Belgrade, Serbia
If there’s one thing I always appreciated about Serbia and it’s turbulent times, it’s the people’s strenght to find something humorous in all that, no matter how bad the times are. It was like that during the sanctions, during the protests, during the bombing, during the Milosevic – there are
Homeless or a Case of Bedless, photo by Moriza. Ummm… Something strange is going on. Suddenly I can’t find my hometown (Belgrade) on the Facebook list. And I’m pretty sure I’ve had it couple of days ago. Is it some kind of Facebook protest for burning of the American embassy
“Total sale”, photo: B92 Life is back to normal in good old Belgrade. Broken glass has been cleaned off the streets, shop windows repaired or sealed, sun continued to shine and everything is back to normal after the “great people’s Kosovo protest” that took place couple of days ago. Body
Serbian bloggers express their spontanious protest over everything that happened in the past couple of days (and maybe more) by placing the picture of darkness on their blogs: Mooshema, Blogowski, Dinke, Aurora, Suske, Milos and Stefan so far…
Belgrade was pretty much devastated tonight. Well organized groups of hooligans trashed at least ten locations almost simultaniously – American and Croatian embassy were demolished the most, Turkish embassy stoned, two MacDonald’s restaurants trashed completely again, couple of ambulance cars got smashed for some reaseon, together with several other cars,
This is an article about an earlier protest. To read about the new protest, rioting and latest developements, click here update There are still groups of vandals throughout the city, but it seems that the police finaly decided to put an end to this, after abour 30 of them got
There’s too much history per capita in Serbia. Only during my lifetime, two dictators died (one of them had live coverage on the blog), one prime minister was assasinated, country lost four wars, changed it’s name three times, was bombed once, had about a million protests, demonstrations and revolutions, and
LaLara found this video on youtube recently, and I thought it would be cool to bring the story of Rimtutituki antiwar action that happened in the early nineties in Belgrade to the audience of our blog. But, first, the (approximate) translation of the song: “Now Listen Here” Peace is the
Exibition Odstupanje (eng: “Exception”) had to be cancelled because of one “controversial” piece that caused an outrage in couple of Serbian nationalistic organizations who stormed the place and torn down the piece in question. I think it’s ok to host the “controversial” piece here where it can’t be torn. Artist:
Here’s what EU wants us to sign: 1. EU & Srbija will intensify political cooperation, so that they could speed up Serbia’s progress towards EU, including EU membership candidate status. 2. EU will continue to maintain relations between EU citizens and Serbia’s citizens, particularly among students. In order to make