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September 05

- PANCEVO: The first integrative daycare in Pancevo municipality is opened in the "Lasta" daycare at the initiative of the "VelikiMali" NGO. Mentally retarded children will attend the daycare together with
other children. The project is supported by the German city of Konstanz, the Australian Embassy in Belgrade and the local self-government of Pancevo.
"Danas", 2. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: The Center for Minority Rights NGO is appealing to the Serbian authorities and international organizations to "stop further escalation of hatred" against Roma in Serbia.It says in a statement by the Center that there were 4 attacks on Roma
settlements in Belgrade in the last two months - two in the settlement on Bezanijska Kosa, one in Tosin Bunar and one in the building where Romas live in Vracar.The statement also says that the city authorities in Belgrade have decided not to set up the containers for Roma in Novi Belgrade due to the protest by the citizens of this part of Belgrade. Since the beginning of this year, the Center has "examined" 121 cases of "illegal police treatment, violence on the part of private individuals and discrimination" against Roma.The Center is demanding the adoption of a law against discrimination in Serbia.
The Center is also protesting over yesterday's attempt to move out the Roma families living in Sumatovacka Street in Vracar. The NGO points out that the Roma were not presented with a court order to move out and a legal deadline to vacate the building. However, the head of the administration of the municipality of Vracar,
Gordana Miljkovic, says that the barrack in Sumatovacka Street is planned for demolition because it is unsafe and the Roma families have moved in illegally.
"Danas", 2. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: Another member of UNMIK police has been arrested in Kosovo on suspicion of participating in people trafficking, UNMIK police has announced.
"Danas", 1. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: Minister of Return in the Government of Kosovo, Slavisa Petkovic, was beaten up in a restaurant near Pristina. According to eyewitness accounts, he was beaten up by one of his closest associates, Dragisa Vukcevic. "I didn't beat him up - I just slapped him a couple of times after a discussion about whether it was his moral obligation as a minister to attend the funneral of the two Serbs in Suvi Do near Lipljan", said Vukcevic. He stressed that every Serb "should have been there, instead of political meetings or visits to completely different locations".
"Glas javnosti", 1. 9. 2005.

- BOSANSKO GRAHOVO: Due to shortages in the budget and discriminatory attitude of the Croatian authorities of the Livanj canton, Serbs employed in the municipal administration and functionaries in the executive power in Bosansko Grahovo haven't received any salaries this year.The jobs are inaccessible for Serb returnees even in the companies that Croats bought at a bargain in the process of illegal privatization.People fit for work are unemployed, pensioners receive no pensions or health care, and pupils are without a right to study Serbian language in schools.
"Glas javnost", 1. 9. 2005.

- SVRLJIG: The Svrljig Disabled Persons Organization for Integration of Invalids and Philosophizing (SIZIIF) has launched a prpoject for socialization of disabled persons or persons with any other illness which, according to official categorization, do not classify as disability. The Swiss organization SDC and the Ministry of Work, Emlpoyment and Social Issues are financing the project.As part of the program, the SIZIIF activists and volunteers will visit all the settlements in the municipality of Svrljig in order to register and poll the persons with disability or any other kind of illness. "Once we form a data base, we shall make a selection of priority problems. In this way the main purpose of the project will be realized, i.e. the improvement of the quality of life and gradual integration of these persons into the society", says Milan Jankovic, director of the SIZIIF.
In cooperation with other organizations, an exhibition of photographs of the living conditions of the persons with illness in the rural parts of the municipality of Svrljig."We would like to warn that the villages in Svrljig are dying out, there is no waterworks, sewerage, telephones, bus service, and besides our rural population is mostly old and we are all facing extremely low living standard", says Jankovic.
"Glas javnosti", 1. 9. 2005.

- CROATIA: There is no true will in Croatia to solve the problem of tenancy rights and help Serb returnees, warned NGO representatives today.
Danilo Rakic, representative of the Group 484 in Belgrade, highlights that the measures of the Croatian Government do not guarantee the possibility of returning the tenancy right to the apartment that a person lived in before the war, and a Serb returnee doesn't have the
right to accommodation if he/she owns any immovable assets on the territory of former Yugoslavia.
"Blic", 1. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: An attack on the barrack in 124a Sumatovacka Street took place three days ago, when at around 2 am. an unknown person threw a Molotov cocktail on the roof of the barrack and another one under a van parked outside the barrack. Luckily, no one was hurt. Seven Roma families with more than 40 members have been living in the
barrack for quite a while. The municipality of Vracar where the barrack is located and the City Hall of Belgrade have severely condemned the attack.
"Danas", 31. 8. 2005.

- CACAK: Cacak branch of the Rotary Club has donated 8 wheelchairs to the local Paraplegic Persons Association. The donation is worth 150.000 dinars.
"Blic", 30. 8. 2005.

- PRISTINA: Soren Jesen Petersen, chief of UNMIK, has stressed that the safety situation in Kosovo is changing and the new threats to the Kosovo society, of which the most obvious are crime and corruption,should be taken more and more into account.
"Glas javnosti", 4. 9. 2005.

- CAGLAVICA: Employee of a gas station in Globocica, Sefket Pajko, was wounded from a moving car last night. He has been taken to the hospital in Prizren.The gas station in Globocica is the only one owned by Gorans in the area.
"Glas javnosti", 4. 9. 2005.

- KRUSEVAC: The old school in Citluk, a few kilometers from Krusevac, looks more like a dilapidated prison than a collective center for refugees from Croatia blown out of their homes by the "Storm" 10 years ago. There are 60 families in the two squalid buildings with leaky roofs. There are no rooms or bathrooms, only improvized beds on top of each other.
Only old and sick persons are still in the center and among them a couple of young men killing bugs and chasing mice."This is chaos. There are mice and bugs all over the place. We can't defend ourselves from them. This morning, while I was having coffee and eating a piece of bread, I killed 313 bugs. Everyone has abandoned us, there is an epidemic here, and we have nowhere to go. We eat and sleep with mice and bugs", says Mirko Dupok from Obrovac. He says that Croats have sentenced him in absentia to 8 years imprisonment. "I am here with my parents. I don't have one day of work experience. I work on construction sites every day. Some pay something, some pay nothing. What can I do? The German humanitarian organization 'Help' has built 40 apartments for us but they have been uninhabited for a year and a half now. Half a million euros were invested in the project, the building was finished a long time ago but the people from the municipal
administration have been fooling us around month after month. They don't let us move into our apartments", says Mirko Dupar.

"They bring us some greecy food which is awful. The humanitarians have left us, we don't get any aid from anyone any more. We are left to ourselves and to these mice and bugs. But the worst of all is that we have nowhere to take a bath", says Dragica Simovic from Knin. Mirko says that after returning from the construction sites, men wash themselves in the Morava river.

