An elderly supporter of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic makes the sign of the cross on Monday as dozens of hardcore loyalists waited in line in the snow to pay tribute to their late idol in front of his party seat in central Belgrade.
Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.
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