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Discriminate Thy Neighbour

March 12, 2009

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 Reform Church, the Christian Evangelical [...]

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Can you market a country like a product?

February 17, 2009

Serbian Ministry of tourism recently said that there will be only 135 thousand euros spent for re-branding of Serbia this year. This is admittedly not a lot of money considering some countries spend that much for the same purpose in a day. But, on the other hand, it is way too much money if you [...]

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Djokovic beats Delic, fans beat other fans up in Melbourne

January 23, 2009

It was funny when it happened for the first time, and it’s still funny as hell:
Thousands of miles away from their native countries, after sipping on their expensive cool beverages and enjoying their pricey stadium burgers and fries, after paying couple hundred Aussie dollars to watch two high profile players compete in one of [...]

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Santa Claus: Deda Mraz, Djed Bozicnjak or Saint Nicholas?

December 22, 2008

As B92 reported some time ago and as the Guardian reports now, Santa Claus is banned from Bosnian kindergartens. Reason for this – it goes against the religious Muslim beliefs and/or Bosniak tradition.
Beside the bizzare fact of introducing religious teaching in kindergartens in the first place, this affair brings many interesting questions.
Is Santa Clause a [...]

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Serbian Average Monthly Wage: Not As Low As You Might Think

November 22, 2008

Since statistics are always fun, let’s see what we can buy for an average Serbian wage of 386 euros a month.

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Serbia and Croatia sue each other over genocide

November 19, 2008

Year and a half after the state of Serbia was acquitted of genocide charges in Bosnia and Hercegovina, the state of Croatia now got a green light to see if it can prove that Serbia committed any genocide on Croatian territory. Serbia will most likely respond with a counter charge – that Croatia committed ethnic cleansing when it expelled from their homes several hundred thousand Serbs in 1995 and made them refugees to Serbia proper. What are the actual chances of these states winning at court and how much damage they can actually do to each other?

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UN follows Serbia’s example

November 7, 2008

Smoking has been banned in UN headquarters in New York after what has been described as “a tough debate”, the news agencies report.
Just as the battle seemed lost for the group supporting the ban, an unnamed member brought to the light a fact that Serbian assembly implemented the ban two weeks ago. According to [...]

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The blurry past and the fishy present

October 21, 2008

Three events these days, at the first glance unrelated, but let’s have another look.
20th Octobar marks the Belgrade Liberation day, when in 1944 Yugoslav partisans together with the Red Army liberated Belgrade from the Germans. The anniversary is marked every year, and every year at the same time a lot of people makes bitter remarks [...]

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Gimme shelter

October 19, 2008

This news baffles me, I must say – UNHCR reports that Serbia is among top ten countries in the world by the number of asylum seekers. Where are all these people seeking asylum? I honestly believe that conditions of life are much worse in, say, Iran or Mexico, or any African country for that matter, [...]

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Montenegro and Macedonia recognize Kosovo’s independence

October 10, 2008

All right, so here’s the short version of what happened and what could happen.
Montenegro recently declared independence. Serbia complained a bit, but eventually it all went down ok. The world didn’t seem to mind one bit. Some time ago, Macedonia declared independence, former Yugoslavia was too busy with civil war to notice and the world [...]

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I’ll see your ass in court!

October 9, 2008

Yes, that’s my country speaking to other countries, or at least those that recognized the independence of Kosovo earlier this year.
The UN decided earlier today to transfer the question of lawfulness of Kosovo independence to the International Court of Justice, which seems as a diplomatic battle won on our side. The question is, how [...]

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Testiclicious!

October 4, 2008

There’s a new cookbook in town – and it requires lots of balls.
Ljubomir R. Erovic of Gornji Milanovac recently came into the international spotlight when he published an online cookbook with recipes for testicle dishes – testicle pizza, testicle goulash and so on. As I am currently in th UK I had the chance of [...]

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Our man Niko

May 8, 2008

How much damage can a video game bring to a country’s already devastated image? We’ll just have to wait and see: new episode in a violent series GTA4 is out one week ago and it already seems according to both critics and fans that it will be one of the most talked about and most [...]

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Pala Vlada! Serbian Government Collapses! *updated*

March 8, 2008

Source: B92, Beta

BELGRADE—PM Vojislav Koštunica has announced today that the conditions for his cabinet to continue work do not exist.

Koštunica, who is also the leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), was holding an extraordinary news conference at the seat of the Serbian government in Belgrade when he said that its mandate now needs [...]

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The day Kosovo became… Kosovo

February 17, 2008

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 today, a part of the country [...]

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Life and death of Serbian cinema

February 4, 2008

An interesting trailer for an upcoming low budget movie that could shake the stale Serbian cinematography:
The Life and Death of a Porno Gang – (Zivot i smrt porno bande – trejler) directed by Mladen Djordjevic
Porn, blood, gore, violence, drugs and rocknroll. We definetely need more films like this.
The author is already pretty famous after his [...]

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Sheep wake up…

January 31, 2008

“Sheep wake up you are next
and you shepherds go and get your hair cut
Sheep wake up go up to the hills
WOLVES WILL EXIST AS LONG AS SHEEP EXIST”

photo by ansik
As the second round of the presidential elections approach, I thought it to be useful to quote the refrain of a song by the Greek musician [...]

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October the 5th 2000 – October the 5th 2007

October 5, 2007

Dear readers, today has been the 7th anniversary of the democratic changes, or maybe revolution, that have changed the political leadership of Serbia and at that time “Milosevic Yugoslavia”. It was a unique event in Serbian history when an entire nation deprived of freedoms and welfare have revolted and most importantly, more or less non-violently, [...]

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Parliament Wars, Episode I: The Gypsy Menace

September 27, 2007

INTRODUCTION:

B92.net->English->News Insults bring parliament session to halt
25 SEPTEMBER 2007 | 16:59 | SOURCE: BETA
BELGRADE—Today’s session of the Parliamentary Board for Kosovo was marked by a heated argument between its two members.
Marko Jakšić of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Vladan Batić of the Christian Democratic Party of Serbia (DHSS) engaged in a quarrel, hurling [...]

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Applied Nostalgia

September 25, 2007

Recent visit to Yahti.com reminded me of a great exhibition opened in Belgrade on 14th of September in Progres Gallery – Primenjena nostalgija, Applied nostalgia in English and Nostalgia Aplicada in Portuguese. For those of you who can’t make it to the exibition en vivo in Belgrade or Lisboa, there is a great website with [...]

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