The local commission for refugees and IDPs in Krusevac has confirmed that a building in Prnjavor with apartments for 38 refugee families was completed a long time ago and the competent commission has authorized the use of the apartments. The problem is that "no one knows" exactly when the refugees will leave the collective center in Citluk.
"Glas javnosti", 4. 9. 2005.

- DONJI VAKUF: Slavisa Djuric, local priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Donji Vakuf, has warned that the situation of the few Serb returnees is terrible, that "neither the living or the dead" have peace. "All 38 Serb cemeteries have been vandalized. Some arecompletely destroyed", says Djuric and adds that due to frequent desecration of the tombstones, Serb refugees from Donji Vakuf move the remains of their relatives to Republika Srpska.
"Glas javnosti", 3. 9. 2005.

- INDJIJA: The municipality of Indjija and the Department for the Construction of Indjija have delivered the keys to the 18 owners of the displaced settlement of Zdop in the very center of the town, who were living for years in dilapidated apartments, with no water or sewage system. New apartments are built for them on a new location from the money obtained from selling the land and they can rent or buy the new apartments in installments. Right after the people moved out, the construction started of a new building with business premises and apartments.
"Glas javnosti", 3. 9. 2005.

- BOR: Wind is blowing through the hallways of one of the oldest apartment buildings for miners in Bor, there is no glass on the windows of the only bathroom in the building. In one of the empty rooms there is a pile of garbage, as well as near a couple of dilapidated buildings where numerous Roma families are living today. This is the settlement of Zmajevo, one of the oldest settlements in Bor and the only and the largest one where the majority inhabitants are Roma. Zakiri Safedin, the only college student of Roma nationality, is showing us around."These apartments where we live are very old, the history probably doesn't remember when they were built. There are cracks everywhere, we are just waiting for the moment when the roof will fall on someone. Over there, where you can see those ruins, once there was a general store. A boy lost a leg there. He was taking out the bricks to sell and buy an icecream for himself. You can imagine now what life is like around here. Filth, no sewage system, waste matter floating around... There is not enough chlorine in the water we drink so the taste and smell of the water changes, even the colour", says Safedin. Although there are more than 60 families living in Zmajevo, it is like
this place doesn't exist according to Safedin.
"For instance, if the floods hit the settlement or some other natural event, we call the people who are supposed to solve the problem but they never show up. They tell us this is an illegal settlement, it doesn't exist on the map and there is no need for them to waste their time and equipment here. When the municipality needs something, they come here, take pictures of the buildings, the cellars, the people, just to get money or a donation or whatever. And Roma are like that, when some money is obtained, some of those who are in the photos get a sack or two of flour. And they keep quiet", Safedin says.
His neighbour Dragan who is not Roma, tells us a similar story. "I have been living in the settlement where the majority is Roma, people like any of us, since the 1990s. We share good and bad, the housing conditions are terrible. But when you have nowhere else to go, then you have to stay here. None of the competent services will bring garbage containers here, they say there is no one to pay for that. Those who are supposed to help us only come here five days before the elections".
The Zakirovski family of 4 members is living on social welfare, like most of the families in the settlement because very few inhabitants are employed. Our guide Sefadin says that the education of the children is a major problem, "I know some Roma who enroll their children in special schools in order to obtain some kind of aid. This is not good at all".
17-year-old Orhan says that there is no possibility for him to get education. "I live on social welfare. Books are so expensive that I had to quit school. Sometimes, when there is work, I help my father, but mostly I sit at home. That's how it is...."
"Danas", 3.-4. 9. 2005.

- DRAGAS: In the very south of Kosovo, in Gora and Opolje, there are still some 10.000 Gorans living in total isolation. Since UNMIK arrived, another 10.000 left the area. They estimate in Dragas that there are several dozen Gorans living across Serbia&Montenegro who haven't dared to visit their homeland since the war. Gorans are autochthonous people of Serb origin who converted to Islam at the end of 18th century due to heavy pressure and atrocities. However, the pressures also started two centuries later because the Albanian extremists can't forgive the Gorans for defending the border to Albania along with the Pristina corps of the Army of Yugoslavia.
"Thirteen Gorans have been killed here since KFOR arrived and several dozen have been beaten up. Not because KFOR wasn't protecting us, we only have words of gratitude and praise for the Turkish battalion in charge of Gora, but due to great hatred by Albanian extremists threatening us wherever we go. They are bothered by our autochthonous
language that sounds similar to Serbian to them, they don't let us go to the common temples, they harass us in the green markets and every other place. They say they won't leave us alone until they force us all out because our boys were defending the border to Albania during the war. Sefket Pajko of Globocica, the largest village in Gora, with
around 1.000 inhabitants, was targeted by the terrorists in order to spread fear and panic here", says Zejnel Kabasi, resident of Globocica.The other Gorans that the reporters of the "Vecernje novosti" was talking with, also say that Gorans and Roma were the most numerous victims in Kosovo, right after Serbs. Albanian separatists taking revenge because Gorans and Roma were not on their side during the war.
"Vecernje novosti", 4. 9. 2005.

- BUJANOVAC: The amounts on the bills for the water in the 4 collective centers in Bujanovac housing IDPs from Kosovo, that arrive at the address of the local commission for refugees, usually have 6 figures. The reason is not IDPs spending enormous quantities of water but the fact that the water is charged at the industrial price which is 42 dinars per cubic meter "like it wasn't collective centers but factories. The water bill that we received for the previous monht is 315.000 dinars, which is 1/3 of the total monthly amount paid to our account by the Commission for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia", says Cedomir Manasijevic, local commission for refugees in Bujanovac.They started charging for the water at the industrial rate in February when the local "Komunalac" Public Utility put water meters in the collective centers of "Stara ciglana", "Decji vrtic" and the "Prolece" motel.
There is no water meter in the "Salvatore" collective center housing displaced Roma from Kosovo but the "Komunalac" charges for the water similar astronomic amounts determined "by the eye", just like they used to do in the other three collective centers before mounting the water meters.
A few days ago, the local commissioners in Bujanovac submitted a request to the Managing Board of the "Komunalac" Public Utility to charge for the water at the household rate which is 14 dinars per cubic
meter or at least at the rate for schools which is 37 dinars per cubic meter of water. Manasijevic says that the water bills for the collective centers take up 1/3 of the commission's monthly budget of 806.000 dinars. What is left bearly covers the costs for the food for 470 persons housed in the collective centers. The electricity bills don't get paid because if they did, there would be nothing left for the food, Manasijevic says.
"Glas javnosti", 5. 9. 2005.

- BOR: The Danish Refugee Council has recently decided to finance the construction of 15 apartments for refugees and IDPs housed in the collective centers in the area of Bor. The families are expected to move into the new apartments at the beginning of next year.
"Blic", 5. 9. 2005.

