Yugoslavia

Serb Republic is no "accidental whim" - Dodik

BANJA LUKA -- President of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serb Republic (RS), Milorad Dodik has said that the RS is "not an accidental whim."

In an interview with a Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need, Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar of Belgrade said the reconciliation process was moving ahead more slowly than he would like.

"Nobody is quite prepared to work toward a new reconciliation," the Archbishop said.

The leader of Bulgaria's oppositional party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) Lyutvi Mestan requested a right of reply in New York Times due to a publication labeling his party as pro-Russian.

In a letter addressed to the editor-in-chief of New York Times, Mestan refers to the article entitled "How Putin Forged a Pipeline Deal That Derailed" published on 30 December 2014.

"15,000 Serbian citizens sought asylum in Bavaria"

BERLIN -- Some 15,000 citizens of Serbia have sought asylum in Bavaria alone in the first 11 months of 2014, the German daily Welt writes.

The same article said that the state last year accepted 32,000 asylum seekers, twice as many as in 2013.

Bosnia's mountain ski resorts at Jahorina, Bjelasnica and Vlasic are having a good season as a result of the large number of visitors who have come to spend New Year's Eve there and enjoy the thick snow.

After last year's poor snowfall in the winter season left tourist operators struggling, heavy snow at the end of December this year has brought joy to skiiers and hoteliers.

"Public to soon learn about KLA crimes"

BELGRADE -- War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says the public will "soon be informed" about the crimes committed against Serbs by the ethnic Albanian KLA.

The public will also learn "about all the investigated crimes against Serbs in the former Yugoslavia," he added....

BELGRADE - 'They Never Had It Better?', an exhibition focusing on the modernization of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, will open at the Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade on December 27.

FM: Much is expected from Serbia

BELGRADE -- When Serbia takes over the OSCE presidency on January 1. "it should demonstrate a serious approach because everyone expects a lot," says Ivica Dacic.

Speaking for the RTS public broadcaster, the foreign minister added that Serbia was also "seriously preparing."

BELGRADE - Miodrag Protic's work left a great mark on the cultural and art scene of the former Yugoslavia and Serbia in the second half of the 20th century, the Museum of Modern Art (MSU) has stated in comment of the death of its founder, artist and art theorist and critic.

Protic was born in 1922 and died in Belgrade on December 20.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade house where one of the greatest Serbian painters of the 20th century, Petar Lubarda (1907-1974), lived was opened on Tuesday as a museum dedicated to this artist, whose 1951 exhibition marked the end of socialist realism in the former Yugoslavia.