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Issue No. 246 Friday, February 23, - Thursday, March 8, 2018 Even when the Democrats longas continue to likely is This also are negotiations Drawn-out Surely the situation is urgent Many of us who have experi - We feel in-the-know because bia has shown us that (a.) no single no (a.) that us shown has bia party or coalition will ever gain the governa - form to required majority negotiations political (b.) and ment, will never be quickly concluded. achieved their surprising result at last month’s general election, quickly it became clear that the - re sult was actually more-or-less the result election other every as same in Serbia, i.e. inconclusive. as Serbia’s politicians form new political parties every time disagree with they their current party - reg 342 currently are (there leader political parties in Serbia). istered the norm. One Ambassador Belgrade-based recently told me he was also alarmed by the distinct lack of urgency among politicians. Serbian “The country is standstill at and a I don’t understand their logic. If they are so eager to progress towards the EU and en - theycome how investors, courage go home at 5pm sharp and don’t work weekends?” overtime. little a warrant to enough EDITOR’S WORD Predictability Political By Mark R. Pullen elections Serbian numerous enced rate ourselves as pundits when it comes to predicting election - re sults and post-election moves. our experience of elections in Ser - - - NEWS HOW NATIONALISMNEWS “The situation in the party seems “Dacic will eventually side with Nikolic agreed: “The question is Fearing they might not cross the Pensioners leader, Jovan Krkoba - The reported price is the post of In addition, the Socialists are bar Tadic has denied talk of horse- At the same time, Dacic seems re - reach an agreement “If we don’t Source: Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) Source: USURPED party over which way to turn. extremely complicated, as we try to convince the few remaining lag - gards that we need to move out of one Socialist shadow,” Milosevic’s Party official complained. in a bid to guide his party into Tadic the European mainstream, but much of the membership and many offi - cials may oppose that move.” will the party split or ‘old- back down,” he noted. timers’ threshold to enter parlia - 5-per-cent ment, the Socialists teamed up with Association of Pensioners and the the led by business - United Serbia Party, man Dragan Markovic “Palma”. bic, Palma and Dacic are all pushing for a deal with the Democrats. of deputy PM, with a brief in charge security for the Socialist leader. gaining for other ministries, includ - ing capital investments, Kosovo and education, Belgrade media reported. trading with the Socialists, maintain - ing that ministries would go only to those committed to working for the “strategic goal”. government’s negotiations with luctant to call off the nationalists. with the DSS and Radicals, par ty leadership will decide on future steps”, Dacic announced, following par new country’s of session first the liament on Wednesday.

ANTI-FASCISM page 10 IN BALKAN hile the football world watch - es events unfold at the Euro - However, a strong current also However, Mihajlo Markovic, a founder of Markovic, a prominent supporter Some younger Socialist officials Neighbourhood Matters faces extinction unless it changes. flows in the opposite direction, led by party veterans enraged the Tadic. prospect of a deal with recently warned of a crisis the party, if Dacic opts for the pro-European “nat - bloc, abandoning the Socialists’ ural” ideological partners. of Milosevic during the 1990s, is seen as representative of the “old- timers” in the party who want to stay policies, true to the former regime’s even though these almost ruined the Socialists for good. have voiced frustration over the con - tinuing impasse within their own Football Rebellion Football pean Championships in Austria and pean Championships in Switzerland, Bosnia is experiencing led by fans, play - a soccer rebellion, enraged ers and former stars who are by what they see as corrupt leaders football association of the country’s leaders. SPORTS W Issue No. 1 / Friday, June 13, 2008 Issue No. 1 / Friday, Balkan athletes were prepared to die fighting Nazism and fascism in page 5 the 30s and 40s, yet many sports figures now champion ultra- conomists are warning that pro - over Serbia’s uncertainty longed “This year has been lost, from the nationalism. After eight years of stagnation, the pro-European and nation - With Nikolic believes the Socialists, led “The group of younger Socialists Business Insight Costs Mounting future could scare off investors, lead investors, lead future could scare off to higher inflation and jeopardise prosperity for years to come. says standpoint of economic policy,” Econom - the of Stamenkovic Stojan ics Institute in Belgrade. to Serbia’s late president, Slobodan to Serbia’s Milosevic, and reformists who want the party to become a modern Euro - pean social democrat organisation. the Socialists returned to centre stage after winning 20 of the 250 seats in elections. parliament in the May 11 alist blocs almost evenly matched, the Socialists now have the final say on the fate of country. by Ivica Dacic, will come over to if only out of a pragmatic de - Tadic, sire to ensure their political survival. gathered around Dacic seems to be adding said, Nikolic majority”, the in that these reformists believe the party E Friday • June 13 2008 THIS ISSUE OF Belgrade Insight IS SUPPORTED BY: IS SUPPORTED ense negotiations on a new gov - ense negotiations ernment have divided the ranks “It looks as if the Socialists will Simultaneous negotiations held This divides “old-timers” loyal Socialist leader Ivica Dacic remains the Serbian kingmaker Socialist leader Ivica Dacic remains Lure of Tadic Alliance Splits Socialists Tadic Lure of government, old pro-EU While younger Socialists support joining a new, over the prospect. revolt Milosevic loyalists threaten in Belgrade By Rade Maroevic of the Socialist Party, which holds of the Socialist Party, of the balance power between the blocs and has yet to announce main which side they will support. move towards a government led by the Democrats,” political analyst Mi - lan Nikolic, of the independent Cen - tre of Policy Studies, said. “But such a move might provoke deeper divi - sions and even split the party.” with the pro-European and national - ist blocs have drawn attention to a deep rift inside the Socialists. T

Filip RUDIC One such committed anti-fascist sportsman was Bozidar 'Bosko' Petro- s the former Yugoslavia vic. In the mid-1930s, Bosko was play- began to fall apart dur- ing for the Yugoslavia football club but ing the Balkan wars of he heard that Belgrade Sports Club, the 1990s, many promi- BSK, was to play a football match in nent athletes started to France. He immediately cancelled his openlyA embrace nationalism. contract and joined BSK. It was a striking reversal for Yugoslav But the rising football star, who had sports stars, given anti-fascist sports- also played for the Kingdom of Yugo- men who had taken a stand against slavia's national team, did not have Nazi-backed fascism before and during sports in mind when he decided to go World War II were previously revered to France in the December of 1936. by Yugoslavs. Continued on pages 2 and 3

The link between sports and politics in former Yugoslav states is strong, with hooligan groups causing Photo: Beta nationalist incidents on a regular basis.

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Continued from page 1 How Nationalism Usurped Anti - Fascism in Balkan Sports

Banners with images of Serbian nationalist movement Chetniks’ leader Draza Mihajlovic, are commonly seen at Serbian football matches. Photo: Beta

he Spanish Civil War had but only for causing public disorder national broadcaster, RTS, which was Velez players were prominently anti- turned by Belgrade's Higher Court in broken out that summer rather than for hate speech. then known for disseminating war- fascist during World War II. Seventy- 2015. and Petrovic was more The current mood in Croatian sports mongering propaganda against other seven of the club's players and officials Another former Serbian national than just an athlete – he is in stark contrast with the historic nations. died in the war and nine were decorat- basketball player, Darko Milicic, a self- was vehemently anti-fas- actions of sprinter Boris Hanzekovic, In 2012, power in Serbia was seized ed with the Order of the People's Hero proclaimed nationalist who maintains Tcist and a trained pilot. As soon as he who risked his life to support the then by the Progressive Party, which de- of Yugoslavia. that he does not hate anybody, sports You can expect arrived in Paris, he said goodbye to his illegal anti-fascist Partisan movement rived from Milosevic's ultranationalist At the same time, the Bosnian-Cro- tattoos of Chetnik leaders Nikola stunned teammates and crossed into in Zagreb after the Nazi-backed Ustasa ally, the Serbian Radical Party. They anything where atian Zrinjski team played in the Nazi- Kalabic and Momcilo Djujic. Spain using a forged passport under came to power in 1941. forged a coalition with the Socialists, backed Independent State of Croatia's In 2013, Milicic attended an event the name of Fernando Garcia. Hanzekovic, a former representa- and have been governing Serbia since. people like First football league. organised by the ultra-nationalist Ser- After he was killed in combat the tive of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's Under their mandate, Vucelic steadily [Partizan Football Today, Zrinjski fan groups remain bian Radicals' Party and expressed following year, Petrovic's image was national team and holder of many re- made his way back into public life, be- committed to far right politics and support for their leader, Vojislav Seselj, used on the International Brigades' cords, refused to join the Nazi-puppet coming president of the state-owned Club's president] many recently paid tribute to the war who was at the time in custody while recruitment posters, according to the Independent State of Croatia's national Partizan club in 2016. criminal Slobodan Praljak, who com- standing trial at the Hague Tribunal on Association of Retired Army Pilots and team. The link between sports and poli- Milorad Vucelic mitted suicide after his guilty verdict charges of allegedly committing war Paratroopers of Serbia. For this and his links with the Par- tics in former Yugoslav states is strong, was confirmed during an appeal hear- crimes, for which he was later acquit- Petrovic was one of many Yugo- tisans, Hanzekovic was arrested and with hooligan groups causing national- are in charge. ing at The Hague Tribunal in Novem- ted. slav athletes who supported the fight sent to Jasenovac concentration camp ist incidents on a regular basis. ber 2017. However, not all prominent active or against Europe's rising far-right. But in 1944, where he was shot dead during In the late 1980s and early 1990s na- former athletes promoted nationalist their successors in countries estab- an attempted break-out. tionalism became the dominant ideol- 'PEER PRESSURE' ideas from the 1990s onward. lished after Yugoslavia's dissolution ogy of various fan groups, including Croatian light-heavyweight boxer seem to prefer rightist ideologies. those of the largest Serbian and Croa- Athletes with right-wing views ap- and Olympic gold medallist Mate Par- CLUB MANAGERS' INFLUENCE Milorad Vucelic, President of the Partizan Football Club in Serbia. Photo: Beta In 2013, Australian-born Croat foot- tian clubs - Red Star and Partizan from pear to remain comfortable in the post- lov, considered to be one of the great- ball player Josip 'Joe' Simunic led Sociologist and former director of Belgrade, Dinamo from Zagreb and 1990s Balkan war atmosphere. est Yugoslav sportsmen, gave his well- "It is a mechanism for binding peo- Ergic said that they would encounter some 20,000 fans in chanting the Belgrade's Institute for Philosophy and Hajduk from Split. Bozidar Jaksic, Basketball coach and former cap- known opinion of nationalism in a ple together through collective eupho- "great problems" because "any form of Croatian fascist Ustasa movement's Social Theory Bozidar Jaksic says that However, nationalism spread among Sociologist and former tain of Serbia's national team, Milan 2004 interview: "How can I be a nation- ria," Ergic, who played for the Serbian dissent is difficult". slogan, Za dom spremni (Ready for the the rise of nationalism among athletes athletes as well, which was starkly evi- director of Belgrade's Gurovic, has a tattoo of the World War alist if I am the world champion?" national team at the 2006 FIFA World Sociologist Jaksic said that such a Homeland). is not only influenced by broader so- dent during the 1992-1995 war in Bos- Institute for Philosophy and II ultra-nationalist Serb Chetnik leader However, many inside the sports Cup, told BIRN. player would be treated like the bas- He was not reprimanded by his ciety, but also by the heads of sports nia and Herzegovina. Social Theory Draza Mihailovic, which led to him be- world say people who openly hold He believes that nationalism among ketball player Alen Omic, a Bosniak, manager or by the Croatian Football clubs and associations. Notorious war criminal Veselin Vla- ing banned from entering Croatia in views such as Parlov's are very much players generally comes from a lack of who was 'welcomed' to the Red Star Bozidar ‘Bosko’ Petrovic was one of many Yugoslav athletes Photo: Wikipedia/ FK Vojvodina Federation and was only criticised lo- "You can expect anything where hovic, a professional boxer before the who supported the fight against Europe's rising far-right. 2004. in the minority and that the climate in political consciousness, as they start Basketball team – part of the Red Star cally by certain media outlets. Support people like [Partizan Football Club's war, was sentenced by a Bosnian court according to the Bosnapress news The Chetniks were a Serbian na- sports would deter many from making training early in life and get stuck in an multi-sports club - by fans from his own for Simunic among the Croatian public president] Milorad Vucelic are in to 42 years in prison for committing member of Yugoslavia's national team, than 10 guilty verdicts against former website. tionalist movement that collaborated a stand against far-right nationalism. atmosphere of "conformity". club holding a banner with ethnic slurs was sharply divided. charge," Jaksic told BIRN. numerous war crimes, including mur- who unsuccessfully tried to save his professional athletes for war crimes, The war impacted Bosnian football with the Nazis during World War II. Former Serb football player Ivan Er- "When you are inside that collective, against Bosniaks at a match against the FIFA gave Simunic a 10-game sus- During the Yugoslav wars in the ders, multiple rapes, and torture. Bosniak neighbour from being execut- and local courts are still prosecuting clubs as well. In the town of Mostar in Mihailovic was executed in 1946 after gic, whose career spanned from 1999 there is some peer pressure, and it's very Greek club Olympiacos. pension, preventing him from attend- 1990s, Vucelic was a member of Presi- Dubbed the 'Monster of Grbovica', ed by Vlahovic in 1992. several football players and karate 1993, Bosnian-Croats evicted the local being found guilty of collaboration to 2011, says that "folkloric national- hard to stand out in any sense," Ergic said. "It is to be expected that any anti-fas- ing the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. The dent Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Vlahovic killed Goran Cengic, a former The Hague Tribunal and Bosnian fighters accused of beating and tor- football club Velez, allowing the Croa- and war crimes by the post-war Yugo- ism" is present among both players and Asked about what would happen to cist today would be denounced in this Croatian court fined him 660 euros, Party and general director of Serbia's handball player from Sarajevo and courts have handed down more turing civilians and prisoners of war, tian club Zrinjski to take over. slav authorities. The verdict was over- fans. an athlete with anti-fascist views today, country," Jaksic said. 4 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 5 BELGRADE BELGRADE

