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January 06

- BOR: In the first three days of New Year, as never in the last 50 years, not one baby was born in the maternity ward of the Health Center in Bor.
"Glas javnosti", 5. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Serbia entered the year 2006 with 326 political parties registered with the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-administration, of which 4 were regiestered in the last month and a half.
"Glas javnosti", 4. 1. 2006.

- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: Yesterday morning a group of youths stoned a bus with 55 passengers of Serb nationality from Orahovac. No one was injured in the attack, only the windows were smashed on the bus. The bus had UN markings and was escorted by the Kosovo Police Service.
The Serbs from Orahovac travel to Kosovska Mitrovica several times a week to buy foodstuffs and see a doctor.
Refki Morina, spokesman for the Kosovo Police Service, has confirmed that 4 persons of Albanian nationality have been arrested on suspicion of being connected to the attack.
"Glas javnosti", 4. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: The local commission for refugees in Kragujevac has announced a possibility to extend the deadline for the 387 refugees and IDPs still living in the refugee camps because the conditions for the solutions of their housing problems will only be created in 2-3 years.
The Local Feasibility Study provides two ways to solve refugees' problems - by returning to their places of origin, which would require the repossession of their properties and tenancy rights in Croatia, a possibility to get a job in their former places of origin, or by losing their refugee status, i.e. by local integration, which would require employment and the solution of the housing problems in the new place of residence.
"Glas javnosti", 4. 1. 2006.

- PETROVAC NA MLAVI: The German "Help" organization has launched a project of support for refugees and the local socially vulnerable population in the municipality of Petrovac who want to start or expand their businesses. Each donation consists of equipment and materials and they are worth 1.200 euros on average.
"Glas javnosti", 31. 12. 2005.-2. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Around 25.000 people in Serbia get cancer every year. The experts think that bad habits, stress, transition to capitalism, but also the 1999 bombardment are the reason for the increase in the number of cancer patients.
"Danas", 4. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: An explosive device of "weaker intensity" was thrown on the Albanian Embassy in Belgrade at around 19:00 on Sunday. The facade of the building was slightly damaged, stated the Ministry of Police of Serbia. Police are conducting an investigation and it hasn't been determined yet what kind of an explosive device was used.
"Danas", 4. 1. 2006.

- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: A bus operating between Belgrade and Dragas was attacked near Suva Reka last night around 2am.
A source in the Kosovo Police Service says that the rear part of the bus was hit, small property damage was caused but none of the 55 passengers was hurt. The passengers were Albanian, Goran, Muslim and Turk. There were no Serbs among them. The source says that most probably it was a hand grenade but it could have also been a missile launched from a portable launcher.
"Glas javnosti", 6.-7. 1. 2006.

- NOVI SAD: According to official statistics, 45.000 abortions are performed in Vojvodina every year and around 20.000 babies are born. In the entire Serbia, around 200.000 abortions are performed per year.
Mostly married women over 30 who already have a child decide to have an abortion.
"Glas javnosti", 6.-7. 1. 2006.

- DRVAR: More than 100 families of Serb returnees in Drvar municipality in the Federation of Bosnia&Herzegovina will spend this winter in shacks, garages and other improvized accommodation because their houses haven't been reconstructed yet.
"The international donors are avoiding Drvar municipality more and more showing less and less interest in the reconstruction of the buildings and houses destroyed by the Croatian army in 1995", said the president of the municipality Anka Papak-Dodig.
There are still 1.460 destroyed homes owned by Serbs waiting for reconstruction. Also, the existence of around 2.000 Serbs who returned to 18 villages in the area is seriously jeopardized because there is no electricity - the power lines were destroyed during the war. Finally, of the 8.000 Serb returnees, almost no one has a chance to get a job in the public institutions and state-owned companies or in the companies that Croats have bought. There are around 1.000 internally displaced Croats in Drvar and almost all of them are employed.
"Glas javnosti", 9. 1. 2006.

