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SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILUTINOVIC OPENS WORK ON E-70 HIGHWAY SECTION NEAR PANCEVO
Serbian President Milan Milutinovic on Monday inaugurated work on the Belgrade-Pancevo section of the E-70 highway.
The section will be 4,550 m long, with four lanes of a total width of 33.5 m. An interchange will be constructed in this section to secure maximum safety for road and railway traffic on the Belgrade-Pancevo-Zrenjanin crossroads.
Work on this section of the highway, which is the shortest link between Western Europe and the east and southeast, will be completed in six months, half the time originally planned.
This busiest section of the E-70 highway is currently the 103rd construction site in Serbia.
FOUNDATION OF THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING OF SERBIA
Serbian President Milan Milutinovic said Monday at the start of works on the section of the Belgrade-Pancevo highway that in the entire republic reconstruction was underway of what had been destroyed in the aggression and pointed to the resolve of the state to use all its resources for the development and reconstruction of all of Serbia.
Works on that highway are starting only one week after the visit of President Slobodan Milosevic and the opening of the Pancevo refinery when the vitality of the country and our readiness to defend it were underscored, but also to further promote and develop it as a guaranty of our future, Milutinovic said.
Stressing that in the reconstruction and rebuilding of infrastructure we are relying on our own forces, Milutinovic said, "we cannot expect help from those who have bombed us."
"Those who promise massive and expeditious aid from abroad should see the experiences of our neighbours who have bowed to the demands of the aggressor, have obtained nothing in return." the Serbian president said.
At the ceremony of the start of the works were also present Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic, governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia Dusan Vlatkovic, Yugoslav Minister of Agriculture Nedeljko Sipovac, Serbian Construction Minister Dejan Kovacevic, Vojvodina executive council president Bosko Perosevic, director of the directorate for the reconstruction of the country Milutin Mrkonjic, Yugoslav Left directorate member Zivko Soklovacki, Yugoslav Sports Minister Velizar Djeric, businessmen and Interior Ministry representatives.
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL PROGRAMMES IMPLEMENTED PARALLEL TO RECONSTRUCTION
Serbian Prime Minister Marjanovic said here Monday that the country's reconstruction did not only mean the rebuilding of all that destroyed during NATO's aggression but also its being firmly linked with the creation of conditions for higher production and living standards.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the 160th anniversary of the Merima company based in Krusevac, central Serbia, Marjanovic said that, parallel to the country's reconstruction, the government was implementing programmes for making operational major industrial capacities as well as agricultural programmes.
The government has also started implementing a programme for the employment of people left jobless by NATO's March 24-June 10 aggression, programmes for maintaining economic and social stability, those in the sphere of marketing and those for speeding up ownership transformation, he said.
CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE
Serbian parliament president Dragan Tomic on the occasion of the Child Week received Monday children and teachers form Belgrade primary and secondary schools, children and teachers from the home for parentless children and children whose fathers were killed in Kosovo and Metohija or in the bombing of other parts of Serbia.
The guests in the Serbian parliament were first greeted by the Serbian minister for family care, Miroslav Nedeljkovic, who said that the Child Week starting today was also an occasion to remember the obligations we have towards the youngest generation.
Stressing that we must take care of the youngest generation because our children are our future, Dragan Tomic said that the huge job of reconstruction of the country had started.
From you we expect to be good pupils because not a single bridge or facility could have been built without knowledge, Dragan Tomic told his young guests.
YUGOSLAV TELECOMMUNICATIONS MINISTER MEETS SERBIAN RADIO, TV OFFICIALS
Yugoslav Telecommunications Minister Ivan Markovic on Monday held a meeting with the managing board of the association of Serbian radio and TV stations, said a statement issued after the meeting.
It was noted that a large number of radio and television stations, members of the association, had been damaged during NATO's March 24-June 10 aggression as well as that a part of the damage had been eliminated.
Markovic said that the full reconstruction of radio stations was in the interest of ensuring the objective informing of the Yugoslav public and of the public's protection from pressure through media manipulations.
The Yugoslav Telecommunications Ministry is taking all necessary measures to protect the country's sovereignty in the domain, this being the Ministry's priority, the statement said.
The measures in question include securing material and technical conditions for the operation of Yugoslav radio stations in order to protect the country from aggression in the media sphere, the statement said.
The aggression is being carried out by jamming from abroad the transmission of Yugoslav programmes, by intensifying the broadcasting of foreign programmes and by spreading fabrications through broadcasts by domestic media, the statement said.
