News archive of October 2014

BELGRADE - The National Library of Serbia (NBS) presented on Thursday seven publications on the European Union within its collection titled "The Digital National Library of Serbia".

The promotion of the publications was organized in view of the signed memorandum of cooperation between the Ministry of Culture, National Library of Serbia, and the EU Delegation.

BELGRADE - The simultaneous premiere of film '1989' to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be held on November 5 in 20 European cities, including Belgrade, Free Zone film festival released on Thursday.

The screening is organised by the Copenhagen CPH:DOX festival which chose the international film festival Free Zone from Belgrade as one of the partners.

Independent candidate in this Sunday's presidential elections, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Thursday that a 'new player' has joined the electoral campaign, namely the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), which he says has 'confused' the voters by its actions.

BELGRADE - Serbia has issued 107,000 personal identification documents to its Roma citizens in the past 7 years, but some members of this population are still legally invisible, according to what was said at a meeting on Thursday dedicated to the problems Roma face.

BELGRADE - On the occasion of 100 years since the beginning of World War I, the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade will stage an exhibition "War and poster: 1914-1918", which will be opened by November 6.

Posters were the only means of mass communication during the Great War, and they are a kind of historical documents.

The investigation, "Albanian Telecoms Deal Cost ‘$1m to Buy Off Politicians', Claim US Businessmen," revealed that a controversial Bosnian businessman, Damir Fazlic, a fixer with powerful friends in Washington and the Balkans, requested $1m in "investment" from US partners for Albania's Democratic Party in order to secure a lucrative telecoms contract.

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Turkey's tourism revenue increased 11% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2014, reaching USD 12.85B, the Turkish Statistical Institute said on Thursday.

Foreign visitors contributed 81.8% of total tourism revenue, while the remainder was obtained from Turkish citizens living abroad.

BELGRADE - Thursday's meeting of the Serbian parliament's information committee, which should address the issue of media freedom, brought together representatives of the journalists' associations - NUNS and UNS, MPs of the opposition, but no ruling coalition members.

BELGRADE - A photography exhibition by Karim Salim, titled The Eye of India, will open on Sunday, November 2 at the Indian Cultural Centre in Belgrade.

The photos represent moments frozen in time during a one-month journey through India, the Indian Cultural Centre has said in a press release.