Aleksandar Vucic's government

Serbs no longer go in for eerie "penetrating wails" as much as they did, but, as with Firmilian's death over a century ago, Patriarch Irinej's death last Friday is an event of much more than religious significance - which explains the three days of state mourning and telegrams from the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Slobodan Georgiev. Photo: Belgrade Media Centre.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network called on the Serbian police and prosecution on Thursday to take action after BIRN Serbia editor Slobodan Georgiev was vilified in an online video.

A brief visit to Serbia by Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, has sparked accusations - which he has dismissed - that he came to Belgrade to seal a lobbying deal with Aleksandar Vucic's government.

The American visited Serbia on April 23 when he held a lecture at an "America Today" event organized by the East West Bridge, an NGO.

BELGRADE - It is an honour to serve Serbia to make it change for the better, PM-Designate Ana Brnabic said in the Serbian parliament on Wednesday, noting that her cabinet would continue on the excellent foundations laid by Aleksandar Vucic's government.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) has no intention of joining Aleksandar Vucic's government, SRS official Nemanja Sarovic said Monday after consultations with President Tomislav Nikolic on the new Serbian government.

Sarovic said that the SRS delegation called on Nikolic to resign and that he left the consultation session after 30 seconds.

Bitter divisions in Serbia over the development of the Belgrade Waterfront are the subject of a major investigative feature in Thursday's UK Guardian. The mega-development of the city's long neglected Danube bank has split Belgrade, the article recalls.

Pristina "allowed Djuric to travel to Kosovo"

PRISTINA, KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric was given permission by authorities in Kosovo to visit on April 27 and 28.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbia wants stability and a survival of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, says the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric.

BELGRADE - The biggest problem of Aleksandar Vucic's government is gross incompetence, and the shadow government of the Democratic Party (DS) offers no plan at all and we therefore refuse to join any of the two governments, Social Democratic Party (SDS) leader Boris Tadic has said.

BELGRADE - Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), has said that he will not return to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) voluntarily, and that he will not hand over any medical report either to the Tribunal or the Serbian authorities.