SAINOVIC - OUR COUNTRY HAS DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic told Tanjug Monday that Yugoslavia, whose reconstruction is well underway, has fully developed personnel, expert and technical potential and the strength to carry out all development projects.
After the opening ceremony of the works on the Belgrade- Pancevo section of highway E 70, Sainovic pointed to the huge importance of the project for the entire road infrastructure of the country.
Besides priorities in the reconstruction of destroyed bridges, roads and the railroad, efforts are made for the realization of other vital projects, Sainovic said.
Although this section of the highway is not long it is of huge importance because it solves essential traffic problems on the ring road around Belgrade.
SPS COUNCIL PROTESTS CHILD RIGHTS ABUSE IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) main board council for the family and population decided Monday that the commission for the protection of human rights, the UN commission for protection of the rights of the child, all humanitarian organizations, should protest publicly the violation of Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija, especially of the rights of children.
Due to the perishing of children and their monstrous killing and burning in Kosovo and Metohija, the council sent a public protest to the commission for the protection of human rights, the UN commission for the protection of the rights of children and to humanitarian organizations.
The protest requires "for all children in Yugoslavia, particularly in Kosovo and Metohija, respect of the Convention on the rights of children and the right to life, equality, survival and development, the right to life in peace, equal for all without regard to religion, ethnicity or gender."
The SPS council warned that KFOR and UNMIK since their arrival to this date have not fulfilled their basic commitments from UN Resolution 1244, requiring the establishment of peace and protection for all, recalling that since the arrival of UN troops - Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies, Muslims, ethnic Egyptians, Goranies and a number of ethnic Albanians are being ruthlessly killed, persecuted and expelled.
Especially monstrous is the fact that not even children are spared from criminal attacks, the socialists said and added that the most monstrous crime was the burning of an eight-month baby, before the eyes of the protectors of the international order, and that no-one tried to save the child.
YUGOSLAVIA ASKS SECURITY COUNCIL TO HALT TERRORISM IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
Yugoslavia has demanded from the UN Security Council to take decisive measures to halt terrorism and vandalism being perpetrated in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo-Metohija by ethnic Albanian terrorists and separatists against Serbs and other non ethnic Albanians.
Head of Yugoslavia's permanent mission to the UN Vladislav Jovanovic has addressed the following letter to the SC President for October, Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov (official text) -
" Excellency,
"The mortar attack on Serbian civilians at the Kosovo Polje market on 28 September 1999 on which occasion 2 Serbian civilians were killed and 42 wounded, 7 of them seriously, is a terrorist act which exposes the charade behind the decision of the United Nations security and civil presence in Kosovo and Metohija, the autonomous province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia, to "demilitarise" and "transform" the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) into the Kosovo Protection Corps.
"This gruesome event which has not resulted in a massive massacre of innocent and defenceless Serbian civilians only through a very fortunate concourse of circumstances shows that the alleged completion of the demilitarisation of the KLA and its illegitimate transformation into the Kosovo Protection Force have put no brakes at all on KLA systematic terror against the Serbs, aimed at driving out their last remnants from this Serbian province.
"It also proves that, notwithstanding its alleged demilitarisation and transformation, the KLA continues to possess large quantities of heavy arms and that KFOR and UNMIK continue to turn a blind eye to, and, by extension, to encourage, the Albanian terrorists and separatists in their drive to create an ethnically pure Kosovo and Metohija, just as it fully vindicates the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in demanding that the Security Council take energetic measures to prevent the terror and vandalism of Albanian separatist terrorists against the Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija and, to that end, to ensure full personal and property security to all residents in Kosovo and Metohija, disarm the KLA and have those responsible for crimes against civilians apprehended and tried.
"In bringing this hideous crime to your Excellency's attention, I wish to reiterate the demand of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that the Security Council annul the decision of UNSC Special Representative Bernard Kouchner to "transform" the KLA into the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps and to proceed to effect an immediate abolishment of that mono-ethnic organization which threatens the multiethnic and multi-religious character of Kosovo and Metohija, one of the principal goals of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and relevant documents.
"I should be grateful if you would have the present letter circulated as a document of the Security Council.
"Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Vladislav Jovanovic, Charge d'affaires
YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS TO SECURITY COUNCIL AGAINST OPENING OF PRISTINA AIRPORT
Yugoslavia has protested to the UN Security Council against the unilateral and arbitrary decision of the UN civilian mission in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo- Metohija (UNMIK) to open the airport of the provincial capital Pristina for commercial flights.