Belgrade to Get New Market Construction of the new market Belgrade in Belgrade's neighbourhood of Palilula will be finished by spring 2019, local authorities announce. It will have four Irish Festival storeys and the first entirely covered market in the capital city. The building will include an underground garage as in brief Belgrade Returns well as a floor with only cafes, restaurants and souvenir shops. The overall cost of the work will From films to concerts, the city's Irish festival be around €11 million, and the whole sum will be financed by is a must visit for locals and tourists alike. the public enterprise Belgrade Market, Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali said. Alexis TRAUSSI The festival will feature a live perfor- mance by one of Ireland's most famous Fire of Anatolia he Belgrade Irish Festival returns singer-songwriters, Mundy. He is best Comes to Belgrade to the city's streets for its sixth year, known internationally for his single To Tkicking off on Friday, March 9 and You I Bestow, which was included on the Fire of Anatolia, a world-famous running until the 18. The festival introduc- best-selling soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Turkish dance group consisting es Belgraders to the breadth of Ireland's film adaption ofRomeo + Juliet that starred of 120 dancers, will perform multifaceted art and cultural traditions. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. at Belgrade's Sava Centar on Belgrade’s Irish Fest has a plethora of events for Photo: Irish Fest Called Spring Time in Belgrade, the fes- As part of the festival, Irish Film Week March 7 at 9pm. The group people of all ages. holds two Guinness World tival's programme is inspired by the Year will highlight some of Ireland's most Records: one for fastest dance of European Cultural Heritage. The theme poignant films and documentaries. One of Borderlands was curated by Shoair Ma- to the theme, and topics could include performance with 241 steps was announced by the European Parlia- the documentaries that will be screened is vlian, the newest director of Photoworks, Serbia's history and the Austro-Hungarian per minute and another for the ment earlier this year. Talking to My Father, which follows Simon a development agency committed to pho- and Ottoman Empires or Ireland's own largest audience with 400,000 "We are delighted with the programme Walker as he delves into the story of his fa- tography and finding new artists, and was struggle with the United Kingdom. Addi- people attending their perfor- of this year's Belgrade Irish Festival that ther's life, the famous modernist architect shown last autumn at Getxophoto's In Flux tionally, artists can blur the lines between mance in Eregli, in the Black celebrates our shared European culture. Robin Walker. exhibition in Bilbao, Spain that featured reality and fantasy, past and present, fact Sea Region of Turkey. They We have an agenda full of exciting events Along with film week, the festival will on six international artists including Swann. and fiction with their images. have performed in more than and activities, and we look forward to eve- March 14 mark the 100th anniversary of the In addition to Swann's exhibit, there will With a plethora of events for people 85 countries worldwide in front ryone enjoying them," said Jas Kaminski, end of World War I with a lecture by pro- be a public contest. The theme is Borders and of all ages, the Belgrade Irish Festival is a of a total audience of approxi- director of the Belgrade Irish Festival. fessors from both the University of Dublin Peripheries, harking back to Swann's own must visit for everyone. In addition, on mately 20 million people. Fire of Anatolia's performance incudes Across the city, there will be screen- and the University of Belgrade. They will work. Entries can be submitted until Febru- March 17, St Patrick's Day and Ireland's na- th a combination of Turkish culture ings of some of Ireland's latest films, Irish discuss the 10 Irish Division's presence ary 28, and a shortlist of finalists will be an- tional holiday, the bridge at Ada Ciganlija and historical folk dance from and Serbian theatre performances, plus a on the Thessaloniki Front. nounced on March 5. The jury will make its will be lit green and there will be a huge various parts of the country, photo exhibition. These events will also in- This year, the festival will also include final decision on March 12 and will award the celebration with lots of food and drinks. with contemporary dance, ballet clude lectures from professors and profes- an exhibition of photographic work by re- winner the grand-prize of a GoPro Camera. and acrobatic elements. Tickets sionals, workshops, food stands, and other nowned Irish photographer Nigel Swann Competition entrants are encouraged More information is available at for the event cost from 1,800 to impressive cultural events. called Borderlands. to either take a literal or abstract approach www.irishfest.rs. 2,900 dinars [around €15-€24] and can be purchased at Sava Centar box office as well as at Win Win shops. tionally the most popular destination for The Souvenir Fair is returning for the Rita Ora, the Pristina-born and London-based pop star, visited Kosovo to Photo: Beta In 2018, Dua Lipa won two Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist Photo: Wikipedia/Harald Krichel Citizens to Protest Tourism Fair Offers Serbian tourists, especially the north of 14th time and bring together around 50 do- support the celebration of their Independence Day on February 17. and British Breakthrough Act. over Hippodrome the country, due to its proximity and rea- mestic producers of mementoes, who will sonable prices. present the most well-known souvenirs Association of Citizens "Hip- Holiday Delights for The Tourism Organisation of Greece from the country. podrome in Belgrade" and estimates that in 2017, there were around HORECA will display equipment for Horse Club "Careva Cuprija" Vacationers 850,000 visitors from Serbia, and a 20 per kitchens, restaurants, bars, hotels, security Kosovo Pop Stars Get announced they will protest cent rise in the number of Serbian tourists and reservation systems, cleaning equip- in front of Belgrade Assembly More than 1,200 exhibitors from 55 countries travelling to more distant destinations such ment, bakery items, banquet equipment, on Saturday, February 24 at as the Greek islands and the Athens region. work clothes and footwear, professional noon. They will come together will gather in the Serbian capital for the annual Visitors to the fair will also have a literature and various publications from Young Serbs Singing with horses, calling on the authorities to save the oldest tourism trade event, promising large discounts chance to sample what Serbia has to offer. the experts in the field. sport object in the capital. They for visitors. Marija Labovic, the head of the National At BEOWINE, visitors will have the op- will also insist upon recon- Tourism Organisation of Serbia, said that portunity to see the most distinguished structing the stands, the entire as much as 51 per cent of all guests are local and regional wine producers but also Along racing infrastructure, extending Ivana NIKOLIC organisations and associations, as well as coming from Serbia. world-famous marques, wine cellars and the contract between the city hotels, spas and airlines, will try to entice "This year, the focus of the offer is on vintners. There will also be stands offering (which owns the area) and the olidays are Waiting for You!" people to spend their holiday money. cultural and historical heritage and on so- viticulture and wine-making equipment. According to the media reports, er the official standpoint in Belgrade. be a more devoted fan. She "discov- Istrefi, scored a major hit withBonbon company "Hipodrom Beograd" exclaims the slogan of the 40th The most attractive part of the Tourism called active vacations, which are more The fair halls are open every day from Despite the bitter many expressed their anger on so- Amongst these fans is a 17-year-old ered" Dua's music last summer and in 2016. Even though it is mostly sung for at least another 30 years, "HTourism Fair, which has just Fair is usually the early-bird offers and ex- and more popular," Labovic told a press 10am to 7pm (on February 23 and 24) and political divisions cial media after Ora announced she Antonija Matovic. A high-school stu- spent the following months only lis- in Albanian, it became popular inter- among other demands. The opened and runs until Sunday, February clusive discounts for 2018 summer season conference on February 20. from 10am to 5pm on the last day, Febru- would perform at Pristina's Skender- dent, Matovic said she is not at all in- tening to her songs. nationally and has racked up more protest comes as a citizens' response to several announce- 25 at the Belgrade Fair, Halls 1-4. holidays – some of which run up to 50 per Apart from tourism, three more expos ary 25. Tickets cost from 200-300 dinars between Serbia beg Square to mark a decade since Ko- terested in politics. Speaking to BIRN, "She's cute, I like her music and the than 530,000,000 views on YouTube ments by Belgrade City officials It claims to be "the largest tourism event cent off. are running simultaneously at the Bel- (around €1.6-€2.5). sovo's declaration of independence she admitted she didn't know about way she dresses," Janicijevic, who so far. that the hippodrome would be in the country and south-east Europe", and Among the exhibitors will be tourist grade Fair: the Souvenir Fair, the Food and Kosovo, from Serbia in 2008 – a move Belgrade Ora's recent show in Kosovo, but said holds a master's degree in Italian lan- As a result of its success, Istrefi either shut down or moved to according to the organisers, a total of 1,200 agencies from Greece, which is also this Service Industry Fair, HORECA, and the For more information on the Tourism has vowed never to recognise. that she sees nothing wrong in it. guage and literature, told BIRN. signed a contract for $1.5 million with another location. Serbian and international tourist agencies, year's partner for the fair. Greece is tradi- International Wine Fair, BEOWINE. Fair, visit beogradskisajamturizma.rs. many Serbian Ora's posts from the Pristina concert "I don't mind, really. If she wants to Lipa was born in London in 1995 to two global music giants, Ultra and and a subsequent meeting with the sing there, why would I be bothered Kosovo parents shortly after they left Sony Music, in February 2016. youngsters love Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Hara- by her concert in Pristina?" Matovic their hometown Pristina. She became Anja Todorovic, 22, said that she dinaj caused a verbal battle between said. famous by posting cover versions of loves the rhythm of Bonbon as well ORDER DELIVERY TO YOUR DOOR Kosovo-born social media users from Serbian and "What I like is her music and her her favourite songs by Christina Agu- as other songs by Istrefi. The art his- Find your copy of +381 11 4030 303, [email protected] pop singers like Kosovo. songs, I don't mind where she comes ilera and Nelly Furtado on YouTube. tory student also said that she doesn't One of the photos that created an from," she added. At the end of 2017, she was named mind the fact that Istrefi comes from Belgrade Insight here: www.balkaninsight.com/en/page/subscribe-to-belgrade-insight Rita Ora and online storm showed Ora wearing a Ora was born to Kosovo Albanian the most-streamed female musician the former Serbian province. hooded sweatshirt emblazoned with parents in Pristina in 1990. Her family of the year thanks to her hit New Rules, However, she says she was outraged Dua Lipa who the word 'Kosova'. Below the photo, left Kosovo for political reasons and which also attracted a billion video by a video that was shot by the singer MONUMENT HOTEL HYATT INTERGALACTIC DINNER INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF FLY FLY TRAVEL a 28-year-old wrote: "These hoodies moved to London in 1991 when she views on YouTube. in a Serbian Orthodox Church in Pris- Address: Cika Ljubina 9 Address: Milentija Popovica 5 Address: Internacionalnih brigada 22 BELGRADE Address: YUBC Bulevar Mihajla have attained were made specially for this incredi- was a year old. Janicijevic, who works in a Bel- tina. The 2014 video for the song E Address: Hotel Jugoslavija, Bulevar Address: Temisvarska 19 Pupina 10v ble day of independence for my amaz- She has scored a number of hits grade-based Italian company, said she dehun, in which scantily-clad Istrefi HOTEL MOSKVA HOTEL CROWN PLAZA Mihajla Pupina 85A international ing country." around the world, with the video for doesn't care about Lipa's ethnic back- dances in the church's nave, sparked Address: Balkanska 1 Address: Vladimira Popovica 10 THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANT DVA JELENA The post generated more than one of them, 2012's Shine Ya Light, pro- ground at all, and also insists that she angry reactions from Serbia and Or- SCHOOL OF BELGRADE Address: Skadarska 32 stardom. 16,000 comments: while the majority moting her hometown Pristina. She wouldn't mind if she sang in her native thodox Church officials. HOTEL SQUARE NINE HOTEL LE PETIT PIAFF TOURIST ORGANISATION OF Address: Smetanina 12 were supportive, the ones written by was also named an honorary ambas- language. She thinks that Lipa's other The building of the Christ the Sav- Address: Studentski trg 9 Restaurant Mali vrabac SERBIA Serbian users laid claims to Kosovo as sador for Kosovo in 2015 by the former fans in Serbia don't care much about iour church began in 1990 but stopped Address: Skadarska 34 Address: Trg Republike 5 RADISSON BLU OLD Ivana NIKOLIC an integral part of Serbia and slammed President Atifete Jahjaga. her ethnic origins either. in 1998 when the Kosovo war erupted. CAFE SNEZANA MILL HOTEL, BELGRADE what they call the ethnic Albanian 'oc- But Ora is just one of a trio of pop "I think that, in general, young peo- It remains abandoned and is the focus NATIONAL FOUNDATION Address: Knez Mihailova 50 HOTEL MERIOT Address: Bulevar Vojvode Misica 15 ays before Kosovo cel- cupation'. stars with Kosovo origins who have ple in Serbia don't pay attention to the for an ongoing dispute between the FOR DANCE Address: Vase Carapica 2-4 www.radissonblu.com/hotel-belgrade ebrated its Independ- However, many of Ora's Serbian become world-famous in recent years. fact that Rita Ora, Era Istrefi or Dua Lipa church and the Pristina authorities. Address: Kolarceva 3 KOLARAC ence Day on February fans aren't really bothered by the in- Her fellow singers Dua Lipa and Era are Kosovo Albanian. They listen to "It is a sign of disrespect to dance BISTRO BAR Address: Studentski trg 5 FLY FLY TRAVEL Address: Kolarceva 7 17, Belgrade media were dependence events. They argue they Istrefi have also been attracting fans in their music despite all that because, at half-naked in any church," Todorovic Address: Vojvode Stepe 198 RESTAURANT BIZU Address: Aerodrom pult claiming Rita Ora, the only enjoy her music and don't mind if countries all over the Balkans, includ- the moment, they are huge music stars told BIRN. HOTEL EXCELSIOR Address: Andre Nikolica 1-3 DPristina-born and London-based pop she's Kosovo Albanian celebrating her ing Serbia. all over the world," Janicijevic said. "But apart from that, I see nothing Address: Kneza Milosa 5 SKVER 44 FLY FLY TRAVEL star, had disappointed her Serbian country's Independence Day and pro- Matovic likes Dua Lipa as well, but The third successful pop singer bad in Era Istrefi as a singer. She's Ko- Address: Pozeska 44a Address: Knez Mihailova 4 fans. moting it whenever she can – whatev- 25-year-old Ana Janicijevic seems to with Kosovo roots, Pristina-born Era sovo Albanian - so what?" 6 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 7 BELGRADE BUSINESS COMMENT 'Serbian Serbia's Opposition Stream' Must Break Free of Gas Pipeline and Stark the 90s Reality Non-nationalist opposition Politicians re- Dimitrovgrad, will be completed in 2018 and we have already secured an parties should vive hopes of EU grant of 49.6 million euros. We ex- pect to start construction in 2019," An- stop trying to having a new tic said. pan-European defeat Vucic by ROSY DREAMS, STARK REALITIES using political gas pipeline pass through Serbia, The Serbian government's concerns tactics - and about future gas supplies for the coun- but many have try are logical bearing in mind that Ser- faces - from the bia gets all of its imported gas via a sin- their doubts. gle transit route, through Ukraine and Hungary. 