Human Interest

BELGRADE - Serbian painter Petar Lubarda died in Belgrade forty years ago, on February 13, 1974.

He was born in Ljubotinj, near Cetinje, on July 27, 1907. He got enrolled in the Art School in Belgrade in 1925, only to leave for Paris the following year, where he spent the next six years in a difficult financial situation.

BELGRADE - The Days of Serbian Satire will be marked with several events organized by the Belgrade Aphoristic Circle (BAK), Association of Writers of Serbia (UKS) and Serbian Literary Society (SKD), and the central event will take place on February 16 on the date when great Serbian satirist Radoje Domanovic was born.

BELGRADE - Young Serbian actor Nikola Rakocevic has received the Shooting Stars Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, the Serbian Film Centre (FCS) stated on Tuesday.

The Shooting Stars initiative is the most important project by European Film Promotion, an international organization that the FCS is part of. The FCS put forth Rakocevic as a candidate for the award.

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.