Serbia

A minister in a Bosnian canton bordering Croatia said the EU member state had forcibly returned over 7,000 migrants and refugees to Bosnia last year, asking why his own country had not done the same to its neighbours.

Everyone who is vaccinated gets an instruction booklet, the vaccination itself is not painful, and so far over 19.000 people have been vaccinated, and there will be 20.500. There were no side effects, said the State Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Mirsad Djerlek.

Three years ago, on January 16, when unknown perpetrators fired six bullets into the body of Kosovo Serb opposition party leader Oliver Ivanovic in front of his office in the town of Mitrovica, people in Serbia and Kosovo were stunned, while Western diplomats feared that the murder of another politician in the Balkans could end the fragile dialogue to normalise relations between Belgrade and Pr

In the last 24 hours, 11,725 people were tested.
There are 195 patients on respirators.
There are 5.462 in hospitals throughout Serbia.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Serbia, 2.448.761 people have been tested, of which the virus was confirmed in 368.072.
The coronavirus took a total of 3.687 lives, and the mortality rate is 1 percent.

As of today, 14 January 2021, Serbia has waived the requirement for Bulgarian citizens and all arrivals from Bulgaria to Serbia to present a negative PCR test result on entry into the country.

Human and minority rights, the rule of law and media freedom remain endangered in several Southeast and Central European countries in 2020, especially in the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch, HRW, said in its latest report published on Wednesday.

The report looks at over 60 countries, among them Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary and Poland.

The Philomena storm, which left Madrid paralyzed by snow last week, is sweeping across the Mediterranean, has already covered the eastern parts of the Balkans and continues via Serbia towards Greece and Turkey.
Due to Philomena, Madrid faced with the heaviest snowfall in decades, while the temperature dropped to a record -36 degrees.

On January 7, when Orthodox Christians mark Christmas, a Serbian Orthodox bishop in Germany gave an interview to Balkan news outlet NewsMax Adria. His remarks, however, were more political than religious.

Kosovo awaits snap elections amid a backlog of problems, starting with crumbling economic and health systems, the unresolved 'dialogue' with Serbia and the trial of former guerrilla leaders.

EMS bought an additional five percent of the shares of the Montenegrin power transmission system on the stock exchange.
By the way, EMS is 100% owned by the state of Serbia.
In 2015, EMS bought slightly more than 10% of the shares of Montenegrin electricity transmission system (Elektroprenos Crne Gore) on the stock exchange in the value of 13.9 million euros.