United Nations officials here note that Kosovo was the poorest part of the old Yugoslavia , even before tensions exploded in the late 1980 's and Slobodan Milosevic rode nationalist tensions to seize and consolidate power and to bring Kosovo under direct rule from Belgrade .
Yugoslavia /location/country/capital Belgrade
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