Posts Tagged ‘Serbia’

United States Vice President Joe Biden is finishing off his one-day visit to Belgrade and will soon be tucked up in his hotel room before heading down to Kosovo tomorrow. He arrived at Belgrade Airport just before 10am and was met by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and was then given the red carpet treatment by [...]

This is a picture from inside the Chinese Market in Blok 70 in New Belgrade, where I went yesterday on a mission to find authentic noodles – unfortunately the little shop which sold them was shut! You can get virtually anything and everything here from clothes and bed linen to toys and mobile phones.
The centre, [...]

Photo by ARTS
A new survey has shed some light on the daily habits of your average Serbian citizen. Here’s a rundown of some of the published results:

The average Serbian citizen wakes up at 7 a.m.
The average Serbian teenager doesn’t wake up before 9 a.m. on weekdays
42.5 percent of Serbs aged 18-25 sleep until (or after) [...]

This photo was taken from the window of the newly-renovated Beograd department store on Terazije square. Terazije is officially considered to be the very centre of Belgrade. The green and yellow building is the Hotel Moskva (Moscow Hotel). Built in 1906, it is one of Belgrade’s most recognisable landmarks and is famed for its restaurant [...]

It snowed almost non-stop for several days last week in Belgrade, covering the city in inches upon inches of clean, white snow. Unfortunately, it’s not so pretty when it becomes slushy and dirty.
This is photo was taken on Saturday afternoon at Republic Square (Trg republike). It’s one of the main meeting points for friends before [...]

This rather interesting building is the YU Business Centre (YU Biznis Centar) on Bulevar Mihaila Pupina in New Belgrade (Novi Beograd). New Belgrade is a 15.7 sq miles municipality over the Sava river from Belgrade’s centre on a former swamp and around 240,000 people live there. Its construction started in 1947, which still continues to [...]

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Djavolja Varos – which literally means ‘Devil’s Town’ – is a natural rock formation, described as earth pyramids, in southern Serbia near the Radan mountains. This Serbian government protected site has made it amongst the top 77 candidates to become one of the Official New 7 Wonders of Nature and is currently number 1 [...]

This is a typical communal entrance to a block of flats in Belgrade with individual post boxes/pigeon holes for each flat in the building. Coming from the UK, I was a bit shocked that your mail was left downstairs and not delivered through your own personal letter box in the door, especially because the boxes [...]

This is Branko’s Bridge (Brankov most) on a hazy Friday night. The bridge, built in 1957, is the second largest in Belgrade and connects the old city centre with New Belgrade (Novi Beograd) across the Sava river. Some 90,000 cars, trucks and buses cross it every day and traffic jams are a frequent annoyance for [...]

A new feature here at BalkanFile.com is a weekly Belgrade photo. I sometimes take my digital camera with me when I go outside, but more often than not it’s left at home. One thing that’s always in my pocket is my mobile phone. So, this new type of regular post, published every Sunday, will feature [...]

From the title of this post, you probably thought I was going to talk about crime, gun warfare or gangs making the streets of Belgrade a dangerous place to be. But no, what I’m referring to is ice. Apart from today, it’s been pretty darn freezing across the Balkans – Belgrade being no exception – [...]

The BBC has posted an article and video highlighting the situation for many Serb refugees living in centres in Serbia.
After fleeing the wars in Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s, many Serb refugees are still living in cramped and basic conditions in ‘collective centres’ across Serbia. They can’t afford to move out and rent flats [...]

Viktor over at Belgraded has posted an interesting link to an article about Belgrade and Serbia at Ireland’s Tribune newspaper. It’s not your usual tourist targeted article and delves much deeper under the often shiny surface of the country’s capital into a much ‘darker’ world.
Viktor gives his opinion on the article which is a bit [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]