- PRISTINA: According to an opinion poll conducted in November by the "Index Kosova" Agency, the Albanians and the minorities (short of Serbs), say that their biggest problem is the solution of the status of Kosovo (42%), unemployment (40%), lack of electricity (4%), the reconstruction of the economy (3%) and low economic and social standard (3%); 88% support the idea of Kosovo as an independent state within the existing borders, 8% think Kosovo should attach to Albania, 9% is ready to use force to oppose any solution which wouldn't be the result of the political will of Kosovo's citizens and 6% are ready to help them.
The citizens confide the most in Agim Ceku, commandant of the Kosovo Protection Corps, then in the former Prime Minister Ramus Haradinaj and the President, Ibrahim Rugova, is in third place. The least popular is the current Prime Minister, Bajram Kosumi, whose rating is dropping all the time.
Kosovo's citizens trust the Kosovo Protection Corps and the Kosovo Police Service the most, then the Parliament of Kosovo, the mayor of Pristina, Rugova's Democratic Union of Kosovo, the Government of Kosovo and Haradinaj's Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.
"Danas", 9. 1. 2006.

- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: The Roma living in highly contaminated locations in the area of Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan refused yesterday the offer by UNMIK, Kosovo and local authorities to move from their camps to the former French army camp in northern Mitrovica. According to Skender Gusani, Roma representative of northern Kosovo, the Roma will not move to the former French military camp because it is only 50 meters from the location with high lead contamination.
"We demand for our sick children with increased lead content in the blood to be provided with adequate treatment", said Gusani.
He stressed that they want to return to the Roma Mahala in southern Mitrovica, from which nearly 8.000 Roma were expelled in 1999. However, they don't want to move into the buildings offered by the authorities, they want their own houses, as they were before the war.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- NOVI SAD: The County Prosecution Office in Novi Sad brought charges yesterday against 18 members of the "National Formation" for inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred, division or intolerance. During the investigation it was established that it is not an officially registered organization and the suspects didn't confess to their membership of the "National Formation" but they only accepted the principles of the organization.
It says in the Formation's bylaws that "one should believe in the race, not in the numbers" and "a member can be anyone who belongs to the white Arian race and wants to contribute in any way to the cause". The cause being "the revitalization and preservation of the healthy values of the Serb nation as a component of the white race".
The investigation was launched on the occasion of an incident caused by a group of members of the National Formation at an antifascist public debate in Novi Sad on November 9th last year.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- NOVI PAZAR: Esad Dzudzevic, chairman of the Bosniak National Council in Serbia&Montenegro, says that last year the Bosniak ethnic community started to realize its national rights. "Last year was also the start of the realization of Bosniaks' rights to education in their first language because Bosniak language with elements of the national culture is studied in elementary schools as an optional subject. This year the dictionary and the grammar of Bosniak language will come out. The foundation of the Faculty of Pedagogy in Novi Pazar, an outlet of the Belgrade University, is particularly important and there will be 4 departments: for preschool teachers, for teachers of Bosnian and Serbian and for Arts", stresses Dzudzevic.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- PETROVAC NA MLAVI: Tomorrow the German "Help" humanitarian organization will present its project "The support for the improvement of the living conditions of refugees and IDPs" financed by the EU through the European Reconstruction Agency. The project is intended for anyone who wants to start or expand their private business and the aid will be delivered to them in materials and equipment. Each grant is worth 103.000 dinars on average. Except for refugees and IDPs, the local socially vulnerable people can also apply for the aid.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- BERLIN: Last year 5.522 people from Serbia&Montenegro applied for political asylum in Germany (43,2% more than 2004) - 37,5% were Albanians, 39,5% Roma and a little over 1% were Serbs. Joint statistics are kept for Kosovo and Serbia&Montenegro because officially Kosovo is still a part of Serbia&Montenegro.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- KRAGUJEVAC: 150 apartments will be built in Kragujevac by the end of the year for the local socially vulnerable persons, for refugees and IDPs - 76 for the local vulnerable people and 74 for refugees and IDPs. The construction of the apartments will be financed by the UN Habitat and the Town Hall of Kragujevac.- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: The Roma living in highly contaminated locations in the area of Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan refused yesterday the offer by UNMIK, Kosovo and local authorities to move from their camps to the former French army camp in northern Mitrovica. According to Skender Gusani, Roma representative of northern Kosovo, the Roma will not move to the former French military camp because it is only 50 meters from the location with high lead contamination.
"We demand for our sick children with increased lead content in the blood to be provided with adequate treatment", said Gusani.
He stressed that they want to return to the Roma Mahala in southern Mitrovica, from which nearly 8.000 Roma were expelled in 1999. However, they don't want to move into the buildings offered by the authorities, they want their own houses, as they were before the war.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- NOVI SAD: The County Prosecution Office in Novi Sad brought charges yesterday against 18 members of the "National Formation" for inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred, division or intolerance. During the investigation it was established that it is not an officially registered organization and the suspects didn't confess to their membership of the "National Formation" but they only accepted the principles of the organization.
It says in the Formation's bylaws that "one should believe in the race, not in the numbers" and "a member can be anyone who belongs to the white Arian race and wants to contribute in any way to the cause". The cause being "the revitalization and preservation of the healthy values of the Serb nation as a component of the white race".
The investigation was launched on the occasion of an incident caused by a group of members of the National Formation at an antifascist public debate in Novi Sad on November 9th last year.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- NOVI PAZAR: Esad Dzudzevic, chairman of the Bosniak National Council in Serbia&Montenegro, says that last year the Bosniak ethnic community started to realize its national rights. "Last year was also the start of the realization of Bosniaks' rights to education in their first language because Bosniak language with elements of the national culture is studied in elementary schools as an optional subject. This year the dictionary and the grammar of Bosniak language will come out. The foundation of the Faculty of Pedagogy in Novi Pazar, an outlet of the Belgrade University, is particularly important and there will be 4 departments: for preschool teachers, for teachers of Bosnian and Serbian and for Arts", stresses Dzudzevic.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- PETROVAC NA MLAVI: Tomorrow the German "Help" humanitarian organization will present its project "The support for the improvement of the living conditions of refugees and IDPs" financed by the EU through the European Reconstruction Agency. The project is intended for anyone who wants to start or expand their private business and the aid will be delivered to them in materials and equipment. Each grant is worth 103.000 dinars on average. Except for refugees and IDPs, the local socially vulnerable people can also apply for the aid.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- BERLIN: Last year 5.522 people from Serbia&Montenegro applied for political asylum in Germany (43,2% more than 2004) - 37,5% were Albanians, 39,5% Roma and a little over 1% were Serbs.
Joint statistics are kept for Kosovo and Serbia&Montenegro because officially Kosovo is still a part of Serbia&Montenegro.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 1. 2006.

