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Page 3 Page 9 Pages 10 and 11 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 Aid money 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 Witch hunt feared in for floods - - - blame game over floods willNEWS test Serbia’sNEWS As police grill

probity “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: local officials 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. in flood-hit The government’s

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spent transparently 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. W fingers are being - will be sorely June 13, 2008 Issue No. 1 / Friday, pointed in the tested in the months wrong direction. ahead. page 5

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olice are investigating lthough no detailed conomists are warning that pro - over Serbia’s uncertainty longed “This year has been lost, from the whether local officials in estimate of the cost of 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 the three municipalities hit repairing the damage E worst by the flood wave – caused by the floods in Obrenovac, Krupanj and Serbia has yet been cal- PŠabac – are responsible in way for any culated,A Prime Minister Aleksandar of the devastation that occurred. Vučić has said the bill will be around Friday • June 13 2008 The deluge that hit Serbia in mid-May €1 billion, and that donations will cover cost 51 victims their lives and another 4 only about a quarter of that amount. remain missing. More than 30,000 peo- The floods affected 39 out of 120 -mu ple have been forced from their homes. nicipalities in Serbia in total, forcing THIS ISSUE OF

Aleksandar Vučić, the Prime Minis- more than 30,000 people from their Belgrade Insight IS SUPPORTED BY: IS SUPPORTED ter, said the main responsibility for act- homes and damaging or destroying 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 ing in emergency situations lies with road, railways, bridges, homes, power 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 local authorities. plants and telecommunication infra- According to Serbian Law on Emer- structure. gency Situation and legal experts, ac- The government has promised to countability for what happened in strictly control both the calculations of Serbia in fact lies both with the govern- the damage and the way aid money is ment and with the local authorities, nei- spent on repairing it. ther of which reacted in time. However, many experts remain to be convinced that the government will Continued on page 2 Aleksandar Vučić is the head of Serbia’s Staff for Emergencies. Photo by Beta supervise both operations with much success, and fear aid money could end up being misused, largely as a result of a lack of skills in officialdom. BALKAN FLOODS TOTTING UP THE DAMAGE In Obrenovac, the worst affected YOU CAN HELP! town, locals have already begun pre- senting compensation claims to the authorities. Donate SERBIA by sending SMS at 1003 These personal claims are only a first step. Local authorities now need to Donate BOSNIA by calling 090 291 032 collect the data of the damage done to housing, farms, local infrastructure and or 092 890 830, or sending SMS at 1458 company assets. Donate CROATIA by calling 060 90 11 Continued on page 5

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for many bloggers to make jokes about region - and the fact it was promptly re- Prime Minister Vučić, who showed up on moved - serve as evidence that the me- Witch state television as a rescuer. People used dia in Serbia are censored and under the social networks again after the recent control of the government. Ringier Axel crisis to confront the government, which Springer, which owns the website, made Serbia’s was maintaining that while the situation no comment, but reversed the whole was difficult, it was doing everything in section blog on its website. hunt feared its power to save people’s lives. An earlier BIRN investigation has al- Although most people on social net- ready shown that media in Serbia are works tried to use them to exchange under the pressure of the ruling parties crisis is no useful information about providing and that people close to the leading fig- help for those who needed it most, some ures tend to censor content that they in blame voices who criticised the government estimate could indirectly lead to a loss of with good arguments and sought re- advertising revenue. sponsibility quickly showed up as well. The investigation showed that the rul- The remarkable lack of a critical tone ing Progressives do not want to change game over excuse for net in the mainstream media resulted in the system of pressures that was al- blog posts on social networks that open- ready established, but only to control it. ly criticised Vučić and his government. Removal of content from the Internet is Several texts were quickly removed new, and may show that current “media from the websites that published them, controllers” want to establish the same floods censorship to the detriment of the public whose control in that field that they already main source of information is the Inter- have in the traditional media. It is also net. These posts would, of course, then more difficult to prove who was behind appear in other places, blogs or websites. hacking websites or removing content. owever, few expect the pros- These include the Ministry of Agricul- However, the fact that is texts were de- On the other hand, every Internet ban ecutors or parliament to raise ture as well as Ministry of Interior’s Sector In the recent leted, videos were removed and some boosts the importance of the content in the issue of the legal and polit- for Emergency Situations whose head floods crisis, news items criticising the government, question to unimaginable proportions, Hical responsibility of the state sits also on the state’s Emergencies Staff. Prime Minister, or recalling the state- even though the content itself may not and its senior officials. The Hydrometeorological Service duly social networks ment of senior officials, were also -re deserve special attention or say any- warned all the above addresses and the moved from official websites. thing in particular. OVERLAPPING DUTIES media that heavy rain was about to hit have in some The text of the journalist Nenad The low threshold of the government several municipalities on May 12th. Milosavljević reading, “State, we would is still the signal that the fight for freedom Under Serbia’s 2014 Flood Defence While the Law on Emergency Situa- ways become not keep you any longer” and the text “I, of expression must remain constant, Plan, the national weather service is tions states that an emergency must be AV resign”, by the aesthetics and literary Professor Vesna Rakic Vodinelić wrote obliged to inform a series of institutions declared immediately on learning of the more important professor Novica Milić, were in the spot- in a comment published at pescanik.net. about forecasts and flood warnings. imminent threat of a natural or other dis- light. The first, because it directly spoke “The state of emergency does not than the about government failures and its re- keep us from calling the state authorities sponsibility for people’s deaths, and the to account, criticising them,” she wrote. mainstream second, because it dealt ironically with “Our right to ‘give lessons’ through the media as sources the imagined resignation of Vučić. human right of article 46 in the Consti- The fact that Milić’s text, which the tution (freedom of opinion and expres- of information journalist Dragan Todorović published sion), according to law, exists in a state of More than 30,000 people were forced to leave their homes by the devastating wave of floods in Serbia. Photo by Beta on his blog at the Blic daily website, emergency to the same extent as in any – which is why which is the most visited website in the ordinary situation.” aster in at least two municipalities, the “Municipal crisis staffs are supposed Law professor Vesna Rakić Vodinelić Emergencies Staff headed by Prime Min- to order and organise an evacuation if says the question of responsibility should attempts to ister Vučić waited until May 15th before the people being evacuated are within start with the accountability of central declaring an emergency situation. same municipality, while the state’s Staff government, and only then of authorities censor them The law stipulates that an emergency for Emergencies orders evacuations be- lower down. situation may only be declared after a dis- tween municipalities,” Mandić explained. She said the public prosecutors should must be resisted. aster has already happened if the danger “When an emergency is declared for raise the issue of the legal responsibil- could not have been foreseen. the whole country, the Staff for Emergen- ity of the government, while the issue of Predrag Marić, head of the Sector for cies coordinates and leads the work of political responsibility could be raised in Emergency Situations and the member local staffs. However, this does not mean parliament. of the state’s Staff for Emergencies, told that local staffs have no responsibility in Serbia’s main opposition Democratic