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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Is the cloudy and cold weather getting you down? Feel like you just need to have a warm, comforting hug? Well, you should definitely head to Belgrade’s Trg republike (Republic Square) on Sunday, 26 October, because free hugs (besplatni zagrljaji) will be dispensed to everyone and anyone who feels the need for some [...]

The 53rd International Belgrade Book Fair (Medjunarodni beogradski sajam knjiga) was opened last night by the acclaimed Serbian author Dragoslav Mihailovic whose works include Kad su cvetale tikve and Goli otok. Held at the Belgrade Fair complex, over 800 publishers from Serbia and over 20 countries, such as the UK, Canada, Angola, Denmark, Ukraine, the [...]

Viktor over at Belgrade 2.0 has discovered a very interesting report published by UNHCR. Apparently, Serbia is among the top ten countries with the highest number of asylum seekers seeking refuge in industrialised countries such as the US, Canada and Germany. No, this report doesn’t use old data from many, many years ago, the figures [...]

I saw this advert the other day while watching television. It’s for a chocolate bar called Kidy (i.e. kid, child). I just stared at it with my mouth open. What on earth was the marketing company thinking/smoking/drinking when they came up with the idea to have an adult woman enter an lift with a teenage [...]

The anti-fascist rally outside the Philosophy Faculty in Belgrade passed peacefully this afternoon in central Belgrade. Several hundred anti-fascist demonstrators began their protest at around 4pm. Originally, the protest was planned to be a counter-protest to the announced neo-Nazi demonstration scheduled to be held at the same time. However, the neo-Nazi protest was banned by [...]

I had MTV Adria (MTV broadcast in the former Yugoslav countries in the Slovene and Serbian languages) on in the background the other day while I was doing some work. Something caught my ears and I looked up and saw an advert for a show called MTV Cribs. Maybe some of you know what the [...]

This post at Maria’s Wish I Could Reach You In Belgrade blog about a travel book on the Balkans, which was written at the turn of the 20th century, got me wondering how Belgrade looked in the early(ish) 1900s.
So I did a quick search and found some interesting videos of Belgrade in the 1920s and [...]

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Rasim Ljai?, the Serbian labour minister, had to apologise today for a statement made by State Secretary Željko Vasiljevi? advising that Serbia should import 100,000 women from Asia to make up for the lack of females in some rural areas of the country, and provide the many bachelors with wives.
I really do [...]

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During one of my far too regular trawls through YouTube, which can keep you amused for hours which you really don’t have, I stumbled across 200 na sat (200 miles per hour) by Ivan Gravilovic, which was released in 1994. I immediately noticed that the music was strangely familiar – in fact, almost [...]

Do you notice anything wrong with the video below? It was available on the CNN website a few days ago and shows footage from the riots that took place on July 29 in Belgrade during the Serbian Radical Party meeting in support of Radovan Karadzic.
If you have ever visited Belgrade, you should be able to [...]

As everyone guessed, violent conflicts between Serbian police and football hooligans, thugs and children with nothing better to do have taken place during the pro Radaovan Karadzic rally in the centre of Belgrade. I’ve just watched a section of those present at the meeting in Republic Square (Trg republike) broke off and began throwing rocks, [...]

Serbian Radical Party Official Vjerica Radeta has apparently made death threats against Serbian President Boris Tadic. At a press conference on 25 July about the arrest of Hague indictee Radovan Karadzic, Vjerica Radeta said that “betrayal never goes unpunished in Serbia,” and told those present that Boris Tadic and his “regime” may suffer the same [...]

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Following yesterday’s post, more details have emerged during the night about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic. Apparently, he was arrested on Monday evening while he was travelling on one of the regular city buses in New Belgrade (Novi Beograd). It’s not known how long he’s been ‘hiding’ in Belgrade, but he had [...]

Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev
It seems that Serbian war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic was arrested earlier tonight somewhere in Serbia. Didn’t expect that on a mundane Monday night. The new pro-European government was formed very recently, and already we have one of the better known to the rest of the world fugitives arrested. Stojan Zupljanin, another [...]

I came across some clips of Serbian pop music from the 90s. I found them all highly amusing. My favourite one is Opsesija by Beat Street (Bit strit), a Serbian boy band, released in 1995. The ‘Xena-esque’ women warriors and the guys’ costumes are truly remarkable, don’t you think?
Glad to see that British and Serbian [...]

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I’ve just returned from a two week holiday to the UK, visiting my home city of Edinburgh and friends who moved to London after we all graduated from university. It was lovely to be back in my own country, and in particular Edinburgh. I went to all the old [...]

Yesterday, a largely peaceful protest was held outside the Parliament building in central Belgrade. 250,000 people gathered, of all political persuasions, to show their opposition to the independence of Kosovo and listen to speeches from political leaders and celebrities. Boris Tadic, the recently re-elected pro-European president of Serbia, was in Romania and didn’t appear at [...]

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I stumbled across the Belgrade Daily Photo blog today. It has some amazing photos of daily life in Belgrade. I recommend that you check it out!
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I found this rather funky Belgrade tourism advertisement from the 1980s. It’s certainly a lot more interesting than Serbia’s most recent attempt at tourism advertising. Just try and tell me the tune is not even the slightest bit catchy! Enjoy.

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Just thought I should wish all my Orthodox friends a Merry Christmas! Srecan Bozic! I’ve just got back from a very filling meal at a traditional Serbian kafana (restaurant), Toplica, in the Hotel Royale in Belgrade (for those in the know), with some friends. It was packed as it was one of the very few [...]

The first snow has fallen in Belgrade! Quite unexpectedly as well. I had some friends over to the flat for drinks and then  went off to xLagoom for some progressive house clubbing. Everything looked normal, a bit of light rain and an icy chill, which enticed us to take a taxi to the club. A [...]

It’s official, Exit is the best festival in Europe! This is great news for Serbia and another fine achievement to add to the list, first Eurovision and now Exit. It really does please me to see more and more positive news regarding Serbia, it is about time that the rest of the world saw the [...]

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This blog post at Belgrade 2.0 about Michael Palin’s new travel series ‘New Europe’ reminded me of the first episode of the series, which I’ve been watching long before I began this blog. For those of you who don’t know, Michael Palin has been travelling around the countries formerly behind the Iron [...]