Ljudmila Cvetkovic is a correspondent with RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Florence Hartmann, the former spokeswoman for The Hague war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, this week was found guilty of publishing confidential court documents. The court said her actions put the work of the tribunal in peril. But Hartmann's supporters say the court is to blame for seeking to hide potential evidence linking Belgrade to war crimes in the Bosnian war.
In the former Yugoslavia, language and politics are closely intertwined. The once single common language, Serbo-Croatian, has now become Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. But are they really separate languages?