Issue No. 186 Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 ORDER DELIVERY TO Remembering BELEF Belgrade YOUR DOOR +381 11 4030 303 Yugoslavia promises hosts its first [email protected] - ISSN 1820-8339 1 with Belgrade’s return to Craft Beer BELGRADE INSIGHT IS PUBLISHED BY 0 1 new Yugo tour form Festival this summer Page 6 Page 10 Page 14 9 7 7 1 8 2 0 8 3 3 0 0 0 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 Veselinović-linked consortium No easy 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 answer to - - - bags $75m contract in secret Serbia’sNEWS gas conundrum

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for alternative “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: Serbian state has 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. quietly given a supply routes to multi-million- replace Russian page 10 dollar road con- gas, but the struction contract options are not so

to a consortium tempting. 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. linked to Zvonko W Issue No. 1 / Friday, June 13, 2008 Issue No. 1 / Friday, Veselinović that Stevan VELJOVIĆ has little highway- fter mulling its gas sup- ply possibilities for page 5 building experi- months, the latest op- tion came in late May ence, BIRN can when Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar reveal. Vučić announced that Belgrade is ready

A conomists are warning that pro - over Serbia’s uncertainty longed “This year has been lost, from the to join the US-backed Trans-Adriatic Pipe- 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 Ivan ANGELOVSKI line project that will carry gas from Azer- E baijan to Europe. erbian construction giant Serbia’s joining the Russian-backed Energoprojekt in May last Turkish Stream pipeline seems unlikely year quietly awarded a due to lack of financing, while alterna- Friday • June 13 2008 $75 million construction tive options for gas supply include the contract to a consortium construction of a pipeline between Ser- of three firms – Nukleus, bia and Bulgaria and importing gas from C&LCS and Inkop to build a section of Croatia.

the Chinese-funded Corridor 11 high- THIS ISSUE OF

However, experts say that the country, Belgrade Insight way. BY: IS SUPPORTED at this point, has no genuinely viable solu- 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 tions to energy security, warning that un- 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 Zvonko Veselinović-linked consortium was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract Photo by Marina Lopičić /Newsweek Serbia certainty over gas supply could also deter Continued on pages 2 and 3 without public tender. potential investors. Serbia consumes annually around 2 billion cubic meters of gas. About one fifth of Serbia’s gas needs are being met Irish gay marriage vote by domestic gas sources and production, while the rest is imported from Russia, using a single route through Ukraine and shakes Croatia’s conservatives Hungary. However, following the outbreak of the Overwhelmingly Catholic Ireland However, it claimed the referendum Ukrainian crisis, Russian energy giant The victory of gay marriage advocates in reached the opposite decision to that there was skewed from the start, as one Gazprom announced in January that it Catholic Ireland has caused confusion in which voters in Croatia made in De- side held all the cards. does not intend to use Ukraine as a tran- cember 2013. No “informed decision on the referen- sit country after 2019, turning instead to Croatia – where both ‘for’ and ‘against’ camps There, a conservative NGO, “In the dum question” in Ireland was possible, it its existing Nord Stream and the ongoing are pondering the consequences. Name of the Family”, successfully ad- said, when all the main political parties, Turkish Stream project. vocated for traditional family struc- state institutions and the media backed Vučić, in an interview with the AP news tures and forced a referendum on the gay marriage, leaving only the Catholic agency on May 28th, announced that Ser- Sven MILEKIĆ Ireland has joined Spain, Portugal, issue. Church to argue for the other side. bia's intends to diversity its sources of gas France, Britain, Luxembourg, The Neth- In the referendum, 65.87 per cent of “If more Irish voters had had the oppor- supply, and, as a result, Belgrade will join acked by 62.1 per cent of erlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, those who turned out to vote backed tunity to hear the consequences that the the US-backed Trans-Adriatic Pipeline voters, Ireland’s recent Sweden, Finland and Iceland. the NGO’s call for a constitutional re- constitutional changes will have on chil- project carrying gas from Azerbaijan to “yes” vote to gay mar- Although the Irish result was not a definition of marriage as a union solely dren, marriage, family and the whole soci- Europe. riage shifted another shock for most political analysts, the between a man and woman. ety, the outcome of the referendum would country into the growing result shook groups and individuals The Croatian NGO makes no secret have been different and more like the out- list of countries in Eu- that are campaigning against same-sex of its disappointment over the result in come in Croatia,” the NGO concluded. Brope that now recognise gay marriage. marriage across Europe. Ireland. Continued on page 8 Continued on page 7

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Dahlan family’s Continued from page 1 murder accusation, finding him guilty of Veselinović is accused of providing Serbia land deal PRESS REVIEW obstructing a police officer investigation money, trucks and equipment to another revealed fuel smuggling in northern Kosovo. company, Mak 037 owned by one of his Žarko was not sent to prison after a business associates, Goran Makragić, that Relatives of former Gaza judge ruled he had already served his were allegedly used in 2011 to quarry and security chief and Palestinian Veselinović-linked consortium entire sentence while in EULEX custody transport unlawfully excavated gravel, leadership rival Mohammed and during the period he was held under according to the indictment obtained by Dahlan have owned €2 mil- house arrest. BIRN. Veselinović denies any wrongdoing. lion of land outside Belgrade Serbia in brief The Veselinović brothers are routinely In a separate case, Veselinović was or- for almost a decade. Public bags $75m contract in secret mentioned in public as not only being dered to appear before the Special Court documents collected by BIRN close to the current and previous Serbian in Belgrade in 2012 in relation to allega- detail how company Alfursan, owever, neither Nuk- governments, but as also being capable of tions raised by Serbia’s special prosecu- owned by Dahlan’s brother leus, the leading com- and nephews, secured the ordering the erection and removal of bar- tor that he received stolen trucks that had pany in the consortium, ricades and inciting unrest in northern originally been leased to the Euro-kop 50 hectares of land along the nor Inkop have any sub- Belgrade-Zagreb highway Kosovo. company by Hypo Alpe Adria Leasing. in 2006. The news emerged stantial experience in However, after the violence of July Euro-kop is based in Raska and is owned as Palestinian president highway building. 2011 in Jarinje, a border crossing between by Veselinović associate Dragan Ćurčić. HTheir managers however are linked to Serbia and north Kosovo, the interna- In 2010, Ćurčić stopped making pay- Mahmoud Abbas travelled to Serbia on May 9th to open Serbia’s ruling coalition parties. tional community increased the pres- ments for 32 vehicles leased from Hypo a new embassy and meet Inkop is managed by the contro- sure on the Serbian government to arrest and the contract was terminated. How- top officials. Palestinian versial Serbian businessman, Zvonko Zvonko Veselinović. As a result, the Ser- ever, instead of returning the trucks pros- officials have been privately Veselinović, who has close links to the bian government then led by the Demo- ecutors claimed Ćurčić owed Veselinović angered by Serbia’s decision ruling Progressives, as well as the previ- cratic Party distanced themselves from money and decided to hand them over to to quietly grant citizenship to ous government, while Nukleus owner Veselinović. him as a means of repaying the debt. Dahlan, who is Abbas’ arch Vladimir Jevtić was formerly an official Aleksandar Vučić, then vice presi- Veselinović is alleged to have received the rival. with the Nova Srbija party – also part of dent of the opposition SNS, publicly sup- trucks in northern Kosovo and used them the current coalition government. ported Veselinović by stating in Octo- for construction work, including to trans- Report lifts lid on The Corridor 11 highway connecting Belgrade to Montenegro has been funded via a $301 million loan Photo: www.koridorisrbije.rs Veselinović is currently on trial in Ser- from the Export-Import Bank of China. ber 2011 that if he was arrested Borislav port material to the Pristina-Tirana highway. sexual abuse of bia on unrelated charges of aiding and in- Stefanović, then the Democratic Party’s While Veselinović was later cleared of all children in Serbia citing the abuse of office. There is also an contract. He insists he bought the site as a Veselinović is closely connected to their BIRN that she doesn't know if Veselinović main negotiator with Kosovo, and Goran charges Ćurčić was found guilty of abuse of arrest warrant for him in Kosovo related result of his “business nous”. party. is in any way connected to her party. Bogdanović, then minister for Kosovo, office and jailed for two years. Four children in every average to a list of offences including aggravated school class [25-30 pupils] “It was my independent assessment Opposition politicians in the munici- “Considering Zvonko Veselinović, I re- should also be arrested. There is also an active arrest warrant murder and smuggling. in Serbia have experienced that the land is going to be needed for pality of Mionica claim the links between ally don't know who he is. I don’t know if “If Serbian authorities try to arrest for Veselinović in Kosovo, according to some kind of sexual violence Official documents leaked to BIRN constructing the highway,” he told BIRN. Veselinović and the SNS were visible he has any connection to the SNS, wheth- Veselinović, they'll have a serious prob- the Mitrovica prosecutor. but only 7 per cent of those show that the $75 million contract for “That’s how we could give the best offer in December 2014 when Inkop carried er he's a member or not. The SNS is an lem, because I have got certain informa- “The case of Zvonko Veselinović is un- who knew of such cases construction work on a 24km-long sec- [to Niskogradnja], because we have this out construction works that they claim open party and anyone has the right to tion that we'll communicate to the pub- der the exclusive competence of EULEX have reported this to the tion of Corridor 11 highway was awarded gravel pit and we could offer a low price.” helped the SNS local election campaign. become a member,” she said. lic. If they arrest Veselinović, Borislav prosecutors. That arrest warrant is still authorities, the results of to the consortium far from the public eye In answer to BIRN’s request for com- “He was in Mionica a few times dur- Regardless, the Veselinović family has Stefanović and Goran Bogdanović will in power,” Shyqeri Syla, Mitrovica chief the first National Study On and without public tender. ment, the office of Nova Srbija party ing the campaign. With some of his guys certainly received high-level SNS sup- also have to go to jail,” Vučić said at the prosecutor, told BIRN. Child Sexual Abuse pub- According to road worker unions, the member and minister without portfo- and SUVs. He was here on the day of the port. time. The prosecution office in Mitrovica th lished on May 9 show. The contract amounts the state budget for lio Velimir Ilić insists that while he was elections,” Milan Gavrilović, head of local Veselinović’s brother Žarko was arrest- According to Vučić, criminalising said EULEX is investigating whether most common place where one year’s maintenance of Serbia’s entire minister for construction in the previous branch of Democratic Party, claims. ed on charges of attempted murder and Veselinović amounted to criminalising Veselinović and his brother Žarko had sexual violence occurs is the road network. government, he did not provide “insider Gavrilović and a civil servant in Mioni- carrying an illegal weapon in July 2013 all Serbs from Kosovo. anything to do with a series of criminal of- home - 33 per cent