KLADOVO

KLADOVO - Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Friday a generator of the Djerdap 1 hydroelectric power plant had been refurbished successfully to extend the plant's lifespan by 30-40 years.

BELGRADE - Fifteen polling stations across Serbia opened for the repeat parliamentary elections on Wednesday morning.

The polling stations opened on time, at 7 am, and will close at 8 pm, the central electoral commission RIK announced.

Voting was repeated at 15 polling stations on Wednesday due to irregularities that occurred during the April 24 early parliamentary elections in Serbia.

19,631 citizens were eligible to vote Nis, Vranje, Uzice, Kladovo, and Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Election silence began at midnight in Serbia ahead of the repeat elections scheduled for Wednesday, May 4, at 15 polling stations across the country.

The election silence ends on May 4 at 8 pm, with preliminary results to be announced on Wednesday evening, the central electoral commission has announced.

Voting was repeated at 15 polling stations on Wednesday due to irregularities that occurred during the April 24 early parliamentary elections in Serbia.

19,631 citizens were eligible to vote Nis, Vranje, Uzice, Kladovo, and Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Serbia's central electoral commission RIK on Wednesday ordered a repeat vote at another eight polling stations - in Vranje, Nis, Jagodina, Backa Topola, Sremski Karlovci, Uzice, Kladovo and Belgrade - taking the total to 15 polling stations across the country.

Another EUR 9mn to repair flood-damaged homes

BELGRADE -- Marko Blagojevic says the government has so far allocated RSD 4.2 billion for the reconstruction of houses damaged in the May floods.

It also "secured another EUR 9 million for the coming year," explained the director of the Serbian Government Office for Reconstruction and Flood Relief.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian Government Office for Reconstruction and Flood Relief Marko Blagojevic said that the government has so far allocated RSD 4.2 billion for the reconstruction of houses damaged in the May floods and secured another EUR 9 million for the coming year.

AGERPRES special correspondent Florian Copcea reports: A Romanian Cultural Centre came into being in the Serbian town of Kladovo, intended for the Romanian national minority in the Techia-Prahovo cross-border region.

KLADOVO - Serbia's Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antic opened in Kladovo on Saturday the largest solar power plant in Serbia, owned by a Serbian commpany that invested EUR 3 million in it.