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Balkans: Online Platform Tracks Reports From Areas Hit by Record Snowfall

Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie was concerned about the reception of her director's debut movie, 'In the Land of Blood and Honey', in Bosnia and Serbia, and some of her fears turned out to be justified. Sasa Milosevic reports on the virtual battle that Jolie's film has caused.

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Macedonia: Celebrating Basketball Win Over Lithuania

Serbia: Government Officials and Social Networks (Interview) 23 July 2011
Serbia: First Reactions to Acquittal of Sandor Kepiro 20 July 2011
Serbia: Disgruntled Community Vs. Disgruntled Politician on Twitter 18 July 2011
Macedonia: Views from Abroad on Protests Against Police Violence 6 July 2011
Serbia: Demanding Apology From Comedian Chelsea Handler 5 July 2011

Latest stories about Serbian

24 August 2011

Croatia, Serbia: A Flag of Friendship

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Eastern & Central Europe

Two young adults from Croatia and Serbia have created a mixed Serbo-Croatian flag, as a gesture of reconciliation between the two countries. Some netizens have condemned the initiative, others seem to approve of it.

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5 August 2011

The Balkans: Over Half of the Population Uses the Internet

Written by Danica Radovanovic · Eastern & Central Europe

Danica Radovanovic reports on the findings of a study of Internet usage in the Balkan region.

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3 July 2011

Serbia: Serbs Seek Refuge from Politics and Tabloid News in Citizen Journalism

Written by Danica Radisic · Eastern & Central Europe

More often than ever, blog posts on the state of the media and journalism seem to be popping up in the Serbian blogosphere. Danica Radisic highlights a few of them.

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29 April 2011

Serbia: Bloggers Discuss Plans to Erect Monument to Late Azeri President

Written by Viktor Markovic · Eastern & Central Europe, Central Asia & Caucasus

One of Belgrade's nicest parks has recently got renovated - thanks, partially, to a donation of 2 million euros by the Azerbaijani government. The news that has been stirring controversy these past few weeks among Serbian bloggers is the condition for this gift: in return for the donation, a monument to Heydar Aliyev, the former president of Azerbaijan, will have to be erected in the park.

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30 March 2011

Serbia: Gaddafi's Cyber Army Oppose Rebels and NATO

Written by Sasa Milosevic · Middle East & North Africa, Eastern & Central Europe

A Facebook page entitled "Support for Muammar al-Gaddafi from the people of Serbia" has become a show of support for the controversial Libyan leader, with over 62,500 members. Libyan opposition activists have also reported cyber attacks on opposition websites coming from Serbia. Sasa Milosevic reports on the online support for Muammar al-Gaddafi in Serbia.

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23 March 2011

Serbia: Returning Gratitude for the Japanese Donations

Written by Sasa Milosevic · East Asia, Eastern & Central Europe

Sasa Milosevic reports on Serbian initiatives to help Japanese victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, in a grateful return of the aid donated by Japan to Serbia.

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Updates about Serbian

12 October 2011

Macedonia

“Comrade Apple died” - the anonymous Taen bloger (= Secret Blogger) used the language imitating the original 1980 TV announcement [sr] of the death of the beloved Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito to comment [mk] on the reactions following the death of Steve Jobs.

• Filip Stojanovski

18 September 2011

Serbia

Slobodan Markovic has initiated [sr] a Twitter discussion (#ICTSrbija) about the report on the use of ICT issued by the State Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (noted in an earlier GVO article). A recap is available in English, Macedonian, and Albanian language.

• Filip Stojanovski

10 September 2011

Russia

Jana writes [sr] about Instant Light, a collection of 60 Polaroid photographs by film director Andrei Tarkovsky, and posts some sample photos from the book.

• Veronica Khokhlova

9 August 2011

Bosnia Herzegovina

At Balkan Travellers, Sarah Hucal writes about Yugo Yoga performance that took place on a makeshift stage at Belgrade's Museum of Yugoslav History in July 2011; more of Hucal's Balkan travel writing and photos are at her blog, Solo in the Balkans. Jana Orsolic's Istria Week travel photos and journal [sr] are here, here, here, here, here and here. Piran Café's latest entry on the June 2011 trip to Sarajevo (plus links to earlier posts) is here; the blogger also links to the New York Times' recent travel piece on Slovenia, Slovenian Rhapsody.

• Veronica Khokhlova

7 July 2011

Serbia

Belgraded.com posts a subtitled version of Ghetto - the Secret Life of the City, a documentary about Belgrade's alternative rock scene “of the worst period in the nineties, when turbo-folk became the way of life in Serbia.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

26 May 2011

Bosnia Herzegovina

Richard Byrne of Balkans via Bohemia and Borut Peterlin react to the news of the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general wanted for war crimes, including the Srebrenica massacre. Sladjana Lazic of A Slice Of Serbian Politics and Viktor Marković (@Belgrade) report [en, sr] on small-scale protests in Belgrade and other Serbian cities; Marković also tweeted earlier today that “more than 100 Facebook groups [had been] created in support of Ratko #Mladic in the past two hours.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

2 May 2011

Bosnia Herzegovina

Dragan Varagić published his analysis of the most influential Twitter users [sr] from Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro, done through manual selection and consulting ratings services.

• Filip Stojanovski

Comments on "Serbian"

Serbia: Demanding Apology From Comedian Chelsea Handler

Well actually "Kursadzije" are directed to Serbs as well. There is a Serb character and he is made fun of...

Please do not forget Bulgaria - situation there is so hard - snow and floods... I wrote one update and...

"an not proved claims" I bet you typed that with a straight face too. How sad. There are literally miles upon miles...
Unlike you I will not go down on your level of commenting that is full of hatred, jealousy, an not...
Its good for Serbs that the movie portrayed only the genocide committed in Bosnia and not the rest of the...