I went for a short stroll around my local neighbourhood here in Belgrade today – mainly to go to the Speak Easy coffee shop on Sveta gorska ulica and buy some muffins if I’m honest. It was about 3.30pm and it was still relatively sunny but a bit chilly as winter slowly draws in. I [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Riding in the Deputy Prime Minister's Yugo
Today, the car which is synonymous with Serbia and the old Yugoslavia, the Yugo, will for the last time roll off the production line. The various models of the Yugo have been produced by Kragujevac-based Zastava since 1981. Cheap, affordable and reliable (?), they soon took off across the entire Yugoslavia and even broke into [...]
Is It Mladic?
Photo courtesty of JUGpress
Several photos, allegedly depicting Ratko Mladic, were posted to JUGpress’s online service yesterday. The sender claims that the man wearing a vest and sunglasses is the Hague’s most wanted indictee, General Ratko Mladic. No other information is known such as where or when the photographs were taken.
Sure, the guy does have some [...]
The Kanun – Albania's Blood Feuds
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Following on from their article on Albania’s sworn virgins, the BBC has written about one Albanian family’s plight resulting from a decades long blood feud:
“Eleven-year-old Nikolin dreams about the day he can walk out of his house without fear and attend the local school…Seated on the porch of his parent’s small farmhouse in northern [...]
Attack of the Dogs
According to this article from B92, 16 people have been attacked and bitten by a pack of stray dogs which hangs out at the hospital in Zajecar, a town of 39,000 in eastern Serbia, over the last two weeks. Patients and doctors have been bitten, with one victim saying that the dogs were calm at [...]
Serbian Security Forces Hunt Ratko Mladic
Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev
Serbian security forced raided a farm in the western Serbian town of Valjevo in the hunt for indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic today. They were also looking for people part of the network hiding Mladic who is accused of the most serious war crime charges including the siege of Sarajevo and the [...]
The Times: Belgrade Best Nightlife in Europe
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This article about Belgrade was published yesterday in the travel section of the Times Online. It tells readers in the UK and across the world to ‘enjoy the finest nightclubs, bars and restaurants in Europe’s new capital of cool’. Well, for us in the region, it’s been a well-known secret for sometime that Belgrade [...]
