Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Chinese movie “Summer Palace” banned in Serbia

Just minutes before the movie Summer Palace (Serbian: Letnja Palata) that was supposed to open Novi festival autorskog filma in Dvorana Kulturnog Centra cinema rolled, Serbian authories came to the rescue and pulled the movie off the Festival because apparently China threatened to freeze all diplomatic activities with Serbia if

Lessons learned from Ireland

Many people say that Serbia should focus on its land, build strong agriculture. But these people do not realise that every single European country is protecting its agriculture, and thus the main market for the Serbian agriculture would be within Serbia itself, and this does not qualify as export. Ireland

BREAKING NEWS: Serbia to join the Partnership for Peace

As I have already heard from B92, in 11:30 today, the general secretary of NATO Jap de Hof Shefer stated that in the NATO Summit in Riga Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro are invited unconditionaly to join the Partnership for Peace, which is a pre-condition of joining NATO in the future.

Dragan Maksimovic memorial plaque

Couple a days ago in Zeleni Venac a small ceremony was held in memory of Dragan Maksimovic, a well known actor from Serbia. I have seen Maksimovic and remember him from several newer cult Serbian movies Crni Bombarder, Lepa sela lepo gore, Mi nismo andjeli and he had pretty memorable

Pancevo citizens protest in Belgrade

Today Serbia marks the 10th aniversary of the citizens and student protest after the election fraud in 1996. But no, these are not pictures from 10 years ago. Another protest took place today in front of Ministry of ecology in Nemanjina street in Belgrade. Citizens of Pancevo, a town of

SCG Women Volleyball Selection wins Bronze

Serbia and Montenegro volleyball team celebrating bronze (photo B92) Serbia has proven again her great sports potential, but this time the tender gender. Namely, the SCG women selection in volleyball has, against all predictions, won the bronze medal in the World Cup in Japan with a victory against Italy 3:0.

Humanost.org

“Internet is one incredible tool. Various emergency and crisis situations in the world have already shown to us that people can organize quickly by communicating through Internet and collect the neccessary help and goods. Our wish was to make one such website in Serbia, a place where everybody with big

Serbian Constitutional History (Part II) – Yugoslavia

After the change of dynasties in Serbia in 1903 (see Part I) and the reenaction of the 1888 Constitution, many historians agree that the period 1903-14 was if not, the only period of the Serbian statehood where true democracy was in power. King Petar I by himself limited the powers

Natasa Kandic – Time’s covers they are-a-changing

Natasa Kadic becomes third sixth person from these areas to hit the cover of Time magazine, together with 60 other people, all given the flattery title “Hero”. And while i couldn’t agree that all of them deserve the title (yes, Christian Amanpour, i’m talking about you), I think that Kandic

Bad things in Belgrade

Winter is closing in on Belgrade and the blogging community is starting to feel a bit grumpy so i decided to join the band wagon and do a repost of the long lost “Bad things in Belgrade” list. You are free to add to the list or to disagree –


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