News archive of May 2023

ReCatalyst, a company which has developed a next-generation hydrogen fuel cell catalyst, has been declared the Slovenian startup of the year.

The company's innovative solution helps significantly reduce production costs while also being more environmentally friendly and contributing to decarbonisation.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan would hold a meeting in the foreseeable future, although it was not yet agreed when and where the meeting would take place.

Putin congratulated his "dear friend" Erdogan after the latter's victory in Turkey's presidential election on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Wednesday the security situation in the north of Kosovo-Metohija was highly risky as a result of unilateral, illegal and illegitimate decisions by the Pristina administration.

The former heads of the Department of State Security of Serbia are accused of aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes in Bosanski amac.
In June 2021, Stanii and Simatovi were sentenced to 12 years in prison by the first-instance verdict.

Members of football fan group Vojvode at a match in Niksic. Photo: Vojvode football fan group

On May 29, media published video footage in which a group of Sutjeska club fans called "Vojvode" (Dukes) chanted "Knife, wire, Podgorica", referring to a nationalist slogan that celebrates the 1995 mass killings by Serbs of Bosniaks in Srebrenica, Bosnia.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is viewed as almost certain to include former economy chief Mehmet Simsek in his new cabinet either as finance minister or as a vice president responsible for the economy, four senior officials said.

Council of parents of Elementary School "Vladislav Ribnikar": Children want to go to school and we must make it possible for them.
A member of the Council of Parents of "Vladislav Ribnikar" Primary School, Dejan Risti, said that more than 80 percent of the children expressed their desire to continue going to school until the end of the school year.

The writer Georgi Gospodinov will be a guest at the Spring Book Fair today. He will meet his readers from 18:00 p.m. at the Janet-45 publishing house stand in front of the National Palance of Culture (NDK).

Top executives at artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, joined experts and professors on Tuesday in arguing that "the risk of AI leading to the extinction of humanity" is rising. They urged policymakers to equate this with the risks posed by pandemics and the outbreak of nuclear war.

BELGRADE  - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.2745 dinars for one euro on Wednesday, which is a slight change from Tuesday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m, up by 0.2 pct y-o-y and steady relative to the beginning of the year.