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11.3.06
If it’s Saturday, it must be S&M night....

...but oh dear, has real life overtaken events?

Montenegro had already chosen their 12 songs in their national final, the Montevizija, and last night Serbia chose their 12 in the Beovizija. (I watched a few of them, but nothing stood out as any good.) Tonight the two halves of the country unequal partners in an increasingly fractious alliance ‘join’ together for the overall national final.

But what’s this? Oh bugger. Former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has gone and died overnight. Perhaps he was ill after all, and not just feigning illness to avoid the war crimes tribunal. This was never the plan. We were supposed to be spending millions more Euros dragging out his war crimes trial for years and years and years for the benefit of rich European lawyers, before the court in The Hague came to its inevitable conclusion.

More importantly(!), how will this affect tonight’s song contest? If they’re going to have a national day of mourning for the former warlord dictator, it’ll be a bit annoying, but I’m not sure what the official line is. Clearly he was a war criminal to some Serbs and a national hero to others. We’ll have to keep an eye on tonight’s Serbian TV schedule now…


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