Here’s a shot of a barbeque (rostilj in Serbian) I went to over the weekend at a friend’s house. Although it was probably the last outside barbeque of the summer, rostilj is a Serbian speciality and is available to eat in restaurants and fast food places all year round. The sausage shaped items at the [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Belgraders, Say NO to Violence
28-year-old Toulouse football supporter Brice Taton died this morning in a Belgrade hospital. Brice was critically injured on 17 September while sitting with other Toulouse fans in a cafe in central Belgrade when a group of some 30 hooligans/cowards attacked them unprovoked. This incident, along with a series of other attacks on foreigners over the [...]
Belgrade Weekly Phone Photo #34
This is Resavska ulica on a sunny afternoon in Belgrade. You may recognise it from this photo I took a few months back when it was in the middle of being dug up and renovated. The street reopened to cars and trams two weeks ago (if memory serves me right). It’s much better now with [...]
Belgrade Pride Cancelled
The second attempt to hold a LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) pride march in Belgrade has failed. It was announced this morning that it has been cancelled due to security fears. The police and the state can’t guarantee the safety of Serbian citizens marching for tolerance, understanding and an end to discrimination.
Far right nationalist [...]
Belgrade Weekly Phone Photo #33
Bulevar kralja Aleksandra (King Aleksandar Boulevard) again makes an appearance in the Belgrade Weekly Phone Photo Series here at BalkanFile. This is much further up the boulevard than in previous photos. If you look at the very right hand side of the photo (click to enlarge), you can see a sign for a shop selling [...]
Belgrade Young Adults on Life and Free Time
CeSID (Centre for Free Elections and Democracy) has published here (Blic) and here (24sata) some of the results from a market research project for the Belgrade City Youth Office which canvased Belgrade’s young adults (15 to 30 years old) on what they do (or don’t do) during their free time and their thoughts on life. [...]
Belgrade Weekly Phone Photo #32
This is the Vozdovac Municipal Hall / Town Hall building. Vozdovac is one of Belgrade’s 17 municipalities. It is a very large neighbourhood located a few kilometres south of Belgrade city centre with a population of around 150,000 and sprawling out over an area of 150 square kilometres. The municipality has agricultural areas, highly-dense residential [...]