- KRAGUJEVAC: 150 apartments will be built in Kragujevac by the end of the year for the local socially vulnerable persons, for refugees and IDPs - 76 for the local vulnerable people and 74 for refugees and IDPs.
The construction of the apartments will be financed by the UN Habitat and the Town Hall of Kragujevac.
"Glas javnosti", 11. 1. 2006.

- PRISTINA: Kai Vittrup, head of the international police in Kosovo, has said that there were less murders in the Province last year than 2004 but the number of attempted murders is increasing. He said at a press conference yesterday that 257 murders and 321 attempted murders were recorded in 2005.
"Danas", 12. 1. 2006.

- CACAK: The County Prosecution in Cacak has brought charges against the former director of the Center for Social Work, Delfina Coric (aged 52), two treasurers of the Center and a social worker for forging decisions on granting public assistance allowance to nonexistent persons and in this way obtained a total of 3,2 million dinars for themselves - around 2,7 million for Coric and around 458.500 dinars for the other three persons, said Jasmina Lazovic, spokesperson for the County Prosecution.
"Danas", 12. 1. 2006.

- THE HAGUE: The Hague Prosecution Office has appealed the decision by the Hague Tribunal to free Fatmir Ljimaj and Isak Musliu of all charges and sentence Haradin Balja to 13 years imprisonment. It says in the Tribunal's verdict that the crimes in Lapusnik in Kosovo were not committed as part of a joint criminal plan but for "personal motives" of the camp guards and the "opportunistic visitors" of the camp. The Prosecution Office demands from the Tribunal to declare Ljimaj and Musliu guilty of torture, brutality and killings and to sentence them adequately.
"Danas", 11. 1. 2006.