of cases. Jevtić as well as Serbian Progres- Veselinović has been the subject of criminal charges on many occasions in both Serbia and Kosovo. Photo by Kosovo Police fences ranging from endangering United The gender dimension of the information” to Jevtić on the proposed ca, who spoke on condition of anonymity, and placed in EULEX custody. sive Party and Nova Srbija have denied CHARGES AGAINST Nations personnel, to smuggling of goods report shows that four out of highway construction. both stated that Inkop trucks were work- A few months later, the Serbian gov- that political ties of Inkop and Nukleus Ilić’s spokesperson said in a written ing on municipality roads during the ernment arranged for his release on bail, VESELINOVIĆ to aggravated murder. every five sexually abused owners had anything to do with the job. Transport and Infrastructure Zorana The company changed this to ‘building Niskogradnja’s decision to subcontract children are girls. statement: “Vladimir Jevtić is a former campaign. along with three Serbian officials who Despite the arrest warrant, Zvonko Veselinović and Energoprojekt Nisko- Mihajlović insists the purpose of inter- roads and highways’ four months after it to the consortium, told BIRN there was member of Nova Srbija and Minister Ilić SNS politician Boban Jakovljević, who had been arrested in Kosovo on unrelat- Veselinović has been the subject of Veselinović is often in Kosovo, freely Serbia may join gradnja refused to comment the issue. state agreements is simply to find the best was awarded the Corridor 11 contract as a limited list of criteria to consider when doesn't maintain any contact with the was head of the Mionica municipality ed charges, after issuing state guarantees criminal charges on many occasions in crossing the border posts controlled by EU in decade, deal possible. part of the consortium. deciding whether to approve a sub-con- gentleman in question.” during campaign, says he has no knowl- they would not abscond. both Serbia and Kosovo. EULEX and by Serbian and Kosovo police. summit hears NO PUBLIC TENDER “Corridor 11 is not the only example of Nukleus, owned by former Nova Srbija tractor. edge that Inkop trucks were in Mionica. The state guarantee was signed by He is currently on trial in the Serbian REQUIRED inter-state agreements. We have Corridor party official Jevtić, registered as special- “For us it's important that at least one VESELINOVIĆ’S “People will say anything. Don't take Aleksandar Vučić, current SNS party pres- town of Pirot for aiding and inciting the Serbia could become 10 as well. It is simple – where we could ising in ‘building roads and highways’ in of the companies is registered for road- POLITICAL TIES any notice of them,” he told BIRN. ident and then deputy prime minister. abuse of office in the supply of allegedly Journalists Petrit Collaku, Kreshnik a member of the Euro- The construction of this part of the find the most favourable option, we did September 2014, also four months after building,” he said. “We do not need to The SNS won over 60 per cent of the Žarko was released from EULEX cus- illegally excavated gravel worth 340.000 Gashi and Jelena Ćosić also contributed to pean Union in ten years, Corridor 11 highway connecting Bel- that [through inter-state agreement]. the consortium won the Corridor 11 deal. know who owns which company. By law, Both opposition politicians and two votes in the local elections. tody in February 2014 and was later sen- USD to the Austrian construction firm this article. This investigation is produced an economist said at the grade to Montenegro has been funded Just bear in mind that Corridor 11 was Previously, it was listed as a company we are only obliged to check if the sub- high-ranking SNS officials, who wish to -re Vice-president of the SNS and the Ser- tenced to 12 months in prison after the contracted to build the Corridor 10 high- by BIRN as a part of Paper Trail to Better th 15 Economic Summit in via a $301 million loan from the Export- partly agreed by previous governments,” specialising in ‘wholesale trade’. contractors fulfill all the requirements.” main anonymous, told BIRN that Zvonko bian Government, Zorana Mihajlović, told EULEX judge dropped the attempted way - Alpine Bau. Governance project. Belgrade on June 8th. “Based Import Bank of China and is Mihajlović added. In response to concerns that his com- The chair of Niskogradnja’s holding on its economic parameters, being built by the pany has no experience in highway-con- company is Dragan Veljić, an official from Serbia could be a member Chinese firm struction, Jevtić said: “You should come the governing SNS party who is also listed of the European Union in ten Shandong Considering to the construction site. We’re working as legal director at the state-owned elec- years,” Dušan Reljić, head International day and night and the works are pro- tricity company EPS. of the Brussels office of the Economic Zvonko gressing as agreed. We’re doing an excel- Given the award of the contract re- German Institute for Interna- and Techni- lent job here.” mains shrouded in secrecy as it was an tional Relations and Security, cal Coopera- Veselinović, I Jetvic told BIRN that Inkop was inter-governmental agreement, it is not said. Vladimir Gligorov, pro- brought into the consortium because clear whether other companies submit- fessor of the Vienna Institute tion Group for International Economic Ltd. really don't know “Zvonko is my buddy”. ted, or were invited to submit, sub-con- Studies, said the private In May 2013, Shandong subcontracted Zvonko Veselinović agreed to meet tractor bids to Niskogradnja. sector in Serbia remained around half the work to Niskogradnja, who he is. I don’t BIRN but didn't want to be quoted be- Niskogradnja declined BIRN’s request uncompetitive, and another part of Energoprojekt Holding, in which cause, he says, the ongoing trial in Ser- for an interview or comment on how the problem was that the rate of the Serbian government holds a 33 per know if he has bia on charges of aiding and inciting the contract was awarded, the consortium employment in the private cent stake. In turn, Niskogradnja appoint- abuse of office – which is not related to companies’ links to political parties or its sector is lower than it needs ed the Nukleus, C&LC and Inkop consor- any connection to the Corridor 11 contract - prohibit him own links to the Progressives. to be. tium to take part in building the 24km from commenting. Shandong declined to comment on the stretch of highway from Lajkovac to Ljig the SNS, whether Shandong asked for approval of Nisko- way the contract was granted to the con- US, Germany put in May 2014. gradnja’s decision to give the deal to the sortium, or on the group’s political ties to conditions on Serbia Shandong was appointed to construct consortium from Koridori Srbije – the Ser- ruling parties. support the highway without public tender be- he's a member or bian state firm responsible for the Serbian cause the deal was the result of an inter- road network. Koridori Srbije approved The US and Germany want state agreement between Serbia and not.” Shandong’s request on the grounds that JEVTIĆ’S POLITICAL Serbia to cut its energy China, signed in 2009 by the Serbian gov- one of the consortium companies, C&LC, CONNECTIONS dependence on Russia, ernment then led by the now opposition was officially listed as specialising in road follow EU foreign policy, Democratic Party. Inter-state agreements construction. Vladimir Jevtić, the owner of Nukleus, and allow Kosovo to join the In fact, C&LC previously listed its of- until 2013 served as a member of the mu- UN, sources have claimed. are not subject to usual, domestic public Zorana Mihajlović, A source close to the ruling procurement regulations and proce- ficial main business activity as ‘freight nicipal council in Lazarevac after being Progressive Party told BIRN dures. Vice-president of the transport’, only officially registering as elected to office as an official Nova Srbija American officials were As a result, Shandong was able to sub- SNS road builders in October 2013 – seven party candidate. interested in the ways Serbia contract to Niskogradnja, also without months before signing the contract with It was the Nova Srbija party leader and could reduce its energy public oversight. In turn, Niskogradnja Niskogradnja. then minister of construction Velimir Ilić dependence on Russia and could sub-contract work to the Serbian According to their website, the only who signed the construction contract be- also asked Serbian govern- consortium in secret without following previous highway-building experience tween the Serbian government and Shan- ment to follow EU policy usual public tender procedures. LITTLE CONSTRUCTION C&LC has is limited to the Subotica-Bel- dong a few months later. on relations with Russia. The specification of works outlined EXPERIENCE grade road built in 2010 and a section of Shortly before the contract was signed, According to the Blic, the in the contract state the consortium will the Pirot-Dimitrovgrad highway built in Jevtić bought 28 parcels of land near the German Chancellor Angela be responsible for “preliminary works, Inkop, managed by Veselinović ac- 2012. site of the proposed Corridor 11 highway Merkel, who is due to visit earthworks, drainage, slope protection, cording to a 2014 statement he himself C&LC director Mirko Jevtović declined route, from which he is excavating road Belgrade in early July, will sub-base layers, structure, bridges and gave to a Belgrade court, was officially to answer BIRN's calls for comment on construction material. urge Serbia to allow Kosovo overpasses (crossings, intersections) and listed as specialising in ‘road freight trans- the exact nature of the highway contracts The purchase enabled him to cut costs to have UN membership and to agree to constitu- [complying with] water regulations.” port’. The company is officially owned by listed by his company as previous experi- and put him in a favourable position in tional changes in Bosnia and Niskogradnja is, however, listed as hav- Veselinović’s sister Dušica Maksimović, ence in road building. terms of netting the deal. Herzegovina which would ing overall responsibility for engineering. who acquired Inkop for free from one Dmitar Đurović, head of the state Jevtić strongly denies benefiting from reduce the jurisdiction of the Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, Vice- Katarina Milanović from Lazarevac on road operator Koridori Srbije that ap- his political connections or advance, Serb-led Republika Srpska. President and Minister for Construction, February 26, 2013. proved Shandong’s request to endorse insider information about the highway 4 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 5 BELGRADE BELGRADE

