By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: May 27, 2011
BELGRADE, Serbia — The tall building that served as the headquarters for the late Slobodan Milosevic’s political party, bombed by an American cruise missile in the 1999 Kosovo war, has been privatized and rebuilt, covered now in blue-green glass. Before 1990, it was home to the Communist Party Central Committee; now it houses offices, including Western banks, and a modish shopping center.
The building is a kind of metaphor for Serbia’s steady move toward reintegration into Europe and the West, but also for its painful and incomplete transition. The sale of the building was considered by many to be corrupt, a political gift to a crony of a former prime minister, Zoran Djindjic....more....
read more: ny times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/world/europe/28serbia.html?ref=stevenerlanger
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