News archive of February 2014

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.

BELGRADE - The central bank should be very cautious in running the banking sector so as to prevent any decrease of citizens' trust in banks after the Univerzal Banka affair as it is the fourth bank which went bankrupt, economist Stojan Stamenkovic stated on Tuesday.

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.

BELGRADE - National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic said Tuesday that none of the 29 banks in Serbia is facing lack of liquidity, citizens' savings are guaranteed by the state and the forthcoming early parliamentary elections are not among causes of the local currency downfall.

BELGRADE - Nemanja Sarovic, deputy leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), claims that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has subjected SRS leader Vojislav Seselj to inhuman treatment, as after the recent surgery, he was put in isolation in the prison hospital.

BUJANOVAC - The Party for Democratic Action (PDA), which gathers ethnic Albanians from southern Serbia, has decided to take part in the early parliamentary elections scheduled for March 16.

Chair of the PDA Bujanovac municipal committee Saip Kamberi confirmed for Tanjug that PDA wishes to test its strength in the elections and hopes to win at least one MP seat.

BELGRADE - Certain progress has been made in calming the situation in Kosovo-Metohija, Milivoje Mihajlovic, the head of the Serbian government's press office said on Tuesday, adding that he expects Oliver Ivanovic and Dragoljub Delibasic to be released pending trial.

BELGRADE - The New Democratic Party (NDS) set up initiative committees in all Serb-populated areas in Kosovo-Metohija which will consistently support protection of interests of the Serb community in the area and creation of conditions for establishment of inter-ethnic trust, reconciliation and co-existence of Serbs and Albanians.

BELGRADE – An exhibition of traditional Persian painting and calligraphy and contemporary fine art and graphic design of Iran has opened at the Kombank Art Hall in Belgrade.

Visitors have a unique opportunity to view works by three Iranian artists, namely, Jalil Jokar (1971 ), Gholam-Ali Taheri (1956 ) and Saber Safai (1978 ).

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - An exhibition titled 'Details of the iconography at the Church of Our Lady of Ljevis' has opened at the town museum in Kosovska Mitrovica, in cooperation with the Belgrade-based National Museum, as part of the events marking the Statehood Day of Serbia.