Kragujevac

KRAGUJEVAC - Serbia has done everything - fully and flawlessly - to open Chapter 26 in its EU accession talks, with all demands of national minorities met not because of the chapter, but for the sake of lasting standards in the country, Serbian Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Mladen Sarcevic said Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia could be exporting 1 bln euros' worth of information technologies by 2020, says Nemanja Stevanovic, the economic and investment adviser to Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic.

Serbia's current IT sector exports equal the total exports achieved last year by Fiat's Kragujevac plant, he said on Wednesday, opening the first conference on digital economy in the region.

The Great School Class - an annual anti-war commemorative gathering - was held in the memorial park Sumarice, near Kragujevac, central Serbia.

The event honors the thousands of local civilians, that included school children and their teachers, executed on October 21, 1941, by the occupying German Nazi forces.

Serbia's state broadcaster RTS is reporting on Wednesday that a 22 year-old-man has committed suicide by jumping off a building.

A spokesman for the local police in the town of Kragujevac, where the incident took place, confirmed that the young man did not live in the residential building from whose 15th floor he jumped.

Kragujevac is the fourth largest city in Serbia, the administrative centre of Sumadija District. It is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River. According to the official results of the 2011 census, the city has a population of 179,417 inhabitants.

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Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has announced the formation of "special police teams for the suppression of election theft."

Stefanovic, who is a high-ranking official of the ruling SNS, spoke in Kragujevac on Thursday to say that members of those teams "perhaps won't be people from Batocina or Kragujevac, but will instead perhaps arrive from some other parts of Serbia."

A married couple have died while their three children were injured when their car for as yet unknown reasons swerved off the road and into a stream.

The accident happened on Sunday afternoon on the Jagodina-Kragujevac road in central Serbia, state broadcaster RTS is reporting.

"What heresy and violation of the Constitution is it if one wants to preserve one's nation?," President Tomislav Nikolic has asked.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Monday laid the cornerstone for "the Centers of Excellence" of the University of Kragujevac, in central Serbia.

With doctoral students of the Kragujevac Faculty of Medicine and future researchers at the centers, Nikolic lowered a time capsule into the foundations.

President of the SNS Executive Board Radomir Nikolic says he will support party leader and PM Aleksandar Vucic in his decision on calling early elections.

According to Nikolic - who is the mayor of Kragujevac and the son of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic - only early elections can solve "the difficult situation and an attempt to artificially polarize society."