BIRN that both the Staff and the threat- such situations. Both are responsible, as Party has indeed called for the parlia- ened municipalities were informed of the both have duties,” Mandić observed. ment to form a committee to quiz the gov- upcoming wave of water on May 12th. The evacuation of Obrenovac, the ernment over its role in the floods. “The Hydrometeorological Service town worst hit by the floods, started only But when it come to legal responsibility sent a warning, which we received, and on May 16th. By the time the alarm sirens Rakić Vodinelić doubts prosecutors can do on the same day we informed all the mu- went off, around 5am, some areas were much. “I don’t expect it to happen,” she said. nicipalities,” he said. already submerged. “Starting such an issue requires a de- “However, we could not declare an cent judiciary, independent of the execu- emergency at state level while nothing QUESTION tive, and such a judiciary should be ready On 4th of June 2014, at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belgrade, from 3pm was actually happening,” Marić added, re- OF RESPONSIBILITY to raise the issue of accountability of ex- till 5 pm the Embassies of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and sponding to a question from BIRN about ecutive power,” Rakić Vodinelić added. Sweden in Belgrade will celebrate Nordic Day. why an emergency was not declared On the order of the prosecution, police Serbia’s justice system is still influ- Slobodan GEORGIJEV Saša Janković, Serbia’s Ombudsman. Photo by Media Centre Belgrade The event will begin with a seminar “Stronger Together - Nordic on the same day that the authorities re- have now started questioning municipal enced by the executive, while many judg- Cooperation and Innovation: A relevance to the Western ceived the flood warning. leaders of Obrenovac, Krupanj and Šabac. es and prosecutors believe it does not question at the centre of some people clearly find it more impor- some voices spoke in a clear way and Balkans?” Sofija Mandić, a legal expert and a law- Mandić says that although the respon- make decisions independently, a survey any debate about censor- tant to spread unverified information with good arguments about what was yer, told BIRN that responsibility for de- sibility of local authorities should be ex- by the Nis-based NGO Center for Human ship in Serbia is whether than help others. actually going on in the affected areas The Nordic Day is organized by the four Nordic embassies in claring an emergency, and for the timely amined, the head of the local authority in Rights shows. the public has the right to “If you cannot, or will not, help, then at and how the people in charge from the Belgrade and the (non resident) Ambassador of Iceland to evacuation of people at risk, lies with Obrenovac was not actually in charge of When asked whether they believe that seek responsibility from least keep quiet,” Vučić said on May 16th administration had actually acted. The Serbia. It is supported by 36 Nordic companies. Being socially both the Staff for Emergencies and the lo- calling for an evacuation or declaring an they were independent of parliament, theA government over the terrible conse- at the Crisis Staff meeting. voice that spread on the Internet was responsible, many of these companies have donated equipment, cal municipal staffs. emergency in his municipality. 75 per cent of the prosecutors answered quences of the recent disastrous floods. From the moment that unprecedent- different from the one we could hear in money and other forms of aid to the victims of the floods in Municipalities are in charge of declar- “Obrenovac does not have the status of that they were not, as did 17 per cent of Rodoljub Šabić, commissioner for in- ed floods struck Serbia, and from the the “big media”. Serbia. ing an emergency on the territory under local self government. Under the regula- the judges. formation, ombudsman Saša Janković, moment the government declared a As during the Arab Spring in 2011, their jurisdiction after receiving note of tions, the Belgrade mayor is supposed to Some 42 judges and 73 prosecutors as well as the bloging community, have state of emergency, which should have when social media played a major role The topic of the seminar is “Stronger Together - Nordic the danger. declare emergency situation in that town, participated in the survey, which was car- united around the petition #uLiceCen- ensured more effective and coordinated in informing local communities and the Cooperation and Innovation: A relevance to the Western However, the government is in charge as it comes the under jurisdiction of the ried out during 2013. zuri and have stood up for protection of functioning of different state services, international public about what was go- Balkans?” and will address the issues, challenges and benefits of of declaring an emergency at national capital. This doesn’t mean that Obreno- When it comes to their independence freedom of expression - guaranteed by a debate started on social networks on ing on, for the first time in Serbia, social regional cooperation according to the Nordic model. level on the proposal of the Staff for Emer- vac officials do not have other responsi- from the executive, 85 per cent of pros- the constitution. whether it all had to happen and who networks and blogs were now in some gencies, as soon as it is informed that bilities, but the two mentioned [evacua- ecutors said they were not, and 31.4 per This came after texts were removed was responsible for flood-related deaths. ways more important than the tradi- The seminar will be followed by a Nordic Day reception floods threaten more than two munici- tion or declaring emergency] were in the cent of judges confirmed the same. from the Internet and after the authori- Social networks served as a kind of tional media, because people were on from 6pm till 9 pm palities, which was the information the hands of the Belgrade mayor,” Mandić Mandić says that it is not enough just to ties announced that people spreading warning system and quick sharing of the spot where things were going on and Staff received on May 12th. said. investigate potential failures at the level panic – in the police’s view - would be information, which the Serbian police could immediately report about them. “There is confusion over who was sup- Bogoljub Milosavljević, a law professor, of local governments. detained. said led to more than 1,000 people be- The government led by Progressives posed to be in charge of what. However, believes that the decision to raise the is- But she also does not expect prosecu- They want the government to answer ing found. Besides that, social networks has already showed in the past that it the law clearly shows that both govern- sue of the responsibility of the three local tors to seek any individual responsibility questions regarding its responsibility for spread numerous, unconfirmed and does care about what is happening on ment and local authorities have responsi- leaders was questionable. among government officials. dealing with the floods, and not annul even false bits of information. Some Fa- social networks - and can damage the bilities and duties that in some cases run “Calling mayors to account looks like “What people have left to do is bring people’s right to freedom of expression. cebook groups brought together a large credibility of certain people who publish parallel,” Mandić said. a witch hunt, as if the need is to find a private criminal charges where they can The government did not officially community of people that believes the on the Internet and even remove con- A similar division of responsibilities scapegoat,” he said. “They might have call for investigations of members of the respond to those requests, but Prime atrocious weather was caused by the se- tent seen as hostile to the ruling party. applies to decisions to evacuate people made mistakes, but the issue of responsi- government and the Staff for Emergen- Minister Aleksandar Vučić repeatedly cret US electronic system, HAARP. The crisis with the snowstorm in parts from endangered areas. bility is much wider,” he added. cies individually,” Mandić noted. claimed in public during the crisis that However, in that noise of information, of Serbia last winter served as motive 4 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 5 SERBIA SERBIA

