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BELGRADE - Domestic linguists warned on Friday, on the International Mother Language Day, that the Serbian language is under the growing influence of English, but that it is jeopardized to the same extent as other languages with great traditions.

Minister: Readiness to solve political background

BELGRADE -- Minister of Justice Nikola Selaković says Serbia is "absolutely ready to reveal the political background of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić."

BELGRADE - Belgrade's National Theater will participate in the first International Balkan Countries' Theater Festival to be held in the Turkish city of Bursa on March 8-22, with their production of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, National Theater released on Thursday.

Besides the host country, the festival will gather theaters from Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece and Romania.

Montenegro's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Igor Luksic, said Montenegro had no option but to join NATO, if only for reasons of cost.

Maintaining military neutrality would involve building a defence system that would be more expensive for Montenegro than joining NATO, he said on Thursday.

Numerous unsolved murders of journalists in ex-Yugoslavia

BELGRADE -- The Association of Journalists of Serbia has warned that numerous killings of journalists in the past two decades in former Yugoslavia still remain unsolved.

Four Bosnian Serbs and a Croat, including a father and his son, have denied a series of war crimes allegations including murders, torture and rape during the 1992-95 conflict.

Addressing the rally, the Democratic Party head, Lulzim Basha, said Thursday’s March, held on the 23rd anniversary of the overthrow of the commuist regime, was only the start of a broader protest campaign.