Geography of Serbia

BELGRADE - The Serbia men's national football team will play a friendly match against Belgium in Brussels on November 15, the Football Association of Serbia announced on its official website.

The match will take place at the King Baudouin Stadium four days before Serbia's last EURO 2024 qualifier against Bulgaria in Belgrade, scheduled for November 19.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic said on Monday a consortium of two European companies - Germany's Deutsche Bahn and France's Systra - would be managing a project to build a Belgrade metro system.

After two mass shootings last week that took 17 lives and injured another 20 people, Serbia's opposition has called for a protest on Monday May 8, called "Serbia against violence" with several demands, including bans of reality shows and tabloids spreading lies and violence, and sackings of politicians and heads of the media regulatory body, REM.

BELGRADE - Air Serbia has carried more than one million passengers in 2023 as of this morning, the national airline said on Monday.

By comparison, in 2022, the figure was only reached on July 8, or two months later, it said in a statement.

According to the words of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, when mass crimes happened in Serbia before, no one organized mass demonstrations because of it.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Sunday evening that Serbia would introduce severe measures that would substantially change its society in the wake of the massacres in Belgrade and Mladenovac.

"Our duty is to come out of this big tragedy united and to try to solve some problems in a different way," Vucic said in an appearance on the RTS.

They were killed on May 3 at the elementary school "Vladislav Ribnikan" in Vraar, when their schoolmate, thirteen-year-old Kosta Kecmanovi, shot at them. He killed eight children and a guard and wounded seven. Almost immediately after that school massacre, on the night between May 4 and 5, Uro Blai killed eight people and wounded 14 of them.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic accused the opposition of politicizing the two mass murders in Serbia to attack President Aleksandar Vucic and the government, N1 reported.

Our friend and colleague Pedja Obradovic died in Belgrade on Friday 5 May after a long battle with illness.

The Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar api, invited all citizens to come tonight from 18:00 in front of the Old Palace, light a candle, pay tribute to the victims and express their condolences to the families of the victims of "Vladislav Ribnikar" Elementary School, Smederevo and Mladenovac.