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30 years after: Serbia in denial about genocide
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
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"The only genocide in the Balkans was against the Serbs": this graffiti appeared in the centre of Belgrade in June 2024, signed by a far-right organisation and has even been recently repainted. Photo: © Massimo Moratti The general mood in Serbia...
Bulgarian Associations in Serbia Back Students amid Cuts in Some University Quotas
Bulgarian News Agency
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The Bosilegrad Cultural and Information Centre, the GLAS - Bosilegrad Association and Cultural Alternative Tsaribrod have expressed outrage over a dramatic reduction in places slated for students from the Bulgarian communities abroad for Medicine,...
Serbian police detain 18 overnight amid protests — interior ministry
TASS
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July 8, 2025
BELGRADE, July 8. /TASS/. Serbian police checked the identities of 800 people and detained 18 of them on Tuesday night amid ongoing protests in the country, the Serbian Interior Ministry said in a statement. Law enforcement officers continue to...
Is Serbia in for a summer of civil disobedience?
Deutsche Welle
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July 11, 2025
"We won't tell you what you should do — not because we don't know [what you should do], but because you do. The people should be guided by their conscience." With these words, students in Belgrade on June 28 symbolically passed on the baton of...
'Europe watched as our children were killed': Bosnia remembers Srebrenica genocide 30 years on
The Journal
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July 11, 2025
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE have gathered in Srebrenica to commemorate the genocide committed 30 years ago by Bosnian Serb forces, one of Europe’s worst atrocities since World War II. On the eve of the commemorations, thousands of Srebrenica peace...
Local Express: B. Bastian, aka Essum Dee
The Western Queens Gazette - New York
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July 16, 2025
Photo Doryan Robinson @doryanxrobinson on Instagram Bastian is an Indonesian-American singer, songwriter, actor, and traditional dancer whose multifaceted work bridges contemporary expression and cultural legacy. Performing under the moniker Essum...
UAE aid convoy enters Gaza with food and relief kits for children
The National News
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A UAE aid convoy carrying essential food and relief kits for children arrived in Gaza on Wednesday night. The food supplies, which are to be used in community kitchens and to keep bakeries running, were delivered in 13 lorries which entered the...
Inter-Church Interaction and the International Agenda in the Letters of Patriarch Alexey I(80 years since the end of the schism over the Bulgarian Orthodox Church) {part 1}
The European Times
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July 10, 2025
“The unification of the world must be preceded by the unification of Europe, and the latter is unthinkable without the prior unification of the Slavic world.” Exarch STEPHEN I, 1947 In his address, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, opening the...
UNESCO-recognised Kovačica naïve art on display in Bratislava
Radio Slovakia International
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An exhibition of Kovačica naïve art opened Tuesday at the Gallery on the Western Terrace of Bratislava Castle. Added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in December 2024, this folk-art tradition comes from Slovakia’s community in...
No Escape from Geography: Protests, Putin, and Political Red Lines for Georgia and Serbia
Georgia Today
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July 10, 2025
As mass protests continue to roil Serbia and Georgia, both countries find themselves walking a tightrope between democracy and creeping autocracy, with Moscow’s shadow looming large over both. Aleksandar Djokic, Serbian political analyst and...
Serbian startup developing capsule for mental reset at workplace
eKapija
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Imagine being able to enter, in the middle of your work day, between two emails or after an exhausting meeting, a quiet capsule, close your eyes and, in only 14 minutes, fully regenerate your mind, body and energy - without instructors, without...
‘Just a few bones’: 30 years on, Srebrenica still buries its dead
Al Jazeera
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Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina – In a grassy valley dotted with white gravestones, thousands of people gathered to mark 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide on Friday. Seven victims of the 1995 genocide, some of whose remains were only...
Jan Philipp Albrecht: “Europe has failed to recognise new interlocutors in Serbia”
Serbian Monitor
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July 9, 2025
“The erosion of belief in Serbia’s European perspective is growing, and its leadership is doing a thorough job of making that path more difficult. I completely understand the Serbian public and their disappointment. On the other hand, the European...
Conference on promoting China's peaceful reunification held in Serbia
Xinhua News Agency
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BELGRADE, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The Overseas Chinese World Conference for Promoting Peaceful Reunification of China was held in Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday, with the theme of "Hand in hand, work together to promote reunification, and strive to...
Balkan Moods Ensemble Ignites Plovdiv’s Crossroads Festival
Bulgarian News Agency
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The Balkan Moods project was presented as part of the Crossroads International Youth Festival in Plovdiv, the festival organizers said on Wednesday. The event was held at the Small Early Christian Basilica. The project features Theodosii Spasov...
Every second company in Serbia faces a corruption problem
Serbian Monitor
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July 9, 2025
In its new Rule of Law Report, the European Commission did not single out issues directly related to the economy, but it did scan several key areas that significantly affect the business environment for companies and entrepreneurs in Serbia. One...
25th Hard Music and Sounds United Summer Festival to Be Held in Sofia's Borisova Gradina Park July 19-20
Bulgarian News Agency
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The 25th Hard Music and Sounds United (H.M.S.U.) Summer Festival will be held in Sofia's Borisova Gradina Park on July 19 and 20, the organizers from Fest Team said Wednesday. The oldest music festival in Bulgaria will bring 25 artists from the...
Belgrade, Serbia: The Naked Boy And The City That Wouldn’t Die
Free Press Journal
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July 6, 2025
You don’t expect a church to be carved into the side of a fortress. But Belgrade rarely does what’s expected. Ružica Church greeted me with cold air, golden light, and chandeliers made of war. Above, the chandeliers didn’t glitter with crystal or...
Ambassador of Turkmenistan presented his credentials to the President of Serbia
Turkmenportal
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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the Republic of Serbia (with residence in Moscow) Esen Aydogdyev presented his credentials to President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic. The ceremony took place at the Presidential Palace...
Dragoljub Bajić appointed acting director of the National Theatre in Belgrade
Serbian Monitor
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July 8, 2025
Opera artist and music educator Dragoljub Bajić has been appointed acting director of the National Theatre in Belgrade. He was appointed following the dismissal of actor Svetislav Goncić from the position, as announced in the Official Gazette and...