Belgrade

BELGRADE - The Belgrade LGBT pride parade will be held on Sunday, September 28.

The pride march will be followed by a party outside the Belgrade City Council building, the Belgrade-based daily Politika reports.

This year's parade was initially slated for May 31, but the plan was scrapped in the wake of the massive floods that hit Serbia earlier that month, the paper reports.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic received on Thursday French Ambassador Francois-Xavier Deniau whose term of office in Serbia is coming to an end, the government's press office stated in a release.

Depardieu "happy Serbia does not follow EU"

BELGRADE -- Gerard Depardieu is in Belgrade this Thursday where he said he was happy that Serbia does not follow EU's lead and has not imposed sanctions on Russia.

BELGRADE - A regional conference of national committees of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) on the topic of 'Museums and cultural tourism' will start on Monday, September 8, in Mona Hotel on Mt. Zlatibor, western Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday that he had not felt any pressures on Serbia from the EU to introduce sanctions against the Russian Federation over the situation in Ukraine, stressing that his position that Serbia would not impose sanctions on Russia would not change.

BELGRADE - Serbia's new Economy Minister Zeljko Sertic took over the duties of his new office from acting Minister of Economy Dusan Vujovic on Thursday.

The handover of office took place at the Economy Ministry.

Sertic was elected as minister of economy by the Serbian parliament yesterday, with 178 votes in favor and four against.

PM "feels no pressure" to impose sanctions

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says he "felt no pressure on Serbia" from the EU to impose sanctions against Russia because of the situation in Ukraine.

BRUSSELS - A technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina started in Brussels on Thursday, mostly dedicated to the issue of integrated crossings along the administrative line (integrated boundary management - IBM).

BELGRADE - Serbia's new economy minister Zeljko Sertic said that many of the 502 companies included in the recent public call for privatization are not likely to be profitable even if all their overdue debts are erased, so they will probably not attract any prospective buyers.

B92 leads campaign to repair kindergartens

BELGRADE -- The Open Heart Street humanitarian campaign has a summer edition - it will be held on Saturday and aim to raise funds to help children in the flooded areas.