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Air Serbia is continuing to operate transit flights to and from Croatia despite the charges filed against the Serbian national carrier five months ago by the Croatian Civil Aviation Agency, CCAA, risking a potential ban from Croatian airports.

Many Macedonians in possession of Bulgarian passports are facing fines for having voted in the 2014 European Parliament elections.

The Macedonians holding dual citizenship voted in Bulgarian diplomatic missions in Macedonia, including at the Bulgarian embassy in Skopje, without being eligible to do so.

Several thousand people, led by pro-Russian opposition parties in Montenegro, gathered in the capital Podgorica on Wednesday to celebrate the Serbian Orthodox New Year while protesting against the country's membership of NATO.

Russia's Ural Tourism Association (UAT) has said that the number of Russian tourists spending their winter holidays in Bulgarian resorts increased by about 3% this season, reaching some 370,000 by early January, TASS reported on Wednesday.

A total of six Bosnian citizens suspected of having connections with Islamic State have been detained in a series of operations, media reported on Monday.

One of them was arrested in Turkey while allegedly trying to reach Syria to join Islamic State militants, Bosnian media quoted the state prosecution as saying.

EU officials have told Bosnia and Herzegovina that it urgently needs to publish the final results of the census it conducted in 2013, after claims by local politicians that Sarajevo could soon apply for membership.

When Malta takes over presidency of the EU early next year, "the working group for EU enlargement will hold a meeting in Belgrade."

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic made this announcement during a joint press conference in Belgrade over the weekend with Prime Minister of Malta Joseph Muscat.

Around 110 000 foreign nationals have visited Bulgaria for the winter holidays, a tourism official has said

Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania were the main source of tourists to the country between December 15 and January 06, according to Rumen Draganov, Director at the Bulgarian Institute for Analysis and Assessment in Tourism.

Among the former Yugoslav countries, Slovenia had the highest average monthly salaries at the end of last year - EUR 1,004.

Although salaries in Serbia grew the most during 2015, the average figure was the lowest - EUR 361, Montenegro's state broadcaster RTCG has reported.

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said more people visited ski resorts in the country around Christmas and New Year compared to the 2014-2015 winter holidays.