http://www.belgradefvc.com The community for foreigners in Belgrade, Serbia Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:47:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mladin Kovacevic "Who the hell is Miladin Kovacevic," you might ask, "A war criminal?" Not quite, he is a Serb college basketball player involved in the horrific beating of a fellow student in a New York State town who was then helped to escape the USA and return ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/mladic-karadzic-and-nowmiladin-kovacevic There has been plenty of talk over the last few years about the need to attract talented Serbs from the Diaspora back to Serbia to lead the next generation of Serbian businesses with their unique blend of Western know-how and understanding of Serbian culture. I have recently come ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/the-brilliant-new-generation-of-serbian-businesses This was sent today to protest the silly exaggerations in the article referenced. Dear Sir or Madam, In an article in your newspaper yesterday "The Kosovo question", (accessed online at http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=42653 ) S.M. Rashed Ahmed writes:"KOSOVO'S independence is a triumph of the right of self-determination and freedom. Serbian ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/letter-to-the-editor-of-the-daily-star-bangladesh Very interesting comments from former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith testifying in the Ante Gotovina trial. Apart from his rather weak contention that the expulsion of the Krajia Serbs was not ethnic cleansing because the population had fled before the invaders arrived, the bulk of his statement is damning. Galbraith ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/galbraith-op-storm-no-ethnic-cleansing A few weeks ago a visiting Irish friend of mine went out to resupply us wit booze and came back complaining that he could not find Cranberry juice for the vodka. I told him, as a joke, that Cranberry juice was only sold in Pharmacies in Belgrade as ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/when-jokes-turn-out-to-be-true People fishing in extremely polluted water on the Sava river near Belgrade (March 2005). Detail here. The same spot in May 2008, nothing has changed. Water expert and member of the International Press Institute (IPI), Joseph Treaster, has posted a well informed article about Belgrade after  attending the IPI’s annual meeting held ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/shameful-river-neglect BELGRADE -- International Refugee Day is being marked today, with Serbia home to some 100,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, the highest figure in Europe. There are about 75 collective refugee centers in Serbia sheltering some 6,000 people, while the rest live in private accommodation or with ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/serbia-has-most-refugees-in-europe Firstly, the sight of Serbs firstly cheering for the old enemy Croatia, then genuinely sad at their loss, but possibly only because they were playing the older enemy Turkey. Even the Bosnians were shouting for Croatia tonight (take a bow Miralem). It was not the 5 goal classic that was Portugal vs ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/ironic-night-in-belgrade One of the coffee ladies at work popped into my office today to ask me about a ring she had found on her plot of land in the Belgrade suburb of Kotez. It looks to me like either a survivor’s ring or guards ring from Stalag III A, a ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/creepy-relic-from-nazi-pow-camp I recently came across a new and very interesting Balkan blog by Ari Rusila, a Finn who has spent some time in the region working for European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR). He was full of praise for the new document delivered by Serbian Deputy Prime ... http://www.belgradefvc.com/national-programme-for-integration-of-serbia-into-eu