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Sputnik International
April 3, 2018
The police of Kosovo detained the head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djurić, and later deported him to Serbia. The incident led to riots by local Serbs in the city, with 32 people sustaining injuries after the police deployed tear gas and used grenades against the protesters.
Balkan Insight
April 3, 2018
In this “win-win game”, everyone seems to get what they want: Serbia strengthens its control over Northern Kosovo, which will enable its further integration into Serbian proper; Kosovo obtains its long-sought dream; Russia confirms its position, voting against the resolution, keeping its strong presence in theÃÂ ...
SeeNews
April 2, 2018
BELGRADE (Serbia), April 2 (SeeNews) - Germany's ZF Friedrichshafen, or ZF Group, plans to invest a total of 85 million euro ($104.8 million) in the construction of an electric vehicle parts factory in Pancevo, in northern Serbia, the city government has said. ZF Friedrichshafen intends to invest 40 millionÃÂ ...
Emerging Europe
April 2, 2018
Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia have heightened over the past several days following the arrest of a senior Serbian official in northern Kosovo. ... Mr Đjuric entered Kosovo to attend a meeting in Mitrovica, a largely Serb-dominated city, defying a ban from Kosovo authorities prohibiting him to do so,ÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
April 2, 2018
She said that the possible deal would include construction of the highway from the Serbian town of Pozega to Boljare, on the border with Montenegro. "Everything that CRBC is doing in Serbia accords with the contract and is of high quality, respecting deadlines and standards," a press release quotedÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
Instead of roaring into town amid throbbing engines and clouds of smoke, the tattooed, potbellied bikers arrived by car and minivan in Banja Luka, the capital .... ecosystem” nurtured by Russia through its ties to the Serbian Orthodox Church and radical Serb nationalists who still dream of a “Greater Serbia.
The Times
March 26, 2018
Forty children were missing and at least 37 people were killed in a fire at a shopping centre in Kemerovo, a city in western Siberia. Dozens more were unaccounted for. Russian officials said that, with 64 people missing, the death toll was expected to rise. “The chances of surviving a fire like this areÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
March 26, 2018
A 63-year-old imam of a mosque has been “beaten to death” on Saturday in the Muslim-majority city of Novi Pazar in Serbia. Nazir Salihovic was attacked when he was on his way back home after leading the night prayer at the mosque, the Serbian Islamic Union said in a statement. It said the attack onÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 26, 2018
As some Balkan politicians again mull swapping territories between Serbia and Kosovo, members of Serbia's Albanian minority say both countries should ... As some Serbian and Kosovo politicians mull swapping territories between the two countries, members of the the ethnic Albanian minority in southernÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
March 26, 2018
Milan Ivanovic said Monday the injured have been treated in a local hospital in the divided town of Mitrovica and discharged. ... In a strongly-worded address aired live on Serbian media and in northern Serb-dominated Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic said Monday that Serbia will prosecute those who arrestedÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 24, 2018
BRUSSELS - A day of EU-brokered negotiations between the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia broke up late on March 23 without any reported progress on efforts to normalize relations. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic did not appear at a news conference immediately after the meeting, but he later onÃÂ ...
B92
March 21, 2018
Germany is hinting at taking on the obligation of forcing Pristina to form the Community of Serb Municipalities, an obligation under the Brussels agreement. ... from Berlin -"true, via still unofficial channels" - that Germany will ask Serbia not to oppose the idea to allow Kosovo to become an observer at the UN.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 21, 2018
The Night Wolves, a motorcycle club known for its allegiance to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has started what it is calling a "Russian Balkans" tour with a visit to the Serbian town of Sid. In Sid, near the Serbian-Croatian border, the group met with local motorcycle clubs on March 20 before visiting aÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 20, 2018
A group of citizens from Cacak in central Serbia have launched a petition to name a steeet after the late UK physicist, Stephen Hawking, whose battle with ... Locals in the Serbian town of Cacak have launched a petition to name a street after Stephen Hawking, who died on March 14 after a long battle withÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 20, 2018
The Russian nationalist motorcycle group, the 'Night Wolves', say their tour of Serbian parts of Bosnia will go ahead this week – despite a ban that Bosnia ... The Russian motorcyle group, the Night Wolves, intend to visit several towns and cities in Serbia and Bosnia as part of their “Russian Balkans” tourÃÂ ...
Independent Balkan News Agency
March 20, 2018
Nearly one million people mainly in Serbia, but also in Croatia, (western) Romania and Hungary are exposed to carcinogenic water from public networks and ... The investigation revealed that 95 cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina — with a combined population of 630,000 — are in the danger zone.
