Belgrade, Serbia
Here is the first glimpse of the scenes from the announced documentary about Serbia in the nineties. I mentioned this obscure documentary earlier when Rob Stewart, the director, visited Serbia couple of weeks ago. Rob played the Nick Slaughter character from the TV show Tropical Heat that became popular only
Long time since we had a net2reality post here. I’ve been wanting to write one after the Croatian govt. caused all that fuss with the Facebook couple of weeks ago, but I figured it was covered enough by other medias.
However, there wasn’t so much talk about kids using the social media to promote nationalism, hate and fascism.
In Serbia we had more than enough opportunity to be exposed to war propaganda, be it from the NATO or from the Serbian side. By analyzing media throughout the 1999 bombing of Serbia it was pretty clear that a military machinery such as the NATO keeps on its payroll a
After a series of mutual genocide charges we’re going over to some news of a completely opposite nature. Fashion TV channel decided to start a special branch for the South East European market – that would say former Yugoslav countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro) plus probably some other,
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
Parliamentary elections are coming up in one week and it’s deja vu all over again – party who will most likely win majority of votes is the party of yesterday’s values. The internet guerrilla campaign is at full throttle as usual – as little good as it may bring, considering
LaLara found this video on youtube recently, and I thought it would be cool to bring the story of Rimtutituki antiwar action that happened in the early nineties in Belgrade to the audience of our blog. But, first, the (approximate) translation of the song: “Now Listen Here” Peace is the
“Humans against killing… sounds like junkies against dope” Miomir Grujic Fleka (1954-2003) Zombietown is how Miomir Grujic Fleka called Belgrade back in the nineties. Fleka was a DJ at B92 during the Milosevic rule. Biography on the Maniac shop website describes him best, so I am just going to translate
Some time ago I collected some articles about Srdjan Aleksic, around the time of his death anniversary, at the Serbian blog. You can read more about Srdjan in this article by Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, some excerpts: Srdjan Aleksic had sacrificed his own life to
If one of the reasons behind the success of Alan Ford comic book was that it depicted fight against the corrupted system, than the reason for the cult status of Brithis sitcom Only Fools And Horses is of similar nature – just like Ian said in a comment to the
Belgrade by night, as seen from space
Bojana Stamenov – she’s got talent
Another Gay Pride Parade cancelled in Belgrade
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra stirs controversy
Sami’s escape plan – great comic about urban Belgrade legend
