News archive of March 2014

BELGRADE - A total of 36,295 tourists visited Belgrade in January 2014, which is by 12 percent more than in the same month in 2013, the data of the City Institute of Informatics and Statistics show.

BELGRADE - Sinisa Mali, president of the interim administration of the City of Belgrade, said that the new makeup of the City Assembly will make the final decision on whether the ashes of Nikola Tesla would be relocated from the Belgrade Tesla Museum to the churchyard of the St. Sava Cathedral.

CUPRIJA - The municipality of Cuprija on Wednesday signed an agreement on land transfer rights with the Directorate for Property and a memorandum on understanding with the German division of US-based Truck-Lite company, creating conditions for the first factory to open in the town in four decades.

STRPCE - Several hundred Serbs rallied in Strpce on Wednesday urging the release of five fellow nations who were incarcerated in an action by the ROSU special unit of the Kosovo police.

UZICE - The entrance to the premises of the Democratic Party (DS) in Uzice was set on fire some time after midnight and the prompt reaction by the fire-fighting squad prevented the fire from spreading to the premises and the building in which the party's seat is housed.

BELGRADE - The 42nd International Film Festival Fest will welcome world renowned actor Franco Nero in Belgrade on March 8, the distribution company Tuck Vision has announced.

He will attend a premiere of "Dark Sea" (Mamula), the horror movie he is starring in, at Centre Sava at 10 p.m. on Saturday.

DJIBOUTI, BELGRADE - The Serbian Armed Forces first autonomous team for protecting ships from pirates, which participated in Operation Atalanta of the EU Naval Force (NAVFOR), completed its tour of duty with NAVFOR on Tuesday.

A ceremony was held at the French base in Djibouti to mark the end of team's tour and they were presented with medals for their work with NAVFOR.

MOSCOW - The women's shooting team of Serbia won the gold medal in the air rifle team competition at the European Shooting Confederation in Moscow on Wednesday.

Serbia's team broke the European record scoring 1,247.1.

The great success was made by Ivana Maksimovic, Andrea Arsovic and Dragana Todorovic.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Nebojsa Rodic conferred with Indonesian Ambassador in Serbia Samuel Samson on Tuesday and expressed gratitude for Indonesia's principled support to the fight for protection Serbia's legitimate interests over the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo.

BELGRADE - The leader of the Citizens' Initiative Serbia, Democracy, Justice Oliver Ivanovic, who has been on a hunger strike since the denial of his third request for transfer to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica, says that he does not feel safe in the Pristina prison, and that he is a target of politically motivated proceedings devoid of any sense.