son will be able to take the plunge by the end of the month. For those who prefer swimming in larger Making a open spaces, the season at Ada Ciganlija, the most popular summertime recreation- al destination in Belgrade, should start Rise in school violence splash in the soon after the water reaches the required temperature of 22 degrees Celsius. After criticism last year when swim- mers complained that the unmown grass summer heat had reached the height of visitors’ knees, troubles Serbia city officials promised that preparation For city-dwellers looking to cool work has started on time. The grass is be- Experts call for more cooperation ing cut and the park, beach and other rec- among parents, schools, school staff, down, the official swimming season in reation areas are being refurbished, they psychologists and pedagogues. said, while benches have been repaired “Responsibility is divided but it does Belgrade’s open-air pools and the Ada and new water drinking fountains are be- start with the family and continues with ing installed. the school staff,” Soćanin said. Ciganlija Lake starts in mid-June. As every year, the lake will host a num- Some argue that more than basic co- ber of programmes for children, includ- operation is needed to curb juvenile vio- Filip AVRAMOVIĆ ing swimming, water polo, bicycle riding lence and ensure safety at schools. and beach volleyball courses. Free yoga Aleksadar Jovanović, deputy secre- he city’s outdoor pools are get- The price of a daily ticket at Tašmajdan classes will also be held at the nearby tary for education in Serbia’s northern ting ready to welcome hordes will be 300 dinars [€2.5], while at the yoga park. province of Vojvodina, says a special of overheated visitors when Košutnjak, April 11th and Olimp pools, a Starting from this year, Ada Cigan- law on school security may be the only they open their gates on June daily ticket will cost 250 dinars [€2]. Ol- lija has another attraction for adrenaline- solution to the growing problem. Tth 15 . imp pool will also offer early morning and seekers. Besides the bungee jumping and He has written to the Serbian Educa- Workers at the Tašmajdan and evening tickets per price of 400 dinars water skiing, people will be able to zip- tion Minister, Srđan Verbić, urging him Košutnjak pools are finishing refurbish- [€3.5]. line from one side of the lake to the other. to take the problem more seriously. ment works. At Tašmajdan, the paved At Dorćol’s Milan Gale Muškatirović The cost will be 500 dinars [€4.5] which All existing regulations and laws deck area next to the swimming pool is sports centre, officials still don’t have the includes photos and video of the experi- concerning safety at schools and being repaired, while at Košutnjak the exact date when the pools will open to ence. The zip-line’s safety will be checked schoolyards should be put in one law, tiles have been replaced in the diving the public, or about ticket prices, but they by police and military inspectors before it Jovanović said. pool and the Olympic pool. predict that the first swimmers of the sea- Bungee jumping is one of the main attractions at Ada. Photo by Bukephalos/Wikimedia Commons goes into use. “I don’t think people should have to pass metal detectors when they enter a school, but, if it is necessary, let’s do that, Belgrade to Pensioners too,” he said. SHIFT IN unveil Gavrilo Princip slate hike in TRADITIONAL monument property tax VALUES It is not only physical violence that A monument dedicated Austro-Hungarian empire, although in After the city of Belgrade is present in schools but psychological, to Gavrilo Princip, whose other former Yugoslav countries, he is sexual and other forms of abuse as well, widely seen as a terrorist. increased the tax on such as pupils calling each other highly murder of Archduke The initiative to erect the new statue property, pensioners offensive names. Franz Ferdinand helped was proposed by Serbian Prime Minister joined many other A survey conducted in Serbia by the to spark World War I, will Aleksandar Vučić, Vesić said. people in condemning United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, He said that the two-metre-high monu- examined 14 different forms of violence, be inaugurated in the the rise as unfair and Serbian capital later this ment will be placed in Financial Park, which ranging from gender prejudice to sexual is between Nemanjina, Sarajevska and Admi- illogical. harassment. month. rala Geprata Streets in downtown Belgrade. The UNICEF data revealed that in The Serbian government initially an- the first three months of the 2013/2014 Marija RISTIĆ nounced that it would install the monu- Filip AVRAMOVIĆ school year, 69 per cent of elementary ment on the centenary of WWI last year, Belgrade pensioners say they are severely affected by the local Photo by Branko Karapandža pupils and 74 per cent of high school he Belgrade authorities said on but the plan was postponed. he Association of Serbia’s Pension- authorities’ decision. pupils had experienced at least one of June 7th that they plan to unveil The monument will arrive in Belgrade ers Unions sent a protest letter to “We face new levies that threaten to push issued for non-payment of the tax on time these forms of abuse. Tthe monument dedicated to the after June 20th - a gift from Bosnia’s Serb-led Tmedia and the Belgrade city authori- families to the brink of poverty,” the Asso- were 50, 000 dinars [around €400]. Biljana Grujić, head of a Novi Sad- Bosnian Serb assassin on June 28th, the 101st entity Republika Srpska, which last year ties on June 7th criticizing the city’s recent ciation wrote. Many Belgraders have already slated the based NGO, the Centre for Preven- anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. also erected a statute of Princip in East decision to increase property tax. The latest property tax bills that Belgrad- tax hike, questioning whether real estate tion of Deviant Behaviour, says juve- “By erecting this monument, Belgrade Sarajevo. The Association says many people ers received in June were 10 per cent higher values in the city have actually increased nile violence has risen over the last will appropriately honour a man who by Its installation will also mark Vidovdan, in Belgrade are already in a difficult eco- compared to those in March covering the by as much as officials claim. decade for many reasons, including his action become a part of Serbian history or St Vitus’ Day, one of the most important nomic situation, and are now going to find first quarter of the year, ranging between They say many property values actually family problems, peer group pres- Experts say responsibility lies with families, schools and society. Photo by CileSuns92/Flickr and sacrificed [himself] for freedom,” Goran state and religious holidays in Serbia. their position even tougher. Witty officials 2,000 and 15,000 dinars [€16 - €124]. fell by 20 per cent, not rose, which is why they sure and the consequence of media Vesić, the manager of the city of Belgrade, Each year, the state marks the anniversa- should dump this “unreasonable decision”, The change to the taxation rate is in line call the city’s explanation - that the tax is high- reporting. told media on June 7th. ry of Serbia’s battle with Ottoman Turkish they say. with new evaluations of the market value of er due to higher real estate values - illogical. schools on the NGOs and the authorities agree Peer group pressure is seen as espe- Princip’s shooting of Archduke Franz forces in Kosovo in 1389. The battle, which Following the government’s decision real estate per square metre. The city’s Administration of Public Rev- Pupils’ outskirts of the No one wanted that an end should be put to juve- cially problematic. Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 is widely Serbia lost, is seen as a crucial moment in to cut public sector salaries and pen- The city has also introduced a new zoning enues issued a press statement on June 9th, capital is raising nile violence and say responsibil- “No one wanted to be friends with a considered one of the incidents that helped Serbian history and has inspired much of sions by 10 per cent in November, the system for property, charging more to those calling on people to address their concerns increasingly fears that juve- to be friends with ity for what is happening lies with troubled kid 15 or 20 years ago but now spark the 1914-18 conflict. the country’s epic poetry. latest decision could severely affect the who live near entrance roads to the city. regarding their tax bills every working day nile violence is families, schools and society’s such kids are group leaders because Some Serbs believe that Princip was a This will also be the first year that Serbia and finances of the most vulnerable citizens, The property tax already went up in 2014 from 8am to 8pm in each of the city’s mu- aggressive on the rise. a troubled kid 15 value system. there is no public disapproval of such hero and a freedom fighter against the Republika Srpska mark June 28th together. they claim. by as much as 80 per cent, while the fines nicipalities. “I am afraid behaviour,” Grujić told BIRN. behaviour in to let my 10-year- WHO IS TO BLAME Children increasingly want to hang old go to school. We are all afraid of or 20 years ago out with troubled teens as they are in- ORDER DELIVERY TO school and the the things happening at schools and in After the incident at the Kotež creasingly seen as some sort of heroes, YOUR DOOR school yards,” Dragana Soćanin, a par- but now such school, school director Miodrag she explained. Find your copy of +381 11 4030 303 hero-worship of ent and a head of the Belgrade-based Lučić said security was not to Another factor is changing family [email protected] NGO “Parent” said. kids are group blame as the two boys had en- structures. Years ago, parents had more Belgrade Insight here: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/ In the first incident, three teens at- tered the schoolyard normally time for their children. Now the rush page/subscribe-to-belgrade-insight troubled teens tacked a 13-year-old on May 27th in the leaders because and only put on masks in front to work means that they often neglect alarms parents, schoolyard of an elementary school in of the classroom. No one knew their children’s behaviour. SUPERMARKET CONCEPT STORE KOLARAC HOTEL VOZAREV RESTAURANT ZAVIČAJ RADISSON BLU OLD the suburb of Bežanijska Kosa. Reports there is no public what was going to happen. “We all work more now and have less Address: Višnjićeva 10 Address: Studentski trg 5 Address: Pop Stojanova 16 Address: Gavrila Principa 77 MILL HOTEL, BELGRADE schools and said a boy was attacked over a SMS. He Biljana Lajović, from the Edu- time for the family,” Soćanin said. “There Address: Bulevar Vojvode Misica 15 was later transferred to the Military disapproval of cation Ministry’s unit for the pre- is also the increasing number of divorc- MONUMENT HOTEL EXCELSIOR HOTEL 88 ROOMS MIXER HOUSE www.radissonblu.com/hotel-belgrade experts alike. Medical Academy for treatment. vention of school violence, told es,” she observed. Address: Čika Ljubina 9 Address: Kneza Miloša 5 Address: Takovska 49 Address: Karađorđeva 46 The boy who led the attack was pun- BIRN that as the school year fin- This can all lead to parents not coop- Ivana NIKOLIĆ ished with a lower grade and banned such behaviour.” ishes in June, this is the month erating with the authorities over their INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BELGRADE HOTEL MOSKVA HOTEL PRAG HOTEL METROPOL TOURIST ORGANISATION OF SERBIA from attending school prom night, re- when most violence takes place. troubled children as much as they Address: Temišvarska 19 Address: Balkanska 1 Address: Kraljice Natalije 27 Address: Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 69 Address: Čika Ljubina 8 wo violent incidents ports said. “Whenever we analyse a case, should, Grujić said. in Belgrade primary A week later, on June 2nd, two masked we discover that someone made She has observed that they often de- THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL HOTEL SQUERE NINE HOTEL HYATT HOTEL LE PETIT PIAFF GYM DR FEELGOOD schools in less than a minors entered the classroom of a pri- Biljana Grujić, a mistake in the procedure. Now fend their children when they do some- SCHOOL OF BELGRADE Address: Studentski trg 9 Address: Milentija Popovića 5 Restaurant Mali vrabac Address: Kolarčeva 3 week, one of which left mary school in the suburb of Kotež we know what happened here, thing wrong, rather than wanting to see Skadarska 34 Address: Smetanina 12 Address: a child in hospital, have and forced the teacher to hand over the the Centre for we have told the school authori- where the problem lies. CAFE SNEŽANA HOTEL CROWN PLAZA RESTAURANT BIZU brought the issue of ju- class grade book. Prevention of Deviant ties they should think of a safer “If we - NGOs, schools, parents and the Address: Knez Mihailova 50 Address: Vladimira Popovića 10 INTERGALACTIC DINNER Address: Andre Nikolića 1-3 Tvenile violence in Serbia again to the Police said the boys held a plastic gun Behaviour way of letting people enter the media - don’t say to these children, ‘Hey, Address: Internacionalnih brigada 22 fore. and a knife to the teacher, and took the school building,” Lajović said, what you are doing is bad,’ we will be HOTEL TOWN HOUSE HOTEL IN Address: Hotel Jugoslavija, Bulevar CAFE CAFFELOUNGE The aggressive acts committed by grade book on the request of a 14-year- adding that is one of the ways of sending a bad message for coming gen- Address: Maršala Birjuzova 56 Address: Bulevar Arsenija Čarnojevića 56 Mihajla Pupina 85A Address: Vase Pelagića 48 Address: Kolarčeva 7 boys aged 13 to 14 in two elementary old friend, who had received bad marks. preventing violence. erations,” Grujić concluded. 6 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 7 BELGRADE BUSINESS

