Aleksandar Sapic

BELGRADE - Commenting on Sunday's attempt by a part of opposition parties to seize the City Hall through violence, head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said the damage sustained by the Old Palace was irreparable, and added that coming to power through anarchy meant the destruction of a state.

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said on Wednesday he had expected a good electoral result in the capital and noted that the opposition had underestimated him although he had not lost many elections in the past.

BELGRADE - The new building of the Belgrade Center train station at Prokop was opened on Friday at a ceremony also attended by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The building - as well as the station itself, whose construction began almost five decades ago - was opened on October 20, the day of Belgrade's liberation from Nazi occupation in WWII.

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic formally resigned on Friday to initiate the creation of legal conditions for December 17 early elections in the city, to be held simultaneously with parliamentary and provincial elections in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic received the Speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives Hanafy El Gebaly at the Old Palace on Friday.

Nenad Milanovic, chief of cabinet of Belgrade mayor Aleksandar Sapic, filed a defamation lawsuit against BIRN Serbia before the Higher Court in Belgrade, seeking 200.000 dinars (1,705 euros) in damages for mental anguish.

Nenad Milanovic, the chief of staff of Belgrade mayor Aleksandar Sapic, offered representatives of Turkish company Kentkart a new contract for public transport maintenance and improvement of the system for collecting tickets and managing vehicles in the city if they agree to the mutual termination of an existing contract, according to audio recordings obtained by BIRN from two meetings held in

Aleksandar Sapic, the mayor of the Serbian capital of Belgrade, has filed two separate defamation lawsuits against BIRN Serbia, its editor and journalists, claiming that their reporting damaged his reputation and caused him mental anguish.

The mayor of the Serbian capital Belgrade has been criticised by the country's equality commissioner for saying Roma need to "make a decision about whether they want to live in a way today that follows the standards of the civilized world" - and adding that the city's Roma get by on stealing and harassing citizens.

BELGRADE - Construction works to build a VGP industrial park began at Dobanovci, suburban Belgrade, on Monday.