1990s. This makes the country vulnerable in case of possible interruptions of gas supply, and even more so if Russian Gazprom delivers on its plan to cut Srdjan GARCEVIC Stevan VELJOVIC off gas supplies to central Europe via Ukraine after 2019. Experts suggest that given the available options, Russia would likely remain a key supplier Photo: Beta ver since Vucic and the Ser- few weeks ago, Serbian According to the Serbian Energy of gas for both Serbia and the EU in the foreseeable future. bian Progressive Party, SNS, officials announcedAgency 2016 annual report, more than came to power in Serbia their plans for the con- 80 per cent of Serbia's annual con- financed by various financiers such as Community, an organisation that repre- would likely remain a key supplier of in 2012, a recurring theme struction of the 'Serbian sumption of around two billion cubic states, national and European gas com- sents the EU and nine of its neighbour- gas in the foreseeable future, both for among the country's po- Stream', reviving the metres is imported from Russia, while panies. ing countries and aims to establish an Serbia and the EU. Elitical commentators is to liken the gov- ideaA of an alternative gas pipeline that less than one fifth is secured from do- Yet even before the question about integrated pan-European energy mar- "Supply from LNG terminals is more ernment and its style of rule to that of would bring Russian gas to Serbia and mestic production. its funding is raised, the pipeline's route ket - told BIRN the chances were slim. complicated and more costly, and it is the dark days of the 1990s. the rest of Europe. Gazprom also has a majority share of and capacity would have to be clarified, "The EU is a very strong promoter of more suitable for highly developed and Seizing on this, in its attempts to gal- Despite the hype, many wonder if 51 per cent in the gas storage in Banatski he said. the Ukrainian transit route and so are highly productive countries," Srecko vanise the electorate, the opposition the idea will be as ill-fated as the much- Dvor, with capacity for 450 million cu- "The Serbian Stream should be pre- we, provided that the gas reform pro- Djukic argued. frequently uses similar tactics and vaunted 'South Stream' – the pipeline bic metres of gas. ceded by the pipeline in Bulgaria and cess in Ukraine progresses according Iran and the Middle East have re- paints the current situation as a re- that was supposed to transport gas The attractiveness of the abandoned followed by pipelines in, for example, to the Energy Community rules," the serves big enough to replace Russia's match against a new iteration of Milose- from Russia to the European Union, un- South Stream project for Serbia, which Hungary, Croatia, and Bosnia. To build organisation said in a written statement annual export to Europe of 200 billion vic's government. der the Black Sea and through Bulgaria has not been matched by any other only a section through Serbia, without to BIRN. cubic metres of gas, but given complex The former presidential election can- and Serbia. The plan was abandoned in project so far, was that it would have having the whole route from the Eu- They noted there is a significant dif- relations with Iran and the Middle East, didate, Sasa Jankovic, opined just a few 2014 due to non-compliance with Eu- secured an alternative route for gas ropean part of Turkey to Budapest, or ference between this initiative and the as well as the ongoing war in Syria, this weeks ago in an interview for Danas, a ropean Union competition and energy supply, while also making Serbia a tran- Zagreb, would be similar to building a previous South Stream project, despite doesn't seem a viable alternative, he ex- As part of his election strategy, Dragan Djilas is counting on popular disenchantment with Vucic and the SNS similar to that of the 1990s. Photo: Beta Belgrade daily, that the opposition will legislation. sit country and a regional hub for gas highway between two meadows," Dju- a more or less similar route. plained. "return Vucic to the 1990s, where he tary, even pointed to the anti-Milosevic scandals that have engulfed the cur- well-being than more intangible issues decades, it is perplexing that opposition Yet Serbian government officials supply. kic explained. "This project is not clearly financially With likely disruption of the Ukrain- belongs". riots of 5 October 2000 as the reason he rent SNS-led city administration. like rule of law and media freedoms, leaders are just rehashing the old politi- have apparently never abandoned Following the collapse of the South The capacity of such a pipeline is an- viable and it shall in principle follow the ian gas route, Serbia's gas supplies be- Serbia's political Twittersphere is entered politics – and joined the oppos- The scandals include accusations which is understandable given the low cal tricks and even faces from 1990s. their hopes for such a project, which Stream pipeline project in 2014, Russia other issue. Third Energy Package requirements come uncertain, especially given the awash with even more extreme pro- ing side. of plagiarism and unreported wealth wages and bleak employment pros- By choosing the same people who would not only provide a stable gas launched a new project that same year, "The pipeline could be a regional one, and procedures", the secretariat said, fact that gas from Serbia doesn't flow nouncements that claim Vucic is even The parallels run even deeper in the against the current city mayor Sinisa pects in the country, especially outside are widely perceived either as corrupt supply for Serbia but also enable lucra- the Turkish Stream. with a capacity of around 10 billion cu- arguing the project should be observed further, except to Bosnia. worse than Milosevic. Vesna Pesic, a current style of government, from the Mali, which he denies, the unlawful major cities. or out of touch with the daily concerns tive transit of gas to third countries. The first leg of this pipeline, with a bic metres, connecting Bulgaria, Serbia, in the context of the ongoing "pipeline Djukic described the agreement to prominent voice of dissent against Mi- building of a personality cult around destruction of private property in 2016 In addition, while the "anything but of the average Serbian citizen, they Serbia's need for such a project is fur- maximum capacity of 15.75 billion cu- Hungary and Croatia, or a smaller one, war" between Russia and Ukraine. deliver Russian gas to Serbia on the losevic in the 1990s, even likened the the leader to the repression of dissent- to make way for the controversial Bel- them" approach worked in the 1990s are not credibly showing that they are ther underlined by the fact that Russian bic metres, will deliver natural gas from connecting only Serbia and Hungary, "In the case that the Turk Stream 2 - Hungarian border as encouraging, current situation in Serbia to Musso- ing voices. grade Waterfront project and the re- when the Serbian electorate could be willing to address the key problems Gazprom plans to cut off gas transits Russia directly to Turkey, while the sec- or it could be a European project, with the pipe which would supply Europe which means that it is their concern lini's fascism. Vucic, like Milosevic before him, is cent discovery that the price tag for this hopeful about the opposition's prom- Serbian voters are concerned about, through Ukraine by the end of 2019. ond, of the same capacity, is envisioned a capacity of 20 billion cubic metres of - is going to be built, which is now pure how they will deliver the gas, no matter In many ways, it is easy to see Vucic's omnipresent in the media and opines year's Christmas tree in Belgrade was ises of a better life, voters are far more such as tackling increasing economic As a result, Serbian Prime Minister to supply gas to European customers. gas," Djukic explained. speculation, Gazprom may also look if they would do it via Hungary, Austria government as a continuation of Milo- on all issues spanning Serbia's interna- an eye-watering 83,000 euros, making jaded today. Almost all key opposition inequality and the lack of representa- Ana Brnabic officially revived this idea The second branch of the Turkish into yet another route via Greece and or Slovakia. sevic's disastrous rule. tional relations to Belgrade's municipal it one of the costliest in the world. leaders have held prominent posts in tion in government for people outside January 29, when she declared that in- Stream aims to deliver gas to the Euro- 'UKRAINIAN ROUTE Albania (via TAP - Trans Adriatic Pipe- "Serbia is a small consumer in Euro- The most obvious parallel comes problems. Although a significant chunk of the past governments and the record of the political elite. stead of the South Stream, the Serbian pean side of Turkey, the south-eastern STILL ALIVE line) to Italy. We are of the opinion that pean terms," he said. "I don't fear that from the fact that Vucic himself came Just as in the 1990s, most of the Ser- SNS's popularity is certainly due to those governments has often been un- Rather than providing credible solu- Stream pipeline will soon be built. border of the EU, without risking the re- ' the Ukrainian route still makes sense Serbia could be left without gas, but the to prominence in the 1990s as a mem- bian media, including the state broad- the controlled media environment, a pleasant for the average Serbian voter. tions to these problems and reaching Two days later, the Serbian minister peat of non-compliance with EU com- Djukic believes that common inter- and will likely remain the source of sup- question is at what price it could be pro- ber of the ultra-nationalist Serbian caster RTS, routinely ignore criticism major reason why the Serbian opposi- Think about the botched privatisa- out more to average Serbs, both of the of Mining and Energy, Aleksandar An- petition and energy legislation, which est of Balkan countries including Bul- ply for Southeast Europe in the future," vided." Radical Party. He served as a minister and scandals related to the govern- tion's warnings have fallen on deaf ears tions of the 2000s that left many unem- two major non-nationalist opposition tic, told Serbian public broadcaster RTS led to the demise of the South Stream garia, Serbia, Romania and Hungary in they added. Djukic laments that Serbia has failed of information between 1998 and 2000 ment. The tabloids, such as Informer, for the past five years is that Vucic's ployed but made many politicians rich, political blocs, currently led by Dragan that the "project of increasing Serbia's project. participating in such a project appears to build necessary gas connections in during the last, arguably most inter- frequently run smear campaigns electoral appeal and government, if and the deep recession preceding the Djilas and Dragan Sutanovac, doubled gas transportation system", or the so- Construction work on the Turkish to be growing, but key details would LACK OF VIABLE the past 30 years. nally repressive stage of Milosevic's re- against opposition leaders and other not governing style, significantly differ SNS's rise to power in 2012. While the down on the strategy of framing the called Serbian Stream, could increase Stream project started in 2017 and its have to be worked out so that the EU ALTERNATIVES "Gas connection with Bulgaria was gime, when critical media was openly government critics, dismissing them as from Milosevic's. situation in Serbia may not necessarily election in black-and-white terms, and the transport of gas from Bulgaria, completion is expected by the end of can better see the reasoning behind it. first mentioned in the late 80s, while silenced and Slavko Curuvija, a promi- "foreign spies" – also recycling abusive Most importantly, in the 1990s and be better for the average voter since the counting on popular disenchantment through Serbia, to Hungary and Austria 2019, after which Gazprom intends to "Whether the voice of Serbia or any In a recent report, the European connecting with Romania, which is an nent journalist, was assassinated. labels of the nineties. especially after the NATO bombing, SNS came to power, there are relatively with Vucic and the SNS in the vein of and gas storage sites in central Europe. stop gas flow through Ukraine. other country will be heard depends Commission included Serbia, along exporter of gas, not even project docu- Many prominent SNS members, a Despite these glaring parallels, many Serbia was a pariah state, almost com- few reasons for them to wish the old the 1990s. "If Serbia had the opportunity to be- During his visit to Turkey in July 2017, on its ability to persuade its partners in with Bosnia, Macedonia, Finland and mentation has been prepared," he said. good number of whom have also fol- ask themselves why the Serbian elec- pletely isolated from most of the world governments back into power. Unfortunately for them, it seems that come a gas transit country, the project Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic Europe that it needs gas for economic Estonia, in the group of most vulner- He noted that the possibility of in- lowed Vucic's political path from hard- torate has not responded to these fre- and its neighbours, with an economy in Even if only measuring past govern- the past eighteen years have taught would be implemented by using a simi- said that Serbia expects one branch of growth and development and that its able European countries in case gas creasing domestic production was not line nationalism in 1990s, frequently quent warnings that the current gov- freefall. In 2018, Serbia is an EU candi- ments' performance solely in terms of most Serbs that democratic politics is lar route to the South Stream pipeline, that pipeline to go over its territory. social standard depends on gas con- supplies are interrupted. even mentioned, possibly because it voice the opinion that Serbia's downfall ernment is just a re-run of Milosevic's. date country with the distinct possibil- corruption, freedom of the judiciary very much about the shades of grey. but with smaller capacity, of around Yet experts say that construction of sumption, which is currently among The EU and USA encouraged Serbia also depends on Russia. actually began in 2000 – when pro- Last year, Vucic won slightly more ity of joining the union in the next dec- and freedom of the press, which many 10 to 12 billion cubic metres of gas", he such pipelines are far from a simple the lowest in Europe," he said. to connect with gas routes and suppli- "Probably production can't be in- democracy forces took power - rather than 55 per cent of the vote in the first ade, and the economy is experiencing of the opposition leaders stress are Srdjan Garcevic is a writer and a added. feat. He added that the degree of gasifica- ers other than Russia, including explor- creased significantly within a year, but than with Milosevic's rule. round of the presidential electiozn. In sluggish but noticeable growth. the main problems with the current founder of The Nutshell Times blog. He insisted that this project is sepa- "This project would be a costly one, tion in Serbia is less than 20 per cent, ing the possibility of connecting with in two years perhaps it could be. At the For example, in a well-publicised in- the upcoming Belgrade City Hall elec- The sense of urgency for govern- government, virtually all past govern- rate from the EU-backed plan to build and I doubt that any of the countries in compared to 100 per cent in Germany nearby Liquid Natural Gas, LNG, termi- current speed of production, Serbia has terview published in May last year for tion, the SNS is polling between 35 and ment change for the average citizen is ments between 2000 and 2012, from The opinions expressed in the Com- gas connection between Bulgaria and the region can do it alone," Srecko Dju- or 70 per cent in Russia. nals in Croatia and Greece – projects enough gas for exploitation in the next Nedeljnik, a Serbian weekly, Nikola Se- 40 per cent, a strong result given that simply not comparable. Poll after poll, Djindjic to Tadic, had serious issues. ment section are those of the authors Serbia. kic, a former Serbian diplomat and an Asked whether the EU would sup- that are still under development. 