Batajnica

Serbian soldiers depart for Moscow

BELGRADE -- A Serbian Army (VS) Guard unit on Saturday department from the Batajnica airport near Belgrade for Moscow where they will take part in the Victory Day parade.

The soldiers were seen off by Serbian Army (VS) Chief of Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic and Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin.

BELGRADE - The oldest geological deposits in Belgrade, discovered in the urban municipality of Rakovica, are over 170 million years old, Ljupko Rundic, a professor at the Faculty of Mining And Geology of the University of Belgrade, said on Wednesday.

Directorate for National Reference Laboratories launched

BELGRADE -- The Directorate for National Reference Laboratories (DNRL) officially started work on Monday, Tanjug reported.

The directorate is described as "the final element that was to be added to Serbia's food safety control system."

Driver murdered in right of way row - reports

BELGRADE -- A 35-year-old man has bled to death in a street in Belgrade after he was assaulted with a machete, the local media are reporting.

BELGRADE - Thirty-three members of the Serbian Armed Forces departed for Lebanon on Thursday to join the Italian contingent of the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission, the Italian Embassy in Belgrade released in a statement.

Businessman and former SPS official arrested

BELGRADE -- Goran Perčević, owner of Innterkomerc and former high-ranking official of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) has been arrested, Tanjug learned from the police.

He is suspected of financial crimes related to Univerzal Bank "worth millions of euros," the agency said.

BELGRADE - Goran Percevic, owner of Innterkomerc and former high-ranking official of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) suspected of financial crimes related to Univerzal banka and worth millions of euros, was arrested on Saturday, Tanjug has learned from the Interior Ministry.

NIKINCI - Serbian and Russian troops started off a joint exercise entitled Srem 2014 at the training centre in Nikinci on Friday.

Serbia's Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic, diplomatic corps officials and reporters from Serbia and abroad were present for the start of the event, which will involve 404 members of the two countries' armed forces.

BELGRADE - The Serbian and Russian armed forces will conduct a joint exercise entitled Srem 2014 at the Nikinci training grounds, 70 km west of Belgrade, on Friday.

The 106th Tulska division will represent the Russian forces. The preparations for the exercise started in Serbia recently.

Serbia reopened its investigation into the Batajnica police training centre, where hundreds of bodies of Kosovo Albanians were found buried, searching for another mass grave at the site.