Zagreb County
Festival Promoting Tolerance Opens in Croatian Capital
The three-week Festival of Tolerance in Zagreb features films, exhibitions, lectures and concerts intended to help create a more tolerant society in which diversity is accepted and respected.
Croats Protests Against Violence to Women and Children
Supporters of the anti-domestic violence campaign "Save me" in Croatia protested on Saturday in three cities - Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik - to "show solidarity with victims of violence and demand that the system adequately protect them", it said.
The movement began only two weeks ago with the start of a Facebook group that already counts more than 45,000 members.
Croatia Journalists Take to Streets Over Court Pressures
Reporters and media outlets in Croatia will protest in Zagreb on Saturday about the number of lawsuits filed against them - including by the national broadcaster - which they say is undermining their freedom.
"Banning Bajaga's performance is not intimidation"
He interpreted the ban as a democratic freedom of expression
The concert was banned at the requests of Croatian veterans in the city of Karlovac, Croatia.
Just before the government session, Medved told the press that the ban wasn't any form of intimidation.
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Women Remain a Minority Among Zagreb's Statues
The Zagreb city authorities last month turned down an opportunity to begin to rectify the gender imbalance in Zagreb's streets, where only 1.8 per cent of public spaces have female names.
They rejected a petition from a local association to name a street after one of three women, choosing another man instead.
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Zagreb 'Most Relaxing' Balkan City, Survey Says
Holidaymakers whose idea of a good time is sleeping and relaxing should consider booking a short stay in the Croatian capital, according to a new ranking.
Zagreb is the only city in the western Balkans to make it into the top five "most relaxing cities in Europe", compiled by UK holiday operator Spaseekers and whose findings are widely trailed in some UK media.
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Croatian Journalist Missing for Over a Week
Croatian journalist Marijo Skirnjar, who works for a local Zg-Magazin news site, has not been seen for more than a week, Croatian media, and many of her colleagues via social networks, are reporting.
According to the national record of missing persons, Skrinjar was last seen on June 26, boarding a train from the central town of Kutina to the capital, Zagreb.
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Croatia Ordered to Compensate Serb Tortured by Police
A Croatian court ruled that the state must pay 8,000 euros in damages to Pero Dragojevic, a Serb civilian tortured by a special police unit called the ‘Wolves’ in the town of Sisak in August 1991.
Vucic to Croatian journalists: You won't see me humble
At a press conference held after Vucic spoke with the Serbs in Vrginmost, Croatian journalists insisted on asking "whether he would apologize for the speech he made at a gathering in Glina in 1995."
Namely, Vucic at the time "promised to that the Serb Krajina and Glina will never be Croatia, and that the Ustasha rule will never be able to arrive there."
Learn English and You Could Be Next Melania Trump
According to a private language school in Zagreb, Croatia, you could become the next First Lady of the United States if you learn English.
"Just imagine how far you can go with a little bit of English," the billboard from the American Institute reads next to an image of First Lady Melania Trump.
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