Zorica Ivanovic

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"I did not find it strange, maybe because it was not talked about as something unusual," said Zorica Ivanović, assistant professor at the Department of Ethnography and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, recalling a chance discovery on one of her field trips.

Poor Serbs dependent on soup kitchens for their daily survival are dismayed after the authorities in the capital, Belgrade, decided to temporarily close them and give the recipients the equivalent of 1.5 euro [168 dinars] instead - too little to buy a meal.