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Ten arrested on suspicion of human trafficking

BELGRADE -- The Serbian police have arrested ten people on suspicion that their organized crime group illegally crossed state borders and engaged in human trafficking.

This criminal activity took place between January and mid-May this year, the MUP said on Wednesday.

Croatian PM says Ukraine is "falling apart"

ZAGREB -- Croatian PM Zoran Milanović has said that Ukraine was disintegrating as a state, while Russia "crossed the line of what is permissible" when it comes to Crimea.

Speaking for Croatian Radio, he noted that the situation in Ukraine was "far too complex to be summarized in two sentences," and added:

BELGRADE - This year's international new music festival, 19th Ring Ring, will take place at several locations in Belgrade from May 15-28.

Ring Ring will present Serbian and foreign bands, authors and performers of new music.

KRAGUJEVAC - The 16th Golden Spark international puppet theatre festival has begun in Kragujevac, central Serbia.

The festival, to be held from May 11 to 15, will feature 11 theatres from Serbia and all over the world, the director of the Kragujevac Children's Theatre Zoran Djoric told Tanjug on Sunday.

BELGRADE - The marking of the Day of victory over Nazism in World War II started late Thursday with a ceremonial artillery salute fired from the Sava terrace of the Belgrade Fortress, the Serbian government said in a statement.

Victory Day, Europe Day marked

BELGRADE -- The marking of Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II started late on Thursday with a ceremonial artillery salute fired from the Belgrade Fortress.

Sxity-two percent of the EU voters are “not at all” or “not much” interested in the European Parliament elections in May, shows a survey of Ipsos-MORI.

It was conducted in April. A total of 8 833 people were polled in Belgium, Britain, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden.

BELGRADE - Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) leader Istvan Pastor, who was attacked by Hungarian ultranationalists in Budapest two days ago, believes that the attack was motivated by his condemnation of the activities of the right-wing Sixty-Four Counties movement in Vojvodina.

NOVI SAD - Speaker of the Vojvodina Assembly and leader of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) Istvan Pastor was attacked in Budapest and the parties in Serbia and Hungary fiercely condemned the attack by Hungarian right-wing extremists, members of the Jobbik party.

Budapest attack on SVM leader condemned

BELGRADE, BUDAPEST -- European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia Zdenko Kacin strongly condemned the attack in Budapest, Hungary, against an ethnic Hungarian politician from Serbia.