50 years, but if doubled, it would be lakovic, a former justice minister who central Belgrade is traditionally an the Serbian electorate shows that it is Rather than understanding how Ser- only and do not necessarily reflect the "The project documentation for the energy expert, told BIRN, adding that port such an initiative, the Energy Com- However, the experts suggest that enough (only) for the next 25 years," he currently serves as a presidency secre- opposition stronghold and the many more concerned for basic economic bian society has changed in the past two views of BIRN. Serbian section of this pipeline, Nis- this kind of project could potentially be munity Secretariat - a body of Energy given the available options, Russia concluded. 8 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 9 REGION FACES COMMENT Nomad The Russian Threat Snezana in Bosnia is Real Crosses the As the Kremlin World on becomes more closely involved Two Wheels in propping up the Milorad Do- "Of course, you have to respect each dik regime in Far from her Bel- country's dress code and rules of con- duct, and you have to be very cautious Republika Srp- grade home, friends and trust your intuition," she added. and predictable life, Snezana has published stories, ska, we should photos and videos from each of the Snezana Radojicic places she has visited, both on her Fa- not exclude the cebook profile and on her blog, www. possibility of a has been cycling snezanaradojicic.com. The 51-year-old digital nomad – as violent attempt around the world for she calls herself – has also turned her adventures on two wheels into books. to cling to power. seven years now – She has published five novels so far. "I wrote my first novel,Wheel me and does not plan to around the world [Zakotrljaj me oko Jasmin MUJANOVIC stop. sveta] while I was in Nepal, and ever since I published it in 2014, I've lived he presence of Russian- from selling my books," Snezana said, trained Serbian paramili- Ivana NIKOLIC adding that is one source of income. taries, officials from South Ossetia, and the infamous n February 15, Snezana LEAVING THE COMFORT "Night Wolves" biker gang Radojicic updated her ZONE BEHIND Tat the recent and unconstitutional Janu- Facebook status. Ever ary 9 commemorations in Banja Luka, since she switched a But, why did she decide to exchange the capital of Bosnia's mainly Serb en- Belgrade apartment for her conventional life in the Serbian tity, Republika Srpska, RS, have revealed aO bike and started her journey around capital behind for life on a bicycle sad- the startling depth of Russian links to RS the world, she has been updating dle in the first place? president Milorad Dodik and his gov- friends and followers about her where- Snezana said she had become dis- ernment. Additional reports have since abouts daily. contented with her normal, conven- exposed even more disturbing facts: the This time, she wished everyone a tional life in Belgrade. She did various rapid militarization of the RS police, and happy Chinese New Year in the "Year jobs: as an insurance manager and as a an agreement of cooperation between of the Dog." Right below her status it real estate agent, but the only thing she the RS Ministry of the Interior and Rus- read Toyako, in Taiwan. really enjoyed back then was writing sian security officials to train a "special Snezana was on a ten-day vacation books. forces" unit within the RS police. she planned to spend cycling on the east In 1995, she published While the These developments represent not cost of the island, off mainland China. Souls Were Wandering [Dok su duse lu- only a profound deterioration in Bosnia It is her very first major bike journey tale] and, in 2005, LP – Personal Stories and Herzegovina's security climate but since February last year, when she [LP – Licne Price]. arguably the most direct challenge to Milorad Dodik and Vladimir Putin meeting in September of last year. Photo: President of Russia’s website traveled from Japan to China and de- But deep in her heart, she said, she the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement since cided to stop there for a while. yearned to "live freely – and from sell- its signing. lin to patch the gaping holes in the gov- But, in the long run, it was Bosnia that with Serbia and Kosovo still outside of Given that Dodik was already on the Speaking to BIRN, Snezana ex- ing my books." It is important to establish clearly why ernment's budget, caused by a decade had to be dealt with. For Moscow, deal- the alliance. brink of attempting to secede from Bos- plained that she needed a steady in- The moment of truth came in 2011, this is happening and why it is happen- of corruption and mismanagement, and ing with Bosnia meant ensuring that The question remains, though, what nia in the maelstrom of the Crimean an- come and also had a serious back in- when she quit her last job and decided ing now. exacerbated by the growing refusal of the region's strategic centre remained a exactly Dodik, the SNSD, and their Rus- nexation in 2014, and has been explicit jury, so she had to leave her bike on the to live the dream. Dodik, of course, is a long-time Rus- the IMF and other donors and institu- dysfunctional, fragmented polity – espe- sian benefactors are attempting to do about his secessionist aims for years, side for a while and live a "normal" life. It was "the moment I realised my life sian proxy. The current entanglement tions to prop up Banja Luka's obstruc- cially once Montenegro and Macedonia ahead of the October polls to ensure vic- the chances of a dangerous gambit are "I teach English in China to earn a bit was being wasted, and the moment I between Banja Luka and the Kremlin tionist agenda. slipped through their fingers. However, tory. significant. more money because I plan to go across decided I had at least to try to change dates back to at least 2014. The Russians, in the meantime, had as long as Bosnia remained a festering The unconstitutional September 2016 A "Transnistrian scenario" thus can- to the American continent," Snezana, a it," she recalled. After Russia invaded Ukraine, and an- likewise become explicit in their aim wound, the Balkan region would remain referendum orchestrated by the RS au- not be ignored: namely, that with the world literature professor, said, begin- "After that, I didn't hesitate; I was just Snezana has published stories, photos and videos from each of the places she visited, Photo: Courtesy of Snezana Radojicic both on her profile on Facebook and on her blog. nexed Crimea, the nature of Moscow's to sabotage the European and Atlantic a vortex of instability for Europe in its thorities gives us the basic blueprint: the promise of Russian aid and arms, Dodik ning her story of a life on a cycle saddle. thinking how to make it happen tech- relations with the West changed signifi- enlargement processes in the Western entirety. plan is to sabotage the elections through may pull the trigger on attempting to The Americas are one of the few nically." But several months later, she was Snezana also gets some money from Asked about her plans now, Sn- cantly. Balkans. The confluence of the SNSD's and a combination of nationalist brinkman- fully breakaway from Bosnia. places Snezana has not visited since When she started her long odyssey, completely broke and was plan- renting out her Belgrade flat, and for a ezana admits they are anything but It was the start of a period of direct Their immediate priorities were to keep Russia's interests is now centred on the ship and outright force. The point would not be to win formal she started her journey way back in Snezana had a daily budget of only 5 US ning to settle down for a while and while she contributed to a foreign web- fixed. confrontation with NATO, in particular, Montenegro out of NATO and buttress 2018 general elections. Because the SNSD can no longer win recognition by the international com- 2011. dollars, which was just enough for the volunteer for free accommodation site with her cycling stories. "I don't know whether I will stop and the end of the long, illusory, détente Nikola Gruevski's regime in Macedonia. As I explained previously, Dodik is elections on the basis of its actual re- munity for this new statelet – which they Since then, she has cycled across food that she always prepares herself. and food. Then something great hap- travelling like this or not. If this lifestyle the two blocs had (mostly) maintained desperate to cling to power because if cord, it has been reduced to relying on understand fully as a fool's errand – but, Eastern Europe and Asia, starting in pened. MINIMALISM AS A doesn't suit me anymore, if I feel tired since the end of the Cold War. he is defeated at the polls he is almost increasingly volatile political stunts like as in Transnistria, to ensure the survival Slovakia and continuing through Po- "I mentioned those issues on the LIFESTYLE CHOICE or want to settle down somewhere – That same year, Dodik and his party, certain to be indicted and likely impris- the entity's holiday referendum. of the regime. land, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, blog I ran on B92 [Serbian website], and then I will stop," the nomad said. the Alliance of Independent Social oned for a decade of crime at the helm The problem is that the party has It is imperative that the EU, the US, and Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, then the people who had been follow- Last summer, after thousands of "I respect my body and its possibili- Democrats, SNSD, suffered a shocking of the RS. worked itself into a corner; its chauvin- the Office of the High Representative -un Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, ing me for a year and who had been kilometres on the bicycle, Snezana dis- ties … Old age is coming as well as weak- result in Bosnia's general elections, los- The only future that awaits Dodik out ist theatrics belie a real sense of panic derstand how late the hour is in Bosnia Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vi- convinced I wouldn't give up, decided covered she had developed a spinal ness, so I am sure that at one point I will ing their seat on the state presidency to of office is jail time, which still looms in the leadership as to what the future and Herzegovina. A credible deterrent etnam, Thailand, Nepal, Mongolia, My- to help me," she said. disc hernia, which kept her away from have to stop," she added. the united RS opposition bloc, and near- over the head of his fellow autocrat, holds for them were they to lose power. must be prepared, and its existence anmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, I feel it's easier for Snezana had come up with the idea her bike for the next few months. However, one thing she knows for ly losing control of the entity legislature The confluence of Gruevski, or exile to Serbia (or Russia), As a result, Dodik and the SNSD cannot clearly communicated to Banja Luka, West Timor, East Timor, Brunei, Macao, of starting a crowdfunding action to "Of course, I was afraid, but not so sure is that she will never live a con- too. Their once seemingly unassailable as was the case with former Ukrainian allow an actual free vote to take place in Moscow, and the Bosnian public. Hong Kong and finally Japan. women to travel raise money, by "selling" the kilome- much of not being able to ride a bicycle. ventional life ever again. hold on the Bosnian Serb electorate was the SNSD’s and president Viktor Yanukovych. October. Accordingly, they will use their Disaster may yet be averted – but only "I'm not afraid to travel alone, even tres she covered. I was afraid of illness and weakness, She likes the idea of so-called RV life, shattered. Either way, there is no future for Dodik new Russian-funded praetorian guard to if we fully understand the gravity of the if in the beginning I was worried. The than men, as a lot She would "sell" one kilometer of the fear every person has. That fear is life in a recreational vehicle such as a Russia’s interests Over the next two years, Dodik and as the leader of the SNSD as an opposi- intimidate the opposition, to stymie the present crisis. The Russian threat in Bos- limits of fear fade away, especially of people offer us her journey for one euro, so the people bigger if your lifestyle is connected to camper, which can go anywhere in the his party initiated a series of increasing- is now centred on tion party. free press and civil society in the entity, nia is real. once you find out that the world is a far who wanted to support started buying outdoor activities," she admitted. world. ly desperate confrontations with both For Russia, meanwhile, Dodik's defeat and to concoct for the RS electorate a better place from what we see on TV," help and want to kilometres on the locations that they However, her back injury did not "It is simple. We don't need so many the RS opposition and the state govern- the 2018 general would mean that Bosnia's path towards seemingly existential choice: support Snezana explained. liked best. prevent her from travelling entirely. things we are surrounded with in typi- ment in Sarajevo, having concluded that NATO accession would rapidly rema- the regime or risk national annihilation. Dr. Jasmin Mujanovic is a political sci- While many people think that trav- protect us. "My only obligation was to cycle She simply switched a bike for hiking, cal homes," she said. an even more extremist nationalist pro- elections. terialize, as it has for Macedonia since We cannot dismiss the possibility, entist specialising in the politics of south- elling solo across the world must be the locations they chose, and to send and crossed Kyrgyzstan in Central "We can live with the most neces- gram would sway the hearts and minds Gruevski stepped down. however, that this false choice may in- eastern Europe and of post-authoritarian dangerous for a woman, she claims them photos from time to time," Sn- Asia on foot. sary furniture, with only a few items of of voters. And if Bosnia is able to join NATO, volve real violence. After all, a govern- and post-conflict democratisation. His the contrary. ezana said. Meanwhile, she got better, using the clothing and preparing food we grow At the same time, they began making along with Macedonia, Russia's plan for ment of this sort does not procure arms first book, 'Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of "I feel it's easier for women to travel That way, she raised enough mon- so-called AEQ clinical somatics tech- ourselves," Snezana declared. more direct overtures to the Russians, "a strip of militarily neutral countries" or organise paramilitaries without some Democracy in the Balkans' is now avail- than men, as a lot of people offer us ey to cross some 800 km, which was nique, developed by Slovenia's Ales "Minimalism will always be my life explicitly seeking funds from the Krem- in the region is dead in the water – even intention of using them. able from Hurst Publishers. help and want to protect us," she said. enough for several months. Ernst. choice," she concluded. 10 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 11 OUT AND ABOUT DINING OUT Wishful Zrenjanin: Serbia's New drinking Enjoy an excellent