- BUJANOVAC: Ljuljzim Pucoli (aged 25) and Fatmir Kovaci (aged 19) of Novi Sad are in custody on suspicion of people trafficking. Taking advantage of the difficult circumstances of Nagda Cov (aged 18), Croatian citizen with a residence in Novi Sad, they took her to Bujanovac by bus and tried to sell her for 600 euros to Ismail Berisa, displaced person from Kosovo currently living in Bujanovac, but the police stopped the transaction.
"Blic", 5. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: As reported by three TV stations in Pristina, Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova said yesterday that he was suffering from lung cancer but he won't resign because this is the time of the key negotiations on the future of the Province.
"Glas javnosti", 6. 9. 2005.

- ZAGREB: On the first day of school, 260 pupils of Croat nationality refused to go to classes because they don't want to be taught by Serb teachers who supposedly refused to work with Croat classes in Croatian language after the war.
The parents of the pupils say "after the war, the exile and the killings, we don't want our children to be taught by those who don't want to speak Croatian language" and announced that they wouldn't send their children to school until the Croat teachers from last year were
back.
"Glas javnosti", 6. 9. 2005.

- PARACIN: The local parliament has decided to grant the right to free transportation on the territory of Paracin municipality to the citizens over 75 years of age and to pupils whose schools are up to 4km far from their homes. The citizens aged 65-75 will be paying bus tickets at half the price.
"Glas javnosti", 6. 9. 2005.

- SMEDEREVO: 426 citizens asked the local People's Office for help in August, announced the cabinet of the president of the municipality of Smederevo yesterday. Like the previous months, the citizens mostly asked for cash aid because of their difficult financial and health situation. Of 35 appplications, 24 were granted a total of 75.000
dinars as one time aid.In July 390 citizens asked the People's Office for help. Of 46 requests for cash aid, 20 were redirected to the Social Work Center and 26 received a total one time aid of 183.000 dinars.
"Danas", 7. 9. 2005.

- NOVI SAD: The expulsion of the members of the Roma population from Sivac will not be permitted and in order to bring down the tensions and protect the safety of all the inhabitants of Sivac regardless of their ethnicity, a full and sincere cooperation will be established between the representatives of the local community, the municipality of Kula, the police and the Roma Association in Sivac. This is the conclusion of the meeting of Tomas Korhec (vice-president of the Executive Board of Vojvodina and secretary for regulations, administration and ethnic minorities) with a delegation of the Roma from Sivac lead by Miodrag Pesic, president of the "Odjila" Cultural-Artistic Society and Slavomir Djordjevic, president of the Roma Association of Sivac, as well as the president of the municipality of Kula, chief of the Police Department of Sombor and the president of the local community of Sivac.
Korhec said that every citizens in this country must have absolutely equal rights and legal protection, that responsibility is individual and cannot be attached to ethnic origin. All the Roma in Sivac cannot be blamed for the murder committed by their fellow member of the Roma community and the State must protect every citizen.The Roma representatives expressed their fear for the safety of their families and fear that they might be forced out of the settlement. The president of the municipality of Kula, Tihomir Djuricic, stressed that there won't be any exile of the Roma from Sivac and that the municipality has been looking after the Roma population for many years, which is demonstrated, among other things, through the construction of 4 houses for Roma families in order to dislodge the "Cigan-mala", through financial support for Roma associations, through providing funds for the purchase of firewood, through providing funds for the children from socially vulnerable families and through one-time cash aid.
Chief of the Police Department of Sombor, Dane Alincic, stressed that the police had formed a special headquarters to follow the current situation in Sivac and Roma can consider themselves protected.
"Danas", 7. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Highschool students can apply for loans and scholarships for this schoolyear until October 5th. As of this year, the Ministry of Education will grant 10.000 scholarships and 250 loans and the monthly amount on the checks has been increased from 1.500 to 3.000 dinars.Loans are granted to highschool students who are studying for one of the deficit professions in the Republic of Serbia. Only those students can apply whose parents have registered residence on the territory of Serbia and have a signed contract with a company or institution on using a loan for the education of a student for one of the deficit
professions.
"Danas", 6. 9. 2005.

- UZICE: Zeljko Grujic (aged 37) from Uzice is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for attempting to kill Prvoslav Tesic (aged 35) outside the "Djovani" bar at the main bus station in Uzice. Grujic and Tesic had a row over politics in the bar. Later they went outside, Grujic pulled a knife and stabbed Djuric in the stomach several times inflicting deadly wounds on him.
"Glas javnosti", 8. 9. 2005.

- ZAGREB: 200 pupils of the elementary school in Dalj started the new schoolyear yesterday, after a meeting of the representatives of the Ministry of Education with the parents when it was decided to return the teachers from last year.Serbs in Bosnia&Herzegovina have announced that free schoolbooks written in Latin alphabet in Bosniak language are being distributed to Serb pupils in Brcko.
"Glas javnosti", 8. 9. 2005.

- CACAK: Paraplegic Persons Association of Cacak have received 8 wheelchairs as a donation from the local Rotary Club, said Vlade Gojkovic, president of the Club.
Vladan Petkovic, president of the Association, says that thanks to this donation, all 50 members of the Association have adequate wheelchairs.He stresses that they still need special air bags for sitting and they need a van because, according to Petkovic, the municipal transportation is not adapted for handicapped persons.
"Danas", 8. 9. 2005.

- NOVI SAD: 13 refugee families from collective centers and socially vulnerable families from Novi Sad, moved into the new apartments yesterday built thanks to a donation by the Swiss organization SDC. The building was constructed as part of the project "Social housing in protected conditions" whose aim is integration of refugees and support for the Serbian Government in closing the remaining collective centers.Besides the SDC who financed the construction with 265.000 Swiss franks, the self-government of the city of Novi Sad, the Social Work Center, the Ministry of Work, Employment and Social Policy, the Commission for Refugees and UNHCR also participated in the project.In the last several years, the SDC built a total of 271 apartments on the territory of Serbia, and supported the construction of 3.000 housing units and in this way provided accommodation for 15.000 people.
"Danas", 8. 9. 2005.

- KRALJEVO: The representatives of numerous Roma associations from the counties of Raska, Rasina, Zlatibor and Moravica, have gathered in Kraljevo and formed an organization to correct the mistakes and omissions of the Roma National Council of Serbia&Montenegro. Their aim is not to overthrow the Council but to point out the needs of the Roma population and their active participation in improving their own situation. "We have also formed commissions and teams to deal with the differences between the Council and the Roma associations", said Slavko Markovic, secretary of the "Rom" Association in Kraljevo.
"Glas javnosti", 9. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Around 100 experts of 32 organizations and 18 towns took part in the convention "Let's connect in order to change" and formed the Network Against Violence Against Women. The Network is made up of 25 SOS telephone organizations, 4 shelters for women and children and 3 investigation centers.According to the results presented at the convention, every 4th woman in Serbia is a victim of domestic violence and every 8th girl aged up to 18 is exposed to sexual violence.
"Danas", 9. 9. 2005.