Continued from page 1 ADVERTORIAL Parking fines cut for fast payers Remembering No easy answer to Belgrade Parking Service decided on June 2nd to lower the price of parking fines in the capital from 1,870 Yugoslavia with Belgrade’s Serbia’s gas conundrum Perfect dinars [€15.5] to 935 dinars [€7.7] for those who pay within eight days. Andrija in brief Belgrade Čupić, the director of Parking new Yugo tour Wellness Service, told TV Studio B that the company was aiming to help the public. “We are constantly monitoring Belgraders and situations in which we can Service offer our service for as little visitors to the money as possible. We did city can now this for people who are Whether you came on business or for in a hurry or have simply forgotten to pay their fines,” both learn private reasons, don’t forget that you’re Čupić said. about the for- in the fastest-living city in the region – Street relaxation is of the utmost importance. named after mer Yugosla- writer Kapor via and feel a Belgrade councillors arin Milosavljevicć, marketing th little Yugoslav decided on June 8 to manager of the WellnessLand rename Mačvanska Street while driving Center and SkyWellness Club in Vračar municipality after will tell you a little more about the famous Serbian writer reasons why those are decidedly Momo Kapor. Long before in an iconic Mthe places which offer absolute maximum when his death in 2010, this author of over 40 novels, Yugo car from it comes to spa services, saunas, massage and fit- short stories, travel and ness activities in Belgrade. autobiographical books that period. became a symbol of Antić doubts the success of the pipeline between Serbia and Bulgaria. Photo by Media Centre Belgrade Belgrade. People read his Filip AVRAMOVIĆ About autumn refreshments: books and stories because e then quickly downplayed [the Trans-Adriatic pipeline], and the LNG Antićж, who served as Serbia’s minister of For a whole decade in WellnessLand, and more than five years in Sky- the plots were set in the city alph van der Zijden, a speculation that Serbia had terminal in Alexandropoulos, Antić said. energy in 2000, underlined that both Serbia Wellness, we’re in love with a healthy life. During those years we learnt that and focused on ordinary Dutchman living in Bel- changed its strategic posi- He added that Bulgaria has already se- and Bulgaria don't have enough domestic the essence of a good service shouldn’t be changed, but that occasional people. A sculpture called refreshments are always a good thing. With that in mind, this season we in- Dafne, based on one of his grade who introduced the tion, insisting that Serbia will cured financing from European funds and gas for exports. drawings, was also installed first cycle tours through not interrupt its ties neither is willing to hep Serbia to resolve these is- He said that Serbia's readiness to comply troduce new working hours – for the early birds, we’re open from 6:30 AM, the capital city a few years withH the US nor Russia, but has to protect its sues with support from the EU. with EU regulations and intensify work on the which has garnered great approval from all our members, but also from at Ada Ciganlija lake in 2011. back, has just launched a national interests. The agreement on the Niš-Dimitrovgrad EU-backed Nišљ-Dimitrovgrad project, will not our intermittent clients. Also, because of many guests from abroad, who Rnew tour. But this time he replaced two- “We are ready to accept gas from the Rus- pipeline was signed in Brussels back in De- improve Serbia's energy security much. spend several continual days or weeks in Belgrade on account of business, Capital attracts wheelers with the famous Yugoslav car – sians, but please tell me where this gas will cember 2012 and it was expected that the “Serbia gave NIS, the oil industry, for noth- we devised a new kind of monthly fee, as well as a day pass. That way, we more tourists the Yugo - that will take visitors on a tour come from. Will it be through Turkey and pipeline would be completed by 2015, but ing, expecting to get the South Stream, but are more available than ever, and our service is still as exclusive as ever. through communist-era Belgrade. Van der Zijden hopes his new tour will give a new insight on Belgrade. Photo by Sanjeev Dasgupta Greece or through Bulgaria? Because it will since then little progress has been made. received nothing in return. Now we can The Belgrade Tourist “They have those kinds of tours in Po- not come through Beregovo [a city in west- There are several alternatives to the Niš- probably expect some sort of loan from the About a unique concept of WellnessLand Center: Organisation said on June land, for example, where they show you ern Ukraine, near the border with Hunga- Dimitrovgrad pipeline that have been put EU,” he said, referring to the fact that Serbia Conceptually, WellnessLand is very close to Western clubs with exclu- th 4 that in the first four the history of communism from a car, OVERTURNING ‘ANTI-BALKAN The Hague and ry],” Vučić told the daily newspaper Novosti forward as potential solutions for Serbia's sold its majority stake in its old energy com- sive membership. Our members appreciate their own privacy, as well as months of 2015, 10 per which is fun and practical. It was some- PROPAGANDA’ started promot- You know how on May 30th. energy deficiencies. pany NIS to Russia’s Gazprom in 2008. respecting the privacy of other people. Whether you’re here because of cent more tourists came to Belgrade than in the same thing that I thought this city needed ing the idea of He noted, however, that Serbia might The construction of the Turkish Stream, While Antićж believes that Serbia has it- exercise, spa zone, pool, body treatment or some combination of the of- period last year. Almost because there is a lot of history here, Yu- Ralph first heard of the Balkans when another kind of you fall in love only get 300 or 400 million cubic metres of a joint project between Russia’s Gazprom self to blame for this failure, he insists that fered services, alone or in company, time spent in WellnessLand will relax 200,000 tourists have goslavia, communism, Tito and I was al- he was very young. He was born in 1977 Yugoslavia. gas from Azerbaijan, which is not enough and Turkey’s Botas, is expected to start by the EU should also shoulder some of the you and prepare you for your various business and private challenges. Our travelled to Serbian capital ways interested in it. during the Cold War. The stories teachers “I met a small with a girl and you for industrial and household consumption, the end of June. However, unlike the South blame for the current situation. permanent members come mostly by way of reccomendation, and we ob- from January to April this “If you’re a tourist here, you have to and the media told made him imagine group in Holland while gas from Krk [the terminal for lique- Stream proposal, there is no clear intention “They agreed with the construction of viously have more than a good reputation among foreign guests of our city, year, about 20,000 more learn something about it, not just listen to some very dangerous people lived in an who were really interested in the Bal- want to be with fied natural gas, LNG, in the Adriatic Sea], on the Russian side to finance its construc- the Nord Stream, despite this project hav- because they keep coming back every time they return to Belgrade. then in the same month in the negative stories about the war. There entire part of Europe behind the Berlin kans. We started playing movies from the would be three times more expensive. tion through the Balkans, except for Greece. ing similar problems in complying with EU 2014. The largest number are a lot of interesting leftovers from that Wall. Balkans, music from the Balkans. A lot of her all the time? “My job is to do everything so that we Ivica Dačić, the Serbian foreign minister, regulations as the South Stream,” he said. About the excellent of tourists came from period in this city,” van der Zijden told When he grew up, however, he realised people have a bad opinion about the Bal- have a choice and security of gas supply in said in mid-May that Belgrade was inter- Vojislav Vuletić, president of Serbia's As- atmosphere in SkyWellness Club: Croatia, Slovenia, Greece BIRN. things weren’t quite as he was told they kans and about Serbia. the future. I would be the one to blame if in ested in joining the Turkish Stream pipeline sociation for Gas, believes that Serbia, nei- In SkyWellness Club, we have a luxury of the best view in town. If you and Turkey. The Yugo tour lasts three hours and were. “It’s all standard propaganda. When That’s the same 2019 we don't have gas. This has nothing to in principal, but that the issue is yet to be ther now nor in the next couple of years, has have ever heard those incredible stories about a night life on Belgrade’s riv- Belgrade visits places that were significant to so- “They told us a lot of lies, about this wall you come here, you see how it really is. with me and do with geostrategic decisions, or with our discussed. any real alternative to Russian gas. ers, the early-morning or day exercise with a perfect view on those same ties knot with cialist Yugoslavia. The price for one per- in Europe. I imagined everyone behind My friends and I wanted to fight that im- foreign policy, but with the future of our The other option is to import gas from He stressed that Azerbaijan does not rivers will render you speechless! SkyWellness Club is young and full of Moscow son is €45, similar to the tour prices in the wall was wearing the same clothes, age, and show what young people do state,” Vučić said. Croatia, relying on plans to upgrade the have sufficient quantities to meet the needs positive energy, and a favorite city spot when it comes to best quality exer- Warsaw or Berlin. everything was in black and white, every- now,” he said. Belgrade." Before the conflict in Ukraine started, company LNG Croatia’s terminal in Krk, an not only of Europe, but also of South-East cise. Sauna, various kinds of body treatments, and services of professional Belgrade and Moscow The tour starts at the Parliament build- one was communist and they wanted to Shortly after returning to Holland, he Serbia relied on the proposed South Stream island in the Adriatic Sea, into a regional Europe, and that the available gas is already trainers are also available to our guests. mayors Siniša Mali and ing, across the street from the Pioneer bomb us. Later, when I grew up, I travelled quit his job there and moved to Belgrade. project to shore up its energy security, and hub for distributing overseas gas. reserved for other consumers. Sergey Sobyanin signed a Park, city hall and the presidential palace. to Prague. Everything was in color and He successfully started a bicycle tour make it a transit country on a pipeline bring- According to Mladen Antunović, general “The US proposal to reduce dependence About an incredible equipment: cooperation agreement in Van der Zijden uses the hall and the pal- people were happier than in Holland,” he company here and then expanded his Ralf van der Zijden ing 63 billion cubic metres of gas per year to manager of the company LNG Croatia, con- on Russian gas by participating in the con- On both locations, we offer our guests exclusively the equipment made the Russian capital on June ace to bring tourists closer to the time of recalled while talking about what drew business in Novi Sad and Budapest, hir- European consumers. struction of the terminal is expected to start struction of a gas pipeline from Azerbaijan by renowned Italian manufacturer Technogym. We are aware that multi- 2nd. The two cities have Yugoslavia and Tito’s reign. his interest to the communist period. ing 25 people and 60 bikes. The pipeline, which was supposed to in 2016 and is due to begin operating in 2019. is a good offer, but it would only be useful if tasking and clever utilization of every single moment are essential to mod- agreed to work together more closely in the fields of He hopes this is something that will He later started studying sociology and “I noticed I miss Belgrade, the Balkans, pump gas from Russia through Bulgaria and As quoted by the Croatian daily news- they gave us a grant to build it,” he said. ern living, and that’s the reason why you can, while excercising, check your healthcare, culture, traffic, have an impact on how tourists view the international relations. As an intern he I missed it a lot. Belgrade is the biggest Serbia to western Europe, was cancelled by paper Jutarnji list, Antunović said he ex- “Also, the supply through Croatia of shale email, talk via Skype, leave your status on social networking services, or urbanisation, trade and region. lived in Kosovo and worked for an NGO, city in the region, it’s really fun. So I de- President Vladimir Putin in December 2014 pected private investors would finance the gas imported from the US is economically just watch an episode of your favorite sitcom. Design, functionality and the export of agricultural “Yugoslavia is a nation which no longer but after three years he returned to Hol- cided to give up my job and move to Bel- He want’s to make the tour green, with after opposition to the project from the EU, construction, rather than the Croatian state. unjustified because of its price, which is high quality of Tecnogym equipment are unmatched. Technogym is our produce from Belgrade exists. There are a lot of old buildings from land. He started working for the city of grade. I needed to be happy. You know Serbia’s first electric car. who said it might break competition rules. Its projected capacity is six billion cubic much higher than the price of Russian gas,” first choice, because we do not compromise when it comes to the quality and Serbia in general to that time and you can tell about the rise The Hague. how you fall in love with a girl and you “Now I want to write a letter to Tesla Russia's decision to instead build a pipe- metres of gas and the project was included Vuletić argued, adding that this project of our services. Moscow. The agreement and fall of Yugoslavia by visiting bombed He noticed that The Hague was un- want to be with her all the time? That’s motors, to see if they would make an line through Turkey and Greece left Serbia on the list of EU priorities. could not be expected to come on stream was signed for 2015 - buildings and Tito’s grave. So you can see popular among the people of this re- the same with me and Belgrade,” he electric Yugo, so we can promote green without the pipeline, sources of financing before the next eight or 10 years. 