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It has been a momentous year here in Belgrade.
Who could have predicted 12 months ago the kind of events that we would witness here outside the Yugoslav Federal Parliament building back in October.
On that momentous day, 5 October, I was here in this very park opposite the parliament building - and I was watching along with tens of thousands of other people as the parliament building behind me here was in flames.
There was smoke coming out of the parliament building and protesters storming the parliament.
Hundreds of thousands of people were rising up against the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
At the time, in this park, I was struggling to cope with the teargas that was coming out of canisters in clouds of smoke all around me.
At the same time, I was struggling to believe that this was really happening. I had been aware for some time that the people of Serbia were desperate for political change, but really they seemed to be too tired, defeated and apathetic to actually do anything it.
But of course on that day back in October we were all proved wrong.
Now there is a certain amount of revisionism about what exactly happened.
Was it a revolution, was it an uprising, was it a coup?
Some people are suggesting now that it was more a coup than a revolution because it would appear that there was a certain amount of co-ordination between opposition politicians and the top levels of the Serbian police force.
But call it what you will, I think it was clear to anyone who watched those television pictures that were flashed all over the world back in October, that what happened here, the uprising that happened here, really did express the will of the vast majority of people here in Serbia.
Obviously the question now is what the future holds?
What the future holds for the new leadership of Vojislav Kostunica and what indeed the future holds for the former President, Slobodan Milosevic?
Many people here, certainly young people, could only remember a time when Mr Milosevic was in charge, when he was holding the reins of state, and it is quite difficult for the them now to contemplate a future without him.
There is a lot of discussion about whether Mr Milosevic should be brought to book.
It now seems likely that in the coming months and coming year, he may stand some kind of a trial here in Serbia.
But the whole question of war crimes will obviously be a much more thorny issue.
The international community is pressuring Belgrade to hand Mr Milosevic to face accusations of war crimes committed in Kosovo, maybe even crimes dating back to Bosnia.
I think it could be quite hard politically for the new authorities in Serbia to be seen to be handing over a Serb - a prominent former leader - to the international community.
What of the political situation here in Serbia over the next year?
We have parliamentary elections, elections expected to reaffirm the position of the Serbian Opposition.
They still call themselves the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, it is quite confusing, but we are going to see a coming year where they are really confirmed in power, not only at the Federal Yugoslav level, but also at the Serbian Republic level.
We have a position now where the opposition is in power and there is no real opposition.
But of course this alliance, that led the people to rise up against Mr Milosevic, was made up of a disparate group of 18 parties.
However, I won't be here to witness that, I am leaving the Balkans, I have been here for four years, it has been a momentous and eventful four years.
I have grown very attached to the country, very attached to the people of Serbia, but I am leaving to go to Moscow and of course I will be looking from afar with interest to see what the future holds for Belgrade, Serbia, the Serbian people and indeed for the other peoples in the Balkans.