Belgrade, Serbia
Radivoj “Zucko” Korac was an interesting character to say the least – one of the first real European basketball superstars, loved to read and learn new stuff, brought the first Beatles record to Serbia, and shot free throws in an mst unorthodox way from today’s perspective. Now there’s a movie
The eternal derby between two biggest Belgrade’s football clubs, Red Star and Partizan has been a security issue for about two decades now, even though the clubs exist and compete with each other since 1945. Two weeks after the Belgrade gay pride came under attack by six thousand hooligans and
It happens every time – Serbian team goes all pumped up to the championship ready to take the trophy home. After the first lost game, the atmosphere turns to despair and somehow we are left with the choice – beat Germany or go home. But the old saying goes that
Novak Djokovic may not be world’s number one tennis player yet, but he definitely is number one in eyes of his family. Why else would they build him a monument and then make him unveil it just before Serbia Open? Scratch that, one of the commentators reveals that the monument
UPDATE: The Vlade Divac / Drazen Petrovic documentary premiere is scheduled for 12th of October 2010. Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic were two of the greatest European basketball players of all time. Vlade retired recently, and Drazen, sadly, died back in 1993 in an automobile accident. Had he lived, he
Here’s a news flash that could possibly shadow over that questionable love relationship between Russia and Serbia: Serbian media are all buzzing right now that one of the city landmarks, Red Star stadium nicknamed Marakana, could in the near future get a new, official name – Gazprom Arena. Judging by
I’m not so much of a sports person, that’s why there aren’t so much sport posts on this blog in the first place. But I do love a good sports story, fair play and great rivalries, regardless of the sport. It appears to me that another such rivalry is about
We started jeering our own national anthem back in the nineties, and maybe even earler, I don’t remember exactly when it all began, but it soon turned into a tradition. Every time the first tones of Hej Sloveni would be heard from the speakers at any stadium, it would soon
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
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
In the land of Blood and Honey
RTS Sorry for being evil in the nineties
Cinema Komunisto – Documentary About Movie Making In Communist Yugoslavia
Tilva Ros – a promising small movie
