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Serbian Patriarch Pavle dies

November 17, 2009

Serbian Patriarch Pavle died yesterday, aged 95. What this means for Serbian Orthodox Church is that a new leader must be chosen in next three months, according to the Church’s law. For Serbian state, the first visible sign of Patriarch’s death is proclamation of three day mourning period, during which the Republic Broadcasting Agency decided [...]

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No more Schengen visas from 2010…

June 16, 2009

... if we don’t fuck something up in the meantime, of course.

photo by lilit
The decision of the European Commision to allow Serbs to travel as tourists in European/Schengen area without visas seems more and more likely after yesterdays meeting, where, beside Serbian citizens, also Macedonians and Montenegrins are confirmed to be on the good track.
Even [...]

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Ratko Mladic’s home video

June 12, 2009

Another day, another Ratko Mladic news histery.
This time it’s the never before seen videos. And when I say never before seen, I mean that our secret services have been keeping them secret from us, until somehow they got leaked to a Bosnian TV. For some of the videos it’s possible to determine the exact [...]

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Arrested for burning American flag

May 22, 2009

There are probably a lot of countries where you can get arrested for burning a flag of some country. Serbia is not one of them, according to the constitution. However…

Ratibor Trivunac was arrested for burning a flag of the United States after all. Ten days in prison, says the judge. Amazing, ain’t it? Only a [...]

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Miladin Kovacevic – A Million Dollar Baby

February 21, 2009

The reason this post will be so short, and unusually sarcasm-free is that I was trying to find words to write about this news in some coherent way, but this time I admit – words fail me. I am usually prepared for everything Serbia has to throw at me, but every now and then the [...]

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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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Another False Alarm or the Real Thing?

November 10, 2008

Twitter goes crazy for Ratko Mladic results. It seems that another attempt to arrest him is on the way.

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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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Socialist Party forgives the people of Serbia

October 19, 2008

They are tough but fair and their leadership has heart after all – the Socialist Party of Serbia, formerly led by Slobodan Milosevic, decided to forgive citizens of Serbia for letting them stay on power throughout the nineties. All those complaints, suffering, beatings by Milosevic’s police, and even numerous political and criminal executions are forgiven [...]

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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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Belgraded.com – update your bookmarks, dot yu is no more

October 5, 2008

Dear readers,
did you miss me? I sure did miss updating you on stuff that goes on in Belgrade, Serbia and the region. Lack of time, money, food and drugs all necessary to keep the blog going struck all at the same time. But the break was used wisely – to redesign the entire thing from [...]

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