T H E   S E R B   O P P O S I T I O N:
A Shadow Serbia

A conference in Bratislava has brought together members of the international community and Serbia's political opposition, as well as the Serb private sector and grass-roots organisations to discuss the possibilities of forging peace and change in the devastated country.

Ladka Bauerova

T H E   V I E W   F R O M   S E R B I A:
Twilight Zone or Dead Zone?

An alternative to Milosevic's autocracy exists at the very core of Serb society and always has; the situation is now lower than rock bottom, and people are afraid that they put their existence in jeopardy simply by doing nothing about it. Still, here in Serbia, nobody believes that reconstruction is possible without foreign assistance.

Slavko Zivanov

A   C Z E C H   S P Y   S P E A K S:
Princess Diana, Al Fayed, the CIA and a Czech Spook

Is the former Czech master spy, Karl F Koecher, connected with the affair surrounding the false documents supposedly revealing a grand conspiracy in the death of Princess Diana? Breaking his long silence, Koecher tells his side of the story.

Jan Culik

N A T I O N S:
A Unique Minority

The Sorb people have survived 600 years of attempted assimilation and continue to thrive on the border of several cultures and countries within the heart of Central Europe.

Micah Jayne

Theme of the Week Television in Central and Eastern Europe

TELEVISION: Screen Test: TV broadcasting in Hungary Gusztav Kosztolanyi In the first of this series on Hungarian TV, we examine the events leading up to privatisation and commercialisation.	TELEVISION: Nova TV: Commercial success or embarrassing failure? Jan Culik Recent months have revealed the most dramatic and most comic chapter in the post-Communist history of TV broadcasting in the Czech Republic.
TELEVISION: Surviving on Schlock Catherine Lovatt Romanian private television stations are surviving only with the help of foreign investment. Unfortunately, that means many potential Romanian productions are lost in a sea of American leftovers.

B O O K   R E V I E W:
Daylight in Nightclub Inferno:
Czech Fiction from the Post-Kundera Generation
Edited by Elena Lappin

Despite a number of shortcomings and the rather infelicitous title, this collection constitutes a worthwhile addition to any library of Central European literature in translation.