- CELJE: 600 people commit suicide in Slovenia per year, ranking this country among the top 10 European countries with the highest suicide rate, said the director of the Health Protection Institute of Slovenia, Andrej Marusic.This year the Institute will start a campaign "I have defeated depression".
"Danas", 9. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: Kosovo Customs Service has confiscated 500.000 cigarettes on the border to Macedonia on September 3rd. It has been determined that the cigarettes contain toxic substances, confirmed the deputy director of the Service, Ekrem Hajdari.
"Danas", 9. 9. 2005.

- GORNJI MILANOVAC: Dr Milica Cekerevac, deputy president of the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, has presented 20 sets of schoolbooks for elementary and highschool students of Roma nationality. The money was provided from the municipal budget.
"Blic", 9. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: Bajram Kosumi, Prime Minister of Kosovo, has rejected the corruption accusations that the news media and the opposition allege against him, report the news agencies.He has explained that due to a pressing meeting with the Norwegian embassador, Kai Eide, he had to return from his holiday in Turkey two day early so he took a private jet because the Kosovo Government doesn't have an airplane.He says in a public letter that the rent for the plane cost 20.000-30.000 euros and that his close friend and current Kosovo Minister of Energetics and Mining, Edhem Ceku, has paid for the jet because he owns a private business.Kosumi stresses that he never thought that this favour from his old friend could be regarded as bribe.
"Glas javnosti", 11. 9. 2005.

- ZAGREB: On the night between Thursday and Friday, someone threw a Molotov cocktail on the car of Bogdan Rakic, Serb returnee in Benkovac and the car was destroyed in the fire.The president of the local association of the Croatian war veterans, Ivica Carina, has cynically stated that Rakic probably torched his own car "because he owns money to many people".Rakic says that on 5 occasions he reported to police that he was threatened and insulted on ethnic basis. He is convinced that his car was torched because he is Serb. He has stressed that 6 weeks ago he was attacked in the center of Benkovac by three persons, among them Carina, and they called him a chetnik.Due to a pressure culminating in the torching of the car and damage worth 35.000 kunas (a little less than 5.000 euros), Rakic says that he will sell what he has in Benkovac and leave Croatia.In the area of Benkovac and the entire Zadar county, the attacks arevery frequent on Serb returnees, as well as the destruction of their properties and even murders, like the murder of the old man Dusan Vidic. The police hasn't caught the perpetrators of any of the crimes yet.
"Glas javnosti", 11. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: People in Serbia wait for a job for 47 months on average, primarily due to the small number of vacancies but also due to the professional and geographical immovability of the work force.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 9. 2005.

- DRVAR: Around 8.000 Serb returnees in Drvar have announced that on September 13th they will block all approaches to the town as a sign of protest against the discriminatory attitude by the cantonal authorities towards this Serb municipality and also to draw the public attention to the day when the regular units of the Army of the Republic of Croatia occupied Drvar in 1995, burnt down all the surrounding villages and exiled all the Serbs.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 9. 2005.

- The Sarajevo "Avaz" daily reports: Safet Music (aged 34), exile from Bosanski Novi, living in a Serb house in Bosanska Krupa with his wife who is a mental patient and their son Elvis and daughter Enisa, has decided to take an unusual step - he is selling one of his kidneys for 60.000 KM so he could rebuild his family house destroyed after the war, in 1995. Since he hasn't received any support in 10 years, he decided to sell his kidney and solve his family's housing problem.The municipality pays a 200KM rent for the temporary accommodation for the family and the Musics have to pay for all the other costs.Safet is unemployed, he cuts firewood to make some money.At the beginning of the war, he was captured in Bosanski Novi and then he and his family were exiled to Croatia.As refugees, they lived in Germany until the end of the war in Bosnia&Herzegovina.
"Glas javnosti", 10. 9. 2005.

- NOVI SAD: By the decision of the government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, the colleges of the University of Novi Sad have an obligation to enroll 53 students of the Serb minority in Croatia; 47 will be financed from the budget of the Province and 6 students will have to pay for their own tuition fee.The Province's government passed this decision at a request by the Joint Council of the municipalities of Vukovar and with a consent of the Ministry of Education and Sports.
"Danas", 10.-11. 9. 2005.

- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: A monument to three members of former UCK errected by the road Urosevac-Strpce was destroyed last night.
"Blic", 10. 9. 2005.

- NOVI PAZAR: The electricity in Novi Pazar is massively stolen. The inhabitants of Novi Pazar steal as much electricity per year as the "Sopocani" electric plant produces in a year and a half.
"Blic", 11. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: The "Ekoris" program of support for the development of companies and enterpreneurship financed by the EU enables all the profit and non-profit organizations to apply for a donation of 25.000-150.000 euros. The projects for establishing companies, development of existing companies and introduction of innovations, can be submitted by September 19th to the Ministry of Economy of Serbia.
"Blic", 11. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: The average salary in Serbia is 17.634 dinars and, according to official statistics, only the basic food and hygienic products for a family of 4 cost 23.179 dinars a month.
"Blic", 12. 9. 2005.

- BANJALUKA: The police of Republika Srpska has brought charges against several hundred persons, among them a large number of mujahedins, high ranking officers of the Army of Bosnia&Herzegovina and some politicians in high positions in Sarajevo.
"Glas javnosti", 12. 9. 2005.

- SARAJEVO: President of the "Women of Srebrenica" Association, Hajra Catic, has accused the members of the Sarajevo based "Mothers of the Enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa" Movement of "taking advantage of the genocide in order to obtain financial gain".
As the Sarajevo "Oslobodjenje" daily reports, the revolt of the members of the Tuzla based "Women of Srebrenica" Association was caused by the fact that the "BH Telekom" has recently decided to grant 300.000 KM as Movement.
"All the members of the Movement have sold their apartments in Srebrenica and are now living in Sarajevo. They travel constantly all over the world at the expense of the State and the town of Srebrenica, while the real returnees to the Drina valley are living in inhuman
conditions", claims Catic.
"Glas javnosti", 13. 9. 2005.

- KRUSEVAC: The German humanitarian organization "Help" has built 40 apartments for refugees from Croatia but there is no official information yet as to when the refugee families from the collective centers in Citluk, Ribarska Banja and Razanj will be able to move into the apartments. Two of the apartments are intended for the local socially vulnerable families.The municipality provided the location for the apartment building.
"Glas javnosti", 13. 9. 2005.

