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A senior pro-Western official expressed confidence Tuesday that his bloc will lead Serbia's new government, despite a bid by the nationalists to take power following a divisive weekend election. Outgoing Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic said the first task of the new government will be to ratify a...
As Western governments rushed to praise the victory of pro-Western parties in the May 11 parliamentary elections in Serbia, the initial reaction from Moscow was muted. A reformist coalition led by President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party secured 102 mandates in Serbia's 225-seat parliament. In...
The Socialists are back on all the front pages of Serbia's newspapers after almost eight years, as final election results become clear. ALO—"Sloba smiles from his grave", explores the key role that the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), founded by Slobodan Milošević, seems to have assumed in the...
PRIZREN -- A 40-year-old woman serving with the Kosovo police, KPS, has been found dead in Prizren. The regional KPS office confirmed this, and added that the body was found in the Pariz Motel. The killer shot the victim four times in the head firing from her service pistol. Police detained one...
United Serbia (JS) President Dragan Marković, a.k.a Palma, declared that he would vote in favor of the SAA once it makes it to parliament for ratification. But Marković, a figure previously known in the 1990s for his political alliance with kingpin gangster Željko Ražnatović a.k.a. Arkan, said...
Serbian Army (VS) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Zdravko Ponoš will participate in a meeting of NATO’s military committee in Brussels tomorrow. Ponoš is expected to speak in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and colleagues from other leading countries of the western military...
Of Serbia's 7.5 million citizens, more than 1.2 million did not complete elementary education, Biznis i Finansije magazine claims. At the same time, the weekly quotes data released by the Statistical Office, which shows that 3.5 percent of the population is completely illiterate.
BELGRADE -- Both indexes at the Belgrade Stock Exchange (BSE) reported significant drops in their value today after Monday's huge rise. The BELEX15 lost over four percent, while the general BELEXline was 2.6 percent down at closing. Block trading of AIK Bank [AKBN] shares amounted to almost half...
The Special Prosecutor’s Office said today that the trial against three former FC Red Star executives has not been transferred to their office. “The Special Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office has no information at all that that trial would be transferred to us,” Spokeswoman Slavica...
Take a look at this fellow before Putin gets to him and the The pro-Western coalition’s surprisingly strong showing came just three months after protesters outraged by Kosovo’s Feb. 17 independence declaration set fire to part of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade. That anger had stoked expectations of...
