Serbia in World War I

The central topic of Pisarri's book, which he developed out of his PhD thesis and which was originally published in Italian, is crimes against Serbian civilians in the part of the Kingdom of Serbia that was occupied by Bulgaria in 1915. The book will be issued in a Serbian translation this autumn.

The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo has covered the inscription on the Monument of Gratitude to France with a black cloth.

The inscription reads, "We love France as it loved us, 1914-1918."

An agreement has been signed on Tuesday on "the renewal of the Monument of Gratitude to France," the Serbian government has announced.

The monument, located at the Belgrade's Kalemegdan, was raised after the First World War, during which the two countries were allies.

BELGRADE - A whole basketball arena in Serbia joined to sing a folk song in memory of the members of the legendary Alexandrov Ensemble who were on board the ill-fated Tu-154 jet that crashed off the coast of the Black Sea.

GOUVIA / AGIOS MATHEOS - Commemorations held in Gouvia and Agios Matheos marked the completion of the observation of the centenary of the Serbian Army disembarkation on the Ionian islands of Corfu and Vido on Tuesday.
    

CORFU - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on the Greek island of Corfu late on Monday that in the consciousness of the Serbian people, Corfu symbolized the trinity we are born with and we die with: suffering, salvation and hope.
    

CORFU - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, who is leading a delegation to a ceremony marking the centenary of the Serbian army's landing on the Ionian island of Corfu, has said that the brotherhood of the Greek and Serbian peoples was then forged for eternity, woven into our being forever, as part of Serbia's heroic history.

Tomislav Nikolic was on the Greek island of Vido on Monday, where he spoke on the 100th anniversary of the landing there of the evacuated Serbian troops.

The Kingdom of Serbia soldiers and a part of the population started retreating toward the Mediterranean via Albania after the triple German-Austrian-Bulgarian WW1 invasion of the country in the winter of 1915-16.

Police investigate threats against Vucic

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic says the Department for High Tech Crime launched an investigation into death threats made against Aleksandar Vucic.

These took place "via social networking websites" and were made "by a so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization."

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday that the Department of High Tech Crime had begun an investigation into death threats made against Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic via social networking websites by the so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.