- KIKINDA: The Old People's Home in Kikinda is preparing to permanently accommodate around 15 older refugees from the collective centers in the municipality which are to be closed.The Home is currently negotiating with the German humanitarian organization "Help" to provide funds for the adaption of one of the pavillions of the Home to accommodate of another 30 beneficiaries.
"Glas javnosti", 13. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: According to the information presented yesterday by the Association of Serbs from Croatia, Croatia exiled more than 500.000 Serbs during the war, especially during the operations "Stom" and "Flash". More than 124.000 Serbs were exiled from the towns only and around 25.000 housing units were usurped.
"Danas", 13. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Predrag Jelicic, member of the Protest Board of disabled persons of Serbia, says that the Health Security Institute compensates the costs for special pillows and wheelchairs once every 3 and 5 years respectively, and the amount is 8.000-9.800 dinars, whereas the real price that the disabled have to pay for these aids is 35.000 dinars for a pillow and around 1.000 euros for a wheelchair. The Director of the Health Security Institute, Svetlana Vukajlovic, blames the suppliers of the orthopedic accessories who obliged themselves at a tender to deliver the goods at the agreed prices but they don't do it, instead they demand from the beneficiaries to pay additionally for the aids.
"Danas", 13. 9. 2005.

- POZAREVAC: Representatives of the local Red Cross and the Roma Association in Poazarevac have agreed to organize a daycare for 60 Roma children aged 4-6 in the local Red Cross premises as of October 1st.There are 25.000 Roma living in the Branicevo County, of which 15.000 live in the town of Pozarevac.
"Blic", 13. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Zoran Sami, president of the Parliament of Serbia&Montenegro, has said that the decision to raise the salaries of the members of the Parliament is not valid because the majority of the Montenegran representatives were not present at the session of the Administrative Board, they voted by phone instead.A new session of the Administrative Board will probably be held on September 23rd, when a new session of the Parliament is scheduled, said Sami.
"Glas javnosti", 14. 9. 2005.

- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: Colonel Dejan Jankovic is appointed commandant of the Kosovo Police Service for the region of Gnjilane.This is the first case that a member of the Serb community is appointed to the position.
"Glas javnosti", 14. 9. 2005.

- SUBOTICA: The city of Zagreb has provided free schoolbooks for 140 children in Subotica who attend classes in Croatian. They are the only pupils in Serbia who attend regular classes in Croatian, which started 4 years ago.
"Glas javnosti", 14. 9. 2005.

- NOVI SAD: Adem Demaci, president of the Writers Association of Kosovo and political analyst, has said that only independence is acceptable for Kosovo Albanians and threatened that the application of the formula "more than autonomy, less than independence", proclaimed by Belgrade, would lead to a new bloodbath. "A new wave of violence will break out in Kosovo if the world, i.e. UN Security Council and Contact Group, impose a solution for the Kosovo crisis which is less than independence", added Demaci for the "Gradjanski list" of Novi Sad.
"Glas javnosti", 15. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: There is no institutions in Serbia to provide medical, psychological and emotional support for terminal patients.It is estimated that just from cancer at least 18.500 people die Serbia in extreme pain every year - there is no room for dying people in any of
the hospitals or clinics in Serbia.
"Glas javnosti", 15. 9. 2005.

- SREMSKA MITROVICA: The "Komunalac" public utility in Sremska Mitrovica, supported by the IRD-USAID, has started the implementation of the "Containers for Villages" project in Sremska Mitrovica - the IRD has donated 200 garbage containers to be placed in the villages of Macva and Fruska Gora in Vojvodina, in order to start organized garbage disposal in these areas for the first time in the recorded history.
"Glas javnosti", 15. 9. 2005.

- NOVI PAZAR: The municipal budget in Novi Pazar has been completely blocked since Tuesday by the decision of the Trade Court."We were forced to bring charges against the executors of the budget - the previous Vasvija Gusinac and Sadik Ugljanin and the current
executor of the budget Sulejman Ugljanin", said Azem Ajdarevic, president of the municipality of Novi Pazar. "It has been confirmed that more than 8 million euros disappeared from the municipal budget during the previous 4 years of absolute rule of Ugljanin's coalition. We have confirmation that around 800.000 euros or 57 million dinars
have been stolen", said Ajdarevic.
"Danas", 15. 9. 2005.

- SISAK: The head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Jorge Fuentes Manzonis Villalonga, has stated that "OSCE can't be completely satisfied with the return rate of Serbs to Croatia because it is still a problem 10 years after the war". So far 125.000 Serbs have returned but as many as 40% of this number have gone back into exile. "Around 250.000 Serbs haven't returned to Croatia and they are still afraid and hesitant", said Villalonga. "Maybe OSCE is to be blamed for the situation because we may have failed to send out a clear message to
Serb refugees", said Villalonga.
"Glas javnosti", 16. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Every 5th citizen of Serbia has confidence in NGOs and only every 10th has confidence in political parties, shows the latest research on "Political divisions and civil society" by the Belgrade based Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID).Zoran Stojiljkovic, member of the CeSID investigation team, says that the confidence in the civil society organizations is greater "the further they are perceived from politics".
"Danas", 16. 9. 2005.

- GORNJI MILANOVAC: Bela Palanka had the lowest average salary in Serbia in August - 4.952 dinars.
"Danas", 16. 9. 2005.

- NOVI SAD: The administration of Vojvodina grants 30.000 dinars for each firstborn, and as of next year 200.000 dinars will be granted for each pair of twins and 600.000 dinars for triplets.
"Danas", 16. 9. 2005.

- NOVI PAZAR: The Human Rights Committee of the Raska Region says in a public statement that "constant pressure is being put on the members of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the citizens of Serb ethnicity, with the intention of forcing into exile the remaining Serb population in the Raska region. The Human Rights Committee of the Raska Region has warned the public and the competent state authorities of the difficult
situation of the members of the Serb community and constant pressure and attacks to which Serbs are exposed, but it has all been pushed under the carpet and the attackers have not been liable to criminal prosecution", says the statement in which the Committee appeals to "all the competent authorities to finally take concrete steps to sanction the attacks on the members of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Raska region".
"Danas", 16. 9. 2005.

- SKOPJE: The Supreme Court of Macedonia has confirmed the 2,5 year prison sentence for the high official of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Macedonia, bishop Jovan, for inciting racial and religious hatred, intolerance and discord, announced the president of the Court, Dane Ilijev. So the bishop has to stay in jail.
"Glas javnosti", 18. 9. 2005.

