End of Yugoslavia

Published February 4, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

In Belgrade, today marks the end of a nation. Gone is the Republic of Yugoslavia -- in its place, a new nation that will be called Serbia and Montenegro, a loose union of the two remaining Balkan republics.

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