RTS

"No pension cuts until PM says so"

BELGRADE -- Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has siad there would be no reduction of pensions "until Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says so."

He added that government policy "can only be conducted by its president, not its ministers individually."

Pensions "may have to be reduced" by end of year

BELGRADE -- Finance Minister Lazar Krstić has announced that "pensions also may have to be cut" by the end of this year.

Speaking for the public broadcaster RTS, he said his ministry's priority would be "fiscal consolidation and introduction of financial discipline."

BELGRADE - Families, colleagues and friends paid tribute to the Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) employees that were killed in the 1999 bombing by laying wreaths and lighting candles at the monument titled "Why?" on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - April 23rd will mark 15 years since NATO's early- morning air strike on the Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) which killed 16 of its employees.

Marking the anniversary on Wednesday, member of the Belgrade interim council Andrija Mladenovic will lay wreaths at the memorial “Why?" and pay respect to the victims, the city assembly announced.

11 municipalities in Serbia, including Kursumlija, Prokuplje, Doljevac, and Žitorađaare in a state of emergency due to floods.

According to reports of public broadcaster RTS, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, the local Red Cross unit announced that it had sent aid to the affected areas, including Kursumlija, Doljevac and Prokuplje.

The authorities in Belgrade have opposed the practice of Russian Gazprom, owner of a 56% stake in Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), pocketing the entire profit of the company.

Aleksandar Vucic, First Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, noted that the company had reached a profit of EUR 380 largely thanks to Serbian oil, not extraordinary managerial achievements.

Serbia marked International Roma Day on April 8 with debates about the poor social and economic position of the Roma community and exhibitions about their culture.