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The prosecution said on Friday that it is probing allegations made by Serbian opposition leader Vuk Jeremic, who last week alleged that people close to former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski have been intensively buying Serbian firms as part of a money-laundering scheme.

The Day of St Nicholas (Nikola), also known as Wonderworker, the patron of fisherman, sailors, merchants and bankers, is being marked nationwide by Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria on Wednesday, December 06.

79% of the residents of the Krasna Polyana neighborhood in Sofia feel insecure about themselves and their relatives. Only 18% of them say they feel secure and protected.

27 companies are interested in a concession deal for Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday.

At the ceremonial opening of Etihad Airways' unified service center, Vucic said the companies included five firms from China, as well as others from France, Germany and other countries, Tanjug reported.

A court in Skopje has ordered big businessman and media baron Sead Kocan - who is known for close ties to former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski - to be arrested and put in detention for 30 days on suspicion of fixing a coal tender.

A book "Nikola Tesla declared himself as Montenegrin", published in Montenegro, has added fuel to the long-standing dispute over the national identity of the scientist Nikola Tesla, who lived and worked in the US. Born to a Serbian Orthodox family in Smiljan, Austria-Hungary, now Croatia, he died in New York in 1943.

The Bulgarian government has officially chosen February 21 as a day to pay tribute to people who fought Nazism in Bulgaria.

On February 21, 1941 a meeting was held at the home of Bulgarian lawmaker (and then former Prime Minister) Nikola Mushanov among opposition leaders rejecting the country's accession to the Tripartite Pact of Japan, Italy and Germany during World War Two.

The Day of St Nicholas (Nikola), the patron of fisherman, sailors, merchants and bankers, is being marked nationwide by Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria on Monday, December 06.

Known as Nikulden, it is also a special day for anyone named Nikolay, Nikola, Nikolina, Nikoleta, Neycho, Kolyo and many others - which means more than a hundred thousand Bulgarians.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Belgrade on Monday morning.

He was greeted at the Nikola Tesla Airport by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

The media in Croatia have once again referred to Nikola Tesla as being Croatian, Tanjug is reporting on Tuesday.

This is taking place after the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) said it wants the urn with Tesla's ashes - currently located in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade - transferred to St. Sava's Temple in the Serbian capital.