City Assembly

The mayor will be elected by the new City Assembly, that the voters in Belgrade chose on March 4.

Serbian President and SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic, whose ticket won 44.99 percent of the vote, said on Monday that the mayor will be known "in about 50 days."

In the meantime, the media speculate about who might take this "hot seat."

At it will be joined by only three more lists who have crossed the five percent threshold in Sunday's elections and will have councilors.

BELGRADE - Hungarian military commander Janos Hunyadi (c 1406 - 1456) and Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968) will be honoured with monuments in Belgrade, the City Assembly decided on Thursday.

The monument to Hunyadi - known among Serbs as Sibinjanin Janko - will be erected at the Zemun Quay with funds to be secured by the Hungarian embassy in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Belgrade is especially proud to celebrate one of the most important events in our history, City Manager Goran Vesic said Thursday as the 72nd anniversary of Belgrade's liberation in WWII was marked with a memorial parade.

The civic movement "Let's not drown Belgrade" ["Ne davimo Beograd") has scheduled another rally for September 29, almost five months after it remains unknown who controversially demolished buildings in the Belgrade Waterfront project area.

More than 10,000 Serbian citizens joined a fresh protest on Wednesday over the Belgrade Waterfront development, one month after an unexplained incident in which dozens of masked men demolished buildings in the riverside area where the state-backed complex is to be built.

November 25, the day of Vojvodina's unification with Serbia, has been marked in Serbia's northern province.

Novi Sad Mayor Milos Vucevic and City Assembly President Jelena Crnogorac laid a wreath at a memorial plaque to the participants of the Great National Assembly.

Belgrade mayor Sinisa Mali said on Wednesday that the free economic zone was crucial for the future of the capital as Belgrade has already "lost a lot of investments and new jobs because it could not offer such a zone for investors".

BELGRADE - Austrian writer and humanitarian Peter Handke confirmed his arrival in Belgrade on May 21, when he will be presented with the Charter of Honorary Citizen of Belgrade, City Assembly President Nikola Nikodijevic said.

BELGRADE - The two-day Capital Summit has kicked off in Belgrade, and City Assembly President Nikola Nikodijevic said on Thursday that officials of cities of the region have already discussed new ideas in formal and informal discussions.