Banja Luka International Airport

Ljubljana – Air Montenegro, Montenegro’s new flag carrier, will start operating scheduled flights between Tivat and Ljubljana on 29 June, the Serbian press agency Tanjug has reported, citing the Montenegrin public broadcaster RTCG.

The District Court in Banja Luka, administrative centre of the mainly Serbian Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, RS, has cancelled the environmental permit for the planned Buk Bijela hydropower plant on the river Drina in Bosnia, the Aarhus Resource Center said on Thursday, following the court's May 13 ruling in favour of the Center's complaint.

Bosnian state institutions and companies last year launched tenders for official vehicles worth more than 93 million Bosnian marks - equal to about 46 million euros.

The total value of the tenders actually completed in 2018 was over 19 million euros and bought some 926 vehicles, data from the BIRN BiH database indicate.  

"Restart Srpska", a civic association in the mainly Serb entity of Bosnia, Republika Srpska is staging a protest on Wednesday in the entity capital, Banja Luka, demanding an end to the spending of budget money on luxurious cars.

"We expect at least 1,000 citizens who want a more responsible government," Stefan Blagic, head of the association, told BIRN.

Islamic State flags again displayed in Bosnian village

SREBRENIK -- The flags of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) organization have once again been displayed in the Wahhabi community in Gornja Maoca in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The police are still looking for the IS flags and the persons who put them up in the same village in early February.

BELGRADE - Book 'Stilske igre' authored by Simeon Marinkovic and Dusan Pavlic and published by Belgrade-based Kreativni Centar won the Gomionica award as the best children's book at the Banja Luka Book Fair.

BANJA LUKA - Republika Srpska (RS) on Monday marked the Remembrance Day for the victims of the 1999 NATO aggression against Serbia, then part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which also included Montenegro.

BELGRADE - Air Serbia has signed a codeshare agreement with Adria Airways from Slovenia, which will enter into force on February 17 and give Air Serbia exclusive rights to flights between Belgrade and Ljubljana.

Air Serbia started having daily flights to Ljubljana on December 10, 2013.