Visegrad

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told parliament on Tuesday that he will make an official trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina on March 29-30 - one of the highest-level Turkish visits to the Balkan country in recent years.

"We will visit Bosnia this week. As you know, Bosnia is a very important country for us," Yildirim said.

Around 100 followers of the Serbian WWII nationalist Chetnik movement paraded in the Bosnian town of Visegrad to pay tribute to the movement’s leader, Dragoljub Mihailovic.

Bosnian Serbs in Visegrad, which was majority-Bosniak before the war, inaugurated a monument in the shape of an Orthodox Christian cross dedicated to Russian volunteers who fought on the Serb side, angering war victims’ groups.

A monument in the shape of a cross will be unveiled near the town of Visegrad to honour the Russian volunteers who fought in the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-95 war, causing anger among victims’ groups.

Durakovic said on Monday that the funds pledged by Vucic, the first part of what the Serbian premier said was a five million euro development aid package, had arrived as promised.

"The money has been credited to our bank account," Durakovic told local media.

Politicians who took part in last week's business forum in Srebrenica attended by Vucic declared themselves satisfied with the generous-sounding offer of the Serbian prime minister, who made a return visit to the town laast week despite being attacked there in July.

Bosnia's Taxation Authority, UIO, said it had initiated an enforcement procedure for the repayment of 1.2 million Konvertible Marks [some 600,000 euro] from Andricgrad, the company owned mainly by Emir Kusturica, in a dispute over taxes.

VISEGRAD - The Serbian national teams won two silver and two bronze medals at the Balkan Rowing Championships in Visegrad, Republika Srpska, on Sunday.

The first exhibition, which opened on Thursday at the Bosnian History Museum in Sarajevo, uses documents, photographs and other archive materials to tell the story of the assassination by young Serb Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, and its impact on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world.

PM decides not to attend WW1 event in Sarajevo

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has announced that Serbia and the Serb Republic (RS) will this year jointly mark June 28 - Vidovdan.

The religious holiday, St. Vitus Day, and the date itself, have had exceptional significance for Serbs through centuries.