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ing data on the collected funds, which “This could be an opportunity to reached €11.7 million on May 26th. cut redundant jobs, postpone some Over the next few moths, Serbia planned investments or public pro- should be able to access $100 million curements and use the money for re- Aid [€73 million] from a World Bank loan construction,” he said. plus a donation of $150,000 [€110,000]. However, Vladimir Gligorov, of the Around €30 million from IPA funds Vienna Institute for International Eco- could also be used through projects. nomic Studies, said he doubted that the The United Arab Emirates has said it government would reduce spending money for will donate $10 million [€7.3 million], radically. and the European Investment Bank, He expects the reconstruction job to €1.5 million. be financed mostly through credits, as- But the arrival of this international sistance and other, similar sources. money will largely depend on the ac- “I expect them to avoid serious cuts curacy and reliability of the claims pre- in wages and pensions and think how floods will sented. to engage the construction industry Vučić said most support is expected and its resources in repairing the dam- from the EU, followed by Russia and age to houses and infrastructure,” Gli- Serbia’s Arab partners, adding that for- gorov said. eign aid will cover about 20 per cent of Although cutting salaries to free up test Serbia’s the cost of the damage. funds for reconstruction might make The government has meanwhile set some sense, Gligorov expects no signifi- TO DONATE MONEY TO DONATE MONEY FOR TO DONATE MONEY FOR FLOOD TO DONATE MONEY FOR FLOOD aside RSD 100 million [€865,000] for cant cuts in July’s revised budget. FORFLOOD RELIEF TO FLOOD RELIEF TO SERBIAN RELIEF TO NOVAK ĐOKOVIĆ RELIEF TO B92 FUND rehabilitation after floods. More funds “As dissatisfaction grows with the GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA RED CROSS FOUNDATION from the budget may be assigned after way that the government and admin- B92 FUND RSD ACCOUNT: PAYPAL ACCOUNT OF THE SERBIAN PAYMENT INSTRUCTION - EUR the government adopts a revised budg- istration responded to the floods, they PAYMENT INSTRUCTION - USD 340-1300213635 probity GOVERNMENT et in July. may well abandon unpopular meas- ERSTE BANK AD Intermediary Bank / Bank: JPMorgan Chase Bank ures - and spending cuts are one of [email protected] Correspondent Bank ABA 021000021 INTERNATIONAL DONATIONS he government’s Commis- REVISING THE BUDGET those,” he added. SWIFT – BIC: DEUTDEFF BIC: CHASUS33 The account belongs to the Serbian Name: DEUTSCHE BANK AG sion for Determining the Serbia’s 2014 budget Law predicted Account number: 806001582 NAME: FONDACIJA FOND B92 – diplomatic mission in Brussels and City, Country: FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Damage Caused by Natu- Minister Krstić said that any deci- a budget deficit of 182.5 billion dinars Recipient SERBIAN FLOOD RELIEF donations are automatically transferred GERMANY PB Intl Settlements Wire Account IBAN: RS35340000001101111532 ral Disasters will oversee sion on whether the revised budget [€1.57 billion], or 4.6 per cent of GDP. to the special Serbian government Account with institution / Beneficiary`s Reference SWIFT CODE: GIBARS22 the process and assess includes fresh savings - to ensure more Depending on the extent of the ef- account for flood relief. Bank FFC to W83791009 - Novak Djokovic ADDRESS: Jevrejska 16, whetherT the estimates are correct. money goes to flood relief - would only fects of the floods on production and SWIFT – BIC: KOBBRSBG Foundation Belgrade Serbia SERBIAN GOVERNMENT RSD ACCOUNT: Name: KOMERCIJALNA BANKA AD Vučić said the decision to insist on be made once the damage assessment on the tax yield, Gligorov predicts that 840-3546721-89 BEOGRAD PAYMENT INSTRUCTION - EUR WEBSITE FOR DONATIONS central oversight of damage assess- was complete. the deficit could increase by around 1 Purpose of payment: Removal of Street: Svetog Save 14 www.donacije.rs extraordinary circumstances – flooding. City, Country: 11000, Belgrade, Republic Beneficiary Bank: ment reflected concerns that local au- In the period of recovery, the gov- per cent. of Serbia JPM Chase Bank London thorities might exaggerate their claims. ernment will need to balance reform When local authorities, the prov- SERBIAN GOVERNMENT FOREIGN Beneficiary BIC Code: CHASGB2L “When I asked one municipal leader targets set earlier and the urgent need ince of Vojvodina and social insurance CURRENCY ACCOUNT: IBAN / Account Number: Ultimate Beneficiary Bank how he got to the amount of 973 million to address the consequences of the re- funds are factored in, the consolidated 01-504619-100193230-000000-0000 RS35205007080003980905 JPM Chase Private Bank Company name: CRVENI KRST SRBIJE Account number: 24606703 euro worth of damage to agriculture - cent disaster. deficit in Serbia amounts to 7.1 per cent Money transfer instructions for Street: Simina 19 IBAN - GB28CHAS60924224606703 even though all the land [in the munici- Economist Stevanović believes the of GDP. The country’s soaring public donations from abroad: City, Country: 11000, Belgrade, Republic Reference pality] is not worth that much - he did government will have to adjust some debt is already equivalent to 62.7 per of Serbia FFC to W83791009 - Novak Djokovic not reply,” Vučić told Serbian state TV, of its sums in order to finance the recov- cent of GDP. PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS – EUR PAYMENT INSTRUCTION - USD Foundation RTS, on May 28th. ery. SWIFT MESSAGE FIN 103 Intermediary Bank / Correspondent Bank Novak Đoković Foundation also receives Jadranka Joksimović, the European FIELD 32: VALUE DATE-CURRENCY- SWIFT – BIC: SCBLUS33 donations for flood relief via PayPal. More integration minister, has said that the AMOUNT Fed Wire ABA: 026002561 info at novakdjokovicfoundation.org FIELD 50K: ORDERING CUSTOMER Name: STANDARD CHARTERED BANK damage assessment should be com- FIELD 56A: DEUTDEFF City, Country: NEW YORK,NY, UNITED pleted by August. /INTERMEDIARY/ STATES The government believes the final FIELD 57A: /DE20500700100935930800 Account with institution / Beneficiary`s assessment will show that the cost of /ACC.WITH BANK/ NBSRRSBG Bank FIELD 59: /RS35908504619019323080 SWIFT – BIC: KOBBRSBG addressing the damage will exceed (BENEFICIARY) MINISTARSTVO Name: KOMERCIJALNA BANKA AD 0.64 per cent of Serbia’s GDP, or €175 FINANSIJA, UPRAVA ZA TREZOR BEOGRAD million. Although it is only a candidate FIELD 70: DETAILS OF PAYMANT Street: Svetog Save 14 for membership, Serbia could thus ap- PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS – USD City, Country: 11000, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia ply for assistance from the EU Solidar- SWIFT MESSAGE FIN 103 Beneficiary ity Fund, designed to help members in FIELD 32A: VALUE DATE-CURRENCY- IBAN / Account Number: crisis. AMOUNT RS35205007080003980905 FIELD 50K: ORDERING CUSTOMER Company name: CRVENI KRST SRBIJE Vučić said that reconstruction would FIELD 56A: BKTRUS33 Street: Simina 19 proceed in four phases, running from /INTERMEDIARY/ City, Country: 11000, Belgrade, Republic consolidation of the energy sector to FIELD 57A: /04415465 of Serbia repair of road infrastructure, repair of /ACC.WITH BANK/ NBSRRSBG FIELD 59: /RS35908504619019323080 damaged homes and restoration of (BENEFICIARY) MINISTARSTVO economic growth generally. FINANSIJA, UPRAVA ZA TREZOR FIELD 70: DETAILS OF PAYMANT TRANSPARENCY ESSENTIAL

The government has also estab- lished a special Government Office for Assistance and Rehabilitation of Flood- ed Areas, in charge of coordinating and The damage assessments have yet to be made. Photo by Beta monitoring the distribution of humani- tarian and other aid. This was largely due to the untested Office, warned that European donors Vučić said a major figure from the skills of those who will be in charge of would insist on careful supervision of non-governmental sector would be monitoring the whole process, he said. aid funds. brought in to manage funds for repairs, Serbia has already had trouble ac- Funds collected abroad would either and announced that this task would be cessing the EU’s pre-accession funds, have to be managed by an authorised allocated to Marko Blagojević, from the IPA, because its officials lacked the international organisation, or by a Ser- Centre for Free Elections and Democ- skills needed to meet the requirements bian state body that closely followed racy, CESID. to obtain these grants. the rules of such an international or- Lazar Krstić, the Finance Minister, “The willingness exists to spend ganization, he said. said all decisions on spending would money in the right way but the ability of “The European Integration Office -al be made public, and that each body the personnel carrying out the process ready did this job in case of the floods involved would submit regular reports is very questionable,” Stevanović said. in Jaša Tomić and the earthquake in on what it had achieved with the mon- The NGO and watchdog Transpar- Kraljevo, which is why it should be in ey it had been assigned. ency Serbia has called for maximum charge of this job, or at least involved in “We will control expenditure very transparency when it comes to disburs- it,” Mirić said. strictly because we cannot play with ing aid money. the trust of people who have given Increased oversight would be espe- CASH MOUNTING UP money as donations,” Krstić told RTS cially necessary, as a number of public on May 21st. procurements are to be implemented Meanwhile, the government’s own However, Aleksandar Stevanović, without public tenders via emergency account for aiding flood victims has al- an economist and advisor to former procedures, which leaves room for the ready received a significant amount of economy minister Saša Radulović, said misuse of funds. cash from private, corporate and insti- the danger of misusing aid money still Ognjen Mirić, former deputy direc- tutional donors. existed. tor at Serbia’s European Integration The government has started publish- 6 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 7 ADVERT SERBIA Pet rescue gets going in Serbian flood town

