Dragan Radovanovic

The Serbian Red Cross has provided assistance for 159,000 refugees from June 10 until October 18, Red Cross President Dragan Radovanovic said on Tuesday.

Of that number, 110,000 were in Presevo, southern Serbia, 35,000 in the province of Vojvodina in the north, and nearly 8,000 in Belgrade, he told RTS.

BELGRADE - A memorial plate to Dr Elizabeth Ross and other women of a British mission who aided typhus-stricken Serbian soldiers and then lost their lives to the disease themselves during the First World War in Serbia 100 years ago, was unveiled in the center of the city of Kragujevac in central Serbia on Friday.

BELGRADE - President of the Red Cross of the Republic of Serbia Dragan Radovanovic stated on Friday that around 34,000 people were evacuated during the flashing floods in Serbia and added that the list containing the names of 73 people still reported as missing has been filed to the Interior Ministry.

BELGRADE - With World Red Cross Day one day away, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic received a delegation of the Red Cross of Serbia on Wednesday, with whom he discussed the activities of the humanitarian institution.