- KIKINDA: 24 apartments for refugees are under construction in Kikinda. The project is financed by the German "Help" humanitarian organization. Each apartment is 38 sq meters in area and the families who haven't managed to get one of the apartments, will be included in the program of purchase of houses in the town or in the neighbouring villages, said Sladjana Krstic of the Office for Refugees of the Town Hall of Kikinda. She says that 4 houses are already bought for refugees in the area of Kikinda, two in the town and two in Rusko Selo and the tenants will have to pay themselves the costs of the ownership transfers.
"Danas", 10. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: The Association of the Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons from Kosovo has decided on behalf of all the Serb victims fallen before, during and after the war, to sue the State of Serbia, the NATO, the KFOR, the UNMIK and all the Albanian criminals proven to have committed crimes against Serbs - said Simo Spasic, president of the Association. The Association will also sue all those in Serbia responsible for releasing several hundred Kosovo Albanians a couple of years ago, of whom many had committed crimes against Serbs.
"Glas javnosti", 13. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: A board with an inscription "The General Consulate of Serbia and Montenegro Rijeka" and the coat of arms has been removed from the entrance of the General Consulate of Serbia&Montenegro, announced the Police Department of Rijeka two nights ago. Police have stated that no other damages have been reported to the building. Police are looking for the perpetrators.
"Glas javnosti", 13. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: The new regulations on orthopedic appliances have made life for diabetic children difficult and for paralyzed patients: diabetic children will get a smaller quantity of insulin bends and needles without which they can't measure their blood sugar every day thanks to the new regulation on orthopedic appliances. And for the patients with stoma (bags for draining waste substances from the body) these new regulations have slowed down the process of getting appliances necessary for their daily life.
Dr Vasilije Antic, assistant minister of health, says that as for the reduced quantities of insulin bends and needles for diabetic children, that it is true that the endocrinologists have said that it is enough to measure the level of blood sugar once a day. "I hope this will be corrected and that endocrinologist will write a recommendation in the future how many times a child's blood sugar should be measured every day. Based on this, the Health Fund will grant the necessary amount of insulin bends needles", Dr Antic stresses.
He says that the procedure of granting and prescribing a medical appliance is normal if it is a wheel chair or a crutch. "But if an appliance is used every day, such as a stoma or an insulin bend, the procedure is complicated. I expect the Fund to abolish this", says Antic.
"Blic", 13. 1. 2006.

- CACAK: Last year 1.436 babies were born in the Cacak Hospital, which is by 106 less than the year 2004.
"Blic", 13. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Most citizens of Serbia proper have no confidence in the Serbian Parliament and Government and they think that the parliamentary elections should be held, shows an opinion poll conducted by the "Barometar" Agency - 97,8% don't trust the Parliament, around 88% don't trust the Government, 81% don't trust the Army, 78,7% don't trust the police; the people questioned have the most confidence in the Church - 53,7%.
"Glas javnosti", 12. 1. 2006.

- CACAK: Someone has stolen the rainwater pipe off Milenko Mihajlovic's house in Cacak.
"Vecernje novosti", 13. 1. 2006.

- CACAK: In the last 4 months three railway accidents happened in a radius of 10km in the area of Cacak, in which 7 women lost their life.
In September, a 22-year-old woman ran into a train in her car; then in October, when a train and a truck crashed, 5 women in the trailer of the truck were killed. They were on their way to a nearby farm to pick up potatoes. Two days ago Evica Milosavljevic (aged 46) was hit by a train near the basketball stadium on the bank of the Morava river, not far from the town center.
"Glas javnosti", 14. 1. 2006.
 
- PRESEVO: Albanian representatives in the local parliaments of three municipalities in the south of Serbia adopted yesterday a platform demanding political and territorial autonomy for the region. It says in the platform that the Albanians in the south of Serbia, in case the borders in the region are changed, will support unification with Kosovo.
"Glas javnosti", 15. 1. 2006.
 
- ZENICA (Bosnia&Herzegovina): The flag on the orthodox church in Zenica has been torched by unidentified persons. This caused disquiet among Serb returnees in the town. "I think it is of great importance that the perpetrators of this uncivilized act be found and punished so similar accidents don't happen again", said Sretko Radisic, president of the Serb Civic Council.
"Glas javnosti", 15. 1. 2006.
 
- BELGRADE/PODGORICA: Obtaining the citizenship of Serbia is much easier than obtaining the citizenship of Montenegro. Under the Law on the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia, those who can apply for the citizenship of Serbia are: emigrants and their children if they have turned 18; members of the Serb or any other national or ethnic community from the territory of Serbia who do not have registered residence on the territory of Serbia if they have turned 18; a person born in one of the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who had the citizenship of that republic; a person who is a citizen of one of the states formed on the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who is staying on the territory of Serbia as a refugee, an exiled or displaced person or who has found refuge abroad. With an application it is also necessary to enclose, depending on the category, the documentation such as birth certificate, marriage certificate, certificate of the residence, certificate of the citizenship of another state formed on the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or one of the former Yugoslav republics, a photocopy of the refugee ID card and a photocopy of the personal ID card or some other personal identification document.
Except for those who have the right to Montenegran citizenship by birth or origin, the citizens of Serbia can also apply for Montenegran citizenship but only if they have had registered residence on Montenegro's territory for at least 10 years before filing the application.
"Danas", 19. 1. 2006.
 
