Belgrade, Serbia
UPDATE: Feb 3rd, the decision has been made and it’s now official. Previous post: The local authorities have announced their plan to ban sales of alcoholic drinks after 22:00 until 06:00 in the morning. The ban will relate to all shops, gas stations etc, basically everything except cafes, restaurants and
Pretty ingenious mashup on youtube, combining Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” and Šemsa Suljaković’s turbo folk anthem “Što me pitaš”. Combined like this, it really does look like a typical Saturday night out in Belgrade, club-crawling and turbo folk splav-hopping. See more great photos at: Andrej_Filev
If you happen to make a hobby out of following world news that involve drunken Serbs than you must’ve seen this one lately – “Drunk Serbian man kills a shark by jumping on its head in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt” – but if you don’t have a hobby like that,
It’s official – from January 1st 2011 there will be no more military conscription for Serbian citizens. This is a big change for the country since the mandatory military service has been around for about 200 years now. Reaction of the general public is, as the case often is around
UPDATE: December 9th – it turns out we are NOT boycotting after all. After a somewhat mixed public protest, it seems that President Tadic decided that it would be too embarrasing not to send a representative. I think the fact that president’s own father was a dissident during Tito’s rule
It’s not advertised anywhere, which means it’s hidden – and it also means it’s highly recommended.