Many pets died in the devastating While the flooding that hit Obrenovac in mid-May. However, others are still alive but sepa- battle to rescue rated - abandoned, wounded and in some cases starving. Obrenovac’s “There is a dog on the top floor of that house!” Dragivoje Stefanović started human shouting as he saw the animal rescue team drive into the empty streets, still population half under water. He said he had seen many others dogs from the flood is in the deserted streets, wild and looking skinny. “Do you have some dog food over, the search left?” he asked the team. “There are dogs everywhere, and they don’t have any- for countless thing to eat.” As rescue worker and veterinarian lost, terrified Ioana Dunger handed him a bag of dog food, she explained that this is how her and starving rescue team obtains vital information. “People come to us and tell us where pets is only just they saw or heard animals that are still alive,” she said. starting. A few days after the floods struck large parts of the Balkans, the telephone Mitra NAZAR rang in the office of Dr Amir Khalil, of Four Paws, an international animal re- s water withdraws from lief organization based in Vienna that the flooded town of specialises in aiding animals trapped in Obrenovac, south of Bel- disaster and conflict zones. grade, hundreds of lost Serbia’s Ministry of Agriculture has animals have started invited an international team of around emergingA on the streets, rooftops or at- 50 aid workers from different European tics. countries to come to Serbia to assist in At the same time, dozens of pet own- caring for animal victims of the flood ers and volunteers have headed to the disaster. town to rescue them. “We all care for humans, but who “I can’t find him anywhere. I’ve been cares for animals?” Khalil asked, a few in Obrenovac every day since the flood days after their arrival in Serbia. started but there is still no trace of my Khalil emphasises the importance of Don,” lamented Bojan Radović, whose animals, both pets and livestock, in peo- Rescuers saved dozens of dogs and cats from flooded areas.civilians with boats to help evacuate people from the flooded town. Photo by Beta Staffordshire went missing in the deluge. ple’s daily lives, as many people depend “The torrent took him away, but some on animals for their protection or liveli- During the first days of the deluge, reunite rescued animals with their own- Khalil’s team and other volunteers all neighbours said they saw him swim- hood. “When you save the animals, you packs of dogs roamed wild in the streets, ers. “Some pets are chipped, so we can wear mouth caps. The risk of infection in ming,” he added. “My home and my save the people,” Khalil said. BETA founder Miloš Duričić said that find out whom they belong to. Others the heat is growing. workshop are destroyed – all I now hope Besides the economic value of ani- while they looked like strays, “most were are not, in which case we post pictures “Rising temperatures heat up the wa- is to find my dog.” mals, many people care deeply for their abandoned pets who had ended up in on Facebook,” Duričić explained. ter, so parasites and worms appear, and Radović is not the only worried pet- pets. “I see the love,” Khalil said. “Some the streets looking for food. They had Sadly, many animals had no chance the animals then drink the water,” Khalil owner. Social networks are swamped people did not want to evacuate be- become wild and scared.” against the water. One Four Paws aid said. with photographs of missing pets, and cause they couldn’t take their pets with Working along side the rescue and worker, Elisabeth Blum, found a dead “There is a real danger that infectious of animals that volunteers have rescued them, so they stayed,” he added. evacuation teams, BETA volunteers dog, chained to a tree. “When the wa- diseases can be transmitted to humans and which now need to find their owners. After most people from Obrenovac sailed into town when it was still impass- ter came he couldn’t swim away. He too,” he added. were taken to safety and the water start- able by road. drowned and had no chance to escape,” Adding to the risk of contagion, the ed receding, Khalil’s team set up a medi- “Together we tried to save as many she said. receding floodwater has revealed the cal clinic in the backyard of a farm in the people and animals as possible. When Khalil, standing knee-deep in the wa- corpses of thousands of cattle, aban- nearby village of Zvečka. we took ten people per boat, we would ter in rubber boots, said the water surge doned as their owners fled the disaster From there, they drive around the always keep one space for a dog,” Duričić had carried many animals far and wide. area. Many dead chickens, pigs and area in a convoy of three vans, visit recalled. “One neighbour told us that a wound- sheep lie there as well. abandoned properties, feed animals BETA brought 40 dogs and a few cats ed pig was stuck in the kitchen. The The authorities have already dis- and treat them if wounded. to safety, and most of them are now stay- people who live there didn’t have a pig, posed of around 3,000 dead animals, A local volunteer team of BETA Beo- ing with people who have offered to so it must have floated there from the destroying around 200 tons of carcass- grad has been assisting them. BETA take care of them until their owners are other house,” he said. “Can you imagine es, to try to limit the spread of diseases. YOU CAN HELP has been active in Obrenovac since the located. a 250kg pig floating through the town? But many more birds and animals are floods started, and was the first to start Through social media and word of That’s how strong the water was,” Khalil still lying dead in areas that no one has Your donations will be used to aid searching for abandoned animals. mouth, BETA volunteers are trying to said. yet reached. all animals in BETA shelters.

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rapid currents carrying everything in The floods in Serbia could have their way. He said that after helping to evacuate th epidemics been even worse had it not people from Obrenovac on May 16 , that evening, he organised for his friends to been for thousands of people join in as well. Over the next couple of days, he raised money through the Face- who turned themselves into book page of his café in to help evacuat- ed people and invited people to donate feared in Serbian volunteers, fundraisers and water to people trapped in the danger zones. rescuers. On day three of the disaster, on May 18th, the president of the municipality of Čukarica in Belgrade informed him flood zones Nemanja ČABRIĆ After she shared her action on social that thousands of people in the village of networks, people started contacting Zvečka had gone without water for three drenalin is what makes her, both offering and seeking help. In a days. you help people in matter of hours she became the centre “When I arrived there they told me As the water Eruptions could be facilitated by high these situations. I real- of a group of some 30 people, all shar- that nobody had come to help them and temperatures, poor hygiene and by the ised this when I helped ing information on what was needed at that they’d survived by boiling the dirty recedes, a major fact that many homes remained flooded a woman from France the shelters and in the flood zones, and water around them,” he said, describ- for several days before the water started find“A an evacuated family in the Belgrade where it could be found. ing the drained faces and pale thirsty concern is pulling back. mouths he found there. Arena, or when I connected up people “People worked even 20 hours per The situation is especially worrying offering shelter,” says Tanja Mladenović, day and we were very well organised,” Rescuers from the Mountain Rescue the possibility in the worst affected town of Obrenovac, a student in her final year of Political Sci- she recalled. “Part of our group went to Service, GSS, were also in the field from ence in Belgrade who along with her col- build embankments, others helped with May 14th, everywhere where people were of infectious some of which remains flooded. Veljko leagues organised a group to help those evacuated people. Later, some went into injured, endangered, or in need of medi- Đerković, an epidemiologist on duty in in danger. the danger zones to help clean them up cal assistance, transport and evacuation. diseases Obrenovac, says the situation is risky. She is one of thousands of ordinary after the waters started to retreat.” As the floodwater covered Obreno- Marko Marković was one of the first civilians with boats to help evacuate people from the flooded town. “Cleaning and disinfection is not pos- people in Serbia who rushed to pro- Mladenović says the volunteering vac, seven GSS units rescued several spreading sible in those parts of Obrenovac that re- hundred people from the roofs of their vide assistance to those in need as action was very well organised and Twitter users have also launched For the next four