Crime & War crimes

The entrance to the embassy (Tanjug)

MUP investigates incident at Syrian embassy

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 17:15 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Several Syrian citizens living in Serbia entered the yard of the Syrian embassy in Belgrade late on Wednesday and defaced its facade with graffiti.

Thieves stay away: Cars covered in snow are seen in Belgrade (Tanjug)

Big chill puts freeze on crime, statistics show

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 15:02 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Several weeks of heavy snow and extremely cold weather in Serbia have had one positive side effect, Interior Minister Ivica Dačić has revealed.

Yesterday's news Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Candidacy in jeopardy unless dialogue resumes

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 13:20 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (30) | Send comment

BRUSSELS -- Serbia will not become a candidate for EU membership if Belgrade fails to, by the end of next week, reach an agreement with Priština on Kosovo's representation.

Borislav Stefanović (Tanjug, file)

Negotiator: Belgrade constructive, Priština stalling

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 17:01 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Borislav Stefanović says Belgrade maintains a constructive approach, insisting on the continuation of the dialogue and providing new solutions.

Goran Bogdanović (file)

Referendum "will damage Serbia politically"

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:40 | Source: Tanjug, Press | Comments: (24) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Goran Bogdanović has said that holding a referendum in Kosovo's north might not be a huge economic damage, but would cost Serbia dearly in political terms.

Vojislav Koštunica (Tanjug, file)

"Next govt. should declare political neutrality"

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:42 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (15) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Vojislav Koštunica has voiced his opinion that following elections - expected this spring - a new government should declare political and military neutrality.

(Tanjug, file)

Parliament committee on Kosovo to convene

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:00 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Chairman of the Serbian Parliament's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija Ljubomir Kragović has scheduled a session of this body for Tuesday.

Firefighters are seen earlier this week removing icicles from a building in Belgrade (Beta)

Icicle kills woman in Belgrade

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 15:19 | Source: B92, Beta, Blic, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- A woman died today after an icicle formed on the roof of a building in Belgrade fell on directly on her, police sources have confirmed.

A view of the partially frozen Sava River in Belgrade (Beta)

Big freeze continues, ice forms on large rivers

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:38 | Source: B92 | Comments: (1) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Serbia went through another extremely cold night, to wake up to morning temperatures ranging from minus 15 to minus eight degrees centigrade.

Novak and girlfriend Jelena pose for reporters in London on Monday (Beta/AP)

Đoković named Laureus World Sportsman of Year

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:45 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment

LONDON -- Serbian tennis player and World No. 1 Novak Đoković has been named Sportsman of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in London.

Zemun Clan members attempt escape

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 09:23 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Two former members of the Zemun Clan criminal group last night attempted to escape their detention union in Belgrade, local media are reporting.

The meeting in Belgrade on Monday (Beta)

IMF, Serbian government launch talks

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 09:26 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Serbian officials met in Belgrade on Monday with a visiting IMF mission and opened talks on the first review of the current precautionary stand-by arrangement.

"2012 inflation within planned framework"

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:08 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- The 2012 inflation will be within the planned framework of 5.5 to 6 percent", considering the indicators at the end of 2011, says IZIT's Saša Đogović.

People are seen displaying an Albanian flag in a town in southern Serbia (Beta, file)

Councilors wish to name street after terrorist

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:04 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (55) | Send comment

BUJANOVAC -- Councilors from ethnic Albanian parties in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, have adopted a proposal to change the names of several local streets.

(Tanjug, file)

Another train derails in region due to snow

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 16:58 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

ZAGREB -- A train that was traveling on the Split-Zagreb line in Croatia on Tuesday derailed near the town of Knin, said reports.

Sergei Lavrov (Beta/AP, file)

Russian foreign minister visits Syria

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 17:07 | Source: euronews, RIA Novosti | Comments: (14) | Send comment

MOSCOW -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is on Tuesday visiting Syria amid ongoing clashes in that Middle Eastern country.

Will Serbia become EU candidate in March?

Opinions & Analyses

Germany's role in Europe and European debt crisis

1.02.2012. | Comments: 6
An EU flag flies in Athens (Beta/AP)

"Germany must have a free-trade zone in Europe. Germany also needs robust demand in Europe. Germany also wants prudence in borrowing practices. And Germany must not see a return to the anti-German feeling of previous epochs."

B92 TV

KFOR spokesman: Institutions in north "not parallel"

22.12.2011. | Comments: 3
KFOR troops and local Serbs at Jagnjenica on Nov. 30 (Beta)

A spokesman for the NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, says that this international mission "does not think there are parallel and illegal institutions in northern (Serb-dominated) Kosovo".

Reports

Balkans in HRW's annual World Report

23.01.2012. | Comments: 0

The Human Rights Watch international NGO has published its 22nd annual World Report, summarizing human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011.