2017, and Mali said that he a lot in only three hours. So far we have gion, so he started a cultural exchange said. energy as well. I currently don’t have any and potential revenues from transit duties, NO VIABLE SOLUTIONS Commenting on the recent EU-Russia dis- hopes it will be extended only had some trial groups, but we’ll see programme. His friends helped him set As for the future, Ralph van der Zijden other ideas, but I know this city has a lot of all of which were guaranteed in the South pute over gas, Vuletić insisted that Gazprom is afterwards. how this will develop,” he said. up Yugoslav movie and music nights in is putting together some ambitious plans. potential,” he said. Stream project. Experts, however, say that none of the op- not a monopoly in Europe, as they only meet tions look too promising in terms of stabilis- around 30 per cent of EU gas requirements. OPTIONS ON THE TABLE ing Serbia’s gas supply. “If Europe continues to stubbornly and Srboljub Antićж, an economist and for- dependently lead its energy policy in re- his memorial plaque, dedicated to author and political thinker Milovan Đilas, is located Serbia has speeded up a joint project with mer representative of Serbia at the IMF, ar- spect of the supply of Russian gas, Serbia at 8 Palmotićeva Street in Belgrade’s downtown, where he used to live from 1954 until Bulgaria, the Niš-Dimitrovgrad pipeline. gues that the pipeline between Serbia and could face a gas crisis,” he warned. th his death in this apartment on April 20 1995. Born in Montenegro in 1911, he moved to Aleksandar Antić, minister of mining Bulgaria is not a strategic or long term solu- Antić, who also agrees that it is question- Belgrade in 1932 to study law and philosophy, and joined the Communist Party of Yugo- and energy, said on June 2nd, following the tion for Serbia's problems with gas supply. able if Azerbaijan has enough gas for all its slavia. He was jailed as a political prisoner from 1933 to 1936 but two years later, he was session of the Serbia-Bulgaria intergovern- “It is good to have this interconnection but potential partners, fears Serbia is now in a electedT to the Central Committee of the Communist of the Communist Party and even became a mental committee that this interconnection it could not replace the South Stream, nor is very bad situation, with no good solutions member of its Politburo in 1940. Close to Josip Broz Tito, he was one of the key figures in the Partisan should be finished by 2018, and the first gas it comparable with the proposal of supplying in its gas strategy so far. movement during WWII, as well as in the post-war government. But as early as the 1950s, he started would flow in 2019. through the LNG terminal in the Adriatic Sea. “This is not some question to be left for criticising the regime and Tito himself. Many communists saw him as a threat to their leadership, The 150km pipeline has the capacity to “This pipeline is a step forward, but a the future, it is already a major concern. We so he was expelled from the party, becoming one of the best-known dissidents in Yugoslavia and Eastern Bloc. He was arrested several times but finally amnestied and freed in 1966. He continued transport 1.8 billion cubic metres per year small one - it doesn’t solve our problems if should ask ourselves who will invest in Ser- being a dissident, remaining a controversial figure until he died. and would allow Serbia to use gas from the transport of gas through Ukraine stops bia if they know that in four years the sup- Hidden Belgrade TANAP [the Trans-Anatolian pipeline], TAP in 2019,” he explained. ply of gas… could be uncertain,” he said. 8 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 9 REGION OUT AND ABOUT

Continued from page 1 Irish gay marriage vote shakes Croatia’s conservatives

arko Jurčić, from the Catholic leadership in Croatia... the LGBT rights where we have extremely conserva- group Zagreb tive bishops. Pride, told BIRN “We also have to take into account that although that in 1990s, when Ireland was open- Resava Cave. Photo by Tajga/Wikimedia Commons Lisine. Photo by bobankasalovic/Wikimedia Commons Croatian con- ing itself to the world, we had a war,” Mservatives have looked to Ireland as a he concluded, referring to the war for mentor in terms of Catholic values, a independence in the early part of the number of factors explain why the ref- decade. erendum results were so different. The Irish Church has also seen its “In Ireland, there was a strong con- moral authority enormously eroded sensus in parliament on supporting over the past two decades by an almost gay marriage,” he noted. Gay marriage unending series of sex scandals involv- was also supported by a broad spec- ing the clergy. trum of rights organisations, NGOS, Although some cases of sex scan- trade unions and well-known public dals involving the Church have been figures. reported in Croatia, the standing of the “What was positive in all this was that Church in Croatia has not been under- it showed the massive support of the mined in anything like the same way. general public for marriage equality,” Aleksandar Štulhofer, a specialist in he added. sex and gender issues, said it was hard Another factor, he noted, was that to say exactly why the results of the whereas the referendum was an im- two referenda were so different, but portant issue for 60.5 per cent of voters the answer probably lay in the combi- in Ireland - this be- ing the size of the turnout - Numerous the Croatian referendum studies in attracted only 37.9 per south-eastern Manasija Monastery. Photo by Ivan Jovanović/Wikimedia Commons Beljanica. Photo by Marko.jhb/Wikimedia Commons cent of vot- ers. Europe show Another key factor was the way the referendum question was put. “In Ire- that negativity land, the campaign was ‘for’ [gay rights] Fourest argues referenda on gay marriages are not votes for or against religion. Photo by Parti socialiste/Flickr while in Croatia it was ‘against’ mar- towards riage equality,” he observed. nation of Ireland’s better educational “In Croatia, the majority were and While visiting Zagreb in almost total “The referendum in Croatia was homosexuality structure, different cultural tradition stayed ‘against’, while in Ireland they secrecy and surrounded by security announced only three months after and differences in attitudes towards were ‘for’ the right to same-sex mar- guards – she wrote for the French satirical Going wild in Beljanica the signatures [needed to trigger the is far more homosexuality in Western and Eastern riage,” he explained. magazine Charlie Hebdo, which Islamists referendum] were collected, while in Europe. The professor said he doubted that have targeted – she said such referenda Ireland, preparations and the public prominent there “Numerous studies in south-eastern the result of the referendum in Ireland were “not about the Catholic religion”. Mt Beljanica lies 185 kilometres from Some believe the local shepherds had the region. Underground waters come Resava school for translation was once debate over the referendum lasted for Europe show that negativity towards would make much difference to the The result of the referendum in Home to a Belgrade in the east of Serbia. It takes long known about the cave but had bursting out of the mountainside at located here. Created in the 15th cen- over two years,” he pointed out. than in the rest homosexuality is far more prominent rest of Europe since a trend towards Ireland, where some 87 per cent of around two hours to get there but what kept it a secret. the spring called Veliko vrelo, or “Great tury, it gathered Serbia’s most influen- “Everybody knew what they were there than in the rest of Europe, apart granting equality is already gaining the population are Catholic, showed fabulous and you see will surely make you want to The cave is thought to be an incred- Spring”, and form a slow stream that tial figures in culture and religion. The deciding on, so there was no place for of Europe, apart from the East,” Štulhofer told BIRN. ground in the whole of Europe, except Catholics valued tolerance, coexist- stay and return. The mountain is a great ible 80 million years old and has not then turns into a massive, wild rapid library once contained 20, 000 books, manipulation,” he explained. He said the role of the Catholic for the Southeast and East, where oppo- ence and respect for other people, she mysterious cave, get-away from the din to which people yet been thoroughly analysed and ex- that is truly a force of nature. At the which was enormous considering Jurčić sees another big difference in from the East.” Church in both referenda was quite sition to equal rights for the LGBT com- noted. in cities are exposed. Its beauty and plored. Only 2,800 of the total of 4,500 bottom of the waterfall is a lake, about that books were costly and rare at that the relationship between political par- similar, but one difference was that munity, he says, is “a reaction to what is “It is not an issue of faith or religion; a waterfall and untouched nature draw crowds of visi- metres have been researched and only five metres deep. The lake itself is clear, time, especially in this part of Europe. ties and the Church in the two coun- there were some positive voices advo- perceived as a threat to traditional mo- it is an issue of the political instrumen- tors, especially in summer. 