days, he kept on doing main flooded as the water and sewerage soon as the first scenes of destruction was supported by many private busi- special a website, poplave.rs, containing all he could to help people survive the houses, while radio amateurs helped in flood- systems are still out of order,” he said. broke in the media. Along with her col- nesses, such as supermarkets and fast a map of the flood zone and the distri- floods. them communicate with the Centre for leagues, Julija Vojinović and Katarina food outlets, which provided food and bution network, along with a forum on Marković was initially contacted on Emergencies. Alongside them were di- devastated “I hope no bigger epidemics appear, but Stanisavljević, she decided to act as the water for the volunteers, the evacuees which people can report what is going the morning of May 16th by a member vers, special police units, military and there is a possibility of intestinal infec- first news broke about the massive flood in shelters as well as for people in the on, supply information about the roads of the gendarmerie, as the authorities many others who jumped in to assist. areas, or in tions,” Đerković added. that had completely covered Obrenovac danger zones. and discuss what kind of help is most ur- knew that he was familiar with the Sava Some 200 Serbian radio-amateurs His teams are working in disinfection, th on May 16 . “People saw the importance of being a gently needed. river because he owns a club on its volunteered to feed the rescuers from overcrowded pest control and de-infestation alongside “We were all upset about the children bolt in a mechanism that exists without GSS with information about the exact lo- In the meantime, mostly under hash banks in Belgrade. military units that specialise in these tasks. in the shelters that started to open in a state, without a leader at its helm,” she tags #poplave and #SerbiaFloods, mes- “I didn’t know what was going on as cations of people in need of evacuation, shelters. All locals who have returned to areas Belgrade, so we decided to make them said. “The true importance of every sin- sages of support have been pouring my TV was turned off. I just put my boat as the Mountain Rescue Service has no pancakes,” Mladenović said. gle individual came into focus.” in on Twitter across Serbia, sharing in- on a trailer and drove to Obrenovac by radio line of its own. from which the water has withdrawn are “However, after we’d made hundreds As sport centres, concert halls and formation and photographs about the car, only to witness the kind of horror “The aim of the action was not to send Ivana NIKOLIć receiving supplies of disinfectant from the of pancakes, we learned that only food hotels open their doors to the evacu- floods and about the most useful ways that I couldn’t have imagined till then,” information to ordinary people, as that headquarters of the Civil Protection. with a food safety declaration could be ees, volunteers have been handing out to donate. he said. could cause panic, but to the authori- atarina Todosijević says it “We have enough supplies of disinfect- donated, so we decided to give them goods, offering people free rooms to stay Marko Marković, a café owner, arrived Marković says the rescue opera- ties, in order to help them react,” Siniša will be months before she ant and the organisation of people at the away to any passers-by who showed us in and filling Twitter and Facebook with Radulović, vice-president of the associa- in Obrenovac that morning and was tion was extremely dangerous both can take her four-year-old field is good,” Đerković noted. that they had sent text messages to the tens of thousands of helpful messages on one of the first civilian boats to help for the victims and the rescuers as tion, told BIRN. “We got no recognition daughter back home to the With at least 14 dead and tens of thou- help line, 1003,” she told BIRN. and offers. evacuate people from the flooded town. the water was flowing fast, with lots of from the state for this,” he added. submerged town of Obreno- sands evacuated, Obrenovac was “a ghost Kvac. city” for days, and some parts remain in “All we have left is the walls,” she said that state. of her wrecked home. “Our house is still Only shop and restaurants owners have flooded and I am afraid of diseases. I don’t been allowed to return while the town is want to put my daughter’s life at risk. full of police and the military. “Local authorities are not telling us any- BIRN has learned that the centre of thing and who knows how long it will take Obrenovac is expected to be cleansed of until we are allowed back?” she asked. excess water, and the sewer system made As experts warn of the danger of epi- operational, by the end of May. The local demics in flood-hit areas, thousands of authorities will then invite all locals to people like Katarina still don’t know when come back. People in flooded areas had to take precautions to protect themselves from potential infections. Photo by Beta it will be safe to go home. Some people whose flood-stricken With so many houses full of mud and hometowns are already safe have started sludge, medical experts fear that diseases cleaning their homes by removing de- could easily spread. stroyed furniture and cleaning walls with Another potential source of contagion water and disinfectant. is the shelters for evacuees, where people The Institute of Public Health of Serbia live in close quarters and where maintain- has issued instructions on how to use dis- ing hygiene is a challenge. infectant to clean houses and has told citi- Since disastrous floods struck central zen-volunteers to wear gloves and masks th and western Serbia on May 15 , more than to prevent infection. BODIES OF DEAD The chosen basket arrives at your door step, on Saturday, at the time 31,000 people have been forced from their Dr Jadranka Jokanović, from the In- ANIMALS DESTROYED previously agreed with you. homes and at least 30 have died. stitute, said after citizens put out ruined We provide you with the vastest range of products available in that The cost of the damage is estimated at furniture and clean walls, teams from In order to prevent infectious season, while saving your time. All products are packed and labelled diseases, more than 500 tons of more than €175 million and the govern- Institute of biocide and medical ecology according to the standards and regulations of organic food packaging. dead animals and around 332 tons ment says Serbia will need international with the assistance of specialised CBRN of animal origin food have been assistance to recover. 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Sanja Čelebićanin, a veterinary inspection chief, said teams are yet fb: organicbgdelivery; tel: 069 / 33 699 33 doubts that large-scale epidemics will “We have enough teams, and so far we to remove dead animals from the break out in flooded areas, but says small- have repaired about 400 homes in the still-flooded towns such as Obrenovac er-scale ones are possible. municipality of Rakovica. We also worked and Sid. The government says around “The West Nile virus is very likely owing in Vreoci, Crljni and Grocka,” Jokanović 80,000 hectares of cultivated fields to the increased number of mosquitoes, so explained. have been destroyed, while the cost spraying the entire affected area is neces- The other disease-threatening locations of the damage to agriculture has been sary,” he said. could be around 30 shelters in Belgrade, estimated to be worth as much as €500 million. “Hepatitis A and E could also spread. which are providing temporary shelter to The other dangerous disease is leptospi- at least hundred people each. rosis caused by rodents. Under no circum- The main problem that volunteers and A dermatologist is examining the evac- stances should people go barefoot through the Red Cross encounter here are lice and uees every day and both doctors and vol- water in flood-hit areas, because bacteria scabies. Shelter staff have so far found only unteers wear gloves and masks, she noted. from rodent urine is in it,” Delić added. isolated cases but doctors are on the alert. While people from flood-affected areas Although the first cases of diarrhea and “In shelters like these, where you con- are impatient to see their ruined homes flu in flood-affected areas have been -iso stantly have more than 100 people, the and towns, medical experts urge them not lated ones, medical experts are concerned spread of disease is always a possibility,” to return home until they are told to. Oth- that various diseases could appear even Radmila Bilbija Volk, a doctor on duty at erwise, the consequences could be even months after the floods have passed. Stari Dif Shelter, said. worse than the flood itself. 