Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

The Serbian Identity

Couple of events led me to write this blog. One of them and the most influential one is that at the moment I am reading the book from Vladeta Jerotic about the Faith and the Country. The question I pose to myself is how far should Serbia go in accepting

Kosovo declares independence

Breaking news: Kosovo parliament has unilaterally declared the independence of Kosovo. The newly founded state of Kosovo separated from Serbia in a sudden and surprising turn of events, right after the United Nations decided not to wait for Serbian parliamentary elections before reaching the decision and giving its recommendation about

2006 Political Retrospective

Now as 2006 is nearing to an end, the political life of Serbia was turbulent, thus it earns to take a look back on what marked our political life thoughts throughout the last year: Many things happened, many interesting, exciting and depressing, optimist, unusual, nostalgic and confusing. One of the

Belgrade bracing itself for tourist wave

Since the commercials are bound to appear on the CNN every day now (update: Serbia ads on CNN ), Belgrade officials thought that it would be good to prepare the city for possible inflation of Western tourists by updating the tourist maps – old, outdated and often full of grammar,

Serbia and Belgrade again on CNN, but this time not in the breaking news

Serbia starts advertising on CNN in couple of days and the video commercials are ready. (update: videos started rolling on CNN ) When asked what the videos look like, the secretary of tourism Bojan Dimitrijevic said that he hasn’t seen them yet, but that they got to be good. Am

Is the Purchase of Telekom Srpska a good deal?

By reading the headlines of Serbian newspapers I see that there is a big debate of whether the purchase of Telekom Srpska is overpriced or not, and whether this was a good move or not. Different analytics are saying that Telekom Srbija should first invest in its operational efficiency and

Urban Belgrade myths: Belgrade phantom (Beogradski fantom)

Belgrade Phantom (Serbian: Beogradski Fantom) is a nickname of the guy who night after night repeatedly managed to run away in a white Porsche from the cops who were driving their Zastava’s in the late seventies. His real name was Vlada Vasiljevic, a small time crook apparently very good in


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