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Members of the Crisis Staff should decide on the measures that will be valid during the upcoming holidays, bearing in mind that the medical part of the Crisis Staff strongly opposes any celebrations, while the economic part considers that the economic losses are great.

Ljubljana – Dimitrij Piciga, the former CEO of gaming company hit, has been appointed to join the management board of the Bank Assets Management Company (BAMC) as an executive director to complete the executive team.

Piciga will be joining chief executive director Matej Pirc and executive director Andraž Grum starting on 23 December, BAMC said in a press release on Friday.

Ljubljana – EU law expert Maja Brkan is confident she can pass Committee 225’s vetting to become a new Slovenian judge on the General Court of the European Union, if her candidacy is endorsed by Slovenian parliament. She believes, based on her expertise and experience, she could become one of Slovenia’s two judges on this court.

Ljubljana – Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek said he would cooperate fairly with the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, which has named him as one of eight persons under investigation over purchases of personal protective equipment in the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic.

Ljubljana – Feri Lainšček, a writer and poet from Slovenia’s north-easternmost region, and Marko Mušič, an architect who has made a name for himself in Slovenia and throughout the former Yugoslavia, are the winners of the Prešeren Prizes for lifetime-achievement for 2021. The country’s top accolades for artistic accomplishments will be presented on 7 February.

Mirjana Markovic with her husband, Slobodan Milosevic, in 1997. Photo: Srdjan Suki/EPA.

The urn containing the ashes of Mirjana Markovic, widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, was buried next to her late husband in the garden of their family home in the eastern Serbian town of Pozarevac on Saturday.

Mirjana Markovic in 2001. Photo: Koca Sulejmanovic/EPA.

Mirjana Markovic, the widow of the former president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, died in hospital in Moscow on Sunday, Serbian media reported.

Markovic is reported to have undergone surgery several times in Russia recently, after which her condition deteriorated. The cause of death was not immediately made public.

Gazivode is a lake and a hydro-energy complex located in the northern, predominantly Serb part of Kosovo.

Addressing reporters late on Friday, after a failed, EU-mediated round of Kosovo talks in Brussels, Vucic said the past few days had been extremely difficult, and that pressure had been piling on over last 72 hours.

Serbia's richest man, Miroslav Miskovic, claims in his forthcoming memoir 'I, Tycoon' that Tomislav Nikolic, who at the time was the country's president and leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, called him to say that he wouldn't be arrested, Nedeljnik weekly newspaper reported on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Court of Appeals has acquitted Delta Holding owner Miroslav Miskovic of charges of fraud against road maintenance companies, throwing out a part of a first-instance ruling handing him five years in prison and an 8 mln dinar fine for assisting his son Marko in an approx. 3 mln euro withholding tax evasion.