Geography of Europe

BELGRADE - The 42nd International Film Festival Fest, to be held from February 28 to March 9 in Belgrade, will feature 75 films from around the world, organizers announced.

BELGRADE - British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will hold a concert at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Park on June 17, the organizers from the Avalon production.

BELGRADE - Minister of Transport Aleksandar Antic said on Friday that Serbia does not have a single facility for disposing of ship-generated waste, so a total of nine facilities should be built along the Danube, Sava, Tisa rivers.

The inspections were launched after the city authorities found unlicensed traders at the open-air market in Zemun selling sausages made from meat that had been stolen from a pit where dead animals were buried in the Vojvodina region of Becej.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), urged citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica to go to the polls on Sunday, February 23, and vote for Goran Rakic, the candidate fielded by the Citizens' Initiative Srpska (GI Srpska).

The EULEX prosecutor, Johannes Pickert, has raised a second indictment against Limaj and the other defendants, accusing them of “organised crime, misappropriation in office, entering into harmful contracts, abusing official position or authority, accepting bribes and other corruption related offences.

BELGRADE - The American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia (AmCham) launched an educational project for young business managers and exceptional students in the country, which it titled "AmChamps - Young Leaders in Change", on Thursday.

AmCham Director Maja Piscevic told Tanjug that the program has an important reform component to it.

BELGRADE - The Embassy of Japan donated books, handbooks and other publications, mostly related to Japanese architecture, but to other fields of study as well, to the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The 15th Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade will take place on March 11-16.

The international guitar festival was created in 2000 as a high-level musical event that gathers together classical and guitarists of other genres.

Naxos Trio will perform as the opening act for the event, and they will give the stage over to Brazilian artist Badi Assad.

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's outgoing prime minister, said at a meeting with Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport on Thursday that the Serbian government insists that the parliamentary elections should take place on March 16 in Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) with the assistance of the international missions.