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he wine list at Rustique comprises 50ish labels. Bearing in mind that it's promoted as THE Italian place, it's no wonder the Tlist is focused on Italian wines, which represent approximately half of the offer. Others labels include mostly Serbian wines, coupled with a few labels from ex-Yugoslavia, France, Spain and Portugal. A few are available by the glass. The selection of Italian wines is excellent, covering the best exam- ples of various regions and styles currently available in Serbia. The list is organised according to price – going from less to more expensive wines – which makes it easy for everyone to find the right price range for the occasion. There is also information about the specific regions of wines for people who are not so familiar with Italian labels, but it's not always consistent. Sometimes it refers to the regions, sometimes to the denomination of the geographical origin of the wine. Also, for the sake The river Begej in Zrenjanin. Photo: Flickr/Budjism Photo: Flickr/Dragan DL of full information for real wine lovers, it would be useful to give vintage (i.e. year), as there are some real 'treasures' on the list for which the particular year can be really significant. And I found such a treasure at once, a true champion of the Sangiovese grape that I could Rustique has an excellent Italian wine selection. Photo: Facebook/ Vinarija Torleanzi easily drink on every occasion – Chianti Classico by Fontodi. Chianti Classico is the geographi- cal origin, which indicates that the wine comes from the heart of the Chianti zone, where the Sangiovese grape ripens to its fullest expres- sion. So, imagine the Tuscan hills Rustic Flavours From and one natural scallop-shaped amphitheatre on the southern side of the village of Panzano… There, with a perfect combination of sun Heart of Italy exposure, winds and terroir, this wine was born. As one famous wine reviewer lacks the cosiness and intimacy usu- the pasta is home made, so we asked The exquisite warm poppy-seed once said – evaluating a Chianti Definitely one ally found in rustic interiors. Instead, it the waiter to point to the homemade cake with white chocolate topping Classico is like evaluating a burger. It's best when it's exactly the way leaves a strange impression. ones and opted for tagliatelle al fungi blew us away. This humble-looking you expect it. Sloppy burgers with up from your We were visiting for lunch during porcini with boletus mushrooms. It fell dessert with deep, intense flavour, fancy ingredients are fine, but the long holiday weekend that is just short of expectation. The simple sauce paired with a good espresso is worth a straightforward is better. And this standard Italian- is one straightforward Chianti Clas- behind us and found the place fully with large chunks of boletus mush- visit to Rustique alone. sico. In short, this is how I imagine occupied and the atmosphere vibrant, rooms was tasty, but the pasta itself was Our experience of Rustique was a red wine should be. Wonderfully style trattoria, pleasant and family friendly. The menu thick, hard, uneven and chewy. mixed bag. Italian food is one of the elegant and well structured, with soft but lingering tannins and total is trattoria-style, but has a lot on offer. Petto di vitello, boned breast of favourites in Belgrade, second only Zrenjanin city centre. Photo: Flickr/Goran Necin Zrenjanin City Hall. Photo: Wikipedia/Alexzr88 harmony of acidity and alcohol, Rustique aims We started with a winter warming veal, slowly cooked in the pizza oven, to national cuisine, and a lot of res- chewy and fruity with a little bit of chicken soup. We enjoyed its gentle aro- marked our visit. It came served with taurants serve it – perhaps too many. leather and liquorish aromas, and high – even if it most of all with a long finish. mas, as well as the generous serving in mashed potatoes with leek and was a Most of them beat on the same drum I then remembered how my friends gifted to it by Uros Predic, one of the This Mitteleuropean idyll is only in the centre of the city, the whole But, the wine is not the only thing a beautiful, vintage-style pottery dish. It delicious display of domestic Italian with standard offerings and mediocre A multi-ethnic who hailed from Zrenjanin always most renowned pre-World War II Ser- shattered by the local tap water, which structure is slowly crumbling and graf- special in Rustique. They have one doesn't always hit is a domestic soup one gets at home [if cooking. Used less frequently, breast is output. Rustique does not fall into that of the most famous Italian spirits cultural hub, Zren- emphasised how great the city was. bian painters who also hailed from the often has a menacing goldish hue due fiti sprayed over it reads: "Museum of – Grappa Nonino. Grappa is made lucky], nothing special yet pleasing. a tough yet flavoursome muscle from category. It aims higher, and at times it Immediately, my friend and I decided area. to the large content of arsenic that has Destruction" - only adding to the post- by distilling the wine pomace, i.e. the right note. Rustique proudly serves original buf- the brisket cut. The slow preparation reaches the standard of excellence and to right the wrong of not having been My friend's allusion from the non- made tap water here unsafe to drink for apocalyptic air. what is left from the winemaking falo mozzarella and burata cheeses, renders it soft and tender, mild but at authenticity needed to stand out from janin is worth a process after pressing the grapes. It to Zrenjanin before, despite the fact it Serbian character of Zrenjanin was the past 14 years. We ordered bottled Despite these signs of urban decline, Duda&Vlada and we decided to give that a go with the same time full of flavour and rustic the crowd. But there is still room for im- is therefore different from brandy, visit for its archi- is within easy reach of Belgrade, only also on point given the city's histori- water, wondering if the locals still drink Zrenjanin is determined to make up which is made by direct fermenta- a caprese di bufala. Caprese is a simple style. This dish shows the concept of provement. We will be happy to revisit, one hour's drive north. cally diverse mix of communities. the water despite the health warnings. for lost time and regain its status as one tion of pure grape juice. he calm, upmarket neigh- dish that is all about the ingredients. this restaurant perfectly. hoping to find a more even output. Although the day was gloomy and Beside Serbs, Germans, Romanians, Besides the tap-water problem, the of Serbia's power-houses. The inten- Grappa (or loza in Serbian) was bourhood of Senjak hosts There are two versions of it on the Just as we cannot resist a Margherita, tectural heritage little more than a cheap drink for a cold, as soon as we reached the city's Hungarians, Slovaks and Roma, Zren- post-socialist transition years were tion is to brand Zrenjanin as an attrac- long time, both in Italy and Serbia. some of the Belgrade's fin- menu, a regular one and the one we we cannot resist tiramisu. We were a lit- alone. Just don't beautiful main square my friend ut- janin, or Beckerek as is was known for hard on Zrenjanin. The most notable tive IT start-up destination. So far the But, with the emergence of high- est urban villas and parks, opted for, with buffalo mozzarella, at tle surprised that it came served in cone- tered the highest praise a Serbian can most its history, was even home to Cat- casualty was Zrenjanin's famous art- results are promising, helped by the quality producers in the last couple as well as a number of almost double the price. shaped ice-cream cups. It turned out that Rustique of decades, it has now come to bestow on a local tourist site. alans who settled here in the 18th Cen- nouveau brewery, the industrial heart fact that it houses an off-shoot of Novi Tmuseums, diplomatic residences and However, it was a disappointment. Rustique's version of this staple Italian Address: Vase Pelagica 48A drink the water. prominence. Grappa Nonino comes "It doesn't look like Serbia at all – it's tury and founded the short-lived town of the city, which traced its beginnings Sad University's engineering school. from its Italian spiritual home – the hotels. Naturally, good restaurants fol- The buffalo mozzarella was original, but dessert is less dense, and more creamy, Phone: +381 11 264 7674 so pretty." of Nova Barcelona on its outskirts. to the 18th Century. It closed in 2002 af- To cement its new strategy, Zrenjanin North-East region of Friulli that has low the above – and include Rustique, a with a hint of acidity in the aftertaste, as with eggs dominating the taste instead of Price Guide: 1700-2000 dinars hundreds of distilleries. Indeed, I was immediately wowed The city's cultural mix is still evident ter a failed privatisation deal. also hosts Webiz, one of Serbia's prime In Italy, grappa is a cure for restaurant serving Italian cuisine in the if it was somewhat past its keep time. It mascarpone. It was enjoyable, even if it (€15-20) per person for three courses Srdjan GARCEVIC by the palatial town hall from the Aus- in its many churches, which range Apart from the brewery there are tech and entrepreneurship conferenc- overeating and it's served as a heart of Senjak, in Vase Pelagica street. was enjoyable, but not as fresh as moz- did not really capture the spirit of tiramisu. without drinks tro-Hungarian era, and the neat row of from the wonderful baroque of its 18th other signs of recent hard times. The es, which is held annually in March. digestive, while in Serbia, people Rustique occupies the premises of zarella should be. It was combined with usually drink it before the meal. hen I visited the buildings housing the Tosa Jovanovic Century Serbian Church to the snow- ruin of a communist-era department Given its industrial heritage and This time, I decided to go the Italian a former, very well known, restaurant slices of pale winter tomatoes, which Belo Blato Sau- National Theatre and the National white neo-Gothic protestant church. store on the main street seemed out of proud, enterprising citizens, Zrenja- way, so I took Nonino Antica Cuvée, called Zodiac, which was the go-to emphasized the faults in both. ONCE KOVAČ, ALWAYS KOVAČ sage Festival a few Museum of Zrenjanin. Beside their In addition to having an amazing place compared to the recently reno- nin might yet turn into a Serbian San aged from five to 20 years. Elegant place for Italian food in this part of town We hardly ever miss sampling pizza ONCE ”KAFANA”, ALWAYS ”KAFANA” and spicy, and made of Cabernet weeks ago, I noticed architectural beauty, both of these in- history and architecture, Zrenjanin, vated belle-époque houses. A stone's Francisco and start attracting crea- for years. margherita and we certainly could not Sauvignon, Merlot and Schioppet- RESTAURANT KOVAČ an unusual level of stitutions are of great historical impor- even on a cold, wintry afternoon, throw away from the Town Hall tives and digital nomads to save its tino. Perfect for the end. It is a large space; the arrangement of resist this one, marked with the stamp modern ethno restaurant civicW pride among the exhibitors from tance to Serbia. looks pleasant and lively. Christmassy stands an abandoned old nunnery, dilapidated pretty buildings. Maybe The mark-up in Rustique is at the the tables follows a clean and modern of Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani. the Zrenjanin area. The theatre was founded on the site music was playing softly from speak- which housed a medical school until even at some point in the future its old average level for Belgrade restau- scheme, with a lot of space around each It was very good, if not quite an authen- rants or maybe even slightly below. Not only were they inordinately of an old granary in 1839, allegedly to ers lining its pedestrianised main 2009. It now looks eerie with open, brewery will start working once again, The service is friendly enough, but table. The facade is wall-to-wall sliding tic Neapolitan-style pizza. The dough proud of their sausage-making skills: make an actress from Budapest move street, and families were wandering broken windows. this time producing IPAs for hipsters sometimes not particularly atten- glass panels that open completely to and topping ingredients were just right, "You have to try this sausage from Mu- to the hometown of an admirer. It is around. Although lacking old-time Then there was Zrenjanin's most who escaped big cities to come to this tive. All wines and spirits are served the street in summer. but the base not so much so. The result in the appropriate conditions, i.e. zalj, it's the best!" but they were greatly the oldest in continuous operation in charm, cake shops on the main street bizarre monument – a bridge over beautiful, cultured town? temperature and glassware. Dark, brown tones and rustic ma- was a thinner than usual Neapolitan surprised that I, a Belgrader with poor Serbia with its own dramatic and pup- more than made up for it with excel- nothing. Built in the 1960s, this con- Although, I indeed hope that will Rustique provides a nice place terials and textures prevail – wooden pizza; we did not even know such a knowledge of local geography, con- pet theatre troupes. lent traditional Austro-Hungarian crete bridge lost its river in the 1980s be the case, I urge you to still try to get to casually enjoy fine wines and ceiling, an open fireplace clad in stone, thing was possible… grappa. And whether you prefer fessed to not knowing where their vari- The National Museum is notable cakes and were full of families and when this part of the Begej was turned there before then and experience the brown leather sofas, wine racks on The pasta and risotto section of the Bulevar Oslobođenja 221, Tel: 011 2462 343 your grappa before or after meal www.restorankovac.com ous suburbs were located. for its art collection, part of which was groups of friends. into an artificial lake. Although right city's many charms as they are. really makes no difference. the walls, etc., but the overall design menu is elaborate, as expected. Not all 12 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 13 WHAT'S ON ARTS

