Cemetery

NOVI SAD - The remains of a necropolis dating back from the mid-18th century were found by workers of the public utility company Put who were carrying out repair works on a road in Novi Sad, Dusanka Veselinov, archaeologist - conservator at the Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments Novi Sad, said on Friday.

Cherif Kouachi, one of the two brothers who killed 12 people in an attack on France's Charlie Hebdo magazine, has been buried in an unmarked grave near Paris under tight security, the local mayor's office told AFP.
      
Kouachi was buried late on Saturday at a cemetery in Gennevilliers, where he used to live, officials said.        

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has instructed its priests not to conduct funeral or memorial services for people who have chosen to be cremated after their death.

“The incineration of the body is not in keeping with the practice and tradition of the Church for theological, canonical and anthropological reasons,” the Synod said in a statement.

The Municipality of Glyfada insisted on Thursday that a cemetery it opened in 2011 is perfectly legal and indicated that it would defy a central government order to dig up and remove the bodies that had been buried there as well a demolishing a small chapel.

President lays wreath at Reiferdorf cemetery

REIFERDORF -- President Tomislav Nikolić, who is on a visit to Austria, on Friday laid a wreath at the military cemetery in Reiferdorf.

8,000 soldiers of the WW1-era Serbian Kingdom and internees lay buried there.

MOSCOW - The Russian State Duma, lower house of parliament, ratified on Friday two intergovernmental agreements on military cemeteries, which Russia had signed with Serbia and Slovenia.

SUBOTICA - Several headstones were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Subotica on the night of February 10-11.

According to Jewish Community Subotica, nine headstones have been damaged, including two of greater value belonging to prominent citizens.