800 are open to the public. The pat- clean and rich with fish, especially After the Ottoman Turkish invasion in tries. cating gay marriage in the Irish Church. rality and religious principles”. talisation of faith or religion. You can be Aleksandar Štulhofer, two of Serbia’s The rivers team with fish and are terns inside are what make this cave a trout, which all the local restaurants 1458, the library was burned down and “In Croatia, the political elites try to “The fundamental difference should French feminist writer Caroline Four- Catholic or Jewish or Muslim, but have a specialist in sex and clean, so while you take a break from real gem. Around 45 million years old, serve as their specialty. the church was turned into a mosque. ingratiate themselves with the Catholic be sought in public attitudes before the est told BIRN that such referenda are not a strong respect for what is right and finest medieval hiking, you can sip the water straight the red, white and yellow colours come The restaurant at Lisine lies on the Years later, in 1689, the Austrians drove Church. We also have a problem with gender issues start of the campaign,” he maintained. votes for or against religion in general. just,” she concluded. from the steams without worrying from the minerals in the water that river and is only 50 metres from the out the Ottomans and the monastery monasteries, this about parasites or toxins. Besides the flowed through over countless millen- waterfall, so you can enjoy the scen- was returned to its original state. The surface streams, there are a lot of under- nia, eroding the cave. ery while dining on all the delicacies monastery is now under the protection mountainous ground waters that over time formed Visitors to the cave descend a spiral that this region has to offer. The camp of the Republic of Serbia. Since 2010, it caves. The most famous is the Resava concrete path and can visit two out of and restaurant also contain a fishpond has been on the list of pending cases for part of eastern cave, which has never been completely three levels – the upper and the lower and small zoo, so you don’t have to UNESCO. explored and has long amazed scien- gallery. The temperature in the cave wander through the forest in search of Published by ROM Serbia has tists and nature-loving visitors alike. is a constant seven degrees Celsius, so wildlife. RAVANICA MONASTERY After visiting the cave, you can follow warm clothing is recommended. After something for the river upstream and stop at some of it was opened for tourists in 1972, the MANASIJA MONASTERY On the opposite side of the moun- CRO the folk restaurants, where local meat cave had a staggering 200,000 visi- tain from Manasija stands the monas- everyone. and dairy products are served and tors a year. These days around 50,000 Travellers to Mt Beljanica should tery at Ravanica. Built by Prince Lazar B&H SRB www.balkaninsight.com where the hospitality will make you people come every year. A protected be sure to check Manasija monastery. between 1375 and 1377, the design and feel at home, before continuing past nature reserve covering 11 hectares Located near the town of Despotovac architecture mark the beginning of SUBSCRIBE TO OUR Filip AVRAMOVIĆ the Lisine waterfall all the way up to the surrounds the cave. Tours are available along the way to the mountain, it was the Morava school or style. A centre A LEADING PROVIDER OF PREMIUM CONTENT BUL spring at Veliko vrelo. throughout the year for individual or built by the Serbian Despot Stefan of cultural and spiritual activity at that n an age when many people A night at the Lisine bungalow camp collective visits. Tickets cost 300 di- Lazarević between 1406 and 1418. The time, Ravanica influenced the creation for in-depth analysis, investigative MNE NEWS AND ANALYSIS feel inseparable from the latest and restaurant costs €13 for adults, nars, or €2.5, for adults and 250 dinars, church is dedicated to the Holy Trin- of many schools, churches and mon- reports, features, interviews, KOS commentary and profiles on the latest gadgets, we tend to distance while children aged seven to 12 pay or €2, for children. ity and is one of the most significant asteries in Serbia. Today, only three IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE only half and children under seven cultural and religious legacies of me- towers remain along with the north- business and political headlines. MAC ourselves from nature and the riches it has to offer. That is why stay for free. LISINE NATURE RESORT dieval Serbia. Despot Stefan built Ma- ern part of the wall. Some records sug- this week we have decided to nasija as his mausoleum. His resting gest that seven massive towers once takeI you away from the concrete jungle RESAVA CAVE Besides being the home to the fa- place surpassed anything ever built defended the monastery. Historians towards the wonders of Mt Beljanica, mous Resava cave, Beljanica is also before in the Pomoravlje and is sur- agree that defending this type of struc- ALB OTHER SERVICES: the Resava cave, the monasteries of Ra- Located on Mt Beljanica it is one the home to one of Serbia’s finest waterfalls rounded by massive walls and towers ture needed mighty towers and walls, vanica and Manasija and the beautiful biggest, most fascinating, caves in Ser- and nature resorts, Lisine. The water- that bear witness only to part of this so it probably did once have several waterfall at Lisine. bia. Mountaineers discovered it in 1962. fall, Veliki buk, is the most famous in great monument’s original power. The more towers. 10 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 11 ARTS DINING OUT

Early Music Festival Opera, Ballet back for tenth time and Classical Manufaktura th The 10 Belgrade Interna- BELEF promises FRIDAY JUNE 12th It always begins tional Early Music Festival Voices of Korea, Ilija M. Kolarac with a simple Manufaktura: will be held from June 13th-28th. This is the longest Endowment, Studentski Trg 5, 4pm question: ‘Can you Arts in brief Arts in brief Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra with the festival has lasted since Corner Wine return to form this Muhai Tang, conductor, Ilija M. Kolarac bring me the wine it started, which is a tribute Endowment, Studentski Trg 5, 8pm to its growing popularity. As Marina Horak – piano and Zrinka list’? Everything ever, the festival will feature Vlašić – cello, Guarnerius, Džordža Serbian kafana light performers of early Classi- Vašingtona 12, 8pm else that follows is cal music from all around summer th SATURDAY JUNE 13 a complex matter, the world. There will be 15 Compared to the same food served in concerts and a baroque Opera: Carmen, The National Theatre, and cannot be a traditional kafana, the food in Manu- opera. Some of the perform- Francuska 1, 7pm Mina Radić, flute, Đura Jakšić house, faktura resembles expensive airline ers include Edin Karamazov, measured only by Skadarska 34, 7pm fare… a Bosnain classical lutenist, Dragan Petaković – violin and Ana how much is left The starters and the mains left Andre Laurent O’Neil, a US Kovačević – piano, Belgrade Cultural baroque cello, as well as Centre, Trg Republike 5, 8pm in the bottle after us unsatisfied. We moved onto the sweets, hoping for better. Do we have many other soloists and SUNDAY JUNE 14th dinner. bands. any original sweets in the Balkans? Winner of the 8th Amadeus Festival, Pavle GOLICIN Who knows…? Most of our sweets are Month of Kosovo Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, Studentski imported – either from the north-west, capital’s culture Trg 5, 11am ocated in the heart either from the south-east - so this time of downtown Bel- we decided to mix the two. TUESDAY JUNE 16th grade with a view of We tried some krempita, better- The “Month of Pristina the National Bank of in Belgrade” Festival has Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty, The Serbia, Manufaktura known as cremeschnitte, a Balkans- opened at the Centre for National Theatre, Francuska 1, 7:30pm patronised by both adopted dessert of Viennese origin, Baroque Concerts for Organ, The Cultural Decontamination Ltourists and business(wo)men consisting of a thick layer of vanilla Cathedral of Virgin Mary, Hadži wearing suits. This is the reason and will feature films by Milentijeva 75, 8pm custard cream between two crunchy, why I was so curious to discover Kosovo moviemakers during thin layers of puff pastry. Like the rest WEDNESDAY JUNE 17th how the restaurant interprets June. There will also be the Serbian ‘national’ cuisine of the food, it was pale – literally, in col- art exhibitions and panel Lissy Abreu Ruiz – violin and Nataša that they promote and serve to our, as well as taste. To make it worse, it discussions, all with view to Penezić - piano, Ilija M. Kolarac those target groups. was not freshly cut – the piece had stale strengthening the cultural Endowment, Studentski Trg 5, 6pm The first impression is that sides of a slightly different colour that Manufaktura meets that expec- ties between Belgrade and Opera premiere: The Magic Flute, The was harder than the rest! Pristina. National Theatre, Francuska 1, 7:30pm tation, as the wine list consists of Dragana Tomić – piano, Guarnerius, only Serbian wines, with a few We were not impressed by the bak- Džordža Vašingtona 12, 8pm usual suspects from Hercego- lava – a Turkish layered sweet pastry Africa’s diverse vina and Macedonia and with with a chopped nut filling and sugar heritage goes on THURSDAY JUNE 18th Prosecco being the only foreign syrup - either. It also had a problem show wine. This is inevitable as Full Harmony String Quartet, Ilija M. Serbian wine-makers - with just with structure. Kolarac Endowment, Studentski Trg 5, a few exceptions to the rule – are The staff was basically polite, but The Belgrade Afro Festi- 7pm val, which the Museum of still not producing sparkling everything else about the service was Ballet: Who’s That Singing Over wines. The National Theatre, wrong. They were slow, absent, and African Art organizes each There? The list includes 40ish labels Francuska 1, 7:30pm made so many mistakes that we could year in Belgrade, will take covering a wide range of grape th th not possibly list them all. place from June 12 -14 . As FRIDAY JUNE 19th varieties, so it is easy to find the always, the festival aims to good match for the food you The thing that ruined our experience showcase the cultural diver- Two Cellos – Luka Sulic and Stjepan order. It is worth mentioning the most was a complete lack of a sense sity and heritage of Africa in Hauser, Sava Centre, Milentija that Manufaktura serves ‘house of timing. The waiters were incredibly Popovića 9, 8pm wine’ – white, rosé and red – slow to bring a substitute fork (while an effort to promote multi- from a local producer in central culturalism. The festival will Serbia, which is a nice touch and our mains were getting cold) and the include expert lectures on Exhibitions not found so often in Belgrade desserts at the end of our meal. On the African studies, along with restaurants. Approximately 10 other hand, we were served the mains African artists participating and Events wines are available by the glass. while all three of us were only half way It is also great that Manu- Photo: Facebook in art exhibitions, workshops, FRIDAY JUNE 12th through the starters. concerts and much more. faktura offers soda water for making spritzers, which was a and jars with various products, resem- and delicate, probably good in their A fantastic location and great design 6th Salon of Landscape Architecture, custom in all Serbian kafanas, One of the best bling a food shop, while the tables and own right, but pale and thin compared simply can’t cover for the pale perfor- Antidote to literary SANU Gallery of Science and Technics, Đure Jakšića 2, 6pm but is nowadays so rare to find. positioned in the chairs are simple, black, bistro style. to the usual stuff. The comparison was mance. Is this place aimed strictly at boredom promised Poetry Evening, Trag Café and Gallery, The soda siphon is, however, The atmosphere is really appealing - unavoidable, as dishes with exactly the tourists who do not come back any- plastic rather than made of Dvoržakova 2, 7pm clean and modern with a reference to same names exist on virtually all men- way? The produce and the ingredients ć, glass, as it used to be. Despite city centre, the The Krokodil Fest, which Exhibition: Darko Aćimovi the old times. It does not represent any us in Serbia. used in Manufaktura are of high qual- stands for Literary Regional Studentski Grad Cultrual Centre, that, I really hope that soda will enjoy a renaissance in Belgrade, specific Balkan tradition, so the place The bad spell continued, more or less ity, we could tell that, but a restaurant Gathering That Does Away Bulevar Zorana Đinđića 179, 8pm venue previously especially as retro items could stand anywhere in the world. unbroken, to the very end. Šopska sal- requires a few more steps than that. with Boredom and Leth- th SATURDAY JUNE 13 become fashionable among known as Que On a warm spring summer-like day, ad was without onions. Zucchini salad We truly hope they can spice it up argy, will be held on June hipsters. the interior was empty as the garden came with a ‘spice it yourself’ set, but a bit, in all directions… to become the 12th-13th. This festival aims 17th Afro Festival, Museum of African Manufaktura offers two typi- Art, Andre Nikolića 14, from 10am to Pasa? finally has a was the place to be. Large and airy, ur- the ingredients were wrong. modern kafana that Belgrade needs. to promote literature and Famed violinist Radulović will be playing on the opening night. Photo by denis adam de villiers/flickr cal wines for kafanas from large 6pm scale producers: white Sme- ban but with enough greenery, all black The main dishes were slightly bet- Do not be surprised about the ultra- literacy in the region in th 7 Krokodil Festival, Museum of derevka from Tikveš and rosé new tenant after and white and shaded with eye-catch- ter: ćevapi from the town of Novi Pazar, short menu published on the restau- an all-encompassing and Yugoslav History, Botićeva 6, 11pm possible, which is why tickets for events BELEF Art Director Vojkan from Rubin made by a blend of ing, camera-flirting red umbrellas, this famous for their specific taste and airi- rant’s Facebook page. It is actually only modern way. Literature Packed month of June Takeaway Fashion, Grad grapes and ‘ideal for long-term this year are going to be a bargain once Borisavljević told the daily Politika