Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

The new Serbian Coat of Arms

From time to time, it’s possible to see some improvement in this country. It’s only then that you know we are on the right track. One of the things in Serbia that was bad until recently, and it’s completely changed and re-designed so it’s new and good now, was Serbia’s

Guca 2010 – The Survival Guide

50th Guca trumpet/brass music festival starts on 13th and ends on 22nd of August 2010. This short guide will teach you all the things you need to know in order to survive the festival and stay mentally and physically fit afterwards, should you decide to attend. Take ear plugs with

Discriminate Thy Neighbour

Main topic of the past several days in Serbia (besides celebrity Big Brother and Eurosong contest, that is): the anti-discrimination law and the problem it created for the traditional religious organizations in Serbia – Serbian Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, the Islamic Community of Serbia, the Evangelical Church, the Christian

Can you market a country like a product?

Serbian Ministry of tourism recently said that there will be only 135 thousand euros spent for re-branding of Serbia this year. This is admittedly not a lot of money considering some countries spend that much for the same purpose in a day. But, on the other hand, it is way

Djokovic beats Delic, fans beat other fans up in Melbourne

It was funny when it happened for the first time, and it’s still funny as hell: Thousands of miles away from their native countries, after sipping on their expensive cool beverages and enjoying their pricey stadium burgers and fries, after paying couple hundred Aussie dollars to watch two high profile

Santa Claus: Deda Mraz, Djed Bozicnjak or Saint Nicholas?

As B92 reported some time ago and as the Guardian reports now, Santa Claus is banned from Bosnian kindergartens. Reason for this – it goes against the religious Muslim beliefs and/or Bosniak tradition. Beside the bizzare fact of introducing religious teaching in kindergartens in the first place, this affair brings

Serbian Average Monthly Wage: Not As Low As You Might Think

Since statistics are always fun, let’s see what we can buy for an average Serbian wage of 386 euros a month.

Serbia and Croatia sue each other over genocide

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?

UN follows Serbia’s example

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

The blurry past and the fishy present

Three events these days, at the first glance unrelated, but let’s have another look. 20th Octobar marks the Belgrade Liberation day, when in 1944 Yugoslav partisans together with the Red Army liberated Belgrade from the Germans. The anniversary is marked every year, and every year at the same time a


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