News archive of October 2014

Agrobanka shareholders insist on compensation

BELGRADE -- Foreign shareholders of the former Agrobanka said in a statement that their issue was "among the most important" when Aleksandar Vučić was recently interviewed.

They specified this happened after the Serbian prime minister's lecture given at the London School of Economics on October 27.

The Ermenek Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded that officials from the Karaman mine be put on probation for their possible responsibility in the disaster, in which 18 miners have been trapped underground since Oct. 28.

BELGRADE - Young Russian pianist Alexander Sinchuk will perform with the RTS Symphonic Orchestra and conductor Bojan Sudjic at the Kolarac Endowment at the closing of the 46th Belgrade Music Festival (BEMUS) late Saturday.

The performance will feature Sergei Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead, Piano Concerto No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 3.

Political analysts Cristian Parvulescu, Adrian Moraru, Marius Pieleanu, Alfred Bulai and Radu Magdin commented for AGERPRES the slogans chosen by the candidates engaged in the presidential race.

According to them, the slogans are not the "result of inspiration", but rather of the research effort by focus groups.

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Lunacek said that allegations by a suspended EULEX prosecutor, Maria Bamieh, that a official judge took bribes to close certain high-profile cases "cast a dark shadow" on the reputation of the EU's rule-of-law mission.

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The Sofia History Museum will host the first European Heritage Days in Bulgaria.

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A coal plant project planned in Turkey's southwestern Marmara coast is threatening the habitat of Mediterranean seals and loggerhead turtles, experts from a number of institutions have warned.

Allegations of corruption shake EU mission in Kosovo

BELGRADE, BRUSSELS -- Instead of introducing legal standards of their countries to Kosovo, international prosecutors and judges serving there "have adopted local ways."

According to the Belgrade-based Politika daily, "the falsification of evidence against Oliver Ivanović" is one proof of this.

Google on Oct. 30 confirmed that an executive behind leading mobile device software Android is leaving the company to create an incubator for hardware startups.
      
Andy Rubin became a Google executive in 2005 when the Internet titan bought Android Inc., which was then a small startup that Rubin co-founded two years earlier.
      

The family of three murder victims called for a retrial after allegations that an EU rule-of-law mission judge in Kosovo took a bribe to clear one of the suspects.