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BELGRADE - The exhibition "The Danube - Artist, Traveler and Witness", showcasing fortifications situated on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, will open in the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, the Belgrade Fortress public enterprise has announced.

BELGRADE - French Ambassador to Serbia Christine Moro on Thursday awarded Belgrade Dance Festival Director Aja Jung with the Order of Knight of Arts and Letters.

BELGRADE - The international "Satire Fest 2016" festival of humor and satire will take place on October 12 at the Kolarac Foundation, the organizer, the Belgrade Aphoristic Circle, has announced.

The 14th Satire Fest will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of writer Petar Kocic (1877-1916).

BELGRADE - An initiative to renovate the buildings of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate of Pec has been launched at a recent meeting of Norwegian Ambassador to Serbia Arne Sannes Bjornstad and the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo Metohija Marko Djuric.

Education Minister Mladen Sarcevic has said that his ministry "will do everything to protect the Serbian language from bad influences."

He spoke during the final ceremony of the 83rd Vuk's Assembly - an annual gathering held in the village of Trsic, western Serbia, the birthplace of Vuk Karadzic, Serbia's 19th century language reformer.

The Basic Court in Pec ordered four men arrested near the Serbian Orthodox monastery Visoki Decani on Sunday detained for one month.

The recent incident near the Visoki Decani monastery "undoubtedly showed that there was a terrorist threat and a danger to the people who were there."

The Basic Prosecution on the town of Pec in Kosovo suspects that one of the men arrested in front of the Visoki Decani monastery had fought in Syria.

Kosovo police have denied that the four persons arrested in front of the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Visoki Decani had links to terrorism.

The police also said the group did not attempt to attack the medieval holy place.

Four armed Islamists have been arrested in front of the main gate to the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Visoki Decani in Kosovo.

This is what Abbot of Visoki Decani Sava Janjic told Tanjug on Sunday, adding that an investigation was under way.