Andreja Mladenovic

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic said on Monday a consortium of two European companies - Germany's Deutsche Bahn and France's Systra - would be managing a project to build a Belgrade metro system.

Serbia and Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Repubika Srpska, on Monday celerbrated Victory Day, the day when Russia marks its victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 with huge parades in Moscow.

At a time when support for Russia is controversial in Europe, EU candidate Serbia sent messages of support to the EU as well as Russia.

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."

BELGRADE - A project to build an early warning and alert system of sirens has been launched in Belgrade and should be complete next year, enabling the city authorities to set up sirens across the territory of the capital, Deputy Belgrade Mayor Andreja Mladenovic said Friday.

BELGRADE - A downtown Belgrade park, situated in the area between the monument to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and the Russian House, was on Friday named after the Alexandrov Ensemble, which will perform in the Serbian capital for the 12th time later in the day.

The park next to the monument to Tsar Nikolai II Romanov in Belgrade will on Friday be named after the Russian Army's Aleksandrov (Alexandrov) Ensemble.

Late last year, 64 members of this famous artistic group were among the 92 victims of an airplane crash.

Autonomous DSS party leader Andreja Mladenovic should soon be elected as mayor of Belgrade, replacing Sinisa Mali, Sputnik is reporting.

According to the Russian agency, Mladenovic, who currently serves as deputy mayor, is for the moment considered as the only candidate in the ruling circles.

VIENNA - Cooperation between cities in the Danube Region offers a possibility for better development to Belgrade, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Andreja Mladenovic said in Vienna on Monday during the gathering entitled 'Urban Platform Danube Region'.

BELGRADE/OBRENOVAC - The Indian embassy donated on Wednesday two vehicles, an SUV and a tractor worth a total of EUR 33,000, to the Obrenovac utility companies.

The donation contract, secured by Mahindra and the company Agropanonka from Novi Sad, was signed by head of the Obrenovac municipality Miroslav Cuckovic on behalf of the local authorities.

Patriots executed by Nazis remembered in Belgrade

BELGRADE -- The 73rd anniversary of the death of five patriots, hanged by the German occupation forces at Terazije Square in Belgrade in 1941, was marked on Sunday.

Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin and Deputy Belgrade Mayor Andreja Mladenović paid their respects at a memorial dedicated to the victims.