Polls close in Serbian elections

Serbs voted today in a closely-contested parliamentary election between pro-Western democrats and ultranationalists to determine whether the troubled Balkan nation drifts toward mainstream Europe or returns to its wartime nationalist past.

The vote was the first since the break up of Serbia’s union last year with Montenegro, its last partner from the former Yugoslavia that split up in wartime campaigns conducted under late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s.