The community for foreigners in Belgrade, Serbia

The New Years Eve mass murder in the finish city of Espoo, Finland was  carried out by an Albanian illegal immigrant from Kosovo  called Ibrahim Shkupolli. There are rumours that Shkupolli was a KLA/UCK veteran wanted in Serbia for the massacre of Serbian civilians in Kosovo. Is there anything in the Serbian media to confirm [...]

One for the paranoiacs…were the BBC trying to hint that the Radicals are like the SS, or is it a statement about “Serbian”?* Here is the corrected article now. *I think it was a simple typo, but you never know

On behalf of the members of the Belgrade Foreign Visitor’s Club I offer my condolences to the Serbian Orthodox community on the occasion the death of Patriarch Pavle of Serbia. Patriarch Pavle oversaw the Orthodox church and the people of Serbia through some of their darkest years of war, sanctions, bombardment, isolation and vilification. I [...]

The Irish Consulate circulated a very good advisory from the UN on the Swine Flu situation. It has solid advice on how to avoid it and what to do if you think you may have it. http://www.belgradefvc.com/files/h1n1_swine_flu_update_9_11_09.pdf

Hello there readers! I just wanted to remind you to stop by the Forum to meet the crew,  have your questions answered and discuss life in Belgrade . You can get to it by either clicking on the Forum tab (above) or going to http://www.belgradefvc.com/forum .

Brice Taton, the 28 year old French football supported attacked by football hooligans on September 17, has died from his injuries. On behalf of the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club I would like to extend our sincerest condolences to his friends and family. The lynch mob that killed him are now murderers. They will face murder [...]

From B92: “A Libyan citizen was assaulted and beaten in Belgrade on Friday night, according to the Interior Ministry. The man was attacked without provocation or reason by a group of young men, according to police. The attack occurred around 23:00 CET on Friday night, and the Libyan citizen, who is a student in Belgrade, [...]

These were in last month’s Yellow Cab, but I thought they deserved a digital life… Strahinjica Bana Eating and Drinking Map Usce Eating and Drinking Map

This last week really has been terrible for Belgrade in terms of its reputation internationally and amongst its foreign residents. On Wednesday 16th we had a British tourist shot and wounded outside Freestyler. The following night, a mob of hooligans attacked a bar full of French fans and brutally beat one of them – Brice [...]

[Update 1: Looks like this lad, who by all accounts is a lovely person, was injured by a stray bullet from a fire fight between hooligans and club security. That distinction is not really meaningful because so much of Belgrade's club security is run by hooligan gangs that inevitably they duke it out with rivals [...]

These two women above are unrelated except that they were queuing together at my local Maxi supermarket. The lady in pink was actually pressed against the lady in black much of the time even though we all had plenty of room (I was the third person in the queue and I am more than a [...]

Brilliant article at The Economist about the “Yugosphere” and the fact that the Former Yugoslavia is patching itself together: AT A recent summit of the cold-war relic called the Non-Aligned Movement, Serbia’s president, Boris Tadic above left, remarked that companies from former Yugoslav republics should join forces to bid on construction projects or specialised military-equipment [...]