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Off The Record

Maniacal Drive Through Belgrade’s Rush Hour

March 12, 2010
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From Bezanijska Kosa to city center it usually takes around 20 minutes, if you’re lucky with the traffic. This guy, however, managed to get there in under 8 minutes during one of many Belgrade’s rush hours:

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Turbo-folk TNG

February 23, 2010
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Couple of hilarious video montages from youtube, combining Star Trek and turbo-folk – a must see.

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Love letter from Yingo

February 21, 2010
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Yingo doesn’t speak Serbian very well – that doesn’t stop her from composing a song to her boyfriend.

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Crouching Priest, Hidden Monk

February 15, 2010
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Two words: monk brawl. Video. (ok, that’s three words)

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Berlusconi’s Photoshop trick: using Milosevic’s methods?

February 12, 2010
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Way to go Silvio! Learning from the best. Or is it the worst?

When this photoshopped photo of Berlusconi came out couple of days ago, there were many here who immediately thought of another dictator – one who had much bigger influence on their lives, of course.

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Just before falling off [...]

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Irinej Gavrilovic elected for new patriarch and other news

January 22, 2010
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This just in: new Serbian Patriarch has been elected – it’s Irinej Gavrilovic of Nis, most moderate of all three final candidates. I guess we should feel lucky.
In other news…
Like most European countries, Serbia is preparing for the most important event of the year, the Eurovision. Instead of national competition this year, the deciders said the best thing [...]

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Antimatter factory in Belgrade

January 3, 2010
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comic by xkcd

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Merry Christmas and a Belgraded New Year

December 31, 2009
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There’s something about the Belgrade public bus transportation that makes a guy wanna sing – is it acoustics or the fact that the audience can’ get away that easily? Anyway, here we go: same song, same bus performer, two different GSP lines:
Bus nr 16 (line from Karaburma to Pohorska street)

Bus nr 65: (from Zvezdara to [...]

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Honorary citizens of Belgrade through history

December 15, 2009
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Following the proclamation of this year’s honorary citizen of Belgrade, “24 hours” brings an interesting list of all the previous winners of this prestigious award. So let’s see who do we have here:
1947. Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia
1947. Peko Dapčević, commander of the 1st Partisan army
1954. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
1955. [...]

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It’s funny cos it’s true

December 8, 2009
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Judge: Good afternoon! Please, introduce yourself.
Accused: Boris Tadić.
Judge: Your occupation?
Accused: Psychologist.
Judge: Where is your work located?
Accused: My work address is Andrićev venac 1.
Judge: Is that a psychological institution?
Accused: That’s the institution of the President of the Republic.
Yes, this is the real transcript of President Tadić’s conversation with the [...]

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Good Mourning, Serbia

November 19, 2009

Or should that be – good grief?
The late Patriarch Pavle was a modest man, often using the public transportation to move about.

His church colleagues, however, are not that modest. Being a priest in Serbia often means one enjoys life more than one’s profession recommends. Street reporters have managed to snap this photo of couple [...]

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The Baggy Mystery

September 18, 2009

It seems to be a mystery for foreigners, but I must admit I never thought about this question until BEOGRADTV crew mentioned it:

Help them solve this ancient mystery by leaving the comment here or on the video’s youtube page.

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Some useful Serbian phrases… in Serbian

September 12, 2009

It’s impressive that this guy has managed to get the pronounciation right in such a short time. His grammar, on the other hand, still needs some work, but overall, these several phrases should be helpful in about 75 percent of all Serbian conversations… in Serbian.

UPDATE
Here’s another Serbian lesson from Daniel Grozdic of Gradual Report:

True fact: [...]

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Crossroad Nap

August 14, 2009

After a long drinking night in town you realize that: your wife won’t let you sleep when you get gome, your kids are still awake playing video games in the room next door, the neighbor’s dog is barking all night… and you’re so drunk that you can’t tell a car seat from a normal bed, [...]

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Serbia and the Non-Aligned Movement: What’s the point?

August 2, 2009

In short, Non Aligned movement was founded in 1952 by Tito of Yugoslavia, Naser of Egypt and Nehru of India because they weren’t too sure which superpower was going to win the cold war so they couldn’t join either one of them.

Tito, Naser and Nehru, picture found on Titoville.com
Today, the role of the Non-Aligned [...]

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Macedonia – What’s in a name?

July 19, 2009

A short excursion to our neighbour in the south, Macedonia, and their problems/dispute they have with Greece. As you may know, the official name of Republic Macedonia is not Republic Macedonia, but Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia That Is Not To Be Confused With The Part Of Greece Called Macedonia, or FYROMTINTBCWTPOGC Macedonia for short. [...]

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Comrade Mrka to the rescue

July 15, 2009

It all began when mr Mrkonjic supported mr Ilic’s heavy drunken head during the Guca festival couple of years ago.

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And it was weird when he did the same thing with sober mr Dacic, but we said it’s understandable since they are from the same party – the Socialist party.

But it continues – he [...]

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Rainy days

July 4, 2009

It doesn’t rain that very often in Belgrade, but once it does, be careful when you try to cross the street. See what happens to this poor girl:

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Visa liberalization for Serbia – Yea or Nay

May 28, 2009

On June 15th, EU ministers will meet in Luxembourg and officially decide whether or not Serbia has fulfilled enough obligations so that the visa regime for its citizens can be abolished. It’s sort of a D-day for no-go people here in Serbia, but after so many promises and dates came and went, not a whole [...]

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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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