Serbian government

BELGRADE - For the fourth year in a row, Tanjug News Agency showed a positive balance in its financial statement, the news agency’s managing board has said in a release.

The good result was achieved despite the fact that the Serbian government as the news agency's owner has reduced subsidies for its services.

BELGRADE - One of the main topics of talks between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels, which should take place in mid-March, will be releasing from detention of Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens’ Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice’, and other Serbs who have got arrested in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said Friday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Members of the Citizens' Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" (GI SDP) noted on Friday that there were no grounds for the court's decision to extend detention on remand for their leader Oliver Ivanovic, and added that the court in Pristina thus violated the basic human right of the detainee to be released pending trial.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Zarko Veselinovic, one of the four Serb detainees in Kosovo-Metohija, has been put under house arrest, attorney Dejan A. Vasic, a member of his defense team, said on Friday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government set on Friday a minimum wage at RSD 115 per hour, without taxes and contributions for compulsory social insurance, for the period between January and June 2014.

Hence, the minimum wage remains the same as it was in the period from March to December 2013, which was also valid in the first two months of 2014.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has noted that anti-Serb graffiti appeared on the Orthodox church in Djakovica in the south-western part of the province on Thursday morning.

BELGRADE - The exhibition titled "Vuk Karadzic - Life and Work” will open on Friday, February 28, at the Museum of Vuk and Dositej in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister in the technical government Lazar Krstic has said that the new Serbian government, which will be formed after the forthcoming parliamentary elections, will be negotiating a new three-year arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

HILANDAR - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic underscored during his visit to the Hilandar Monastery at Mount Athos that the spiritual edifice is one of the most important treasures of the Serb people and it must not be neglected.

BELGRADE - Social dialogue is one of the most important segments to ensure sustainability of any planned reforms and economic and societal progress, European Trade Union Confederation Secretary General (ETUC) Bernadette Segol said in Belgrade Wednesday.