Oleg Kireyev's CLUBBING Jazz Stories Russian, Grammy-nominated jazz musician Oleg Kireyev AND LIVE MUSIC will be bringing his Jazz Arts in brief Arts in brief Stories concert series to Belgrade. The concert will FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 • Kraftwerk, Kombank Arena, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28 be held on Friday, February Bulevar Arsenija Carnojevica 23 in the large hall of SKC • Mini Jazz Festival, Polet, 58, 8pm • Istanbul Night, Soul Society (Studentski Kulturni Centar). Cetinjska15, 8pm Club, Drinciceva 1, 10pm • Bombaj Stampa, Dom First, Kireyev plans to talk • Jazz Stories with Oleg Kirejev Omladine, Makedonska 22, 9pm • Mastering w/ Gramophonedzie about early jazz and the (saxophone), SKC, Kralja Milana • 101st Birthday of Jazz, & Oysha, Ludost Bar, 48, 8pm Akademija Club, Nemanjina 28, Karadjordjeva 44,10pm importance of its pioneering • Zemlja Gruva, SubBeerni Centar, 10pm composers and musicians, THURSDAY MARCH 01 Cetinjska 15, 9pm • Saht, Bozidarac, Radoslava after which his quartet and st , Akademija • 101 Birthday of Jazz Grujica 3, 8pm quintet will play tunes from Club, Nemanjina 28, 10pm • Lady Jelena Petosevic & the • Lost Paris Tapes – The DOORS , Fest Club, Gradski park 2, • An ode to Bowie by GIFT & Band that era. Tickets cost between Tribute, Elektropionir, Cetinjska 10pm Friends, Bozidarac, Radoslava five and 10 euros and just 15, 9pm • Alex Bex /Ivan Gaica, DOT, Grujica 3, 8pm • Loco Band, Fest Club, Gradski Francuska 6, 11pm three euros for children. • No!Mozzart + POTOP, Park 2, 10pm • RNB Thursdays Delight, Children aged six and older Elektropionir, Cetinjska 15, 9pm • Asphalt Chant, Ciglana, Brankow, Crnogorska 12, are encouraged to attend. • Nikola Vranjkovic, Fest Club, Slanacki put 26, 9pm 11.30pm Gradski park 2, 10pm • Robert Glasper, Soul Society • Nebojsa Intruder, Ludost Bar, • Soul Kitchen, Soul Society Club, Polet Celebrates Club, Drinciceva 1, 10pm Karadjordjeva 44, 10pm Drinciceva 1, 10pm Jazz's Birthday with • Spajz, Kvaka 22, Ruzveltova 39, • Gazorpazorp + sv. Pseta, Kvaka 9pm FRIDAY MARCH 02 Mini-Fest 22, Ruzveltova 39, 8pm • Petar Pan, Zappa Barka, Usce • Vatra, Dom Omladine, , Kvaka 22, bb, 10pm • Jazz@Kvaka22 Popular jazz bar Polet Gallery Makedonska 22, 10pm Ruzveltova 39, 9pm • Forward 01 West, Grad Cultural • GistroPop, Grad Cultural Center, • Bandx, Zappa Barka, Usce bb, will be organising a mini Centre, Brace Krsmanovica 4, st Brace Krsmanovica 4, 10pm 10pm festival to celebrate the 101 11pm • For Old Times’ Sake, Tranzit Bar, • Roll the Drums presents Alix birthday of jazz on Friday, • Danijel Cehranov & Brace Krsmanovica 8, 11pm Perez, DOT, Francuska 6, 11pm February 23 and Saturday, • Igor Jadranin, Kaldrma Bar, Saxophonedzie, Tranzit Bar, • MORD 5th Anniversary KOLARAC Skadarska 40, 8pm Brace Krsmanovica 8, 11pm Showcase, Drugstore, Bulevar February 24. Friday night's • Dusan Lilic, Zaokret, Cetinjska • Spacewalker, Kaldrma Bar, Despota Stefana 115, 11pm PROGRAMME show will feature a trio of 15, 7pm Skadarska 40, 8pm local musicians on trumpet, • Bom Som w/Goran Emkic & • Digital Chemistry Night, Imago SATURDAY MARCH 03 guitar and upright bass, CUK, Decanska 14, 11pm Roxa, DOT, Francuska 6, 11pm paying tribute to bop and • Bucalo, Ljubimac, Cetinjska 15, • Jackie D, Zaokret, Cetinjska 15, • Goblini, SubBeerni Centar, Cetibnjska 15, 9pm bossa styles and covering 8pm 7pm FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26 • BeGood & GileRZ (District • Cherry On Top, DOT, Francuska • Prt Bee Gee, Bozidarac, famous songs by Miles Davis, Radoslava Grujica 3, 8pm Klub/MNE) local suport Nikola 6, 11pm Charlie Parker and Wayne • Pogonbgd, Elektropionir, Concert Hall, 8pm Concert Hall, 8pm Vemic, 20/44, Usce bb, 11pm • Simply_pierre, Ljubimac, Cetinjska 15, 9pm Water St. Simeon’s Day Academy Shorter. Admission is free. • DJ Bege Fank, KPTM, Zorza Cetinjska 15, 8pm • Artan Lili, Fest Club, Gradski Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Admission free Klemensoa 22, 11pm • Disco not Disco / Joe Hart / park 2, 9pm Fabrice Bollon Vasil Hadzimanov • Tauten Birthday Showcase w/ Schwabe, 20/44, Usce bb, 11pm Conductor: • Stepa + Bohemija, Kvaka 22, Soloist: Tamara Stefanovic, piano TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Piano Trio Special Lewis Fautzi, Drugstore, Bulevar • PARTY at Four | Alexandar Ruzveltova 39, 9pm Despota Stefana 115, 11pm Ivkovic & Mihajlo, KPTM, Zorza Programme: A. Zemlinsky, J. Concert • Cherry On Top, DOT, Francuska Music Gallery, 6pm • Priva+e1 #restart, Secer Club, Klemensoa 22, 4am 6, 11pm Brahms Cycle: Encounter with an Artist Svetogorska 17, 11pm • Underground Connection • Matador, Hangar, Knezopoljska Production: Belgrade While Serbian jazz fusion Duo Flutympanon • Miss Millie, Ludost Bar, Showcase, KPTM, Zorza 3, 11pm Philharmonic Orchestra Dance Festival Sure legend Vasil Hadzimanov Karadjordjeva 44, 11pm Birgit Stolzenburg de Biasio, Klemensoa 22, 11pm • YES : Vitanov & Whisper, 20/44, plays Belgrade fairly often, • We are SIX / Florian Kupfer, Usce bb, 11pm SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 hackbrett SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 Drugstore, Bulevar Despota • PARTY at Four | 031 Republic Stana Krstajic, flute his piano trio does not do too Stefana 115, 11pm & Milovan Stojanovic, KPTM, Programme: Hofmann, Tosic, D. to Wow Belgrade many shows. That's why all Concert Hall, 11am • Mini Jazz Festival, Polet, Zorza Klemensoa 22, 4am Jovanovic, M. Stojadinovic Milic • Genesis, Secer Club, Small School of Bonton/How to fans of the keyboardist and Cetinjska15, 8pm • Lansiranje#02, Drugstore, Production: Music Centre Svetogorska 17, 1pm Listen To The Concert pianist need to head over to • Cojke&Malina, Ludost Bar, Bulevar Despota Stefana 115, Admission free 11pm Host: Milos Milovanovic Quartet Audience Klub Knjizevnika on Saturday, Karadjordjeva 44, 11pm • FAM, Secer Club, Svetogorska Production: Music Center February 24 to catch this • Lule, Nixon, Misarska 7, 10pm WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 17, 11pm Ticket fees: 200 dinars This is the 15th edition of the Belgrade Dance Festival, and it will run between March 15 and April 4. Photo: Belgrade Dance Festival special show. Seating is • Cojke&Malina, Ludost Bar, limited and tickets cost eight SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 Karadjordjeva 44, 11pm Music Gallery, 6pm SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 euros. Cycle: Music Workshop Lovers of contem- the event the city becomes, for a few Another highlight will surely be over 800,000 samples of seeds that • Lednik and Celestial Bridge, SUNDAY MARCH 04 Jelena Jakovljevic, flute days at least, the world capital of dance. Kristjan Ingimarsson's play Airport one day just might save the world, or at Concert Hall, 8pm Kvaka 22, Ruzveltova 39, 9pm Production: Music Centre Belgrade is becoming a place where from Copenhagen, which recreates the least be able to recreate it in part. Final Norwegian • SoA – Love Party, Dom Tchaikovsky – Shostakovich porary and classi- • Goblini, SubBeerni Centar, Admission free new artists, choreographers and danc- strange and sometimes bizarre rituals Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte February Film Omladine, Makedonska 22, 6pm Cetinjska 15, 9pm RTS Symphony Orchestra ers are discovered and where the big we all perform and undergo whenever Carlo from New York will bring several Screening • Daydream, Zaokret, Cetinjska • Sunday Beat, Mr Stefan Braun cal dance, rejoice! Conductor: Bojan Sudjic FRIDAY, MARCH 2 names come to reaffirm their status by we enter airports, the world's most se- treats – classic pieces lovingly reimag- 15, 5pm Club, Nemanjina 4, 11pm Production: RTS Music participating in this prestigious event. cure and controlled environments, in ined in a playful form of parody: Act II • Forward 01 EAST | Dusan The most presti- The cycle of Norwegian films FREE COPY production Concert Hall, 8pm Over the years, the event has hosted a playful performance full of humour of Swan Lake by Lev Ivanov and Esmer- Kacarevic & Boza Podunavac, MONDAY MARCH 05 at KC Grad for the month of Fire as many as 330 dance performances and lots of physical comedy. alda (Pas de Six) and Raymonda's Wed- KPTM, Zorza Klemensoa 22, 5am gious dance festi- Publisher: BIRN d.o.o. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 and during recent years it has wel- The Polish Dance Theatre from ding by Marius Petipa. February ends with Before • Sunday Beat, Mr Stefan Braun • Hot Chocolate, Mr Stefan Braun Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Club, Nemanjina 4, 11pm comed well over 20,000 visitors and Poznan and Norwegian choreographer, Other performances that are not to Snowfall from 2013 and Kolarceva 7/5, 11 000 Belgrade Club, Nemanjina 4, 11pm Conductor: Gabriel Feltz val of the region Phone/Fax: +381 11 4030 300 Concert Hall, 11am Programme: R. Gliere: Symphony more than 120 journalists from all over composer and writer Jo Stromgren be missed include Berlin's Dance On directed by Hisham Zaman. TUESDAY MARCH 06 Kolarac Podium of the globe to cover it. will put on Polish Dance Theatre, which Ensemble with by Wil- Editor in Chief: Gordana Igric MONDAY FEBRUARY 26 Cycle: No. 3 (Ilya Muromets) is returning for its Legitimo/Rezo The screening of the movie BIRN editorial team: Chamber Music Ilya Muromets – the Russian th This 15th edition of the festival will run follows a woman throughout the 40 liam Forsythe, the Scapino Ballet from starts on Sunday, February • Therion, Imperial Age, Null st Chamber Band legend. 15 edition. between March 15 and April 4 and will years of her life, tracking her personal Rotterdam with Scala choreographed Gordana Andric, Marcus Tanner, • 101 Birthday of Jazz, Positiv, Dom Omladine, 25 at 7pm and as is usual for host a symbolic number of 15 dance life changes but also reflecting on the by Ed Wubbe and The Garden of Earthly belgradeinsighteditor@birn. Akademija Club, Nemanjina 28, Makedonska 22, 8pm Production: Music Centre Production: Belgrade these foreign film events at companies from 14 different countries. changes of Polish society as a whole, Delights by Company Marie Chouinard. eu.com 10pm • Malinada, Ludost Bar, Admission free Philharmonic Orchestra KC Grad, admission is free. Sales & Marketing: Marija • Dopelord/PL/, Elektropionir, Karadjordjeva 44, 10pm The festival opens with The Great Tam- and perhaps of Europe as well. Firmly in line with tradition, the Bel- Cetinjska 15, 8pm David GALIC er, a 100-minute performance created The prestigious Hong Kong Ballet grade Dance Festival will once again of- Petrovic Igor Vasilijev's Phone: +381 11 4030 302 • Hot Chocolate, Mr Stefan Braun WEDNESDAY MARCH 07 by the great Greek choreographer Dim- will present three shows at this year's fer a unique, relevant and exciting pro- ver the past 15 years, the itris Papaioannou. The show, which festival: Shenren Chang by Fei Bo, in- gramme, which the audience will be able 'Birthday Exhibition' [email protected] Club, Nemanjina 4, 11pm • From Another Mother, Kvaka Belgrade Dance Festival itself is a mix of performance art and spired by ancient Guquin music, Sacred to see in several different venues around Subscription & Distribution: 22, Ruzveltova 39, 9pm has managed to become physical theatre, tells a compelling and Thread by Edwaard Liang, which draws the city, including Sava Centar, the Yu- Goran Knezevic TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 More than 30 paintings from • Mastering w/ Gramophonedzie one of the most impor- at times absolutely breath-taking story inspiration from traditional Chinese goslav Drama Theatre, Terazije Theatre, various phases of the highly +381 63 562 265 , Ludost Bar, • Caro Emeralnd, Hala sportova, & Oysha tant dance events in Eu- about mankind's journey of constant wedding ceremonies, and Jorma Elo's Atelje 212 and Madlenianum in Zemun. [email protected] Karadjordjeva 44, 10pm influential, Belgrade-born, Pariske komune 20, 8pm Orope, in the world even, thanks to care- discovery. Shape of Glow, a study of the structure Tickets are available at all participat- experimental painter Igor Printing: POLITIKA stamparija • Katarina Pejak Trio, Dom fully curated programmes that, year The Israeli Vertigo Dance Company of the music. ing venue box offices, as well as through THURSDAY MARCH 08 Vasiljev will be on display at d.o.o. Omladine, Makedonska 22, 9pm after year, bring the very best modern and choreographer Noa Wertheim in The Silvia Gribaudi Company from the Eventim ticket service, with prices ISSN 1820-8339 = Belgrade the Galerija 212 in honour of • Urban SalsaNight, Imago CUK, • Vampiri, Fest Club, Gradski park dance companies to the Serbian capi- the performance One, One and One ex- Vienna will perform R.OSA_10 Exercises ranging from five to 20 euros, depend- Insight Decanska 14, 10pm tal. plore the constant inner battle between for the New Virtuosity, and Zero Visibil- ing on the venue and seating. what would have been the 2, 10pm th COBISS.SR-ID: 149132556 • Funk Night, Polet, Cetinjska 15, • Women’s day, DOT, Francuska Speaking of the capital city, the title our need and desire to be one, to be ity from Oslo will present their Frozen late painter's 90 birthday. Circulation: 2,000 7pm 6, 11pm for this year's festival is Capital City, al- whole, and our efforts to reconcile the Songs, a beautiful story about the so- To see the full programme, visit the The exhibition runs until • Malinada, Ludost Bar, • Nebojsa Intruder, Ludost Bar, luding to the fact that Belgrade is not reality of our social existence and our called 'Doomsday Vault', a cave deep festival's official website: Friday, March 2. Entrance is Karadjordjeva 44, 10pm Karadjordjeva 44, 10pm just the country's capital but thanks to spiritual needs. inside the Arctic permafrost that stores belgradedancefestival.com. free. 14 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 15 GOING OUT THEN AND NOW 'Hype' Deserves All the Hype This classy new city-centre club lives up to its reputation for offering a taste of the international high life.

