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MUP: Police are looking into who made anti-Roma flyers
BELGRADE - The police are working to find out who was responsible for creating flyers with hate speech against the Roma in Serbia, and the Republic of Serbia will not tolerate any form of discrimination, the Serbian Ministry of Interior (MUP) said in a statement on Monday.
FM visits Belarus, pledges better cooperation
FM visits Belarus, pledges better cooperation
MINSK -- Ivica Dacic has told Belarus Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich that Serbia wants to improve cooperation with his country....
Serbian Police Hunt Anti-Roma Campaigners
The interior ministry said on Monday that it was trying to identify the people behind the little-known organisation called Srbska Akcija that distributed the anti-Roma flyers across Serbia over the weekend.
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One night dance festival "Jewels of Asia"
BELGRADE - The one night dance festival "Jewels of Asia", with 14 troupes from Serbia performing traditional dances from the Middle East, India, Malaysia, China and Japan, is set to take place on December 6 at the Children's Cultural Center in Belgrade.
5-year-old among HIV patients in southern town
5-year-old among HIV patients in southern town
NIS -- A five-year-old child in Nis has been infected with the HIV virus, the public health institute in that southern town has said.
Head of the institute's HIV counseling and testing department Biljana Kocić said the child was infected via transmission from an HIV-positive mother.
Prosecution asks court to order Seselj to return
Prosecution asks court to order Seselj to return
THE HAGUE -- The Hague Prosecution has asked the Trial Chamber of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) to order war crimes indictee Vojislav Seselj to return to the detention unit.
He was last month granted provisional release on medical grounds.
Progressive Club:Croatia abuses EU membership against Serbia
BELGRADE - NGO Progressive Club calls on the Serbian government to condemn in the harshest terms and respond to the extremist messages which have arrived from the Croatian top officials over the last few days more often than before.
"A Step into Science" conference in Petnica ends
PETNICA - The 13th regional young scientists conference "A Step into Science", gathering around 200 participants from the former Yugoslavia who presented the findings of their latest science, society and technology research, took place at the Petnica Science Center (ISP), a non-profit organization engaged in the development of science culture and education.
Davenport: Serbia needs to back EU efforts for ending crisis
BELGRADE - Serbia will be in the spotlight once it assumes the OSCE chairmanship next year and the EU wants the country to back its efforts towards a resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, says the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport.
As OSCE chair, "Serbia should back EU efforts"
As OSCE chair, "Serbia should back EU efforts"
BELGRADE -- Serbia will be in the spotlight once it assumes the OSCE chairmanship next year, says the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport.
The EU wants the country to back its efforts towards a resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, he added.
More than half of Serbian citizens in favor of EU membership
BELGRADE - More than half of Serbian citizens would vote to join the European Union if a referendum on the EU accession of Serbia was held today, while 28 percent would be against it, according to an opinion poll conducted for the EU Delegation to Serbia by Medium Gallup, a privately-owned market research and public opinion polling company.
Police working to find authors of anti-Roma leaflets
Police working to find authors of anti-Roma leaflets
BELGRADE -- The police are working to discover who produced leaflets that openly call for violence, lynch, and hate speech toward the Roma.
The Republic of Serbia will not tolerate any kind of discrimination, the MUP said on Monday.
Shirts with hateful and offending messages leveled against Serbia
Shirts with hateful and offending messages leveled against Serbia
In "ETC", one of the biggest stores in Priština, you can buy a shirt with the printed map of "Great Albania."
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"Good relations with Russia and EU - Serbia's advantage"
"Good relations with Russia and EU - Serbia's advantage"
BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says Serbia's "good relations with Brussels and Moscow" will be the country's advantage during the upcoming OSCE presidency.
Serbia will take over as the chair of the organization on January 1....
Mixed farms dominate in Serbia
BELGRADE - Serbian agriculture is dominated by mixed farms, since more than half of all the farms in the country (53.7 percent) belong to one of three groups of farms that both grow crops and breed animals, according to what has been said at the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce.