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Pupovac:Campaign against Serbs, Cyrillic underway in Croatia
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A campaign against the Cyrillic alphabet is underway in Croatia, and it is also a campaign against the Serbs, the leader of the Serb National Council in Croatia, Milorad Pupovac, said on Monday.
Pupovac visits Oliver Ivanovic in prison
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Milorad Pupovac, president of the Serbian National Council in Croatia, visited Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens' Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice", in prison in Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday.
After the visit, Pupovac told reporters that he cannot understand the reasons why the SDP leader is imprisoned.
Serbs slain in Croatia's Sibenik-Knin county commemorated
ZAGREB - Commemorations were held on Sunday for Serb civilians slain in the wake of Croatia's military operation Storm in the Varivode and Gosic villages in the Sibenik-Knin county, the Serb National Council (SNV) in Croatia said in a statement.
A Tomb for Boris Davidovic on stage at Bitef
BELGRADE - Croatian director Ivica Buljan's play A Tomb for Boris Davidovic, made after Danilo Kis's famous collection of short stories bearing the same name, was performed for the first time in Belgrade on Friday as part of the main programme of the 48th Bitef.
Leftist Rival Overtakes Croatia's SDP in Polls
A new poll conducted by IPSOS Puls agency shows that Croatia's governing Social Democratic Party, SDP, is no longer the secondmost popular party after the opposition centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.
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Pupovac: We will address EU for assistance
BELGRADE - The motives behind the latest demolition of Cyrillic signs in Vukovar overstepped the bounds of acceptable behavior for the marking of anniversaries and election campaigns, took on the aspect of a historical-civilizational conflict, even the scale of antagonism against the Slavic literacy, Serbs and Serbia, said President of the Serb National Council in Croatia Milorad Pupovac.
Serbs ‘Created No Obstacles’ to Fleeing Croats’ Return
Expelled Croats were free to go back to their homes in Serb-run areas of Croatia even during wartime, a defence witness told the trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic.
China as special guest of International Belgrade Book Fair
BELGRADE - The 59th International Belgrade Book Fair will be held at the Belgrade Fair from October 26 to November 2 under the motto 'It's time for a book', and this year's special guest will be the People's Republic of China.
Low birth rate, migrations to put Serbian economy at risk
BELGRADE - A decline in the number of babies and economic migrations will cause irreparable damage to the Serbian economy and society as a whole in less than 20 years, show analyses by the Business Support Network.
Macedonia at Bottom of Regional Wage Table
A report on average wages in former Yugoslavia countries and Albania, compiled by Anadolu news agency, says Slovenes earn most in the region per month, with average wages of 1,002 euro.
This comes as no surprise, as the country has been a member of the EU for almost 10 years and was the wealthiest republic in Yugoslavia.
Yields Fall on Bulgaria's Seven-year Government Bonds
Yileds fell at Tuesday's auction of seven-year euro-denominated Bulgarian government bonds as the offer was heavily oversubscribed.
The Finance Ministry said on Wednesday it has reopened the issued dated 30 April 2014, offering EUR 35 M worth of government bonds.
The average weighted annual ayield dropped to 2.20% from 2.26% at the previous reopening on May 26.
Montenegro to Form Prosecution to Hunt 'Big Fish”
Montenegro has decided to establish a special prosecution office for organized crime and corruption, war crimes and human trafficking - to prove that it is a serious candidate for membership of the European Union.
Croatian Serb Leader Hadzic ‘Had Little Wartime Influence’
Sergije Veselinovic, the former major of the municipality of Obrovac in Croatia, who said he was an old friend of the war crimes indictee, told the UN-backed court in The Hague on Tuesday that despite being the leader of the Croatian Serbs, Hadzic had very limited power over decisions made by Serbs in Croatia.
Croatia Joins Balkan Anti-IS Coalition
Alongside other EU and NATO member states, Croatia has entered the US-led international Coalition against the Islamic State, IS, in Iraq and Syria.
Croatian media learned the news from the US State Department on Monday, not from the Croatian government.
Director Borut Separovic opens 48th Bitef
BELGRADE - The 48th Bitef International Theatre Festival was opened late Saturday at Belgrade's Dom Omladine by Croatian director Borut Separovic, the winner of last year's special prize for the play 55+, performed by the Zagreb-based Montazstoj company.