Aleksandar Karadjordjevic

Descendants of the last Yugoslav king, Petar II Karadjordjevic, have called on the new Montenegrin government to do more to give them back property they claim belongs to their family.

The family lost its assets in Yugoslavia after the communist takeover following the end of World War II, when the country became a republic.

'Defenders of the homeland'

This was announced on the Kremlin website on Monday, January 7.

"Aleksandar Vucic awarded for his great personal contribution to the development of multilateral cooperation with the Russian Federation," a press release said.

This is a top Russian accolade, given to a Serb for the first time in nearly 100 years.

Serbian Orthodox Bishop Teodosije led the funeral service and said that Ivanovic was respected in Kosovo and in Serbia, but also abroad, and that it "was not rare" for Albanians to also respect him, and that he would be "deeply missed by everyone."

Serbs are marking June 28 - the Orthodox Christian feast of Vidovdan (St. Vitus) - and historically a day of special significance for the nation and the state.

Watchdog organisation Transparency Serbia told BIRN that the Nenadic case will be a good test of the effectiveness of the recently-adopted legislation protecting whisteblowers.

"This case will show how effective the new law is, because we haven't had such a case since the enactment of the law," said Bojana Medenica from Transparency Serbia.

The Montenegrin government plans to set aside about 370,000 euro to reconstruct the new Serbian embassy in Podgorica in line with an agreement between the countries last year.

Since 2006, the Serbian embassy has been using another building in Podgorica as a temporary solution.

BELGRADE - Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt arrives on a five-day visit to Serbia on Wednesday in order to offer assistance in developing domestic research projects through funds awarded by the European Commission.

BELGRADE – By virtue of a decision by Serbia’s Agency for Restitution, Princess Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic moved to Villa Crnogorka in Belgrade, decades after its confiscation by the Yugoslav communist government in 1947, on Tuesday.

Queen Marija Karadjordjevic rehabilitated

A decree from 1947 by which the Queen was deprived of the citizenship and her property, has been proclaimed null and void.