Belgrade, Serbia
Luca Donnini is an Italian photographer. Last week, he put up an unannounced small street exhibition in the little passageway connecting Nusiceva street with the Nikola Pasic square. Surprisingly enough, next morning the posters were gone. Here’s an explanation from Luca’s website: “Friday night we stuck up the photographs till 2.30 am.
This is an article about an earlier protest. To read about the new protest, rioting and latest developements, click here update There are still groups of vandals throughout the city, but it seems that the police finaly decided to put an end to this, after abour 30 of them got
Exibition Odstupanje (eng: “Exception”) had to be cancelled because of one “controversial” piece that caused an outrage in couple of Serbian nationalistic organizations who stormed the place and torn down the piece in question. I think it’s ok to host the “controversial” piece here where it can’t be torn. Artist:
Nobody knows what will happen on 10th of December – maybe the parliament of Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia (this time it won’t be a joke), maybe they won’t. But no matter the outcome, it seems to me that the tension in the rest of Serbia is slowly rising.
By Andrea Gregory A sea of people filled the center of Novi Sad. Their signs were different. Their flags were different. But on this day, their cause was the same. Speakers talked about the dangers of fascism, problems with in the government that could lead to fascist thinking and that
Update: Rachel’s report from the protest. New video: by Dejanovic (more pictures on his myspace) As I said on twitter already, I couldn’t go to Novi Sad today – no good excuse for that really. Luckily, there were several hundred people that did go to protest fascist/neonazi/call-it-what-you-will-but-its-wrong-anyway gathering. Mixed crowd
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
After getting their initial permission to hold the rally in Novi Sad cancelled, the ultranationalistic groups consisting mostly of neonazis and clerofascists decided to hold a rally without it, on 7th of October. The police stated they will react in case of an illegal get-together, but there are also voices
Construction works in Balkanska street, Belgrade. Goran Miletic made a good list over at B92 blog – Fifty human rights tasks that new government should do. Some of the tasks are pretty easy to do and don’t require much effort, only good will, while other require both effort, will and
Probably you remember the articles about Ganja March, Stormfront forum, the hooligans and the internet fights. Instead of a recapitlation on those articles, it seems that i will rather have the unfortunate opportunity to see all those cultural groups at the same place tomorrow – Republic square, Saturday 5th of
Is Serbia in the EU?
Belgrade by night, as seen from space
Another Gay Pride Parade cancelled in Belgrade
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra stirs controversy
Protest against the prohibition – updated
Dick Marty’s Kosovo report – Uniting Serbs and Albanians In Shame