- ZAGREB: Croats are the worst kind of Crusaders so they should be exterminated as soon as possible, the members of the Muslim Vehabit community in Gornja Maoca near Brcko said to a reporter of the Zagreb "Vecernji list" daily. They told him that they dream of the day when "Allah's army" defeats the "crusaders", "sons of monkeys and pigs" and
enters Vatican, and that they support Osama Bin Laden's ideas unconditionally.
"Glas javnosti", 18. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Rasim Ljajic, federal Minister of Ethnic and Minority Rights, said in Vrnjacka Banja yesterday, at the opening of a seminar on "The Role of the Community and the Minority Leadership in the Development of Multi-ethnic Cooperation", that "The process of multi-ethnic reconciliation in Serbia&Montenegro will last for decades and it is alarming that the highest inter-ethnic distance is recorded among young people aged between 20 and 28".
"Blic", 18. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: At yesterday's presentation of the results of the research "Nobody's Children" supported by the British Embassy in Belgrade and conducted by "Save the Children" and the Belgrade based "Testing Center", it was said that nearly half the victims of people trafficking registered in 2004 were Roma children - 46%.Since 2001, when the registration of the victims started, 61 victims have been identified.In 80% of the cases, the traffickers force the children to engage in prostitution, begging, forced labor.The children usually live in bad conditions, poverty, they quit school early and are exposed to great risk.
Even the families of the children force them to beg or sell them to chiefs who organize the beggars or use the children for prostitution.Nevenka Zegarac, co-author of the research, was also speaking about early marriages and the tradition, especially common among the Roma population, of selling brides. She said that this tradition could also be a cover for people trafficking in some cases but it is hard to
determine.
Zegarac said that girls aged 16-18 are not perceied as children, not by the traffickers or by the society whose obligation is to help them.She also pointed out that it is wrong to regard the children trafficking in the context of people trafficking, instead of looking at it as something very specific.Of the 65 children identified as victims of people trafficking from
2001 to 2004, for only 3 custodians were appointed but not immediately. Social work centers get involved in assisting the children but they haven't done a lot - the children use the support programs for a short time (less than a month) because they don't offer much so around 80% return to their families from which they were recruited for prostitution or begging in the first place. There is also another form of support, which is foster families, but it is not permanent accommodation, said Zegarac.
"Glas javnosti", 17. 9. 2005.; "Danas", 17.-18. 9. 2005.

- BUJANOVAC: 490 IDPs are housed in 4 collective centers in Bujanovac: the "Stara ciglana", the "Prolece" Motel, , the "Salvatore-Tecnhical School" and the "Daycare".The situation in all four collective centers is bad but it is not like that just for the IDPs. In February the municipal administration moved the office of the local commissioners for refugees (Cedo Manasijevic and Sinisa Kovacevic) from the third floor down to the basement, to a room 6 sq meters in area that the police once used for the solitary confinement of the prisoners. There are 3 chairs in the room and the windows are small so they don't let in too much light. The room next door, the same size, serves for keeping brooms and other equipment for the cleaning ladies.
"Glas javnosti", 19. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: If the President of Serbia&Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic, and the Montenegran employees in the federal administration left Belgrade, it would save roughly more than 700.000 euros of the tax payers' money in Serbia per year.There are 41 Montenegrans employed in the federal administration and every month they have the right to the compensation of 30.000 dinars for the rent, 12.500 dinars for "separate life" and 4 return tickets home per month. So it is 1.450.000 dinars for each Montenegran employee
per year.
"Glas javnosti", 20. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: The key prerequisite for the solution of the problem of the Roma and their integration into the social process is education, said the participants of yesterday's public debate on the education of Roma children and regional education project which is to be implemented in Serbia&Montenegro, Kosovo and Bosnia&Herzegovina. It was said that Roma are the most marginalized minority in the region when it comes to poverty, discrimination and approach to education. Zika Mitrovic of the Belgrade based Coordination Center for the Integration of the Roma into the Social Life said that the Roma are gradually realizing the significance of education and they stress more and more often - "we don't just want our rights, it is also time we accepted our obligations".
"Glas javnosti", 20. 9. 2005.

- ZAGREB: A bomb exploded in the British Embassy in Zagreb yesterday morning at 7:30, only one day after the Croatian Defence Minister, Berislav Roncevic, said that there was no risk of bomb attacks in Croatia.
"Glas javnosti", 20. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: As of next schoolyear, all children aged 5,5 - 6 will have to attend to the preschool program in daycares or elementary schools and get a certificate of their preschool education, which will constitute one of the conditions for the enrollment in elementary school.
"Danas", 20. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Malignant diseases are the second leading cause of death in
Serbia, right after heart and blood vessels diseases and in the last two years, the number of cancer related deaths increased by 28%, announced the experts of the "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut" Health Protection Institute.Around 20 students of the Belgrade University get cancer every year.
"Kurir", 19. 9. 2005.; "Blic", 20. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Of the 7,5 million residents of Serbia, only a little over 2 million are officially employed (these figures of the Statistics Institute of the Republic of Serbia do not include the farmers, the army and the police). The total number of pensioners is around 1,5 million and 893.517 unemployed persons were registered on August 31st. Every month quite a high percentage of the employed don't get any salary at all. In March, the percentage was as high as 14,81%.
"Blic", 19. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: UNMIK police offers 2.500 euros for any information regarding the killing and wounding of the two Serb boys near Strpce. At the moment, 25 policemen are engaged on the case, announced the
international police.The two youths of Serb nationality were killed from a moving car on the road Urosevac-Strpce on August 27th.
"Glas javnosti", 21. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: According to the police records, 15.000 women and 1.500 men in Serbia&Montenegro are working as prostitutes.
"Glas javnosti", 21. 9. 2005.

- SARAJEVO: The Government of Republika Srpska has submitted to Paddy Ashdown, High Representative for Bosnia&Herzegovina, a list of 100 persons directly responsible for the massacre of Bosniaks in Srebrenica committed in July of 1995, reported the national television of Bosnia&Herzegovina TV BH. Among others, the names of the current commandant of the Jahorina detachment of the Special Police, the current commandant of the First company of the Zvornik brigade of the police of Republika Srpska and the head of the Public Security Center in Zvornik are on the list.
"Glas javnosti", 21. 9. 2005.

- ZAGREB: The bomb in the British Embassy in Zagreb was planted by Damir Rovisan (aged 28), the Embassy's employee who was the only person injured in the explosion, said Ivica Karin yesterday, Croatian Minister of Internal Affairs and added that "it is definitely determined that this wasn't a terrorist act but an act by persons from the criminal milieu".
"Glas javnosti", 21. 9. 2005.

- VRANJE: The construction of 20 apartments for around 100 refugees and IDPs has started in Vranje. The construction is financed by the Greek "European Perspective" NGO and the local community provided free location and infrastructure.There were as many as 15.000 refugees in Vranje in 1995 and now there are around 200. When the apartments are completed, it will be possible to close the collective center in the "Balkan" villa in Vranjska Banja.
"Glas javnosti", 22. 9. 2005.

- KRALJEVO: 500 poorest residents of Kraljevo, beneficiaries of the local soup-kitchen, haven't received any bread since September and the meals have been prepared without any meat for months now, so the president of the municipality Radoslav Jovic has ordered to transfer some money from the municipal budget to the Red Cross for the purchase of bread and necessary foodstuffs for the soup-kitchen.
"Blic", 21. 9. 2005.

- PEOPLE TRAFFICKING: 61 children, victims of people trafficking, have been officially registered in Serbia&Montenegro since 2001 (5 in Montenegro and 56 in Serbia), says the publication "Nobody's children". Most victims of children trafficking are Roma, mostly girls aged 16-17.
"Blic", 22. 9. 2005.

