Belgrade, Serbia
UPDATE (20th May 2011): There were now two protests held, and there are plans to make one every week. I don’t know if it’s fair to call them “protests” because it’s mostly just people standing there and drinking in parks after 22h, but hey… You can see some photos on
UPDATE: December 9th – it turns out we are NOT boycotting after all. After a somewhat mixed public protest, it seems that President Tadic decided that it would be too embarrasing not to send a representative. I think the fact that president’s own father was a dissident during Tito’s rule
The Belgrade Gay Pride Parade starts in less than 24 hours and here’s the lowdown on how things are going so far regarding the Serbian society’s reactions in the media and everyday life. UPDATE: Evidently I’m still alive. I’m waiting for the pictures to arrive, taken by friends of mine,
Tomica Milosavljevic is the health minister in current government. And in the previous government. And in the previous. And the one before that. It is not because he’s good, but because he won’t go away. Even after several major controversial affairs, it’s impossible for this guy to admit that he
Asked to comment on the safety issues of forthcoming Belgrade Gay Pride Parade, which is scheduled for September 20th, and the anti-gay graffiti throughout the city these days, Mayor of Belgrade, mr Dragan Djilas gave the following bizzare statement: “I say what I believe—maybe I was raised patriarchal—but sexual orientation
On this day, eighteen years ago, first huge demonstration against Slobodan Milosevic and his regime were organized in Belgrade. Couple of months ago someone uploaded a video of the protest on Youtube, so you now have the chance to see a glimpse of the riots, filmed from the balcony of
Nice chance to see a bit of Belgrade’s biggest and busiest pedestrian street on a sunny day: crew from NGO YIHR made an omage to a performance Frozen Grand Central made by a New York based group. This time with a slight political note – frozen Serbia after 11th of
Serbian bloggers express their spontanious protest over everything that happened in the past couple of days (and maybe more) by placing the picture of darkness on their blogs: Mooshema, Blogowski, Dinke, Aurora, Suske, Milos and Stefan so far…
Belgrade was pretty much devastated tonight. Well organized groups of hooligans trashed at least ten locations almost simultaniously – American and Croatian embassy were demolished the most, Turkish embassy stoned, two MacDonald’s restaurants trashed completely again, couple of ambulance cars got smashed for some reaseon, together with several other cars,
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
Is Serbia in the EU?
Belgrade by night, as seen from space
I’m Serbian and I got the paper to prove it
Dobrica Cosic Gets Fake Nobel Prize for Literature
Another Gay Pride Parade cancelled in Belgrade
RTS Sorry for being evil in the nineties