being abandoned garden is one of the most pleasant in ness, indeed had the specific taste. Not half of the menu. Unfortunately, this will be promoted through Cultural Centre, Braće Krsmanović 4, enjoyment’, as they promote it. from 5pm to 10pm contemporary video and events promised again, ranging from only two to five eu- that BELEF was revived from being Bottoms up! However, you have for many years. Belgrade. the airiness, the texture was wrong, but ‘halfway’ policy is the defining point of ros per event. “clinically dead” last year. This was to take the whole bottle – as it is The menu is long and colourful. It they tasted like the real thing. Manufaktura. We do hope it will pro- audio presentations, musical SUNDAY MAY 14th and theatrical performances - despite the A large number of events will be free. confirmed by the fact that thousands not possible to get spritzers by covers the whole of the Balkans, from Another star of this region, the fa- gress to becoming whole. and readings of poetry, prose One of the biggest free events is the fes- of people attended last year’s events 17th Afro Festival, Museum of African the glass or order in quanti- Duda&Vlada Vojvodina down to Greece. The por- mous ‘ironed; sausage from Pirot, came ties less than one litre – which and theatrical pieces. It will tival opening itself when violin virtuo- and responded warmly to the pro- Art, Andre Nikolića 14, from 10am to tions are small and the prices follow, served with prebranac, a traditional distinct shortage 6pm doesn’t make sense and clearly take place at the Museum of so Nemanja Radulović will be playing gramme, even though money for June Takeaway Fashion, Grad spoils the overall impression. ocated in the vicinity of encouraging visitors to try a little bit of dish of baked beans. It was nice and Yugoslav History's amphi- of cash - some of in the Student Park accompanied by such things in Serbia is tight at the mo- Cultural Centre, Braće Krsmanović 4, Bearing in mind Belgrade the Kalemegdan fortress everything. This concept, cherished by mild. The same applies to the lamb Manufaktura theatre. the Double Sens orchestra on opening ment. from 5pm to 10pm standards, the mark up is ad- and just steps away from traditional Greek tavernas in the form chop, the third main dish that we tried. Address: Kralja Petra 13-15 which will be for night, June 21st, which is the Interna- “The economic crisis and austerity Dance Festival – One Love Project, equate. The service is good, but the Knez Mihajlova pe- of meze, works equally well for day and Everything was edible and far from Phone: +381 11 2180 044 Best European Dom Omladine, Makedonska 22, 1pm lacks the extra mile that would tional Day of Music. measures implemented on all state lev- really recall the good old-school destrian zone, this place night dining, since this type of food is a bad, but nothing was rich in flavour. Price Guide: 1,200-1,600 dinars [€10 writers showcased free. As well as offering a diverse pro- els have decreased our funding by 20 MONDAY JUNE 15th style of distinctive kafanas staff. has everything: –location, great companion to drinking and live Cuisine from the Balkans is not sup- - €13.3] per person for three courses to Serbia gramme, organizers say there will be per cent,” Borisavljević reminded Poli- Nevertheless, Manufaktura La vast and voluminous interior and two music. posed to be mild or under-seasoned. without drinks Exhibition: Persian Literature, David GALIĆ more venues than ever this year. Some tika, adding that because of this BELEF is suited to the target groups summer gardens - a small one on the Great concept, perfect setting, rosé The Arhipelag publishing Studentski Grad Cultural Centre, mentioned above, and it is the of the venues that will be hosting events had been unable to realize several Bulevar Zorana Đinđića 179, 1pm pavement and a large one in a pedestri- with soda… To make our expectations house has announced that it kind of place every city with fter what organizers include the Ilija M Kolarac Endowment, planned collaborations with regional Monday Delicatessen: Lice Ulice, a growing number of tourists anised passage. soar even higher, steaming hot bread will be organizing Belgrade’s Grad Cultural Centre, Braće Krsmanović of the Belgrade sum- which is where most of the Classical theatre companies. needs. As the name suggests, Manufaktura’s rolls came to the table. Straight from the ONCE KOVAČ, ALWAYS KOVAČ first European Literature 4, 7pm mer festival BELEF music concerts will be held, the home of Meanwhile, there is a lot to look for- concept is based on local fresh pro- oven, smelling like childhood. Just like ONCE ”KAFANA”, ALWAYS ”KAFANA” Festival on June 26th-29th. Exhibition: Ivana Bukovac, Grad called a “slumber” pe- King Petar I in the scenic suburb of Sen- ward to, including the premieres of ~ ~ ~ duce. It serves up the best known deli- in the old kafana days. The festival will take place at Cultural Centre, Braće Krsmanović 4, RESTURANT KOVAČ riod of several years, jak, the Kapetan Mišina Variorum, which two theatre projects, the Blues Brothers 8pm cacies from all around the Balkan Pen- To start with, we chose Pazarski tan- Dom Omladine and aims to modern ethno restaurant Basic Info Rating festival coordinators was being renovated last year and out of musical and the documentary drama th insula, presenting them in a hip, urban jir – selection of authentic delis from the showcase the most impor- TUESDAY JUNE 16 st tant and prominent con- Ahave announced that BELEF will be commission, Mikser House, located in “Fifth Park,” based on a successful initia- way. In short, it’s a 21 century kafana. It Novi Pazar region that are hard to find in Belgrade. We were somewhat disap- temporary European writers back better than ever this year, even the Savamala neighborhood, the Bitef tive several years ago in the Lion neigh- Exhibition: Gradomir Smuđa, The Overall Very Good has been some time since the local, the though the money invested in the pro- Theatre and several other spots. borhood of Vračar municipality to save French Institute, Knez Mihajlova 31, traditional and the handmade became pointed with the selection. Everything to the public in Serbia. The 7pm Wine selection Very Good festival will include four full ject has seen a significant fall. Milan Lazović, director of the Bel- a children’s park from being turned into fashionable again, and yet this is a sec- was fresh, handmade and of high qual- st Wine service Good nights of multimedia presen- The festival lasts from June 21 to grade Centre for Festivals, told a recent a building complex. WEDNESDAY JUNE 17th tor in which the Belgrade restaurant ity, but lacked the trademark intensity. tations focusing on the best July 25th with a whole month of inter- press conference that BELEF represents The RTS Big Band has prepared a spe- Wine pricing €12 - €133 scene shows a significant shortage. As if ‘the bite’ was intentionally left out. esting and diverse events. BELEF has the principal culture offering in Bel- cial programme, with separate concerts Animated Wednesdays – The large interior is simple, yet beau- Next we tried the staple starter of and most ground-breaking Contemporary Andalusian writers currently at work on always been about getting as many grade during the summer, promising an featuring ethno music, Classic music tifully decorated. The walls are covered Serbian kafanas: a lamb soup and a Bulevar Oslobodjenja 221, Tel: 011 2462 343 Animation, Studentski Grad Cultural Wine and food pairing Very Good www.restorankovac.com the continent. Belgraders and foreigners involved as interesting, diverse and dynamic event. and a night of covers of Beatles tunes. Centre, Bulevar Zorana Đinđića 179, 8pm in wooden shelves containing boxes veal soup. They were extremely mild 12 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 13 WHAT’S ON ON THE SPOT

US embassy CLUBBING unveils AND LIVE MUSIC Nikola Tesla monument FRIDAY JUNE 12th • Hristian Stojanowski, • Pure Cream, Club 94, boat • Cocktail Night, Industrija • DJ Ike, Industrija Bar, KPTM, Žorža Klemansoa on Sava, 11pm Bar, Karađorđeva 23, 11pm Karađorđeva 23, 11pm bust of Nikola Tesla, the famous • Burn Residency, Ciglana, 22, 11pm • Retro House Party, Mr Stefan • Festival of Tribute • Pure Cream, Club 94, boat inventor and engineer who spent Slanački Put 26, 11pm • House Party, Mr Stefan Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm Bands, KST, Bulevar Kralja on Sava, 11pm his life in the USA, finally arrived • Marko Vuković and Bokee, Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm • Ilija Ludvig and Ljubicice, Alekandra 73, 10pm • Comaneci, Grad Cultural Ain Belgrade on June 1st and was Mladost Disco Bar, 44, 11pm • Ex Yu Eighties, KST, Bulevar Grad Cultural Centre, Braće Centre, Braće Krsmanović officially unveiled at the residence of the US ambassador to Serbia. During the ceremony, • House Night, Industrija Bar, Kralja Aleksandra 73, 10pm Krsmanović 4, 8pm THURSDAY JUNE 25th 4, 7pm the sculptor, Bojan Mikulić, was present, as Karađorđeva 23, 10pm • Rocher Band, Dom • Obojeni Program, Virvel, • Bez Buke, Lira Vega, Rex, was the Deputy Chief of Mission in the US • RnB Night – Pure Cream, Omladine, Makedonska 22, Miksalište, Mostarska bb, • Retro House Party, Mr Stefan Jevrejska 16, 8pm Embassy Gordon Duguid and Nikola Lončar, Club 94, boat on Sava, 11pm 1pm 9pm Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm • Ljetno Kino, Bitef Art the president and founder of The Tesla Sci- • Time Machine, Freestyler • Erik Lenardson, • Mimi Mercedez, Drugstore, • Time Machine, Freestyler Cafe, Summer Stage, ence Foundation. Photo by Beta Duguid, Mikulić and Lončar. Photo by Beta boat on Sava, 11pm Studentski Grad Cultural Bulevar Despota Stefana 115, boat on Sava, 11pm Kalemegdan, 10pm • Friday Beeeat, Hot Mess Centre, Bulevar Zorana 10pm boat on Sava, 11pm Đinđića 179, 9pm • Bicikl, The Cyclist Celebrities • Dj Goran Starčević and DJ • Rundek Cargo Trio, Conspiracy, Mangulica gather Ike, Terassa, Kalemegdan Barutana, Kalemegdan, fm, Lenhart Tapes, Crno Fortress, 11pm 10pm Dete, Cuk Imago, Dečanska for film • Retro House Party, Mr Stefan 14, 10pm TRATTORIA premiere Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm SUNDAY JUNE 14th • Mikri Maus, KST, Bulevar PIZZERIA • Can’t Stop the Rock, KST, Kralja Aleksandra 73, 10pm ilm-enthusiasts, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra • Nineties Night, Club 94, including Serbian 73, 10pm boat on Sava, 11pm SATURDAY JUNE 20th movie and TV • Ti, Grad Cultural Centre, • Sunday Beat Deep House Nebojsina 8 Fstars, rushed to Braće Krsmanović 4, 9pm Tech House, Mr Stefan • Vinyl Party, Barutana, 011/3863-999 Cineplexx Ušće Shopping th • Rundek Cargo Trio, Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm Kalemegdan Fortress, 11pm [email protected] Centre on June 5 to watch www.restoranamici.rs the very first screening of Barutana, Kalemegdan, , • UVB and Andreas Hz young director Predrag th 10pm MONDAY JUNE 15 Svemirska Kafana boat on Stojić’s debut film "OFF". Sava, 11pm Apart from the film crew, SATURDAY JUNE 13th • ‘90s Night, Mr Stefan • House Party, Mr Stefan actor Marko Baćović, Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm screenwriter Marko Krstić and film director and • +++ Final Promo Night, • Improve 2.30, Španska • Somebody Call the Doctor, producer Dragan Bjelogrlić Drugstore, Bulevar Despota Kuca, Braće Krsmanović 4, Club 94, boat on Sava, 11pm also attended. Stefana 115, 11pm 9pm • Eighties, KST, Bulevar Kralja Marko Baćović, an actor. • Jewel Kid, S-Case, Nikola Aleksandra 73, 10pm Paunovic, Mark Dee Jack, TUESDAY JUNE 16th • ROIR, Black Sails, First Sava Centre Summer Stage, Flame, Muerto Rico, Nailed Famous Ana Ivanović Milentija Popovića 9, 11pm • Girls Gonna Get Wild, Mr In, Wrong Way Kids, Fest, KOLARAC pastry chef • The Big Salsa Party, Mikser Stefan Braun, Nemanjina 4, Gradski Park, Zemun, 8pm with support House, Karađođeva 46, 11pm • Students of the Master PROGRAMME Buddy from Bastian 10pm Blaster School of th Valastro in • Vlada Janjić +Gilb’r, 20/44 WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 Rock, Dom Omladine, Schweinsteiger boat on Sava river, 11pm Makedonska 22, 5pm Belgrade • DJ Mirko and DJ Meex, • DJ Gru and DJ Playa, Mr • Smak, Ušće Park, 9pm at French Open he famous chef from TLC Freestyler boat on Sava, Stefan Braun, Nemanjina 4, visited Belgrade on June st FRIDAY, JUNE 12TH Cycle: Kolarac Stage of Chamber 11pm 11pm SUNDAY JUNE 21 1st and 2nd. Valastro held an na Ivanović enjoyed sup- Music Gallery, 4pm Music • DJ Prema, Industrija Bar, • Ex Yu Music, KST, Bulevar event at the Ušće Shop- port from her number The Voices of Korea Production: Music Centre T ping centre and met a great number one fan and boyfriend Karađorđeva 23, 10pm Kralja Aleksandra 73, 10pm • MC Edge, Rebel B, Phase, A Lecture – recital on development Admission free of fans. A competition for the best Bastian Schweinsteiger • Somebody Call the Doctor, • Robbie Williams, Usce KPTM, Žorža Klemansoa 22, of Korean art songs A decorated cake was also held. Fans at the World Tennis Association Club 94, boat on Sava, Park, 9pm 11pm Kyoung Cho, soprano WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH voted on which motifs the cakes French Open – also known as the 11pm • Sunday Beat Deep House Won Cho, bass Music Gallery, 6pm were going to be decorated with Roland Garros. The Bayern Munich THURSDAY JUNE 18th Tech House, Mr Stefan Vladimir Stojnić, piano Lissy Abreu Ruiz, violin those of Kalemegdan, Đavolja varoš player cheered on passionately in Braun, Nemanjina 4, 11pm Admission free Nataša Penezić, piano and Novak Đoković topping the fluent Serbian and showed great • DJ Gru and DJ Playa, Mr • Tea Break, White Stain, Cycle: Encounter with an artist list. Buddy Valastro chose one cake support for his lady. Support from FRIDAY, JUNE 12TH Programme: A. Part, K. Stefan Braun, Nemanjina 4, Pink Flamingos, Incomplete, with theme of Đavolja varoš as the Bastian wasn’t enough, however, Concert Hall, 8pm Shimanovsky, R. Dubugnon. winner. as Ivanović got knocked out of the 11pm Terminal 13, FAWGF, Fest, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Production: Music Centre Valastro during his stay in Belgrade. Photo: Facebook competition during the semi-finals. Schweinsteiger at Roland Garros. 