10 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 11 REGION REGION Floods reveal good hearts, Floods in bad governments, in Bosnia Croatia cause over €65 and properly penalised. We also have to While a establish… what systematic mistakes led to a situation in which we could not act as common a normal state,” he added. million of Yet, Lagumdžija himself and many tragedy has other politicians have been the target of bitter criticism in the media and on social united all networks for doing too little, too late, as well as for using the catastrophe to con- damages Bosnians in tinue their campaigning ahead of the Oc- tober general elections. suffering, it has On May 16th, the recently dismissed firefighters and other emergency work- state Minister of Security, Fahrudin ers are still in the affected areas looking brought out the Radončić, from the Union for Better Fu- for survivors and fighting floods. ture, SBB, accused his recent allies in The mayor of Slavonski Brod, Mirko very worst in the Federation entity government of di- Duspara, estimated the damage in his verting over €10 million from the Civil town at more than €3.5 million. the country’s Defence and other agencies to cover the A special session of the national gov- entity’s budget deficit. ernment, focused on the floods, was dysfunctional The Prime Minister of the FBiH, Nermin held in Županja on May 22nd. Nikšić, responded by accusing Radončić Minister of Agriculture Tihomir Ja- political of using the disaster to score political kovina gave a preliminary assessment points. Yet his response failed to address of agricultural damage of up to €13 mil- establishment. Radončić’s original claim. “While peo- lion. ple are saving their lives and property, Anka Mrak-Taritaš, the Minister of Srećko LATAL Radončić and Nikšić are quarrelling over Construction and Physical Planning, who is to blame,” a comment on Bosnia’s estimated the damage to housing at riving from the northern news portal, bportal.ba, noted. more than €52 million and said more border crossing of Brod On May 22nd, the opposition party Naša than 3,000 homes had to be repaired. through the towns of Doboj Stranka (Our Party) issued a statement The ministry has assigned €26 million and Maglaj to the capital complaining that “in the midst of the ca- for repairing flooded houses. of Sarajevo on May 25th re- tastrophe”, the mainly Bosniak SDP and The Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Dvealed a glimpse of the worst natural dis- Party of Democratic Action, SDA, were Transport and Infrastructure has as- aster in Bosnia’s recorded history. replacing people in the Council of the Sa- signed 100 million kuna (more than €13 The main north-south road connec- rajevo Center municipality in order to put million) for repairing 100 kilometres of tion, M-17, was still partly severed by its resources under their control. Photos by Sulejman Omerbašić/AP Photo by Beta/Hina county and local roads damaged by landslides and covered in mud. Follow- Most Bosnian Croat politicians virtu- floods. Bosnians started rebuilding their homes. ing the course of river Bosna, one passed ally ignored the disaster until the Mostar be against that Bosnia and Herzegovina tive and dysfunctional, it also revealed the most – humanitarian organisations, sports The government has declared a state flattened forests, crumpled hills, ruined Finding ways to better coordinate up- analyse what transpired before, during May 15th, by which time the flooding had daily Dnevni List shamed them on May which is being created in Sarajevo and its solidarity that exists between ordinary clubs, businessmen and individuals have Floods that hit of catastrophe for Vukovar County towns and clouds of dust. coming humanitarian and reconstruc- and after the floods, and explain why already reached critical levels and sub- 19th with an article entitled “Croat officials political circles,” he announced. people in the region. stood up and are helping, and all this that and announced that it will finance re- The stench of spilled sewage and rot- tion efforts will be crucial for the coun- the floods – however severe they were – merged towns and villages. embarrassed themselves: To ‘their’ peo- The Republika Srpska Prime Minister, Apart from the armed forces, police, is happening is evidence that we should al- Eastern Slavonia pairs of all public property, thus taking ting animals was overwhelming while try’s recovery. caused so many casualties and inflicted A senior international official, speak- ple in Bosnia they have sent a mere press Željka Cvijanović, in her statement to the firefighters and rescue workers, many -or ways stick together, not only in disaster but full responsibility for the catastrophe. emergency teams delivered humanitar- “Rain does not kill people. Bad gov- so much damage. ing on condition of anonymity, said the release.” Only on the following day did the daily Kurir on May 18th, expressed condo- dinary volunteers rushed from all over the also in happy and joyful times,” he wrote. are receding Additionally, Prime Minister Zoran ian assistance and struggled to remove ernance, negligence and corruption kill Establishing whether Bosnia’s various impact of the disaster had clearly been leader of the main Croatian Democratic lences for flood victims in Republika Srp- country to aid people in the areas worst Humanitarian assistance has started but have forced Milanović stressed that all private piles of flotsam and debris from devas- people,” Mary Ann Hennessy, head of the layers of government could have reacted worsened by “lack of prevention and Union, HDZ, Dragan Čović, visit predomi- ska and Serbia, but ignored victims in the hit by the floods and landslides, regardless pouring into Bosnia and Herzegovina, by houses and apartments in the county tated homes, farms and industrial plants. Council of Europe for Bosnia and Herze- more efficiently will be crucial, not only botched rescue and emergency opera- nantly Croat flood zones in the north. rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. of their ethnic, religious or political back- air and by road. However, even then, Bos- thousands from will be repaired from the state budget. Floods and landslides submerged sev- govina, said, reflecting the general frustra- for identifying those who were responsi- tions”. Republika Srpska officials misused the In what some international officials ground. nia’s self-centered bureaucracy has shown Furthermore, the government has eral parts of the country over the past tion felt with local politicians’ poor emer- ble for failures that occurred but for better Zlatko Lagumdžija, Bosnia’s Foreign situation even more flagrantly. The entity consider an even more damaging and People from the eastern Bosnian town its true face and spoiled matters. their homes, assigned more than 2.7 million kuna week, causing 22 confirmed deaths, driv- gency management. preparing the country for future disasters. Minister and leader of the Social Demo- President, Milorad Dodik, made full use ominous move, the Republika Srpska of Foča and the northwestern town of While Serbia and Croatia fully opened (more than €360,000) in food and oth- ing close to a million from their homes as Bosnia’s divided officials have even Many local and international experts cratic Party, SDP, assured the news portal of an emergency meeting with Serbia’s government has used the crisis to tighten Bihać both came with boats and rafts to their borders to all humanitarian assis- caused serious er essential supplies for people from well as damaging infrastructure and shat- traded blame for the disaster and its trag- concur that, despite timely warnings Vijesti.ba on May 17th that systemic fail- Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vučić, on May its control over the entity and move yet the town of Doboj to help evacuate locals. tance, trucks bringing aid from all over the flooded areas. State companies tering the economy. ic consequences. After failing to agree on from meteorologists about an approach- ures would be exposed. “We will estab- 17th to continue his feuds with Bosniaks. further out of the orbit of state institutions. Others from the southern town of Konjić Europe to Bosnia had to wait for hours for material damage and agencies have also donated than At the same time, while the disaster has joint day of mourning across Bosnia, the ing cyclone, no preventive action was lish the responsibility of those who could While Vučić talked to the media about Bosnia’s state Ministry of Security on went to Maglaj to help the evacuation of customs to clear them. Local banks have €700,000. rekindled people’s fellow feeling across country’s two entities, the Federation of taken. have done something and did not do so,” the state of flooded areas and about May 21st criticised the Republika Srpska that town. refused to exempt bank accounts set up and cost lives. The Croatian Red Cross has col- the ethnic divide, it has also revealed the Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Repub- The websites of the entity govern- he said. activities being carried out in Serbia, government for refusing to cooperate with The mayors of Doboj and Šamac, two for flood victims of bank fees, while phone lected around €5.5 million in public stubborn disunity that exists between the lika Srpska, each declared a separate day. ments show that the governments “I am certain that individuals made Dodik launched a new tirade against the the state-level Operations and Communi- towns that were among the worst hit in calls to aid numbers still include regular donations for the flooded areas as well political blocs. The authorities have yet to properly jumped into