Serbia

Locals in Trebinje are up in arms over the idea that their town should supply old stone for Emir Kusturica’s planned village in honour of Ivo Andric.Movie director Emir Kusturica’s plan to build a mini-town in honour of famous writer Ivo Andric has hit a new snag, after locals from …

Two cadets of the Serbian Military Academy died and seven suffered injuries at the Pasuljanske Livade training range in the central Serbia on Monday morning.The Serbian Defence Ministry has announced that two students of the fourth year of the Military Academy were killed by “a leftover 33mm grenade” near the …

A year after the country formed a commission to resolve the issue of the national emblem, the outcome remains unclear, as a result of which both the old and new ones are still in use.A year since the Serbian government formed a commission to resolve the question of the country’s …

Seven associations of families of missing persons formed a coalition to more efficiently address Serbian citizens who went missing during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.Members of the coalition urged the Serbian authorities to establish a unique electronic database of people who have Serbian citizenship and who went missing during …

Both government delegations on missing persons have met on Thursday and paid a visit to a suspected mass grave site in the village of Zhilivoda, where exhumation works have restarted. The Chairman of Kosovo’s Government Missing Persons Commission, Prenk Gjetaj, told BIRN that the joint inspection of the site was …

The cooperation between Serbia and EULEX on an organ trafficking that allegedly took place in Kosovo has been intensified, says the Serbian Office of War Crime Prosecutor.Clint Williamson, head of the EULEX special investigation team in charge of an organ trafficking case, visited Belgrade on Wednesday in order to exchange …

Democratic Party candidate Dragan Djilas has started his second term as mayor of Belgrade after 63 of the 110 members of the City Assembly voted for him. “We will continue to do what we have been doing so far, which is continue our fight for a better Belgrade,” Djilas said …

Soskic said that the government should be formed quickly and get a positive review from the IMF because that will encourage new investors. Due to the size of the country, Soskic highlighted the necessity for Serbia to constantly demonstrate its macroeconomic security and encouraged the government to introduce reform measures.

Tomislav Nikolic pledged to work with everyone and conduct a policy of peace, stability and cooperation in the region – but his message was not enough to persuade several regional leaders to attend the ceremony. Overshadowed by a boycott of the ceremony by several regional leaders, the inauguration of President …

Two years after the Serbian prosecutor’s office had requested the ban of the extreme-right group ‘Obraz’, the country’s Constitutional Court outlawed it on Tuesday. The prosecutor’s office has also requested that ‘Obraz’ be deleted from the registry of organisations, as well as for any future association or group that should …