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players’ health and fitness. We are in The Regional Craft Beer Festival will The Serbian Un- a great position to be in the top four teams and qualify for the Olympics showcase brewers from the region that der-21 national in Rio next year,” Mladen Dodić, the team’s head coach, told daily newspa- have been able to turn their passion for team heads for per Blic on June 1st. Serbia hopes they will at least hops into successful businesses. the Champion- match their success of 2007 when they made it to the finals eventually ship finals with losing against the Netherlands, but David GALIĆ However, brewers are not only attend- ambitions to be crowned the best in ing in order to sell their libations, they will high hopes. Europe remain. he newest festival in the Ser- also be holding discussions and roundta- The team has been placed in group bian capital, The Regional bles to talk about the industry and share A, along with the Championship hosts Craft Beer Festival, will be their personal stories. Filip AVRAMOVIĆ the Czech Republic, Germany and held from June 19th to 21st Since the craft beer industry is still in its Denmark. Dodić hopes his team will enter the top four teams. Photo by Beta at Gallery Štab - an under- very early stages in Serbia and the region EFA’s Under-21 Champion- For their first game, on June 17th, Tused location directly under the Branko's as a whole, there will no doubt be many ship tournament will be Dodić’s team will play against Ger- played on June 27th, while the final is aly, Belgium, Cyprus and Northern Ire- rent European Under-21 champions, Bridge. aspiring brewers in attendance interested held in the Czech Republic many, while the matches against the set for June 30th. land and managed to win five match- from competing further in the playoffs. This spacious venue, complete with in learning about what it takes to get such Photo: Facebook from June 17th to 30th and Czech Republic and Denmark are In group B, Italy, England, Portugal es, draw once and recorded only two The fact that the Serbian team put U th rd ceilings so high it almost looks like an old a business off the ground in the Balkans. Serbia is among the eight teams that scheduled for June 20 and 23 . and Sweden will be fighting for the title. losses, once to the group favorite, Italy an end to Spain’s reign in Europe, and ballroom, will provide enough room for festival as well, providing respite for hun- That said, the story is the same no mat- Not only are there now bars dedi- made it to the finals. The winner and runner up of the Serbia qualified for the European and once to Cyprus. their 35-match unbeaten run, placed the hundreds of beer enthusiasts that are CRAFT BEER, gry beer drinkers looking to sink their ter where you go – the movement brings cated to better beer, but shops have also “All of the players reported in on group stage will advance to the semi- Under-21 Championship second in After qualifying for the finals, Serbia Dodić’s team among the favorites to expected to visit. BOUTIQUE BURGERS teeth into a serious hamburger. together beer lovers who are tired of the opened around the capital, giving people time. We have no problems regarding finals. The semi-final games will be the group. The team played against It- faced and knocked out Spain, the cur- win the competition. A bit different from the homebrew A day-ticket for the event costs roughly watered-down, tasteless liquid served by interested in trying new beer flavours a conventions that have taken place in Bel- If you look at the craft beer culture €2, which includes entry into a lottery large beer corporations and who want to chance to, while also selling raw materi- grade up until now, this festival is more around the world, it seems to be closely draw, giving visitors the chance to win drink suds that taste better. als and equipment to those interested in ‘professional’, showcasing brewers from accompanied by another type of ‘niche’ great beer-related prizes. The craft beer scene has taken off over brewing beer at home. the region that have successfully con- industry that is often referred to as ‘bou- Ballots will also be handed out to visi- the last two years in Serbia, giving birth to It's a scene that's swiftly increasing in Serbia’s Ivanović nominated for verted their passion for hops into thriving tique burgers’. tors, letting everyone not just sample the Kabinet and a growing interest in not just popularity in Belgrade and isn’t showing businesses. And while Serbia and the Balkans beers but also vote for their favourite one drinking craft beer, but also making it. any signs of slowing down. As far as participants go, naturally Ka- have a long tradition of grilling delicious on show at the festival. There have been a number of very Champions League goal of the tournament binet, Serbia's first real craft brewery, and minced meats, this more Americanised While the craft beer movement has successful homebrew events held in Bel- other Serbian brewers will be in attend- form of burger creation and consumption been flourishing around the world for grade during the past several years, at To find out more about the festival, the ance. From the region, there will be brew- has also started to bloom around Belgrade. several decades now, especially in Amer- which beer enthusiasts from around the exhibitors, and everything else related to Ivana NIKOLIĆ Ramsey scored his best goal against This is the second time this season that eries from Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and One of the leaders of this movement, ica, interest in the culture has just started country participated to share and show the event, visit the festival's official website: Branislav Ivanović, Istanbul-based Galatasaray, Sané was Ivanović has been honoured with such a Austria taking part as well. Burger House, will be in attendance at the to bloom in the Balkans very recently. off their brewing skills. www.rfzp.net. a Serbian football ccording to the UEFA Cham- nominated for his score against Real nomination. pions League, Ivanović has Madrid, Suárez was chosen for the goal At the end of April, Ivanović – together player for UK club been chosen for the goal he he scored against Paris Saint Germain with another Serb, Nemanja Matić - was scored against Paris Saint-Ger- while Messi’s goal against Bayern put included in England’s Professional Foot- A th Belgian rockers’ Arsenal Fest ready to Chelsea, is one of six main on February 17 , which was his fifth him on the list of the top six tournament ball Association Team of the Year, fol- UEFA Champions goal of the season and the opening goal of goals. lowing a vote by fellow Premier League first in Belgrade rock Kragujevac the final 16 Champions League matches. Rakitić was the last one to enter the footballers. League players Apart from Ivanović, the remaining group, after he scored against Italy’s Ju- Ivanović, who is also a team captain riggerfinger are a Belgian rock group that have been compared to he Arsenal Fest in Kragujevac has been one of the most interesting five nominated players come from Span- ventus in the 2015 Champions League of Serbia’s football national team, joined bands like Queens of the Stone Age and even legends like Led Zep- summer festivals in Serbia for several years. The festival combines selected for scoring ish FC Barcelona, German Schalke and final on June th6 . Chelsea in 2008. He began his profession- pelin. They play a gritty, yet melodic style and really put the “power” Serbian and international bands to create a diverse and multicul- UK club Arsenal. The list includes Barce- You can see all the nominated goals al football career back in 2001, when he in power trio. The will be visiting Belgrade for the first time, playing tural experience for all who attend. The fifth annual festival takes the best goal of the lona’s Ivan Rakitić, Luis Suárez and Lionel and vote for your favourite on the official first played for several Serbian clubs be- the Barutana club, which is on the lower level of the Kalemegdan place on June 25th-27th, and some of the international names host- Messi, Aaron Ramsey from Arsenal and UEFA Champions League website. Voting fore joining Russia’s Lokomotiv Moscow fortress and is usually reserved for electronic music parties. The ed this year include drum'n'bass superstar DJ LTJ Bukem and MC competition. Leroy Sané of Schalke. Photo by Beta will close on June 20th. and then UK club Chelsea. bandT released its debut album in 2004 and has recorded several more since then, Stamina.T Serbian bands booked for the festival include the ever-popular S.A.R.S., gaining widespread approval of their infectious yet raucous sound all over Europe. Artan Lili, and more. Tickets are on sale and cost €18 for all three days. The show is scheduled for July 3rd and tickets are €10 at the door.

Robbie’s concert Four days of Japanese Rundek promotes his new "Bridges" billed as event of decade Reunited Smak Rock heavyweights food on screen Balkan guitar legend Darko Rundek has According to organizers, if you aren’t back together at Ušće Linkin Park due in town A festival of Japanese film under a new album with his trio, the Rundek attending the Robbie Williams concert One of the most popular Serbian rock One of the biggest rock bands in the the name “The Soul of the Japanese Cargo Trio, which he will be promoting at Ušće on Wednesday, you are missing bands of all time, Smak will be playing world, Linkin Park, have announced Kitchen” will take place from June in Belgrade this weekend at Barutana the concert event of the decade. The at Ušće park on June 20th. This concert that they will be playing Ušće park on 25th to June 28th at the Yugoslav Film on June 13th. The album is called international superstar is stopping by is special because it will finally unite September 8th. This will be the first time Archive. One Japanese movie will be “Mostovi” (“Bridges”) and is the trio's first on his massive world tour for the first the complete original lineup from the that the American superstars have screened each night, each of them release in five years. Rundek was the time in Serbia and organizers expect 1970s, with several additional band come to Serbia, making it a must-see for focusing on Japanese cuisine. The films leader of famed ex-Yugoslav rock band thousands of attendees. Tickets are members rounding out the sound. all rock fans. The band will be on tour are: “Ramen Yori Taisetsuna Mono”, Haustor and has a devoted following all on sale and cost from €40 and €200 Tickets cost €12 for regular standing promoting their latest album “Living “Bushi no kondate”, “Râmen samurai” around the former republic. depending on where you stand. area and €18 for “fan pit” access. Things.” and “Shijuukunichi no reshipi.” 16 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Thursday, June 11 - Thursday, June 25, 2015 ADVERT Map of City Centre

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