Slobodan Milosevic

More than 20 years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić was found guilty of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia this past November.

A musical staged by a Serb theatre ensemble from Kosovo about the 1999 war and Serb-Albanian relations will feature late Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as the “tragic protagonist”.

There is still time to be a candidate of a single ticket backed by the opposition, Djilas told the weekly NIN, as cited by Beta.

It only has to "act like that," he said.

Pacolli argued that "the reality is that Serbia can influence the region", that Kosovo has "a long border with Serbia" and that in Pristina they want to have "good relations with Serbia."

The chief of Serbia's diplomacy and the leader of the Socialists (SPS), Ivica Dacic, says that October 5, 2000 changes were "scam financed from abroad."

He was commenting on the 17th anniversary of demonstrations staged by the opposition that ended the rule of Slobodan Milosevic - the founder and leader of the SPS until his death, when Dacic took over.

The chief of Serbia's diplomacy and the leader of the Socialists (SPS), Ivica Dacic, says that October 5, 2000 changes were "a scam financed from abroad."

Today marks 17 years since the large demonstrations in Belgrade, which on October 5, 2000 ended the rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

The demonstrations started after Milosevic refused to recognize the results of the election for the president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ).

The former warden of Belgrade Central Prison, Dragisa Blanusa, will be retried for allegedly kidnapping former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by sending him to the Hague Tribunal in 2001.

The Swedish furniture giant, IKEA, plans to invest in neighboring Serbia over EUR 200 million over the next five years, according to a news release by Western Labor Minister Zoran Djordjevic.

The company has already invested EUR 60 million in the country and hired 330 employees for its Belgrade site, which started work about a month ago.

Vukasin Obradovic, who started Vranjske novine, a respected independent weekly newspaper in the southern Serbian town of Vranje, announced on Tuesday that he was going on hunger strike in protest over his title's shutdown and the decline of media freedom in the country.