emergency mode only on mistakes and they have to be identified Bosnian capital, “We are and will always cation Center, OCC, which is tasked with Republika Srpska, publicly thanked neigh- fees and taxes. Sven MILEKIĆ as a significant amount of donations coordinating national rescue operations bours from the towns of Tešanj, Odžak “Political disputes will jeopardise the in food, clothes, hygienic supplies and in times of crisis, such as floods. and Gradačac, which lie across the entity country’s reconstruction process,” the Cro- he National Emergency other necessities. Every member of Although the OCC was already coor- boundary in the Federation. atian daily Večernji List warned on May and Rescue service has parliament also donated around €200 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA CROATIA NEEDS YOUR HELP dinating the rescue work of helicopters This solidarity has extended across the 23rd. Bosnia’s cumbersome administration reported that 11,000 to the Croatian Red Cross. provided by EU peacekeepers as well as region. Croatia and Slovenia sent helicop- lacks both money and plans for recon- people were evacuated A large number of private compa- NEEDS YOUR HELP neighbouring countries, the Republika ters and specialist rescuers to assist peo- struction, and without good strategies and from Gunja, Strošinci, nies have donated significant amounts Srpska government refused to commu- ple in need in both Bosnia and Serbia. coordination, citizens will feel the impact Račinovci,T Rajevo Selo and partly from of money and goods, while some have nicate with the OCC, which had to coor- Even the fans of Belgrade Red Star foot- of this disaster for many years to come, the Posavski Podgajaci in the Županja re- waived charges for their services, such INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS ORDER dinate rescue missions directly with RS ball club, notorious for their red-hot Ser- newspaper added. gion. as transport. Citizens who initiated var- PAYMENTS ORDER FROM CROATIA INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS ORDER: municipalities. bian nationalism, used Twitter to circulate Local and international experts do in- Two people were confirmed dead ious humanitarian actions have also Account holder: Red Cross Society of B&H Opposition parties in the mainly Ser- information about emergency phone lines deed fear that without good governance while a third person is still listed as contributed substantially to the relief Account No: 140-101-12001533-88 Account holder: Hrvatski Crveni križ Account holder: Croatian Red Cross Red Cross address: Dervisa Numica 6 Address: Ulica Crvenog križa 14, Zagreb Address: Ulica Crvenog križa 14, Zagreb, Croatia bian entity, as well as some smaller parties and actions for flood victims in Bosnia and and coordination, and without independ- missing. Around 4,000 soldiers, police, effort. 71000 Sarajevo allied with the ruling Alliance of Independ- Croatia as well as in Serbia. ent oversight by local NGOs and media, Bosnia and Herzegovina Account numbers: Name of the Bank: Privredna banka Zagreb Address of the Bank: Radnička cesta 50, Zagreb ent Social Democrats, SNSD, also criticised Two top sportsmen from the region, Ser- a major part of the reconstruction effort Name of the bank: SBERBANK BH d.d. Sarajevo the entity government for imposing emer- bian tennis star Novak Đoković and Bos- will – just like the aid given at the end of Address of the bank: Fra Andela Zvizdovica 1/A Name of the Bank: Privredna banka Zagreb Account number/IBAN: HR6923400091511555516 71000 Sarajevo Address of the Bank: Radnička cesta 50, Zagreb Reference Number: 08 gency military-like control over towns in nian football star Edin Džeko both joined the 1992-5 war – fall through the cracks of a Bosnia and Herzegovina Account number/IBAN: HR 6923400091511555516 SWIFT: PBZGHR2X the entity and for ordering all emergency the worldwide campaign seeking help for corruption-riddled system into the pocket Reference Number: 08 SWIFT CODE: SABRBA22 financial assistance for the entity to be both countries. of local political profiteers. IBAN CODE: BA391401011200153388 Name of the Bank: Hrvatska poštanska banka Name of the Bank: Hrvatska poštanska banka Address of the Bank: Jurišićeva 4, Zagreb, Croatia directed through the Republika Srpska Fi- Đoković donated his prize money from “The floods that have hit Bosnia and OIL WORKSHOP. ECO ART. GIFT SHOP. Address of the Bank: Jurišićeva 4 Account number/IBAN: HR7023900011500085181 nance Ministry. the Rome ATP tournament he won two Herzegovina, probably the worst in its Account number/IBAN: HR7023900011500085181 Reference Number: 08 Edible plum seed, apricot seed and hazelnut oils, natural The main opposition Serbian Demo- PAYMENTS ORDER FROM Reference Number: 08 SWIFT: HPBZHR2X weeks ago to flood victims in Serbia and history, have showed once again that that handmade cosmetics, gifts. All made in Serbia! BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA cratic party, SDS, on May 20th accused the Bosnia, and, on May 24th, played a special country is actually not divided between Name of the Bank: Zagrebačka banka Name of the Bank: Zagrebačka banka entity government is using tragedy for its match with Bosnia’s Damir Džumhur and its three constituent peoples,” Gordan Account holder: Društvo Crvenog krsta/križa BiH Address of the Bank: Paromlinska 2, Zagreb Address of the Bank: Paromlinska 2, Zagreb, Croatia own ends. “The SNSD is trying to use this other tennis players from the region to col- Duhaček observed in an op ed article on Account number: 140-101-00258863-26 Account number/IBAN: HR5123600001501495626 Account number/IBAN: HR5123600001501495626 catastrophe for political purposes,” agreed lect funds for the victims. tportal.hr on May 21st. Name of the Bank: SBERBANK BH d.d. Sarajevo Reference Number: 08 Reference Number: 08 All nut workshop Address of the Bank: Fra Anđela Zvizdovića 1/A SWIFT: ZABAHR2X Mićo Mićić, mayor of Bijeljina in northeast Edin Džeko wrote on his Facebook pro- “The biggest, and for the future of BiH Čumićevo sokače 25 71000 Sarajevo Bosnia. file that the flood had united people in suf- the most destructive division, has for years Bosnia i Hercegovina Tel: +381 64 2638 210 While the tragedy again revealed the fering. been the one between two groups: the po- E-mail: [email protected] deep fissures in the political apparatus of “Hundreds of people are collecting as- litical class and all the others,” he added. www.facebook.com/allnutbelgrade Bosnia, which render its actions ineffec- sistance for those who are threatened 12 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 BELGRADE INSIGHT, Friday, May 30 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 13 ARTS ON THE SPOT

ADVERTORIAL EXHIBITIONS TUESDAY JUNE 3rd Classical AND EVENTS Ballet: Who Is Singing Over There, The Na- tional Theatre, Francuska 1, 7.30pm Celebrities call stars raise FRIDAY MAY 30th WEDNESDAY JUNE 4th Get Your 9th Belgrade International Architecture cash for Week – Award ceremony, Belgrade Cultur- Opera: Evgeny Onegin, The National The- al Center – Pop Up, Trg Republike 5, 7pm atre, Francuska 1, 7pm for help to flooded flood SUNDAY JUNE 1st FRIDAY JUNE 6th Body in Exhibition: Belgrade Open Art, Belgrade Belgrade Philharmonic – Bizarrte – with Balkan countries victims Cultural Center, Trg Republike 5, 12pm Misa Damev, conductor, Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, Studentski Trg 5, 8pm MONDAY JUNE 2nd any celebrities called The best football player in the world, British writer Tony Parsons as well of- Shape Ahead their fans to help Cristiano Ronaldo, called for help for fered his support to people in Serbia on nd 2 International Film Festival of People THEATRE flooded Serbia, Bosnia Serbia on Twitter. He also wrote the Twitter and said that his thoughts were Top Serbian with Disabilities, Dom Omladine, Make- and Croatia. While telephone numbers at which everyone always with his Serbian friends. donska 22, 4pm classical some posted photos can be informed about aid. His club, Real Famous Hollywood actors Kevin Spacey th of Summer FRIDAY MAY 30 TUESDAY JUNE 3rd holdingM banners inviting the world to Madrid, posted a photo on their official and David Duchovny also sent the word of musicians assist Balkans, some expressed their Facebook account calling for solidarity support via Twitter, as well as musician Sean Trieste (Radović), Atelje 212, Svetogorska Exhibition: Srđan Veljović, Center for Cul- 21, 8pm solidarity. with countries hit by the flood wave. Combs, best known as Puff Daddy. are to stage Stefan Milenković, Serbian-born violinist. tural Decontamination, Birčaninova 21, Every woman strives to be attractive, 7pm humanitarian ncome from the concerts held by Eglinton St George’s United Church on SATURDAY MAY 31st whatever her age or status. Aesthetic the violinist Stefan Milenković, June 13th in Toronto, Canada. WEDNESDAY JUNE 4th concerts in opera singer Dragana del Monako Opera diva Dragana Monako will Premiere: Mother Courage and Her Chil- medicine has advanced to the point as well as by students of the Fac- hold a humanitarian concert on June Exhibition: Isidora Papadouli, Student- dren (Brecht), The National