Half a year on, it looks as though the cries of relief and self-congratulation of last summer, after nato had forced Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces from Kosovo, were premature. Emboldened by Russian energy supplies and loans from China, the Yugoslav leader looks as confident as ever. In Kosovo, nato's failure to protect minorities, or curb crime, has been grist to Serbia's propaganda mill. And there are new war clouds in the skies, this time over Montenegro, which fears it could be Mr Milosevic's next victim.
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