Depart by spiritual leader
As ‘Blic’ learns the Patriarch has left a testament and it is to be opened by the Holly Synod. He has also written where he wanted to be buried.
‘Where death comes for me, there is my grave’, Patriarch Pavle used say. According to the Protocol he is to be buried at the Patriarchy in Pec (Kosovo and Metohija) but according to his will he shall be laid to rest at the Monastery of the St. Archangel Gavrilo in Belgrade.
Until then the body of the Serbian Patriarch shall be displayed in the Cathedral Church in Belgrade and the church bells shall ring every 15 minutes before the full hour. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Fiat’ official owner of ‘Zastava’ soon
Posted by admin in Business & Economy on November 10th, 2009
The agreement is also expected to precise the number of workers that shall be undertaken by ‘Fiat Cars Serbia’ as well as dynamics of further investments projected to EUR 800 millions for the period until 2012. The production of new car model is expected to start at the beginning of 2011.
As said by Nebojsa Ciric, State secretary at the Ministry of economy it has been hinted that ‘Fiat’ shall undertake 1,000 workers of the car factory and employ another 100 invalids in protected workshops. The plan is that from the remaining 1,400 workers, about 500 of them leave the factory with severance pay. Read the rest of this entry »
New flu affects pupils and students
According to Doctor Branislav Tiodorovic between 400,000 and 600,000 cases of new flu could be registered in Serbia until the end of the season, while 20,000 people might be hospitalized.
Doctor Predrag Kon, Preisdent of the Working group for fight against pandemic says that the measure of closing of schools and kindergartens shall be applied the moment when majority of pupils and teachers stop attending due to illness. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Young in Belgrade on February 17
Posted by admin in Culture&Showbiz on November 2nd, 2009
The legendary “Harlem gospel choir” consists of the best singers and musicians from Afro-American churches in Harlem and other areas in New York. One of the best choirs in the world has performed with U2, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, “Razorlight”, Elton John and other famous musicians. ”Harlem gospel choir” will perform on December 2 at the Sava Center in Belgrade and on December 3 in Nis and money from earned from the tickets will be donated to charity. Srdjan Stojanovic, director of the firm “Multimedia Concerts”, announced Paul Young’s concert at yesterday’s press conference. Read the rest of this entry »
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Bajaga to hand in an MTV award in Berlin
Posted by admin in Culture&Showbiz on October 29th, 2009
“In early November I will travel to Berlin to take part in the forthcoming menifestation MTV Awards and I will award a prize to the band “Lolobridjida” which has one this year. The audience will be able to see this event on November 5 on TV and I it is a great honor to be among the stars chosen for MTV awards,” says Bajaga.
Late this year Bajaga and Insturktori will have three concerts at the Sava Center on December 28,29 and 30) in order to mark the anniversary- two and a half decades since the release of their first record.
“We ill have three concerts with a standard repertoire at the Sava Center, but we would like to have different guests every evening and to perform several old songs which we rarely play. We have been practicing a lot and the band sounds great,” says Bajaga. Read the rest of this entry »
Biljana Plavsic to be secured by Serbian Home Ministry
If Swedish authorities allow she shall land in Belgrade on the Republic of Srpska Government’s plane. If that request happens to be rejected what is most likely, Plavsic shall leave Stockholm on ‘JAT’ flight to Belgrade. She has air ticket booked for that flight.
The relatives of Biljana Plavsic confirmed once again that she has the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia and that she shall live in Belgrade.
Plavsic was released from prison after expiration of two thirds of her 11-year sentence ruled to her by the Hague Tribunal for crimes against humanity during wars in Bosnia.
“Galenika” as the only factory for sale until the end of this year
Posted by admin in Business & Economy on September 21st, 2009
Mladjan Dinkic, Economy Minister, says for “Blic” that there is no need to sell “Galenika” for a lower price.
“Since it is a strategically important company, analyses have shown that the minimal starting price for 100 percent of “Galenika” will be EUR 200 mn. Preparations are reaching the end and there is no reason why bid should not be invited until the end of this year,” says Dinkic.
The Privatization Agency has confirmed that privatization strategy of this company is close to an end.
“We hope to finish it until the end of the month and the Government will determine what part of the capital it will sell,” it was said from the Agency for “Blic”.
Apart from the existing one, the purchaser of the Serbian pharmaceutical company will also buy a new one, which building should be finished at the end of January next year. The total value of this investment is EUR 46,37 mn, while for technological and process systems is EUR 25,9 mn.
“The amount of invested money proves that the factory owns the latest equipment of the world-famous producers with which production will be carried out through the most contemporary technological procedures,” says for “Blic” Nenad Ognjenovic, general director of “Galenika”.
“Galenika” is more and more active and we are actively returning to export markets and lately we have mainly been focused on the market in Russia, where we will send the first round of medicines at the end of September,” says Ognjenovic.
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International media comment on Pride Parade cancellation
BBC and Reuters stated that organizers of the parade found the recommendation to relocate the event to the outskirts of Belgrade unacceptable, and demanded that it be held in the center of the capital.
Italian news agency ANSA stated that various ultra-nationalist and extreme right wing groups announced that they would take all measures to stop the parade from happening.
ANSA states that the Serbian Orthodox Church openly spoke against the Pride Parade and homosexuals, calling it an “immoral gathering,” “Shame Parade,” and “Sodom and Gomorrah.”
The Italian agency added that Belgrade has recently been covered in anti-gay graffiti. BBC added that the ultra-nationalist Movement 1389 called the cancellation of the parade a “great victory for normal Serbia.”
Diana Krall’s Belgrade performance confirmed
Posted by admin in Culture&Showbiz on September 21st, 2009
Krall recorded her first album in 1993, Stepping Out, in cooperation with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton, and the record assumed the third place in the Billboard jazz charts. Only Trust Your Hearts came out two years later and was produced by Tommy LiPuma, who had previously worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Al Jarreau and Anita Baker.
In 1996 Diana Krall became a huge star as her third album, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio, received excellent reviews and was a hit with the fans, spending 70 weeks in Billboard’s jazz charts. Her dreamy contralto has been winning over new and old jazz audiences all over the world. She cemented her popularity with the next album, Love Scenes, in 1997, on which she worked with Russell Malone and Christian McBride.
Krall won a Grammy in 1999 as the best Jazz Vocal Performance for her album When I Look In Your Eyes, which was the first jazz record to have been nominated for the best album of the year award. After touring with Tony Bennett, Diana Krall released The Look of Love in 2001, which achieved platinum status. She repeated the feat with the following album – Diana Krall: Live in Paris – where she performed renditions of Billy Joel’s Just the Way You Are and Joni Mitchell’s A Case Of You.
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