Ivan Tasovac

BELGRADE- Serbia has violated no law or European practice by allowing offshore companies to own media outlets, Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac said on Wednesday.

Cabinet ministers attend Blair's lecture, keep mum

BELGRADE -- B92 learned exclusively that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in Belgrade on Wednesday where he spoke in front of several cabinet ministers.

The visit that included the one-hour lecture was shrouded in secrecy.

VIENNA - Dunja Mijatovic, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, said Wednesday she was pleased that the Serbian Chairmanship was "paying special attention to free media in the OSCE region and journalists' safety."

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac opened at the Natural History Museum Gallery in Belgrade on Saturday an exhibition dedicated to one of Serbia's greatest scientists, botanist Josif Pancic.

BELGRADE - The reconstruction of the National Museum in Belgrade, which has been closed to the public since as far back as 2003, began on Saturday.

Serbian Minister of Culture Ivan Tasovac visited the museum, announcing that the country's oldest museum institution will reopen in the spring of 2016.

BELGRADE - An exhibition on the Great War will open at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade on Monday, shedding light on remarkable ordinary men from Serbian towns and villages, as victors of the Great War.

As announced, Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac will declare the exhibition open.

BELGRADE - The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) project has been officially launched in Paris, with Serbia as one of its founders.

The project was launched earlier this week, with European Commission officials and delegations from 15 countries in attendance.

BELGRADE - The cooperation in the field of culture between the Republic of Serbia and the Russian Federation will be intensified as of 2015, it has been agreed during a meeting between Serbia's Culture Minister Ivan Tasovac and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Medinsky.

BELGRADE - The Council of Europe (CoE) will provide all the necessary assistance to the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information in redefining the guidelines of cultural development in keeping with the current European standards and tendencies in the culture sector, CoE officials and representatives of the Ministry of Culture and Information concluded at the meeting in Belgrade.