- ZAGREB: Vrh-Bosnian archbishop, cardinal Vinko Puljic, has stated that there were 820.000 catholics in Bosnia&Herzegovina before the war and almost all of them were Croats, and now there are only 446.000 catholics left, reports the Zagreb "Jutarnji list" daily. Puljic said that this shows that ten years after the war there has been no return of Croats yet "because there has been no political will and no support from the international community".
"Danas", 19. 1. 2006.
 
- SID: Boro Mucalovic, one of the oldest farmers in Sid, says that he has been using corn instead of coal for heating because he is not content with the price which is only 3,5 dinars per kilogram and "dealers offer us only 1,80 dinars per kilogram, why should I give the corn away and then buy coal which costs 7,5 dinars per kilo", said Mucalovic for the local news media. He says that he is not the only farmer in Sid using corn for heating. "The calculation is simple if you know that a cubic meter of firewood costs 2.500-2.800 dinars", says Mucalovic.
"Glas javnosti", 19. 1. 2006.
 
- ZAGREB: Croatia's Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, will personally supervise the collaboration of the state services and institutions with the lawyers teams of the three generals of the Croatian Army who are being tried by the Hague Tribunal, said the spokesman for the Croatian Government, Ratko Macek.
"Blic", 19. 1. 2006.

- SENTA: The Roma family of Kolompar lost their daughters Anabela (3 years old) and Natalija (9 months old). The father was severely injured and he is in a critical condition and the mother Elvira (aged 19) and their daughter Sanela are recovering in the hospital in Senta. According to the statement by the Kikinda Police Department, the fire was caused by an open flame of an improvized cresset in their home in Senta, which has been confirmed for the "Glas javnosti" by Atila's brother Aleksa Jovanovic (aged 31) who lives in next-door barrack. He says that cries for help woke him up. Since the ceiling of the wooden barrack is covered with cardboard, the fire spread rapidly. The fire started at 1:30 am. and the firefighters arrived quickly but they only managed to extinguish the fire some three hours later.
Erika Sarvak-Barati, the judge on duty in the Municipal Court in Senta, says for the "Glas javnosti" that the local Roma moved into the dilapidated barracks some 20 years ago, when the construction workers stopped using them. The wooden buildings had no electricity and the barrack consisted of 3 apartments with 2 rooms in each and the Kolompar family lived in one of the apartments.
"Glas javnosti", 20. 1. 2006.

- "To start with, thanks to our television, I have to make a joke about this, the 200.000 Roma living in the region, know what's the difference between Kostunica and Kusturica (a film director - Z.)", said Dragoljub Ackovic, director of the "Glas Roma" TV station.
"Glas javnosti", 20. 1. 2006.

- ZAGREB: Human Rights Watch says in its annual report that soma alarming trends were recorded in Croatia last year, and violence against Serbs increased rapidly in some locations, and it also says in the report that very little has been done on returning the tenancy rights to Serbs. According to official statistics, 122.000 refugees returned to Croatia by September 2005.
"Glas javnosti", 20. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Today is one year exactly since 11-year-old Maradona Lazic from Velika Plana drowned in the Sava river when his friends threw him off a bridge in Belgrade. His body hasn't been found to this day.
Three minors from Obrenovac who threw Lazic into the ice cold river (two 15-yera-old boys and a 14-year-old boy) have been punished and sent to a juvenile correctional institution. A 13-year -old boy who was also with them, will not be held responsible because hie is a young minor.
The boys of Roma nationality decided to throw Lazic into the river because they couldn't find his brother that morning with whom they wanted to settle a score from the previous day. So they threw him off a bridge and then went to the river bank to see if he is going to surface. When they saw that he was gone, they ran into a hot water shaft and they were hiding there until they got arrested.
They were all known to the police from before because they had begged, assaulted children and committed robberies in Belgrade. They were socially neglected and whenever their parents took them back home, they would flee back to Belgrade. They usually stayed and slept in a shaft full of garbage.
"Glas javnosti", 20. 1. 2006.

