. Both our
representatives and Austrian officials are not optimistic on the issue, Mr.
Domazet said. We have also discussed possible support Austria and
international community could offer to our cities and our country, he
added. "The situation in Serbia is dangerous; by adopting the terrorism
bill, the regime will attempt to impose a state of emergency in the
country", Mr. Domazet concluded.

PAPANDREU CONTACTED DRASKOVIC ON CRISIS IN SERBIA
09:22 - Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs official Panayotis Beglitis
confirmed on Monday evening that the Greek minister of foreign affairs
Jorgos Papandreu had contacted Vuk Draskovic, the president of Serbian
Renewal Movement last Thursday. Beglitis told Beta news agency "Draskovic
had informed the minister on the events in Serbia and problems with
independent media".

FRY IS NOT A TOTALITARIAN COUNTRY, BUT IST FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN
09:20 - FRY is not a totalitarian country, as described in some Western
media, but its future is uncertain and unpredictable, Belgrade
correspondent of Austrian state television ORF Christian Versic said. In a
lecture at Wiener Military Academy "Where does FRY go", he emphasized that
in Serbia the hard line was strengthening and the people lost confidence in
opposition parties. Milosevic's regime has a few stabilizing factors -
400,000 immigrants opposing the regime have left Yugoslavia, Yugoslavs from
exile still support Yugoslav devastated economy and FRY still enjoys
international aid, Versic said. The next factor is that the regime controls
media, the Austrian journalist added.

ALBRIGHT AND ISARESKU ON REPRESSION
09:12 - US State Department spokesman Richard Bucher announced that the
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Romanian Prime minister Mugur
Isaresku had "expressed concern with the increasing repression in Serbia". They
discussed ways the USA and Romania could support democratic forces in
Serbia, Beta news agency reported.

PAPULLAS: THE USA CAUSED CHAOS
09:09 - The president of Greek Assembly's Committee for Foreign Affairs and
Defense Karlos Papullas stated on Monday that the USA "strived after personal
and political removal of the Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic" and his
"vigorous overturn" rather than "regular power shift". Former Greek minister of
foreign affairs told the Greek "Radio Flash" that key problems on the Balkans
were not solved yet. "We are in a dangerous phase", said Mr. Papullas and
added: "The USA has interfered the Balkan affairs without real insight into
them, and caused chaos and tense situation that would last for a long
time."

EU: INCREASING TENSION IN SERBIA
09:07 - EU ministers of foreign affairs concluded on Monday in Brussels that
"spreading protests and increasing discontent of citizens were taking place in
Serbia, caused by regime's repression and takeover of Studio B and other
independent media". The latest events confirmed the decision at Lisboan
Summit, which had stressed the need to continue dialogue with representatives
of the Serbian civil society, reads an analysis of the situation in Serbia
and FRY.

WITHOUT REPRESENTATIVES OF FRY IN BRUSSELS
09:05 - A two days conference of the Council for implementation of peace
agreements in Bosnia-Herzegovina will begin in Brussels on Tuesday. Due to the
regime's attack on independent media and political opponents,
representatives of
FRY are not invited.

LJUBISA RISTIC: WE ARE IN A STATE OF WAR
09:00 - The president of Yugoslav Left (JUL) Ljubisa Ristic Stated on
Monday that settling accounts with terrorism was "our primary goal" and
that each citizen should know the state would continue functioning by all
means and react to all attempts to provoke its instability. "Everybody
knows what means our enemies use. We are in a state of war since the
shooting has continued even after the last year's air-campaign. We will be
waiting for our enemies right next to ballot boxes, ant then their terror,
betrayal and incapability should end", Ristic said at a meeting in JUL's
Novi Sad City branch.

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