The community for foreigners in Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade has some fantastic fertility symbols… Apparently the same artist believes that “Allah is badass”…

Combat 18 in Belgrade, originally uploaded by Limbic. Looks like neo-Nazi hooligans in Belgrade have connected with their brethren in the UK. There has been an up-tick in Hooligan related violence in Belgrade recently, with shootings and even a train steaming incident.

The European Centre for Culture and Debate has a great, free first birthday concert this Friday 16th April. The best act will be Rpoint, with Roma hip/hop rap and urban beats. This part runs for 40 minutes from 6 pm. The dance troupes are from all round the country and they also sing. Mary Black [...]

“I am waiting”, originally uploaded by Limbic. Spotted this on Simina street.

Follow the leader, originally uploaded by Limbic. Spotted this on Simina Street. Liked the colours.

Check out these two wonderful mashups featuring Turbofolk in space from Lektor on YouTube: Via the always brilliant Belgraded gblo and Beogradoholik

These are my links for January 8th 2010 through February 21st 2010: Blic Online | Belgrade prepares offensive for rights of Serbs in Kosovo – ‘In diplomatic sense, struggle for Kosovo has three priorities. The first one is to stop further recognitions of unilaterally proclaimed independence. The second priority is to prevent that Kosovo is [...]

Ian Bancroft has a great piece in the Guardian today about Kosovo.The EU is more divided than ever, Western donors propping up the territory are fed up with bankrolling it (their economies are in freefall), and now we are seeing some serious doublespeak from The Quint – the five principle pro-Kosovo powers: The Quint – [...]

Over at Belgraded.com, there is a discussion about a group of 200 “intellectuals” who have asked the Serbian parliament to call a referendum on the country’s possible future NATO membership. The argue that Serbia is traditionally neutral, that the Kosovo situation precludes Serbia’s NATO membership and that people are against membership and should be given [...]

Outgoing Croatian president Stjepan Mesic commuted the sentences or pardoned 14 war criminals on Thursday in a move that has angered Serbs. One of those who had his sentence commuted by a year was Sinisa Rimac, convicted of participating in the notorious murder of prominent Zagreb Serb family, including a 12 year girl. Serbian President [...]

Nebojsa Malic has slammed a recent OpEd in The Financial Times by British politicians William Hague and Paddy Ashdown. He rightly points out that the piece is the usual mix of anti-Serb whinging, alarmism and multicultural wishful thinking. The thing that caught my eye in the piece was this, a warning about what might happen [...]

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 [...]