Balkan Insight
March 20, 2018
A group of citizens from Cacak in central Serbia have launched a petition to name a steeet after the late UK physicist, Stephen Hawking, whose battle with ... Locals in the Serbian town of Cacak have launched a petition to name a street after Stephen Hawking, who died on March 14 after a long battle withÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 19, 2018
The Serbian war crimes prosecution's draft strategy for 2018-2023 does not define priorities for prosecutions, indicators for measuring success, ... Serbia's as-yet-unpublished draft war crimes prosecution strategy for the next five years - a copy of which has been obtained by BIRN - has attracted criticismÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 10, 2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic address a joint press conference following their talks at the Chancellery in .... Yee also expressed fears that a Russian-run humanitarian center near the southern Serbian city of Nis might double as an espionage base, a chargeÃÂ ...
Rigzone
March 10, 2018
SARAJEVO, March 9 (Reuters) - Russia and Serbia have revived an idea of building a gas pipeline in the Balkan country, a project that would enable ... According to Gastrans, the current design of the pipeline foresees one entry point on the Serbian-Bulgarian border in the Serbian town of Zajecar and fourÃÂ ...
EURACTIV
March 9, 2018
The March 6 meeting in the Bosnian city of Mostar came after the EU unveiled its new enlargement strategy for the Western Balkans in early February, stressing further enlargement will follow only after bilateral disputes in the region have been resolved. Croatia is an EU member, Serbia is a candidate andÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 9, 2018
Former Serbian State Security Service Jovica Stanisic's defence denied that the 'Tigers' paramilitary unit led by Arkan and the 'Scorpions' fighters were ... In order to prove his conclusion that Arkan's unit had “the support of the Serbian SDB”, Theunens mentioned the fact that the Tigers returned to SerbiaÃÂ ...
Independent Balkan News Agency
March 9, 2018
The company plans to employ some 300 people in Belgrade and about 40 in each of the 17 other cities - Bor, Indjija, Leskovac, Nis, Novi Sad, Jagodina, Kikinda, ... The new discount supermarket chain will complement competition in Serbia", Zarko Malinovic of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce told RTS.
Newsweek
March 9, 2018
“We saw since mid-January a decrease in the system frequency, which originated in Kosovo and was not addressed by Kosovo and Serbia, both having ... Some Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo—areas where the majority of the population is Serbian instead of ethnic Albanian, like in most of theÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
March 9, 2018
Serbia's president said Thursday that his country won't recognize Kosovo but is open to discussing solutions to the issue. "If we recognize Kosovo ... Albanians will gain everything and my question is — what will Serbs get?" said President Aleksandar Vucic, who was in Romania for talks with PresidentÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 8, 2018
According to ENTSOE, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, the Continental European Power System has been experiencing "a continuous system frequency deviation from its mean value of 50 Hz" since mid-January 2018 – and this deviation originates from Serbia andÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
Most people living in Kosovo are ethnic Albanians, but the musical is being staged by Serbs in the Serbian-majority town of Gracanica. Milosevic's shadow still looms large throughout the region, and tensions remain high. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but Serbia and Serbian minorityÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
February 28, 2018
The official website of the city of Kragujevac said Yandex will make applications and maps for the local authorities. ... Russia was among the first to condemn Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, and has since voted against the membership of Kosovo in international institutions in lineÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
December 31, 1999
After a Serbian Army serviceman threatened to kill himself outside parliament, the Army Union and Veterans' Association warned that many soldiers are troubled by debt or post-traumatic stress ... The body of one soldier was found on Monday morning in his apartment in the southern Serbian city of Nis.
Balkan Insight
December 31, 1999
Military expert Reynaud Theunens told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that Serbian State Security Service (SDB) units were involved in the forcible takeovers of municipalities and towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. Theunens confirmed the allegation in JovicaÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
December 31, 1999
Those running for the post include the city's former mayor Dragan Djilas, the Democratic Party leader Dragan Sutanovac, New Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic, the Socialist Party's Aleksandar Antic, Democratic Party of Serbia leader Milos Jovanovic, Miljan Damjanovic from the Serbian Radical Party,ÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
Marina Stevanov never doubted she would leave her native Serbia as soon as she earned her medical degree with top grades. Now, the 25-year-old doctor is packing her diploma, thick medicine books and a German language dictionary for a move to Austria, where an elite hospital offered her a job thatÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
February 21, 2018
BELGRADE: Serbian authorities detained eight foreigners including two Americans this week attempting to photograph or enter military installations, the Tanjug news ... Separately, in the northern city of Novi Sad, a British and an Afghan national were detained after entering a disused military facility.
