Ethnic groups in Europe

ANDRICGRAD - The fourth Historical Volume, dedicated to the World War I hospital in Valjevo, western Serbia, has been unveiled in Andricgrad, Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Bulgarian composer Boris Karadimchev passed away, Saturday at the age of 81.

In addition to many famous melodies created by him, Karadimchev was known as the longtime artistic director of the Pim-Pam choir and a professor at the National Academy for Theater and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.

"Serbia wants renewal of old friendships"

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolic has said that he wants Serbia’s foreign policy "to go back to old friendships after two decades of neglect of these relationships."

He made the remarks during a meeting in Belgrade with with ambassadors of African and Arab countries.

ZAGREB - The invitation to boycott shops in Vukovar owned by the local Serbs is a revitalization of fascism,several Croatian organizations have said and called on the government to condemn that action by the Headquarters for the Protection of the Croatian Vukovar,an organization that is famous for opposing the use of the Serbian Cyrillic scrip in Croatia.

PANCEVO - The head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport, the Serbian Commissioner for Refugees and Migrations Vladimir Cucic and Pancevo mayor Pavle Radanov on Wednesday visited the collective refugee centre in the city and a site where social housing units will be built for refugees and displaced persons.

BELGRADE - The Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia condemned Wednesday in the harshest terms a call for boycott of the Serb goods and shops in Vukovar, and urged the authorized state bodies in Croatia to institute proceedings against the initiators of the boycott.

CHICAGO/BELGRADE - The book authored by Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral entitled 'Letopis novog kosovskog raspeca' (Chronicles of the renewed crucifiction of Kosovo) in the English language was presented in Chicago and the first copies will be sent to a number of US officials so that they could find out about the Serbian account of the events.

Following examples set by locals in Vienna, Moscow, Belfast, Bristol, Dublin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Split and a few other Balkan cities, Roma from Parag, in Medjimurje, Croatia, have released a video of people dancing enthusiastically to Williams’ global R&B hit.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic opened an exhibition titled “The Forgotten Holocaust” at the Roma Art Gallery in Belgrade Monday and said that we must not forget the ties between the Serbian and Roma people.

BELGRADE - The EU is keeping track of Serbia's progress in improving the position of the Roma community, especially after the start of the accession talks, according to what was said at the conference entitled Position of the Roma in the Decade of Roma Inclusion (2005-2015) on Tuesday.