- SREMSKA MITROVICA: The office of the Association of Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia&Herzegovina is set up in Sremska Mitrovica and its purpose is to provide legal aid for refugees and exiled persons. Slobodan Vujacic, president of the Association, says that the office provides daily aid for these people related with the regulation of their status in Serbia and all the issues related to the local integration of the refugees, as well as their return to their former homes.
"Glas javnosti", 20. 1. 2006.

- BANJALUKA: Head of a delegation of the European Commission in Bosnia&Herzegovina, Michael Humphries, said yesterday that Bosnia&Herzegovina is to start the accession negotiations with the EU on Wednesday.
"Danas", 20. 1. 2006.

- POZAREVAC: A fragment from the analysis of last year's results of the Municipal Red Cross Organization of Pozarevac: As part of the poverty reduction strategy in Serbia, a research was conducted in the area of Pozarevac and it showed that 1/3 of the population lives in poverty whereas 10,6% lives in absolute poverty.
The municipality of Pozarevac also has 3.500 IDPs from Kosovo, of which 48% are Roma living in the so-called Cardboard Settlement and in abandoned houses lacking elementary living conditions; and the municipality also has more than 2.900 refugees from Croatia and Bosnia&Herzegovina, most of whom haven't solved the accoommodation problems, employment, social and pension security, as well as the ownership problems in their places of origin. The return process goes slowly, despite numerous promises.
"Danas", 20. 1. 2006.

- PRISTINA: Yesterday the members of the Kosovo "Self-determination" organization burst the tyres on around 30 UNMIK cars. They called this a "punishment" for UNMIK for "illegal parking in Kosovo". "Your offroad vehicles are the best example of how you view our country - as a jungle or a desert. The smallest punishment you can get is burst tyres", says in the flyers left on each of the vehicles.
"Selfdetermination" wants UNMIK to leave Kosovo and opposes the upcoming talks on the final status of the Province.
"Glas javnosti", 21. 1. 2006.

- "If you look at the statistics, the safety situation is not bad at all", Soren-Jesen Petersen's (head of UNMIK) statement about Kosovo.
"Glas javnosti", 22. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Two nights ago in Cernica near Kosovska Vitina, unidentified persons threw a bomb on the house of Slobodan Todorovic, father of Milorad Todorovic who is the vice-president of the Coordination Center for Kosovo. No one was hurt in the explosion but considerable property damage was caused. Milorad Todorovic says that this was the sixth attack on his parents' house and "what's interesting is that police didn't show up after the explosion, they only came to the scene next morning, after I phoned them".
The Todorovic's house is on of the 6 Serb houses left in the lower part of Cernica and it is surrounded by Albanian houses. Of the former 712 Serb inhabitants only 200 are still living in the village.
This is the second incident in Kosovo in the last two days. The day before yesterday the Albanians beat up Bojan Djuzic (aged 17) and Dejan Nojkic (aged 19) in the churchyard in the village of Mogila near Kosovska Vitina.
"Glas javnosti", 24. 1. 2006.

- NIKSIC: In the last month, 3 persons fell on the ice and broke their limbs in Niksic per day. In the last 7 days, the town is totally covered in ice and the pavements seem to be nobody's jurisdiction. "It is evident that the owners of the businesses and apartments don't clean the snow outside", says the director of the Cleaning Public Utility, Milorad Milunovic.
"Glas javnosti", 24. 1. 2006.

- STRAGARI: Predrag Pavlovic (43) from Ramaca, a village on the mountain of Rudnik, has been breeding wild boar and hunting dogs for years. He has built a space with 2 hectares in area for the boars to feed and breed and set up around 20 prefabricated little houses for the dogs.
"I sell the piglets weighing 15-20 kg at 100 euros per piece. I've got buyers from all over Serbia&Montenegro. The demand is great", says Predrag Pavlovic.
He has been a hunter for 20 years and he has shot many animals. He is particularly proud for shooting 10 wild boars and sows weighing as many as 150 kg. He keeps their skins as hunting trophies.
"Glas javnosti", 24. 1. 2006.

