Nikola Nikodijevic

Serbian officials held commemorations on Friday in memory of the civilians who were killed during NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, a military intervention that ended the Kosovo war.

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.

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.

BELGRADE - Thirteen mayors will be visiting the Serbian capital for the Capital Summit on April 22-24, and no such summit has ever been held in Belgrade or the cities of the region, the president of the Belgrade City Assembly Nikola Nikodijevic said on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Russian film director Nikita Mihalkov received at the Belgrade City Hall on Friday the charter of the honorary citizen of Belgrade along with a message that he now had another home.

Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali and city assembly president Nikola Nikodijevic presented the charter, the first one to be given to an artist.

Nikita Mikhalkov becomes honorary citizen of Belgrade

BELGRADE -- Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov received at the Belgrade City Hall on Friday the charter of the honorary citizen of Belgrade.

Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali and city assembly president Nikola Nikodijevic presented the charter, the first one to be given to an artist.

BELGRADE - President of the Belgrade City Assembly Nikola Nikodijevic laid a wreath at a memorial site at Kalemegdan Fortress on Thursday, marking the start of the traditional Days of Belgrade event.

The wreath was laid at the site where the last Ottoman commander of the fortress Ali Riza Pasha handed over the keys to the city to Prince Mihailo Obrenovic in 1867.

BELGRADE - The Marathon Flame, a symbol of peace, fair play and tolerance arrived in Belgrade from Athens Wednesday, and will burn at the 28th Belgrade Marathon's start and finish lines on Saturday, April 18.