David GALIC

hen it comes to this recently opened club, which aims to epitomize the latest and greatest trends inW nightlife in Belgrade, the hype about Hype is real. Since opening its doors last November, Hype has seemed destined The Belgrade City Hall in the 1920s. Photo: Wikipedia/ Unknown - Historical Archives of Belgrade for success, considering that it occupies a prime location that is already well known to clubbers and fun-seekers, on the corner of Karadjordjeva street, in the same location once occupied by the popular but now defunct Mikser House. Hype works only Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and the doors do not open before 11pm. Photo: Courtesy of Hype The location definitely gave Hype a head start. class nightclub to go to that's literally of 20-35-year-olds who are willing to Hype is obviously a dance club and option of bottle service for those whose The club is literally in the centre of right around the corner from their pub of spend a little more money on their night electronic is the preferred type of music, pockets are particularly deep. the trendy Savamala neighbourhood, choice. It also stays open until 4am. out. although the program can get pretty All in all, Hype achieves just what meaning that probably half of Belgrade's It seems also that no expense was While there is no official dress code to diverse, featuring house, funk, disco, it sets out to do. If you're looking to most popular bars and clubs are located spared in trying to get Hype into the get in, you're going to look like the odd pop, r'n'b - basically any type of popular experience high class, luxury nightlife within a 200-metre radius. upper echelons of the capital's nightlife. man out if you show up in sweatpants music that is danceable. in Belgrade in a club that looks great, However, unlike most other popular The club supposedly has better and and trainers. The club slogan is, in fact, All of Serbia's most popular DJs spin sounds great and is filled with good- spots in the area, which are basically more expensive audio and lighting "Dress elegantly or die trying!" so the here, as do many popular producers looking, well-dressed young people, bars that work late into the night, Hype equipment than any other club of its fact that you're expected to dress up is from Ibiza, Berlin, Paris and other parts Hype checks all of those boxes – and has established itself as strictly a club. type in Belgrade. communicated very unsubtly. of the globe. then some. It only works on Wednesdays, Fridays The interior is sleek and stylish, too; The club is divided into two Drink prices are typical for "high and Saturdays and the doors do not open no corners were cut there, and no price sections. One is centred around the end" clubs of this nature; domestic before 11pm. The location puts Hype was deemed too high for whoever bar, which takes up an entire wall and beer costs about three euros for a small HYPE in an ideal position, since the people decorated the venue and made it is surrounded by various seating and bottle and foreign beers cost about four Address: Karadjordjeva 46 who head over to Savamala over the functional. comfy VIP booths. The other side of the euros. Contact: +381 65 449 5555 weekend to have some drinks and plan Hype is without a doubt a very club is where the DJ and the dance floor There's also an excellent selection www.hypebelgrade.com, the rest of the night now have a world- mainstream club that caters to a crowd reside. of spirits and cocktails and even the www.facebook.com/hypebelgrade

Kraftwerk's 3D Spectacle Serbia's Best Hip Hop at Belgrade Arena Artists' Mega-Concert The City Hall seen from Kralja Milana street. Photo: Srdjan Garevic Belgrade City Hall today. Photo: Wikipedia/ Nikola Smolenski/Violeta Antonijevic.

