Belgrade, Serbia
Gay pride parade planned for tomorrow has been banned by Serbian autorities because the police said they can’t protect the participants. If you rewind the film, last year the parade took place somehow with strong police forces virtually defending the inner circle of participants with three walls of policemen. In
Advertising campaign of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestrais making rounds on the local part of the Internet these days. The video portrays five members of the orchestra who make a sudden appearance, a flashmob if you will, in Strahinjica Bana (one of the fancy Belgrade cafe streets), play a short tune,
“Geto – tajni zivot grada” (Ghetto – the secret life of the city) is a documentary from 1995 told from the perspective of Goran Čavajda “Čavke”, well known rock musician from Serbia at the time. It tells about the rock, alternative and “underground” scene in Belgrade during the worst period
Management comitee members of Radio Televizija Srbije, Serbian national radio and TV broadcaster, say that they are sorry about all the stuff in the nineties. Here’s an excerpt: “During the unfortunate events of the 1990s, Radio-Television Belgrade and Radio-Television Serbia in many instances in their reports offended the feelings, the
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
A small gesture of support to Japanese people from Belgrade – several hundred people gathered at the Republic Square, dressed in white and red clothes to form a Japanese flag. photo by Branimir Milovanovic, click for bigger pic Serbian people generally have a lot of gratitude towards Japan, country that
Milan M. Ćirković, Serbian astronomer and blogger collected an interesting list of 50 things the general public in Serbia is prone to believing, mostly thanks to the uncritical attitude towards the numerous information they have been fed by various media over the decades. You can also test yourselves, the theories
The short version: Timothy John Byford (wiki, official website) is a British TV director, author and educator who moved to Belgrade back in 1971 to help the Yugoslav national TV make some children’s TV shows. And he did – he is the author of some of the most legendary and
The term “Belgradization” (Beogradizacija) exists for a couple of decades now and is a pejorative way of saying that of all the places in Serbia, only Belgrade is developing, while all the other towns and villages are slowly dying. Not only economically – Belgrade is the only place in Serbia
You could say that Ibarska highway is kind of Serbia’s backbone – a road that connects Belgrade to Kosovo and other important places in the south and west. It is not the best road, and certainly not the only option if you want to travel south, but it is the
Belgrade by night, as seen from space
I’m Serbian and I got the paper to prove it
In the land of Blood and Honey
How to name your bridge
Bojana Stamenov – she’s got talent