The Guardian
February 20, 2018
The first rebuild was as part of an exhortation to build a modern, socialist city as part of Yugoslavia; the second after the 1998-99 conflict with Serbia. Although the ... The area around Pristina has been inhabited for almost 10,000 years, and grew to prominence in the medieval Serbian empire. In 1389, at theÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 20, 2018
Eight foreign citizens, including two Americans and two Ukrainians, have been arrested in Serbia on suspicion that they tried to photograph and enter military ... Announcing the arrest of eight foreigners, Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said he does not want to prejudge the case that is underÃÂ ...
Total Croatia News
February 19, 2018
The first group are socio-economic demands, such as the electrification of the villages where Serb live, the undisturbed return of refugees, of which there are some 19,000 currently living in Serbia, the right to the reconstruction of homes destroyed during the war, as well as the resolution of housing issuesÃÂ ...
B92
February 13, 2018
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday visited the town of Vrginmost in Croatia, that was in 1996 renamed to Gvozd. Izvor: Tanjug Tuesday, February 13, 2018 ... In 1941, Croatian fascists, Ustashas, killed more than 1,500 Serbs in this town and its vicinity. 67 Serb civilians - some of whom are stillÃÂ ...
B92
February 10, 2018
Serbian flag raised in Pyeongchang's Olympic Village/PHOTOS. The Serbian flag was ceremonially raised at the Olympic Village in Pyeongchang, South Korea - a symbolic welcome for Team Serbia to the Winter Olympic Games. Source: B92, Tanjug Thursday, 8.02.2018. | 16:44. Send your commentÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
February 9, 2018
Not many people know him by his full name, but everyone in Serbia knows this 47-year-old man from Rakovac, a tiny village in the northern province of Vojvodina, by his nickname: Stolar Mile or 'Carpenter Mile'. He became famous and much loved after he started his charity two and a half years ago thatÃÂ ...
B92
February 8, 2018
The ceremony was attended by Olympic Committee of Serbia President Bozidar Maljkovic, General Secretary Djordje Visacki, and all members of Team Serbia. In attendance was also President of United World Wrestling and new member of the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board NenadÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
February 8, 2018
This spa is in Arandjelovac, a town located in the famous wooded Sumadija district of central Serbia. The town – as well as the spa – lies in ... If it is not too cold, be sure to visit the historic village of Orasac, where the First Serbian Uprising against Ottoman rule took place. However, if you are not into walkingÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
February 7, 2018
Best known for his work with two bands – playing guitar with Veliki Prezir and Partibrejkers from the 1990s onward - Telcer has built from scratch and now successfully runs a music studio called Samarcina in Vrbas, a town of 25,000 that lies 130 kilometres north of Belgrade. An unusual place for a studio,ÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
February 7, 2018
Serbia must reach an agreement on normalization of relations with Kosovo if it wants to join the bloc, the European Union's enlargement commissioner said Wednesday. Johannes Hahn said after meeting Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, that the EU won't import any unresolved disputes with futureÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
February 7, 2018
The Chicago Fire announced Tuesday the signing of Serbian midfielder Aleksandar Katai, on loan with an option to buy from La Liga side Alaves for the ... Vojvodina and Red Star Belgrade in Serbia) from 2011 through 2015, the year his Olympiacos contract ended, allowing him to sign permanently withÃÂ ...
B92
February 7, 2018
Citizens, opposition leaders pay tribute to Ivanovic. Citizens gathered late on Tuesday in several towns across Serbia to pay homage to the slain leader of the GI SDP Oliver Ivanovic. Society Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:36 Comments: 1 ÷ (Filip Vidojevic)à...
Kansas City Star
February 6, 2018
In a new strategy paper for the western Balkans region, the EU's executive Commission said that Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and its former territory of Kosovo must find "definitive solutions to disputes with neighbors." The prospect of EU membership has been a powerfulÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 28, 2018
The hotel also features on the tourist website for historic Višegrad town, and older editions of the only guidebook to Bosnia-Herzegovina by Bradt. ... They sit at the heart of Andrićgrad, a tourist-trap pastiche of a traditional Serbian town, recently built in tribute to Višegrad's most famous son, Nobel-prizeÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
January 27, 2018
Croatia has accused Serbia of creating propaganda with an exhibit at the United Nations about a concentration camp in Croatia run by the country's pro-Nazi puppet regime during World War II. Croatian Foreign Minister Marija Pejcinovic Buric insisted Friday that Serbia used "false facts" in parts of theÃÂ ...
Waste Management World
January 27, 2018
Advised by the IFC, the City recently selected a SUEZ led consortium to deliver the project. Home to the largest dumpsite in Europe still in use, Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, has turned to French environmental services firm as it looks to clean up its waste disposal. Following a competitive bidding processÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
January 26, 2018
Serbian military officers who have denied accusations of war crimes in Kosovo will serve as consultants on a documentary about two battles from the 1999 ... Vulin also said that Serbia will undertake other projects to document the wars of the 1990s, arguing that “we don't have the right to leave futureÃÂ ...
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