- PRISTINA: The President of Serbia, Boris Tadic, isn't welcome to the funeral of the President Ibrahim Rugova "especially after his latest statement", an official of the Kosovo Government said yesterday.
Tadic said on Monday that he wanted to go to the funeral in Pristina because he thinks that the President of Serbia should attend the funeral of the President of Kosovo which is a part of Serbia's territorial integrity and to express his respect for Rugova as a political representative of the Albanian people.
"Glas javnosti", 25. 1. 2006.

- BUJANOVAC: Trajko Trajkovic, representative in the local parliament in Bujanovac, says that he has started an initiative for a municipal referendum so the Serbs, Albanians and Roma could express their opinion on the formation of 3-5 new municipalities. He says that it is an initiative of his voters and all the Serbs in Bujanovac and it is a reply to the 1992 referendum of the Albanians and to their political platform presented two weeks ago where they officially demand for the municipalities of Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja to be attached to Kosovo.
"Danas", 25. 1. 2006.

- NOVI SAD: The County Court has announced that Dolf Paspis (aged 32) from Veternik has been arrested on suspicion of spreading ethnic, racial and religious hatred. He is charged with painting Nazi symbols in Novi Sad in October 2004 and physically assaulting D.J. (aged 19) from Novi Sad insulting his race.
"Blic", 21. 1. 2006.

- LIPLJAN: Around 1.500 Serb households in the villages of Skulanevo, Suvi Do, Lepina and Radeva in Lipljan municipality haven't had electricity for 5 days due to a failure of a power station. The reparation of the power station is not the jurisdiction of the Kosovo Electric Corporation because according to the decision of the Company's Executive Board, the Company has no obligations towards the consumers who don't pay electricity bills.
"Blic", 21. 1. 2006.

- CACAK: 46 state-owned companies have been privatized in the Moravica County (which consists of the municipalities of Cacak, Gornji Milanovac, Lucani and Ivanjica) since December 2002, and last year 4 companies in Ivanjica were privatized. The total value of these companies was estimated at 3,67 billion dinars but they were sold at a price nearly 3 times lower, that is, at 1,3 billion dinars. The companies employed 540 people. Another 38 companies in the Moravica County are waiting for privatization.
"Kurir", 26. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Low temperatures have already killed three people in Serbia. Miodrag Stevic aged 54 was homeless and he was found dead in an abandoned house in the center of Kragujevac. Police have stated that the cause of his death was freezing.
Two persons have freezed to death in Belgrade.
"Kurir", 26. 1. 2006.

- "I am ashamed that the people in Kosovo drive too fast", Ales Vodenhal has stated, general of the KFOR multinational Center Brigade.
"Glas javnosti", 26. 1. 2006.

- NOVI PAZAR: It was minus 32 in Sjenica yesterday morning and in the Karajukica Bunari village on the Pester plateau it was minus 37.
Harun Hajradinovic, president of Sjenica municipality, has appealed to the Serbian Government to help them because it is the municipality with the lowest temperatures in Serbia&Montenegro. "The citizens need all kinds of help because the waterworks installations have burst due to extremely low temperatures and apartments are very difficult to heat", said Hajradinovic.
"Glas javnosti", 26. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: In a heavy train accident occured in Bioce near Podgorica on Monday, January 23rd, 44 persons were killed and around 200 were injured.
"Danas", 26. 1. 2006.

- NOVI SAD: The members of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina will donate their daily income to help the Kolompar family whose two children were killed in a fire in Senta a couple of days ago. The Executive Council decided yesterday to also provide, in cooperation with the local authorities in Senta, adequate permanent accommodation for the Roma family of Kolompar.
The fire caught a wooden barrack on January 19th, most probably caused by the open flame of an improvized cresset used as a source of light. The police investigation established that the barrack was in a bad condition, unsafe for living. Another two families who were living in the barrack with the Kolompar family have been moved to their relatives and received one-time cash aid.
"Danas", 26. 1. 2006.

- For the last 15 years the city of Belgrade has been holding a record as the city with the largest number of refugees in Europe!
According to the latest counting of refugees, there are 111.300 refugees living in Belgrade and another 300.000 who have taken the Serbia&Montenegro citizenship in the meantime. But it doesn't mean that they have solved their existential problems.
"Pravi odgovor", 26. 7. 2005.
 
- BELGRADE: The International Crisis Group is closing the office in Belgrade and the head of the Office, James Lion, says "You should be happy that we are leaving, we are going some place where they're shooting, and our estimate is that there won't be any more shooting in these regions", said Lion for the "Blic".
"Blic", 27. 1. 2006.
 
- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: 93% of the Serbs in the enclaves are unemployed and the total unemployment rate in Kosovo is 72%.
In the large enclaves - Gracanica and Strpce - Serbs mostly survive on small scale-trade. Those living in the 25 returnees' villages mostly survive on the humanitarian aid they receive from the Red Cross of Serbia, on public assistance allowance from Belgrade or on the pension from Pristina which is 40 euros a month.
"Blic", 27. 1. 2006.
 
- ZRENJANIN, LESKOVAC: On January 24th, the body of Milorad Dimitrijevic aged 54 was found in his family house in Elemir in Vojvodina and it was established that he had died from freezing. A day later 40-year-old Sasa Milosavljevic was found dead in his house in Medja. He also died from freezing. Zaim Veselovic aged 46 from the Roma settlement of Podvorce in Leskovac died of freezing in his house, Milisav Stefanovic pathologist of the hospital in Leskovac confirmed yesterday.
"Danas", 27. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Serbia's population is among the oldest in the world and according to the 2002 census, more than 900.000 people in Serbia and around 300.000 in Vojvodina are 65 or over 65 years old, i.e. 1/6 of the population is old.
"Danas", 28.-29. 1. 2006.
 
- BELGRADE: The number of people in Serbia who find the quality of their life to be unbearable or hard to bear has increased by nearly 10% since last May, shows a research by the "Factor plus" Agency.
In an opinion poll conducted in May 2005, as many as 20,4% citizens said that their quality of life was unbearable. This number went up to 25,3% in July and in January this year 27,2% of the questioned people said their quality of life was unbearable.
"Blic", 30. 1. 2006.
 
- LESKOVAC: In December the average salary in the 6 municipalities of the Jablanica County (Leskovac, Bojnik, Lebane, Medvedja, Vlasotince and Crna Trava) was the lowest in Serbia and it was 14.129 dinars. In the same period, the employed in the manufacturing industry received 11.105 dinars on average. The employed in Medvedja received 4.151 dinars on average, in Lebane - 4.401 and in Bojnik - 4.032 dinars.
"Blic", 30. 1. 2006.

- BOR: The soup-kitchen in Bor closed several months ago but it will reopen on March 1st, said Slavomir Radicevic,president of the Red Crossin Bor thanks to the support from the Norwegian Red Cross and the local authorities. The soup-kitchen will be preparing one meal a day for each of the 200 most vulnerable beneficiaires. The meal consists of 300 grams of bread and 1/2 liter of soup.
"Danas", 30. 1. 2006.

- BELGRADE: Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, president of the Coordination Center for Kosovo, demands in a letter to the head of UNMIK Soren Jesen-Petersen to stop the anti-civilization act and violence as she called the errection of a monument to the "heroes of the war" by the UCK War Veterans Association on a location of an orthodox church which was destroyed in 1999 and the Association's intention to build a "memorial complex to UCK's achievements in the war". She also demands protection for the interests of the Serbian Orthodox Church and support for the reconstruction of the church on the same place where it used to be before it was destroyed.
"Glas javnosti", 27. 1. 2006.

- SENTA: Atila Kolompar (aged 26) died at the Clinical Center in Novi Sad on Friday night from the injuries he received in last week's fire when his daughters (Anabela aged 3 and Natalija aged 9 months) died and his 19-year-old wife Elvira and 2-year-old daughter Sanela are recovering from the injuries.
The families of Dimovic and Jankovic lived with the Kolompar family in the same barrack, the one destroyed in the fire, so they moved to their relatives and the local Social Work Center provided a one-time cash aid of 5.000 dinars for each of the three families.
Atila and Elvira Kolompar supported their family by collecting waste paper and metal.
"Glas javnosti", 27. 1. 2006.

- KRAGUJEVAC: There are around 100.000 "zastava 128" cars in Kairo, Egypt, although this model was withdrawn from the domestic market a long time ago. Egyptians like the car because it is "reliable, corrosion resistant, immune to rain, snow... to high temperatures, dust, to dry air. There is even no need for air conditioning. The driver simply opens a window and cools himself", says Dragan Lazic, "Zastava's" technical delegate in Egypt. An order has already arrived from Egypt for 1.000 of these cars and an order for another 1.000 is expected by the end of the year.
"Glas javnosti", 30. 1. 2006.

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