SERBIA Around 100 Serb pilgrims and former residents of the Kosovo town of Gjakova will be visiting the country on Thursday and Friday to celebrate an Orthodox festival, Kosovo police spokesperson Arber Beka said. The group’s visit marks the festival of the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God. “This …

SERBIA A committee has found Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, Serbia’s parliamentary speaker, in violation of the country’s conflict of interest regulations, daily Politika reports Thursday. The Committee for Preventing Conflicts of Interest says that she broke the law by simultaneously acting as speaker and as a paid adviser to the Galenika pharmaceutical …

MOLDOVA The forthcoming two national holidays – the Independence Day of August 27 and the Limba Noastra [Our Language] of August 31 – will be celebrated particularly broadly and solemnly this year in Moldova. The Independence Day program will begin in the morning, when country leadership representatives will lay flowers …