Belgrade, Serbia
General Assembly of the United Nations in New York will vote today on Kosovo Resolution proposed by Serbia. It is now already clear that all the countries will vote for the resolution proposed by Serbia, but only a couple of days ago the situation was completely different. What has changed?
Have you ever wondered about why there are so many towns called Belgrade in the USA? I’m sure you did. The same question was obviously on director Miodrag Kolaric’s mind too, when he decided to visit all five Belgrades in the states. You can find out more about this interesting
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
So, Joe Biden is coming to town. We all know by now all the security details of the visit: how many tons Biden’s car weighs, how thick the bulletproof windows are and how many policemen will help block the streets of Belgrade tomorrow. What we don’t know is what is
Back in the nineties, when there was not much to do in Serbia but watch TV, several famous western TV shows found their audience in Serbia as well: Only Fools and Horses, ‘Allo ‘Allo, Miami Vice, The Simpsons, The X Files, Tropical Heat, Beverly Hills 90210… wait, what? Tropical Heat?
Besides a couple of facebook hate groups, not a lot of fuss has been surrounding this recent photo of Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic posing together with former US president Bill Clinton. I still find this photo interesting from a symbolic perspective, though. In Serbia, “Bill Clinton” still = “USA
The reason this post will be so short, and unusually sarcasm-free is that I was trying to find words to write about this news in some coherent way, but this time I admit – words fail me. I am usually prepared for everything Serbia has to throw at me, but
How many times should a president congratulate Barack Obama, one or two times? Most of the world leaders congratulated Obama two times: first, when he won the elections, and second time, when he officially became president of the US, after the inauguration. Boris Tadic, Serbian president, decided that one time
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
The most famous gay rodent turns 80 today, and it’s a good opportunity to explore some of the less known, but still interesting facts about Disney’s relation to the region. In 1937, Mickey was censored in biggest Belgrade daily, Politika, because of the comic “The Monarch of Medioka” and it’s
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
RTS Sorry for being evil in the nineties
Priest blessing a car
