Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Ana, Jelena and Bill

Besides a couple of facebook hate groups, not a lot of fuss has been surrounding this recent photo of Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic posing together with former US president Bill Clinton. I still find this photo interesting from a symbolic perspective, though. In Serbia, “Bill Clinton” still = “USA

NATO bombing of Serbia – 10 year anniversary

There were many articles today commemorating 10 years since the NATO bombing of Serbia. I would like to point out some of them I find good. Yankee in Belgrade Balkan file Nothing against Serbia – be sure to check out the “NATO trail” map Pecko pivo – that last documentary

Belgrade cityskapes and skyline photos

Hundreds of Belgrade cityskape and skyline photos at SkyscraperCity forum, collected from all over the net. Browse slowly and get to know Belgrade from a different perspective.

Marble Heads

Update on the traditional churches vs human rights law saga. Some complaints by the churches have been implemented by the government, but the churches are still not satisfied. The article about free expression of one’s sexual orientation is really pissing them off. Here’s a bit from what they have to

Credit Crisis in Serbia… since 1993

Reuters have made a report from Subotica, city in northern part of Serbia, Vojvodina, bordering with Hungary, about a local ‘black market’ where people buy and sell stuff without paying taxes to the state. It may look to an uninformed viewer, upon watching the video, as if this market is

Obojeni Program’s new album available for free download

It may not be so big international news such as Radiohead’s free album, but in terms of Serbian or ex-Yu scene, this is an important step. Obojeni Program, one of the best bands ever to emerge from Novi Sad, has just released the new album for free download

Discriminate Thy Neighbour

Main topic of the past several days in Serbia (besides celebrity Big Brother and Eurosong contest, that is): the anti-discrimination law and the problem it created for the traditional religious organizations in Serbia – Serbian Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, the Islamic Community of Serbia, the Evangelical Church, the Christian

Balkan Eurosong losers of 2009

There’s a saying that goes for all the contests in the world and it goes – it’s not important to win, but to compete. Did I say all the contests in the world? Wrong! This doesn’t apply to the Eurovision contest, you poor naive thing. In Eurosong contests winning is

March 9th, 1991 – first major protests against Milosevic in Belgrade

On this day, eighteen years ago, first huge demonstration against Slobodan Milosevic and his regime were organized in Belgrade. Couple of months ago someone uploaded a video of the protest on Youtube, so you now have the chance to see a glimpse of the riots, filmed from the balcony of

Attention! Paznja! Achtung!

First of all, the screaming title is there just to get your attention for a somewhat important announcement – if you are linking from your site to the old Belgraded address, (belgrade.org.yu), a quick note to let you know that you are now sending your readers to nowhere – that


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