Serbs

BELGRADE - Denver Nuggets centre Nikola Jokic will play for the Serbia national basketball team at the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, the Serbian MaxBet Sport web portal reported on Wednesday.

There is still no official confirmation of this by either Jokic or the Basketball Federation of Serbia.

The report said Jokic was due to arrive in Serbia by the end of the week.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic laid a wreath at a memorial to the WWII liberators of Belgrade on Wednesday to commemorate May 15, 1945, the day when WWII military operations ended in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Poplovic laid the wreath as an envoy of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - Serbia's main state ceremony commemorating 79th years since the WWII victory over fascism was held at the Memorial to the Liberators of Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE - April 30, 2024 will go down in history as the day when, for the first time, the world had an opportunity to see at the UN headquarters the faces of, and hear the personal accounts of, people who testified of the suffering and the plight of the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The Washington premiere of the WWII-themed Serbian film The Heroes of Halyard was held at Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Serbian Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric said the premiere, held "at the heart of American democracy", commemorated the 80th anniversary of the heroic WWII Operation Halyard, when Serbian farmers rescued close to 500 US airmen.

WASHINGTON - Serbia's Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric says intensive work is underway to arrange a visit to Serbia by one of the top teams in the US National Basketball Association (NBA).

The solemn ceremony was held in the Presidency building, and the following were honored:
1. Berge Brende, Order of the Serbian Flag, first degree
2. Chen Bo, president of the Chinese Institute of International Relations, Order of the Serbian Flag, first degree

BELGRADE - Thanks to Monday's agreement between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece will join a project to build a 1,500 km high-speed rail line from Budapest to Athens, which will be a historic victory for the Western Balkans, with Corridor 10 to become one of the most important European transport corridors, says Serbian Minister of Construction, Transpo

WASHINGTON - Serbian Minister of Economy Slobodan Cvetkovic and Congress of Serbian-American Friendship President Vladimir Marinkovic met in Washington with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar to discuss advancing bilateral economic cooperation and creating an even better investment environment in Serbia.

LAS VEGAS - Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric opened the Serbian-American Economic Forum, held in Las Vegas for the first time.