- KURSUMLIJA: The closing of the soup-kitchen in Kusumlija left the socially vulnerable local population including around 120 Roma in the village of Barlovo without any food.
The representatives of the municipal Red Cross say that Roma are the most vulnerable population on the territory of the Kursumlija municipality and they are "in a very difficult situation" but the organization has no money to help them. Not even the local self-government, as announced, has any funds for the solution of the problems of the Roma.
The secretary of the municipal Red Cross organization, Miki Nikolic, says that a request has been sent to the Ministry of Work, Employment and Social Policy to grant the funds necessary for the soup-kitchen but no reply has arrived yet.Around 120 Roma, among them 60 children, are homed in 15 houses with no electricity, water or sanitation.
"Danas", 23. 9. 2005.

- OBILIC: Two nights ago unidentified persons shot several bullets at the house of the Roma returnees in Crkvena Vodica near Obilic, report Serb sources in Kosovo. No one was hurt in the attack.At least 15 bullets were shot at the house of the Gasi family from an automatic gun and the roof was damaged.The family returned from exile recently.The police have investigated the scene.
"Glas javnosti", 24. 9. 2005.

- BANJALUKA: The sale of firewood in Banjaluka has increased in the last days due to low temperatures so the citizens are trying to supply their homes with fuel for heating as soon as possible. A cubic meter of firewood costs 50KM and a metric ton of coal costs 120KM.
"Glas javnosti", 24. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Around 60% of the population in Serbia are dying of heart diseases and in some parts of Vojvodina, the percentage is around 80%.We are in the second place, right after Russia, in the number of patients dying of heart diseases.Nearly half the adult population of Serbia are smokers, around 40% are under stress, at least 44% are obese and at least 1/5 of the population suffer from high blood pressure so a real epidemic of heart diseases is expected in the coming years, especially among young people.
"Glas javnosti", 25. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: In Serbia there are 43 official homes for pensioners, old persons and disabled persons housing around 10.000 persons. Room for at least another 60.000 persons is necessary. It is one of the reasons why more and more private homes are being opened but they are registered as boarding-houses for providing medical services. It is believed that as many as 50 such homes are working in Serbia and one of the few with all the legal permits is the "Lug" in Mladenovac. Accommodation in a 3-bed-room costs 400 euros a month, in a double room - 500 euros and in a single room - 650 euros. Semi-paralized old people have to pay additional 50 euros on top of these prices and paralized persons have to pay as much as 900 euros for a single room. The price includes everything - accommodation, food and the necessary medical examinations and therapy.
"Glas javnosti", 25. 9. 2005.

- ZAGREB: According to the results of the recently initiated revision of the court procedures by the state prosecution office, more than 90% of the accused of war crimes in Croatia are of Serb ethnicity.4.774 persons are charged with war crimes, 1.740 are indicted, 837 are convicted (including those sentenced in absentia) and 119 have been acquitted. According to the Croatian Ministry of Justice, 44 persons convicted of war crimes are serving prison sentences. The Zagreb "Jutarnji list" daily reports that the Ministry doesn't have a record of the ethnicity of the prisoners because the prisons administrations don't keep that kind of a record. Zoran Pusic, NGO activist, stresses that the trials looked more like a revenge than trials and they were ethnically biased.
"Glas javnosti", 25. 9. 2005.

- SARAJEVO: Based on a list recently made by the Ministry of Police of Republika Srpska, the Serbia&Montenegro authorities demand from Bosnia&Herzegovina to extradite Ismet Bajramovic accused of war crimes against Serbs in Sarajevo. The list contains 700 names of suspects in war crimes against Serbs in the Central Prison and the former "Viktor Bubanj" compound of the Yugoslav People's Army in Sarajevo during the war, 1991-1995. The police of the Sarajevo canton arrested Bajramovic two days ago based on a wanted notice issued by the Interpol office in Belgrade. He was released the same day but his passport was taken away from him and he will get it back at the end of this month. He was the commandant of the military police in Sarajevo during the war.
"Danas", 24.-25. 9. 2005.

- GORAZDEVAC: The members of the Kosovo Police Service have found a bomb planted on the road Gorazdevac-Pec. It was soon disarmed and police investigation is underway. The inhabitants of Gorazdevac are very alarmed about the incident.
"Blic", 23. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: A Kosovo Albanian tried to kidnap a girl of Serb ethnicity in Pristina 3 days ago but a member of the Kosovo Police Service stopped him and arrested him. A statement by the Kosovo Police Service says that the Albanian was drunk.
"Blic", 23. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE/PEC: A larger group of Albanians attacked Serb returnees in the village of Ljevosa two nights ago, report the sources in the village. "There are around 15 returnees in the village and we were exposed to heavy stoning by Albanians that started at around 1:30AM and went on for about a half an hour. They were shooting around, cursed and
threatened to kill us all and burn down our homes", said one of the villagers. Just like all the settlements in Kosovo (except for Gorazdevac), Ljevosa was completely burnt down and destroyed in June of 1999 and several houses were reconstructed last year.
"Glas javnosti", 26. 9. 2005.

- 16 years is the average age of the cars in Serbia, ranking us among the European countries with the oldest car park.
"Glas javnosti", 26. 9. 2005.

- SKOPJE: Macedonia has 63.000 illiterate citizens, according to the official statistics. As many as 220.000 people started but haven't finished elementary school and 500.000 only have elementary education. The largest number of the illiterate are among the Roma and the Turkish population, followed by ethnic Albanians and Macedonians and the smallest number of the illiterate are among the Vlach population. 2/3 of the illiterate in Macedonia are girls. Social scientists say that the most common reason why the children don't go to school is poverty and prohibition by the parents. According to the latest census, the population of Macedonia is a little over 2 million.
"Glas javnosti", 27. 9. 2005.

- SVILAJNAC: The price for coal in Svilajnac is 35-130 euros per metric ton and the price for firewood is 30-40 euros per cubic meter, depending on the quality. The authorized coal dealers say that the so-called "street sellers" are a big problem because they considerably contribute to the decrease in both the price and the quality of coal.
"Glas javnosti", 27. 9. 2005.