Theatre, Fran- Belgrade and the ulty of Music, will be donated to 6th in the Sava Centre called “Guarda che ski Grad Cultural Centre, Bulevar Zorana cuska 1, 7.30 where you can have the body you repairI damages and help evacuees. luna“. Đinđića 179, 7pm st dreamed about - without spending US in support Milenković said on his Facebook page Students of the Faculty of Music will SUNDAY JUNE 1 FRIDAY JUNE 6th that he plans to hold humanitarian aid also hold a public class on May 30th in Exhibitionist (Traven), Atelje 212, Sveto- months in the gym or going hungry. of the victims concerts at Fulton Hall in Chicago on Belgrade, at Kralja Milana, 50. Instead of Takeaway Fashion, GRAD Cultural Cen- gorska 21, 8pm th of the floods in June 6 , at the Orthodox Cathedral of St purchasing tickets, visitors are invited to tre, Braće Krsmanović 4, from 5pm to th Sava in New York on June 7 , at the Sava bring canned food, toiletries, food and 10pm MONDAY JUNE 2nd Women who desire a Jen- Serbia. Centre in Belgrade on June 10th and at water for infants. nifer Lopez “look” can attain this th SATURDAY JUNE 7 Guardian Angels (Koprivica), Belgrade through the use of gluteal im- Drama Theatre, Mileševska 64, 8pm plants, which add more body cur- th 8 Festival of Choreographic Miniatures vature to those areas where they – competition and awards, The National TUESDAY JUNE 3rd were previously deficient, helping Theatre, Francuska 1, 8.30pm Japan culture show gathers them sculpt select areas. Buttock The Government Inspector (Gogol), Atelje implants vary in size, style, and MONDAY JUNE 9th 212, Svetogorska 21, 8pm surgical technique, depending Exhibition: Cyril Levan, GRAD Cultural also on your ethnic background. help for flood victims th Centre, Braće Krsmanović 4, 8pm SATURDAY JUNE 7 Liposuction (Body Contour- ing Liposculpture) can help re- TUESDAY JUNE 10th Premiere: Dragon Slayers (M. Marković), move and/or transfer impacted The week Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Kralja Milana fat, specifically in those areas 50, 8pm Exhibition: Mile Grozdanić, Haos Gallery, where it has resided for years on Dositejeva 2, 8pm end and are immune to traditional of Japanese SUNDAY JUNE 8th Serbian tennis players, Nenad Zimonjić and Novak Đoković, were among the first to use social networks to invite people to help Serbia and Bosnia. methods of weight control. It can OPERA, BALLET give you the new body contours culture aims Play It Again Sam (Allen), Belgrade Drama AND CLASSICAL Theatre, Mileševska 64, 8pm that you have always wanted and, combined with buttocks surgery, to gather FRIDAY MAY 30th TUESDAY JUNE 10th can add proportionate symmetry to buttock augmentation, add- necessities for Kosta Manojlović Music School in con- Glorious! (Quilter), Atelje 212, Svetogorska ing and removing fat where it is cert, Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, Student- Dr Saša MIŠELJIĆ ski Trg 5, 8pm 21, 8pm needed. people whose Aquafilling - hydrofil gel th he charms of a natu- SATURDAY MAY 31st THURSDAY JUNE 12 (body filler) is the third option. lives and ral appearance and Aquafilling® is a water-soluble gel. Piano students of the Music Academy, Na- The Milk (Katsikouris), Belgrade Drama correct body shape Ninety-eight percent of its compo- property were tional Library of Serbia, Skerlićeva 1, 6pm Theatre, Mileševska 64, 8pm are a dream for both sition is made up of 0.9 per cent women and men. physiologic solution of sodium jeopardized by TEvery woman wishes to look chloride. It contains no foreign young and beautiful and each agents and is biocompatible with the floods in is unique in her own beauty. Al- the human organism. It is a gel though today’s definition of at- that provides a naturalness and Serbia. tractiveness primarily refers to softness to the tissues. No con- shapely breasts and buttocks, tours are visible or sensible during women want to preserve their in- palpation. It degrades slowly and he week of Japanese culture (Japanese flower arranging) calligraphy dividuality. provides a long-lasting effect. The will take place in Belgrade and shinobue (Japanese flute). In making a decision about effect lasts from five to eight years. and Novi Sad from May 27th The same programme will be available French rally and racing driver Sébastien Loeb called everyone to the which method of augmentation to There are no scars, no trauma dur- to 31st. to people in Belgrade on May 31st at the Football club Real Madrid sends its support for Serbia. country of his friend, Dušan Borković, Serbian rally driver. choose, every woman strives for ing the treatment, and the postop- An exhibition by the art- Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (Student- a safe procedure involving mini- erative period is brief. istT Kihachiro Nishiura, which opened ski Trg 3, Hall no 11). mum trauma, the highest effect, Photo by Mike Licht/Flickr on May 29th at Jugoslovenska Kinoteka While entrance is free to all events in and no side effects. (Uzun Mirkova 11), deals with Japanese the programme, the Japanese embassy There are three options when it calligraphy, dolls, paintings as well as tra- has announced that all the events will comes to improving the contours Three years ago Allergan Facial Aesthetic ditional costumes. be charitable and with the aim of helping of your buttocks. chose Dr Saša Mišeljić as a National Facial On May 30th, visitors to the Academy of flood victims. Butt Implants (Buttock Aug- Aesthetic trainer. He is one of the first Arts in Novi Sad (Đure Jakšića 7) can join The embassy will be gathering goods for mentation) will help women who plastic surgeons to use Juvederm Voluma a workshop on iaido, (Japanese martial donation to flood-affected areas, and infor- FREE COPY wish to enhance the appearance, to patients to restore facial contour and arts) as well as see presentations dealing mation on where the donations are being size and definition of the gluteal give them a more youthful profile for up with Japanese culture, including ikebana, gathered will be given out at all locations. Publisher: BIRN d.o.o. muscles in the buttocks area. to two years. 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Night For Help in Dom Omladine

om Om- Fake photos of ladine, in coop- eration with Red DCross Serbia, MTV and Long Play, have put the Balkan floods together a concert, Noć za pomoć (Night for Help), to help Serbia’s flood victims. The Many people shared photographs on social networks of event will take place on June 10th in Dom the devastating floods that hit Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia in Omladine and all funds raised will be mid-May, but a series of fake pictures also appeared online – given to the Red Cross Kvintni Krug to perform in Zemun. to help those in most both photomontages and images taken during other floods need. This is one of two events planned for around the world, before the recent Balkan crisis. Humanitarian the summer in honour of Dom Omladine’s blues show in 50th anniversary. Per- formers will include Zemun some of the biggest names in Serbian rock, including Bajaga i In- f you would like to donate to flood victims and enjoy a qual- struktori, Partibrejkers, ity night of blues music at the same time, Fest in Zemun has Van Gogh and S.A.R.S., announced a humanitarian show for June 15th. The band will who are relative be Kvintni Krug, who will give you a taste of classic blues styles newcomers compared and early incorporations of the sound into rock’n’roll music. to the other groups, ITickets will be €2 and donations are accepted. All the money raised but one of the most will go toward buying supplies for those most affected by the floods popular young groups in Serbia. The event starts at 9pm and tickets will be available at the in the region. door. Bajaga i Instruktori will play to help flood victims. Photo by Jelena K/Flickr Norwegian, Romanian Punk rockers raise bands share profits cash for flood victims

omanian hree punk and Norwe- bands from gian avant/ Serbia will progressive play a humani- metal bands tarian show at RDordeduh and Vulture Tclub Danguba (Ćirila i Me- Industries are currently todija 2) on June 1st to raise touring Europe together money for a good cause. and will play in Belgrade Not only do the bands plan tonight. After hearing to donate the money raised about the floods in Serbia, to flood victims, they are they have agreed with the also fundraising for a local organisers of the Belgrade friend who needs a costly concerts to donate 50 per medical operation in Italy. This photo started circulating on the internet long before floods This photo allegedly showing Real Madrid fans supporting Bosnia and These photos were actually taken in Thailand. cent of their ticket sales to The bands performing hit the Balkans. Serbia was a photomontage. flood victims. Tickets at at the rock club will be the door will be €13. The Šajzerbiterlemon, who play show starts at 8pm at Dom a raucous brand of garage Omladine and Swiss black rock, hardcore punk band metal band Blutmond will Gmazz and melodic punk go on stage before the two rock band Kontraudar. The headliners. Vulture Industries to perform in Belgrade. show starts at 9pm.

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