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This year's EXIT festival will bring together over 1,000 artists performing on a total of 30 stages in Novi Sad, Serbia, and Budva, Montenegro, July 9-18.

"The 15th edition of one of the best music festivals in Europe promises to draw the largest crowds in the past decade and the greatest acts ever," EXIT Director Dusan Kovacevic told Tanjug.

NATO chief offers condolences to families of victims

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the loss of all lives during NATO's bombing campaign against the SRJ represented "a tragedy."

Senior police investigators from Europe, Japan and the United Arab Emirates gathered in Budva, Montenegro, on Wednesday to share information about ongoing investigations into the so-called "Pink Panther" robberies around the world.

The meeting is part of an Interpol operation against the gang, most of whose members come from the former Yugoslavia.

Austrian President Heinz Fischer said on Monday that European integration of the Western Balkans should continue.

The Austrian government will continue supporting the region on the road to the EU just as it has been doing for the past 15 years, Fischer told reporters after a summit of the Brdo-Brijuni Process leaders in Budva, Montenegro.

President Tomislav Nikolic says the neighboring Macedonia "must confront the security challenges," adding that Serbia was "ready to respond to any threat."

Nikolic is in Budva, Montenegro, this Monday, where he made the comments as he spoke with Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov. They met ahead of the "Brdo-Brioni Process" summit.

Vice Admiral Rumen Nikolov, Chief of Defence Staff of Bulgaria, will participate in the Annual Meeting of the Chiefs of Defence/General Staffs of the Balkan Countries on May 27-28 in Budva, Montenegro.

A performance art rally held annually in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk in Russia is set to take place in the Montenegrin town of Budva this May Day, after authorities in the Russian city said the event could not go ahead in its usual location.

For ten years, Novsibirsk has hosted the Monstratsiya, a mass absurdist performance  combining political statements with art.

The chairman of the parliamentary defence and security committee, Mevludin Nuhodzic, said on Sunday that he wants senior police and prosecution officials to appear in parliament for questioning after the assassination on Friday of former lawmaker Sasa Markovic.

Environmental organisations in Montenegro have announced a protest rally on Tuesday in the coastal town of Budva against the government's decision to allow the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the Adriatic Sea.

They say the Montenegrin government has not produced a convincing argument that drilling is either necessary or desirable. 

Montenegro's statistics agency, Monstat, said the price of new apartments sold in Montenegro in the fourth quarter of 2014 fell by 16.1 per cent compared to the previous year.

The drop is blamed on sharp falls in property values in the coastal town of Budva, the country's best known resort and for long the second home of thousands of wealthy Russians.