t's only February and Belgrade is about to experience a concert event orcol Platz will be hosting a special night of Serbian that's going to be hard to top for the rest of the year. Seminal Ger- hip-hop on Friday, February 23 with a line-up that Iman electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk are bringing their spe- Dincludes not only some of the best and most cial 3D concert to the Belgrade Arena (now called the Stark Arena popular rappers of the last decade but also some of due to a change in sponsorship) this Saturday, February 24. the most well-respected hip hop and R&B DJs on the Belgrade City Hall's One of the most innovative and forward-looking musical Belgrade club scene. The 2Hot4Stage show will in- groups of the last 50 years, electronic music especially, but mu- clude popular rappers Struka and Marchelo, along sic, in general, would not be the same without Kraftwerk. The live with rap-rock band Iskaz and up-and-coming 'paro- presentation of their music has always been just as cutting edge dy rap' star Kendi. Royal Roots as the sounds they produce, which anyone who gets tickets for this The night will be DJ'd by Timbe aka Bdat Dzutim, special 3D show will be able to confirm. Tickets are in high demand who is one-third of one of Serbia's most popular rap and cost about €30. This concert will most likely sell out, so don't wait groups ever, Bad Copy. The show starts at 9:30pm and Srdjan GARCEVIC the old Ottoman style of dress and furnishing, no suburb Dedinje, Stari Dvor continued to serve the to book. tickets cost three euros, so expect the show to sell out. Whoever expense was spared on neo-baroque decorations and public and ceremonial function it had in Obrenovic fter the municipal election on March furnishings of the new palace, which mostly came times and even shortly served as the meeting place manages to win 4, the new Mayor of Belgrade will oc- from Vienna. of the parliament of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and cupy an office in the grand building Although built to be fit for a king, none of the Slovenes. the Belgrade City of the Belgrade City Hall, a stone's Obrenovic-era royals ever lived in it. Its primary After it was again badly damaged during the WWII, hall election will throw away from the building hous- function was public, as a place to receive royal guests the building was redesigned and repurposed by the ing the Serbian President's Office and run the state. Until the assassination of King Alek- new socialist government. The little that remained of enjoy sitting in an Aand across the road from the Serbian Parliament. sandar Obrenovic in 1903, the royal family lived in an the interior was completely changed, while the exte- Although it served as the City Hall since 1961, old mansion, known as Stari Konak, next to Stari Dvor, rior was made less opulent after the removal of two office fit for a king. the building is more popularly known as Stari Dvor purchased from a rich Serbian merchant in 1940s and domes. All decorations reminiscent of its royal func- (Old Court), a reference to its initial function as the destroyed after the assassination. tion were removed and the communist five-pointed heart of Belgrade's former royal complex which King Peter I Karadjordjevic, who replaced the star was installed on top of the only remaining spire. occupied the space bordered by present-day Kneza ill-fated King Aleksandar, was the first Serbian royal It then served as the seat of the Yugoslav Federal Milosa, Andricev Venac, Kralja Milana, Dragoslava to actually reside in in the palace. Unfortunately, he Executive Council, until it was given to the City of Jovanovica streets and Nikola Pasic square. Its story was forced to leave it in a rush after Austro-Hungarian Belgrade. Polish Stoner Rock at Elektropionir Artan Lili Playing began in early 1880s when Milan Obrenovic, who in attack and occupation of Belgrade in WWI. During Since assuming its new role in 1961, the building Swedish Symphonic Gift to Celebrate Bowie's Legacy Intimate Zemun Concert 1882 became the first Serbian ruler since the middle the Austrian occupation, the building was first dam- enjoyed more tranquil times. The last major change Dopelord don't do much that you Live Salsa Music in Dorcol Metal Stars Therion Return ages to be crowned a king, decided to build a palace aged in the heavy bombardment and looted of it's happened in 1997, when Zoran Djindjic, Belgrade's haven't heard stoner metal bands Belgrade rock band Gift will be playing Very popular indie rockers Artan Lili do, but they do it very well. These Located in Dobracina Street, Barrio After eight years, symphonic metal Bozidarac on Friday, February 23 to will be playing a special "intimate" for himself. art-works. first post-socialist mayor, triumphantly removed the Polish rockers tune low and play slow. Latino Belgrade is a music venue dedi- pioneers Therion are finally coming celebrate the life and music of the late show at Zemun's favourite rock venue, Designed by Aleksandar Bugarski, the architect After the war, it was restored and it continued its five-pointed start from its spire during the anti-Milose- Inspired by marijuana (obviously), cated to Latin music that's becoming back to Belgrade, this time promot- rock icon David Bowie. They will be Fest. Accustomed to bigger venues, of Belgrade's National Theatre, it was a piece of role as the primary royal palace until the neighbour- vic protests. These days, if you see crowds in front of vintage horror movies and Black Sab- very popular. The club will be hosting a ing their recently released epic metal playing songs from all the influential Artan Lili is expected to easily sell architectural propaganda, made to impress the power ing Novi Dvor (New Court, now hosing President's Stari Dvor, it will probably be for less political reasons: bath, attendance should be mandatory live salsa music band, Salsa Y Punto, on opera entitled Beloved Antichrist. They rocker's musical phases and will be out Fest, which only accommodates and wealth of Obrenovic dynasty onto its visitors. Office) was built in 1922. Although the royal family its huge balcony is the traditional place from which for all fans of this sound. They play on Friday, March 2. Admission is free and will be playing in the large hall of Dom joined on stage by special guests of the about 200 people. The show will be on Although back then Serbia was one of the poorest eventually moved away completely from central victorious Serbian sportspeople greet their fans after Monday, February 26 at Elektropionir cocktails will be on promotion. What's Omladine on Tuesday, March 6. Tick- famed rock band Elektricni Orgazam. Saturday, March 3 and tickets cost five countries in Europe and most of its residents followed Belgrade to the new court complex in the leafy sporting successes. and tickets cost eight euros at the door. not to like? ets cost €30 at the door. Tickets cost five euros at the door. euros at the door. 16 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, February 23 - Thursday, March 8, 2018 ARTS AND CULTURE

THURSDAY MARCH 01 • Technical Sciences: • Comic Books for Everyone, Dom Opera, Ballet Contemporary Research and Omladine, Makedonska 22, 6pm Theatre and Classical • String Quartet Concert, Ilija M. Applications Cycle, Ilija M. Kolarac • 46. Fest International Film FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 Kolarac Endowment, Studenstki trg Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 6pm Festival, different locations FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 5, 6pm • Book Presentation “Domino • Ballet: Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky), Effect”, Belgrade City Library, Knez • Capricious Girl (Trifkovic), National Theatre in Belgrade, THURSDAY MARCH 01 • Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Mihailova 56, 6pm National Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, 7.30pm Francuska 3, 8pm Fabrice Bollon (conductor), Tamara • Exhibition: “Memories and Graphic • Exhibition: Portrait of My • Frankie and Johnny (Nelly), Stefanovic (piano), Ilija M. Kolarac Design”, Miodrag Bata Knezevic, Mother, Milica Tomic, Museum of FRIDAY MARCH 02 National Library, Skerliceva 1, 7pm National Theatre in Belgrade, Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 8pm Contemporary Art, Usce 10, 6pm • Exhibition: “Ruins of Future Francuska 3, 8.30pm • Book Presentation “Kairos New • Belgrade Philharmonic Utopia”, Sasa Tkacensko, Eugster SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 Enthusiasm”, Joke J. Hermsen, Orchestra, Gabriel Feltz Gallery, Viline Vode bb, 7pm SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 (conductor), Ilija M. Kolarac Dom Omladine, Makedonska 22, 7pm • Giacomo Puccini: LA BOHÈME, Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 8pm • Travel through the history, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 • A Suspicious Person (Nusic), MetOpera 2017/2018 Live culture and art of Southeast National Theatre in Belgrade, Streaming, Cineplexx Usce SUNDAY MARCH 04 Asia, Belgrade City Library, Knez Shopping Centar, 6.30pm • 46. Fest International Film Francuska 3, 8.30pm Festival (opening), 10am Mihailova 56, 7pm • How to Listen to the Concert, Ilija • Ballet: Flames of Paris, Bolshoi • Einstein’s Dreams (Lightman), • Body as Instrument, Body • 46. Fest International Film M. Kolarac Endowment, Studenstki Theater Live Steaming, Cineplexx Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Kralja percussion workshop, Bhakti Hub, Festival, different locations trg 5, 11am Usce Shopping Centar, Bulevar Milana 50, 8pm Kosovska 49, 7pm • Tchaikovsky – Shostakovich, Mihajla Pupina 4, 3.45pm • Exhibition: “Dendographia”, FRIDAY MARCH 02 • Belgrade String Orcghestra SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 RTS Symphony Orchestra, Bojan Maja Gajic, Ilija M. Kolarac , Ilija M. Kolarac “Dusan Skovran”, Ilija M. Kolarac Sudjic (conductor) Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 5pm • Book Presentation, Algerian Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 8pm Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 11am • Hasan Aga’s Wife (Simovic), chronicles - records of one • Opera: Il Trovatore (Verdi), National Theatre in Belgrade, MONDAY MARCH 05 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 correspondent, Srboljub National Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, 8.30pm Manojlovic, Belgrade City Library, Francuska 3, 7.30pm • The Kraut Girl (Lazarevic), • Body as Instrument, Body Knez Mihailova 56, 6pm • Ballet: Eugene Onegin Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Kralja (Tchaikovsky), National Theatre in percussion workshop, Joga Lotos • 46. Fest International Film SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 Milana 50, 8pm Belgrade, Francuska 3, 7.30pm Budimska, Budimska 19, 7pm Festival, different locations • Vinyl Stock Market, Dom • Ensemble Chamber gang, Omladine, Makedonska 22, 10am MONDAY FEBRUARY 26 TUESDAY MARCH 06 SATURDAY MARCH 03 Marina Trajkovic Bidzovski • Norwegian Film Cycle: Before (soprano), Andjela Bratic (flute), Snowfall, Grad Cultural Center, • The Patriots (Popovic), National • Trio Gelius, Sreten Krstic (violin), • Exhibition: “Where is my place?”, Ljiljana Rankovic (violin), Sanja Brace Krsmanovica 4, 7pm Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, Micaela Gelius (piano), Michael Irena Kelecevic, Museum of Vukosavljevic Milenic (piano), Hell (cello), Ilija M. Kolarac • 46. Fest International Film 7.30pm Applied Arts Salon, Pariska 14, 5pm Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 8pm Festival, different locations • Othello (Shakespeare), Yugoslav • 46. Fest International Film Studenstki trg 5, 11am Drama Theatre, Kralja Milana 50, Festival, different locations • Evening of the Gusle, Ilija M. Kolarac WEDNESDAY MARCH 07 MONDAY FEBRUARY 26 8pm Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 6pm SUNDAY MARCH 04 • Cycle Music Workshop, Children’s • Delicatessen Monday, Grad Cultural TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 Center, Brace Krsmanovica 4, 7pm MONDAY FEBRUARY 26 room, solo songs by Russian • Poetics of horror - the most • Alice in Wonder Band, Mestasce, authors, Marija Brajkovic (soprano), • The Lower Depths (Gorky), Iva Milanov (piano), Ilija M. Kolarac horrible fantasies of YU film, Dom Gospodar Jevremova 25, 12pm • Natasa Petrovic (violin), Bojana National Theatre in Belgrade, Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 6pm Omladine, Makedonska 22, 7pm • 46. Fest International Film Dimkovic (piano), Artget Gallery, Francuska 3, 8.30pm • Opera: Othello (Verdi), National • Tribune of the Fantasy Fans Festival (closing) • It Had To Be So (Nusic), Yugoslav Trg Republike 5, 8pm Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, Society "Lazar Komarcic", Dom • St. Simeon’s day Academy, Ilija M. Omladine, Makedonska 22, 7pm Drama Theatre, Kralja Milana 50, 7pm MONDAY MARCH 05 Kolarac Endowment, Studenstki trg • Exhibition: “Art Brut”, Grad Cultural 8pm 5, 8pm THURSDAY MARCH 08 Center, Brace Krsmanovica 4, 7pm • Psychotherapy, Psychodrama • Exhibition: “Radical Softness”, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28 Olivera Parlic, Marija Curcic, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 • Movie Night, RTS Symphony and Sociodrama, Ilija M. Kolarac , Drina Orchestra and Choir, Bojan Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 6pm Mia Cuk, Valentina Savic • Cyrano (Rostand), National Gallery, Andricev venac 4, 5pm • Duo Flutympanon, Birgit Sudjic (conductor), Ilija M. Kolarac • 46. Fest International Film Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, Festival, different locations Stolzenburg de Biasio (hackbrett), Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 8pm 8.30pm Stana Krstajic (flute), Ilija M. Kolarac TUESDAY MARCH 06 • Right You Are, If You Think So TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 6pm (Pirandello), Yugoslav Drama • DIDS 2018, Internet Domain Day Theatre, Kralja Milana 50, 8pm • Ballet: Giselle (Adam), National • Exhibition: Sanja Crnjanski, Ilija Exhibitions of Serbia, Hotel Metropol Palace, Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, M. Kolarac Endowment, Studensti and Events Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 69, 7.30pm trg 5, 7pm SUNDAY MARCH 04 • Road Show East, Ostavinska 9.15am FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28 Galerija, Kraljevića Marka 8, 7pm • Exhibition: “Interpretation of • Ivanov (Chekov), National Theatre • Legend of King Arthur and Architecture”, Sonja Jankov, Dom in Belgrade, Francuska 3, 7.30pm • Exhibition: Pavle Popovic, Art Omladine, Makedonska 22, 7pm • Musical Talks with Feltz, Mirjana Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Mali Knights of the Round Table Neskovic (violin), Belgrade Kalemegdan 1, 10am Cycle, Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, TUESDAY MARCH 06 Philharmonic Hall, Studentski trg • Exhibition: “Faces”, Atanasije Studenstki trg 5, 6pm WEDNESDAY MARCH 07 11, 2pm Punosevac, Gallery 73, Pozeska 83a • 46. Fest International Film • Mary Stuart (Schiller), National Festival, different locations • Baroque Trio Noir, Jelena • 2Hot4Stage, Festival of Urban and • Exhibition: “Acquisitions”, Zepter Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, Jakovljevic (flute), Angelina Street Culture, different locations, Museum, Knez Mihailova 42, 5pm 7.30pm WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28 Nikolic (flute), Anita Zdravkovic 2pm • Week of Chinese Film, (piano), Ilija M. Kolarac THURSDAY MARCH 08 WEDNESDAY MARCH 07 Ethnographic Museum, Uzun • Art For All, Grad Cultural Center, Endowment, Studenstki trg 5, 6pm Mirkova 2, 6pm Brace Krsmanovica 4, 10am • Exhibition: “Pigmalion in the • Opera: Un ballo in Maschera • Exhibition and course, National • Exhibition: Mayuko Kanazawa, • Serbian Laika (Jugovic), National (Verdi), National Theatre in Foundation for Dance, Kolarceva 3/ Museum of Applied Art, Vuka Heart of Sumadija”, NLB Gallery, Theatre in Belgrade, Francuska 3, Belgrade, Francuska 3, 7pm II, 6pm Karadzica 18, 6pm Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 165v, 5pm 8.30pm

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