Jagodina

JAGODINA - Actors, directors and dramatists attending the 44th Comedy Days theatre festival in Jagodina, which opened on March 20, on Tuesday remembered March 24, 1999, when the NATO bombing interrupted the 28th festival of laughter, "the only theatre festival in the world that has been interrupted by bombs."

BELGRADE - Italian companies Savio Firmino will open a fine furniture factory in Jagodina, central Serbia, after a protocol was inked on Tuesday by Jagodina Mayor Ratko Stevanovic and owner of the Italian company Savio Guido.

JAGODINA - Krajina Serbs will file a lawsuit against Croatia for genocide in World War II and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, says former Republic of Serb Krajina Prime Minister Borislav Mikelic.

Serbian mufti blasts Islamic State as "Satan"

JAGODINA -- Mufti of Serbia Muhamed Jusufspahic has described the Islamic State as "the biggest scum, gathered together wishing to make Allah repulsive to us."

3 persons suspected of involvement in reporter's murder

BELGRADE -- A commission set up by the government to investigate murders of journalists has obtained information that could shed the light on the murder of Milan Pantic.

The Vecernje Novosti daily's correspondent in the town of Jagodina was killed in front of his home in 2001.

Serbians welcome in "Orthodox" New Year

BELGRADE -- Tens of thousands of people across the country on Tuesday celebrated the beginning of the new year according to the Julian calendar.

This is the calendar adhered to by the Serbian Orthodox Church, so the January 13 festivities are sometimes referred to as the Orthodox, or Serbian New Year.

JAGODINA - The 410 street markets in Serbia record an annual turnover of RSD 28 billion, with green produce markets, which number 139, recording a turnover of RSD 7 billion, author of the book Management of Street Market Transformation Nebojsa Batalovic has said.

JAGODINA - Serbia will face major domestic and foreign policy tasks next year, and its future will depend on economic reforms, says Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

JAGODINA - The incident with the map of Greater Albania, displayed on a banner during the Serbia vs Albania soccer match, is not a provocation, but an attack against Serbia, Dragan Markovic, the leader of United Serbia (JS) - a member of the ruling coalition - said on Thursday.

JAGODINA - Mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic qualified as strange on Monday the statement by Head of the EULEX Mission Bernd Borhart who said that the trust of northern Kosovo-Metohija citizens in EULEX is increasing.