2nd millennium

BELGRADE - Today marks 22 years since the crime on the Miljevci plateau, near Drnis, when 40 members of the Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK) Territorial Defense were killed.

BELGRADE – A total of EUR 30 million from previously approved European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) loans for the reconstruction and modernization of Serbia’s railways will be reallocated for emergency repairs of Serbia’s railway infrastructure damaged in the massive flooding in the second half of May.

BELGRADE - The Smederevo Steel Plant will begin operating on June 29 when one of the two furnaces will be restored, Radio Television of Serbia reported.

Due to the lack of raw materials, one furnace in the Smederevo Steel Plant has not been operating for years now, while the other has been working with reduced capacities as of May 2.

NGO reacts to "belated dismissal" of police official

BELGRADE -- Head of the Interior Interior (MUP) Protection Unit for Participants in Criminal Proceedings Miloš Perovid was dismissed from this position on June 6.

BELGRADE - The steel company Zelezara Smederevo could get a strategic partner soon and revive its production, since the US based Esmark Steel Group is interested in a partnership, but the Serbian government will have the last say.

After 22 years, Sarajevo’s reopened city hall brings BiH together

Funding for the reconstruction was provided by the EU, several EU member states and several regional cities.

The reopening of Sarajevo city hall 22 years after it was destroyed in the 1990s conflict is a sign of trust and reconciliation, officials and experts said.

Attacks on Muslims in the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik have become more frequent, with many reports of verbal and physical abuses, the Islamic Community in Tuzla said on Wednesday.

“In the urban area of Zvornik in recent times several incidents were reported, which have disturbed Muslims in the town,” the organisation said in a press release.

A statue of the late Pontiff John Paul II, who was Pope from 1978 to 2005, is to be erected soon in Sarajevo beside the Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral in the city centre.

The statue of the former Pope is to be unveiled on April 30, after a ceremonial council of the priests of the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna, as the Sarajevo diocese is known.

The Appellate Chamber of the Bosnian State Court sentenced a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, Drazen Mikulic, to a year-and-a-half in prison for crimes against a Bosniak civilian held in the Dretelj camp, near Capljina, in 1993.