On the Slav-Macedonian side, the president, a Methodist minister called Boris Trajkovski, is the leading moderate.
The coalition was formed last month and includes two big Slav and two Albanian parties.
All in all, it was a bleak week for Serbia and its Slav friends.
They say that Greek employers treat Bulgarians with Muslim names even worse than those with Slav names.
Are they right to think the latest Balkan war is, in effect, the last gasp of pan-Slav nationalism?
Recorder of Chester Judge Elgin Edwards ruled that Slav Mitev, 50, was unfit to plead due to his mental state.
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Even Moldova's territorial dispute, involving its Slav minority in Transdniestria (see article), scarcely sparks the imagination of foreign mediators.
And if the Slav-led government reacted intemperately to that violence, then he and his party would immediately leave the ruling coalition.
There are absolutely no religious problems amongst Albanians, therefore Albanians do not have problems with their Slav neighbours because of the religion.
And its Slav majority is frightened that the country's delicate ethnic balance could be upset by the arrival of too many Kosovars.
On the Albanian side, a shadowy group called the Albanian National Army (ANA) has claimed responsibility for some recent killings of Slav-Macedonian troops.
Apart from Yugoslavia itself, the biggest worries are about Macedonia, whose delicate internal balance between its Slav majority and a swelling ethnic-Albanian minority has been threatened.
The trouble with this peaceable suggestion is that Macedonia's humbler people, including its rank-and-file (mostly Slav) policemen, are not always as enlightened in inter-communal matters as their political leaders appear to be.
The Slav fear is that if a large number of refugees from Kosovo stay on in Macedonia, the country's ethnic balance will be upset and Macedonia will be dragged into the conflict.
The coalition, including the two main Slav parties, the ruling VMRO-DPMNE and the opposition Socialists, would have a two-thirds majority in parliament, giving the coalition unchallenged power to enact laws and make constitutional changes.
After a general election in strife-ridden Macedonia , a coalition of moderate Slavs and the more nationalistic of the two main ethnic Albanian parties prepared to replace a government led by the more nationalist Slav party.
Though there is little love lost between Macedonia's Slav majority and its ethnic Albanians, who muster between a quarter and a third of the country's 2.1m people, both sides are trying to maintain a modicum of harmony.
The arrest in Kosovo, earlier this month, of six alleged members of the so-called Ilirida Republican Army, a new Albanian-nationalist group, produced sighs of relief in Skopje, where Slav-Macedonians often accuse the West of coddling armed Albanians.
After a political shake-up in November, the Democratic Party of Albanians, led by a veteran power-broker, Arben Xhaferi, became the main partner of the governing party, a movement that traces its history to the Slav-nationalist struggles of a century ago but has since become tamer.
Tension rose in Macedonia , where a fragile coalition government embraces representatives of the country's Slav Macedonian majority and ethnic-Albanian minority, after fights between ethnic-Albanian nationalist guerrillas and security forces left several dead and sparked an exodus from some villages near the border with Kosovo.
EU's envoy to Macedonia, who, on the eve of his arrival on June 27th, proposed rather tactlessly that the Slav-led government should hold its nose and negotiate with the rebels: a realistic assessment, perhaps, but one that so enraged the Slavs that he was obliged to backtrack within 24 hours.
The importance of frames (there are several newly framed works here) is especially evident when we see the difference between two monumental Rembrandts the elegant and restrained wooden frame that surrounds the so-called Noble Slav (1632) makes the gilded 19th-century frame on "Aristotle With the Bust of Homer" (1653) seem needlessly gaudy.
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