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Gastronomy bridges gap between Greece, Turkey

Culinary arts have helped to close the political gap between Turkey and Greece.

Maria Ekmekcioglu, a Greek native of Istanbul, hosts two cooking shows, one in Greece and the other in Turkey. [Facebook/Maria Ekmekcioglu]

SOFIA - Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic will receive the Sofia award for contribution to the world cinematography at the 18th international film festival in Sofia which will take place from March 6 to 16.

BELGRADE - A photo exhibition symbolically titled A Posteriori will open at Belgrade's Dom Omladine on Monday as one of the side events of this year's 15th Guitar Art Festival.

The exhibition will feature the most significant artists and events that have shaped the festival, which was established in 2000 and is now the most significant classical guitar festival in the region.

BELGRADE - The 13th International Theatre Festival Slavija 2014 has opened at the Slavija Theater in Belgrade.

The festival, which was declared open on Sunday evening by actor Tanasije Uzunovic, will showcase seven plays in the competition program by March 16.

BELGRADE - The Norwegian film 'I Am Yours', directed by Iram Haq, won the Best Film award in the 'Europe out of Europe' category at the 42nd FEST film festival.

The award, diploma and the prize of EUR 2,000 was delivered to the young Pakistani director at the official closing of the festival in Belgrade's Sava Centre late on Sunday.

BELGRADE - "Rabbitland", a short animated movie by Ana Nedeljkovic and Nikola Majdak junior, was awarded a Diploma of Merit at 44th Tampere Film Festival in Finland which was held from March 5 to 9.

Since it premiered at 63rd Berlin Film Festival in 2013 and got the Crystal Bear, "Rabbitland" was screened at numerous festivals across the world.

BELGRADE - The participants of the 4th international Belgrade Baroque Academy, dedicated to "Scenes from operas by Handel and Monteverdi", which took place last week, will give the final public performance on Saturday evening at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Irish Festival (BIF) returns on March 13 to 18 for its second edition, in the rhythm of the Irish step dance.

The highlight of the event will be the festival-closing performance of the legendary Irish dance troupe Lord of the Dance on March 18 at Belgrade's Kombank Arena.

BRUSSELS - The situation in Crimea cannot be compared to Kosovo, spokesperson of the European Commission Alejandro Munoz said on Friday.

There is no room for comparison between Crimea and Kosovo, he told reporters in comment to Russian President Vladimir Putin's statements about similarities between NATO's intervention in Kosovo and Russia's in Crimea.

BELGRADE - A giant sculpture of Ricky Rabbit by famous Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman was set up at the Nikola Pasic Square in Belgrade on Friday.

The rabbit is 14 m tall and will be at the square for three weeks as an announcement that the festival MAD in Belgrade will take place May 24-25 at the park outside the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade.