Serbia under German occupation

MOSCOW - Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin and his Belgrade counterpart Sinisa Mali agreed on Tuesday to sign a cooperation agreement between the two cities within three months.

BOR – Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic has said that certain people can be expected to be relieved of their duties in the Serbian Armed Forces (VS) because of earlier abuse of office, but for now, the VS and the Defense Ministry work like a good and well-coordinated team.

Pasalic was set upon close to his apartment in the Novi Beograd district on Thursday night by three men who beat him up after he refused to give them money.

They also called him an ‘Ustasa’, a supporter of the fascist regime that led Croatia during WWII as a puppet state of Nazi Germany.

BELGRADE - The exhibition Serbia in the Great War, which is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One, was opened at Dom Vojske Srbije in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The exhibition covers 18 themes in chronological order and includes 270 documents and photos to help understand the topic and offer new insights into World War One.

Officials from the Croatian and Serbian governments joined a commemoration for people killed by the WWII fascist Ustasha regime at the Jadovno concentration camp near the town of Gospic.

Armies in the Balkans show co-operation in crisis situations

BELGRADE - Officials of the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce and the Japanese City of Yokohama said on Thursday they would facilitate cooperation between businesses in the two cities in various fields and the transfer of Japanese technologies to Serbia.

BELGRADE - The website of the Serbian daily Kurir was brought down due to the key attack which came from Croatia, and the Serbian police are cooperating with its colleagues so as to determine who is behind the attack, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said.

The daily Kurir reported to the Interior Ministry several attacks on the website committed on June 23-24.

Public sector layoffs in 2015, privatization bill "in July"

BELGRADE -- Serbia's economy is facing a turning point and its biggest problems lie in the political practice, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Kori Udovički has stated.

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.