- ZRENJANIN: In the Dudara settlement in Surdulicka Street in Zrenjanin, which is a home for 2.200 Roma, only 3 persons are employed! This shocking fact has been announced by Radovan Vuletin of the Social Work Center in Zrenjanin. He says that around 60% of the employees of the local "Cleanness and Greenness" Public Utility were Roma once and today - only 1% are Roma.
The worst situation, according to many, is precisely in the illegal settlement of Dudara, with no serious announcements that it will ever be legalized. Vuletin warns that the settlement represents an "ecological bomb" from time to time because the public services practically never take away the garbage from the settlement. You wonder how the people living in Dudara survive at all. "One of the main sources of income is the public assistance allowance which is almost negligible - 2.000-4.000 dinars per household", warns
Vuletin. "This sum isn't granted to an individual but to an entire family which, in some cases, numbers 6 or even more members". The recently formed Committee for Inter-Ethnic Relations has started discussing the problems of the Roma. However, a concrete solution is
nowhere in sight yet.
"Glas javnosti", 27. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: The parents who are interested in enrolling their children in the state-owned daycares in Serbia cannot do it because the daycares are filled to capacity so some parents put their children on the waiting lists while they are still just babies. The last time new facilities were constructed in most daycares and preschools in Serbia was as long as 20 years ago. The price for one child in state-owned daycares is 800-2.500 dinars per month and the price in private daycares is between 80 euros and several hundred euros a month, which is one of the main reasons for such the massive interest for state-owned daycares.
"Danas", 26. 9. 2005.

- A comment in the "Danas" newspaper: Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, president of the Coordination Center for Kosovo, has interrupted her visit to Kosovo and was transported to the Military-Medical Academy in Belgrade due to a virus infection. The good news is that she is feeling better. However, there is also a bad news: "I am sure I haven't been poisoned. I was staying among Serbs, I was eating from Serb plates, which means that poisoning wasn't the cause. On the other hand, in 3 days I had 15 difficult meetings with the representatives of the international community and I think that the schedule in Kosovo 'pulverized' me",
said Raskovic-Ivic.
"Danas", 26. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: The parents who are interested in enrolling their children in the state-owned daycares in Serbia cannot do it because the daycares are filled to capacity so some parents put their children on the waiting lists while they are still just babies. The last time new facilities were constructed in most daycares and preschools in Serbia was as long as 20 years ago. The price for one child in state-owned daycares is 800-2.500 dinars per month and the price in private daycares is between 80 euros and several hundred euros a month, which is one of the main reasons for such the massive interest for state-owned daycares.
"Danas", 26. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Officially, Serbia has nearly a million unemployed persons although experts claim that the actual number is much smaller because around 500.000 people have registered in order to enjoy various privileges. 50% of the unemployed have secondary education.
"Glas javnosti", 29. 9. 2005.

- SABAC: The Labor Market Bureau in Sabac has granted donations for 36 self-employment projects. The projects are worth 4,6 million dinars altogether and they will employ 38 persons.
7 projects worth 1,3 million dinars have been granted in Bogatic, 6 projects worth 720.000 dinars have been granted in Koceljeva and 3 projects worth 370.000 dinars have been granted in Vladimirci.
"Blic", 28. 9 2005.

- NIS: Socially vulnerable inhabitants and refugees in the Pantelej municipality in Nis can get free legal aid in the local Lawyers Chamber. They can see a lawyer on Thursdays and Fridays between 9am. and 1 pm.at the business office no.214 at Dusan's Bazaar.
"Blic", 28. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: Officially, Serbia has nearly a million unemployed persons although experts claim that the actual number is much smaller because around 500.000 people have registered in order to enjoy various privileges. 50% of the unemployed have secondary education.
"Glas javnosti", 29. 9. 2005.

- SABAC: The Labor Market Bureau in Sabac has granted donations for 36 self-employment projects. The projects are worth 4,6 million dinars altogether and they will employ 38 persons. 7 projects worth 1,3 million dinars have been granted in Bogatic, 6 projects worth 720.000 dinars have been granted in Koceljeva and 3 projects worth 370.000 dinars have been granted in Vladimirci.
"Blic", 28. 9 2005.

- NIS: Socially vulnerable inhabitants and refugees in the Pantelej municipality in Nis can get free legal aid in the local Lawyers Chamber. They can see a lawyer on Thursdays and Fridays between 9am. and 1 pm.at the business office no.214 at Dusan's Bazaar.
"Blic", 28. 9. 2005.

- PRISTINA: UNMIK has appointed Milan Radojevic warden of the prison in Kosovska Mitrovica. It is the first prison in Kosovo whose warden is of Serb nationality.
"Glas javnosti", 30. 9. 2005.

- BEOGRAD: Commandant of the Kosovo Police Service regional headquarters in Gnjilane, Dejan Jankovic (aged 30) from Strpce, was wounded in an attack near Stari Kacanik on Wednesday night. He was wounded in the arm and he was taken to the hospital at Bondstil and he was released later that night for home treatment.He was appointed commandant of the Kosovo Police Service in Gnjilane on September 14th and he has the highest rank among the Serb officers of the Service.
"Glas javnosti", 30. 9. 2005.

- SKOPJE: Around 4.000 staff of the Clinical Center in Skopje went on strike yesterday demanding a100% raise because they have "miserable salaries". The director of the Center has the highest salary - 36.000 denars (around 550 euros), a professor doctor receives 20.000 denars a month and the lowest salary is 5.700 denars (less than 100 euros). Only emergency cases will be admitted during the strike.
"Glas javnosti", 30. 9. 2005.

- SARAJEVO: Yesterday the city parliament of Sarajevo adopted an initiative to proclaim Natasa Kandic, director of the Belgrade based Humanitarian Law Fund, honorary citizen of Sarajevo. The initiative was submitted by the member of the parliament of the Centar municipality of Sarajevo, Izudin Filipovic. It says in the initiative that "during the war in Bosnia&Herzegovina, Natasa Kandic was surely not alone but definitely one of the few to raise their voice trying to stop the bloodshed of the innocent citizens of Bosnia&Herzegovina".
"Glas javnosti", 30. 9. 2005.

- BELGRADE: If a child from the interior of the country wants to study economics in Belgrade, the parents have to provide a minimum of 13 average salaries or 20 average pensions per year - it takes 231.000 dinars just for the books and basic needs of an economics student and if he/she wants to study one of the technological colleges, such as
Architecture, then the costs are close to 260.000 dinars a year. (113.000 dinars for the rent per year, 33.900 for the food, 29.000 for the bills, 15.500 dinars for the transportation, 7.000 for the books for an economics student, 10.000 for an architecture student; 400
dinars for pens and notebooks and other writing materials for an economics student, 32.340 for an architecture student; 2.500 for hygienic products, 10.000 for clothes, 7.000 for shoes, 15.400 for snacks, 11.600 for going out for a drink or cinema or something)
"Danas", 30. 9. 2005.

- ISTOK: The 36 families who returned to the village of Kos in Istok municipality on March 3rd, moved into the new houses yesterday.Zarko Obradovic, representative of the returnees to Kos, says that the money for the reconstruction of 28 homes was provided by the European Reconstruction and Development Agency and the Swedish NGO
"Erikssaltern" provided the funds for the reconstruction of the other 10 homes.
"Danas", 30. 9. 2005.

- KRAGUJEVAC: According to the National Employment Service, of 170.000 citizens of Kragujevac - 36.782 are unemployed. Considering that Kragujevac has 25.000 pensioners, it turns out that every 4th citizen is unemployed.
"Danas", 30. 9. 2005.

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