Head of Yugoslavia's permanent mission to the UN Vladislav Jovanovic has addressed the following letter to the SC President, Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov (official text) -
"Excellency,
"I have been instructed by my Government to convey its great concern at the new unilateral and arbitrary decision of the United Nations civil presence in Kosovo and Metohija, the autonomous province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia, to open Pristina Airport for commercial flights.
"By taking that decision, UNMIK has violated the security system of civilian air traffic in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which, according to relevant ICAO rules and regulations, has the sole responsibility and rights in its undivided air space.
"The UNMIK decision constitutes a violation of the provisions of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and runs counter to Yugoslavia's ICAO membership rights and the rules and regulations of that Organization.
"At the meeting on normalization of air traffic in the Balkans held between 21 and 23 September 1999 under ICAO auspices, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia rendered a constructive contribution to the unanimous position taken on the question of normalization of air traffic in the region.
"In order to maintain and promote air traffic security all decisions of international organizations and their organs and bodies should be fully coordinated with the competent air traffic authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Accordingly, the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia expects that the UNMIK decision be revoked and that the question of the opening of Pristina Airport for commercial flights be resolved in cooperation with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the basis of the rules and regulations of the ICAO Convention, of which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is one of signatory parties.
"I should be grateful if you would have the present letter circulated as a document of the Security Council.
"Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Vladislav Jovanovic, Charge d'affaires.
SERBIAN MINISTER VISITS WATER SUPPLY CONSTRUCTION SITE IN NOVI SAD
Serbian Construction Minister Dejan Kovacevic visited Monday the construction site of a water supply system between Novi Sad, located on the left bank of the River Danube, and Petrovaradin, located on the river's right bank.
The system is to supply more than 50,000 Petrovaradin residents with drinking water.
The Hidroinvest Company based in Novi Sad, chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Vojvodina province, has drafted a project to this end and is also the main contractor.
According to Aleksandar Velicki, Hidroinvest's director, Petrovaradin will get water even before the deadline set on October 16.
Velicki said that 98 percent of the project had been completed and that a 650-metre-long pipeline had been placed on the Danube's bottom on Sunday afternoon after several minor mistakes had been dealt with.
Kovacevic, who was accompanied by his deputy Slobodan Pavlovic and provincial premier Bosko Perosevic, voiced on behalf of the Serbian government satisfaction with the fact that the system, which is of major importance to Vojvodina, has been practically completed. Pavlovic said that the Serbian government had earmarked nearly 20 million dinars for the system.
"As much as 625 million dinars has so far been invested in the resolution of infrastructure problems and the construction of bridges in Vojvodina," he said adding that solutions for the construction of Novi Sad's three Danube bridges were to be defined in the next few days.
Petrovaradin was left without water when NATO aircraft destroyed one of the bridges to which the main water supply pipe was linked.
KOUCHNER'S LEGISLATURE VOID OF ELEMENTARY LEGAL NORMS
The Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Provincial Board for Kosovo and Metohija on Monday strongly condemned the legislative practice established in the southern Serbian province by the UN civilian mission UNMIK, headed by Bernard Kouchner, which grossly violates the UN Charter and Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija.
Scores of Serbs have been detained in Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival of the international force and civilian mission, the committee said. The UNMIK is violating elementary legal norms with its legislature, denying the right to defense, and arresting Serbs and Montenegrins, even mentally retarded persons, without any evidence and acting only on anonymous reports from ethnic Albanians, the statement said.
The legislature established by UNMIK ruthlessly bypasses and ignores the constitutional and most relevant legal acts of Serbia and Yugoslavia, carving Kosovo and Metohija, without any grounds, arbitrarily and in putsch fashion, from their constitutional and legal systems, which is a full violation of the relevant Security Council resolution.
Such legislature is illegal and illegitimate, and the stemming decisions are invalid for Serbia and Yugoslavia, the committee said, concluding that UNMIK is yet again merely annulling and disqualifying itself.
KFOR, UN POLICE REMOVE BARRICADES AT KOSOVO POLJE
Strong troops of the UN peacekeeping force KFOR and UN police, backed by helicopters, tanks and armoured personnel carriers, entered at dawn on Tuesday Kosovo Polje and removed barricades on the Pristina-Pec route.
Embittered by the action by about 200 KFOR troops and UN policemen, barehanded Serbs, who had set up the barricades, blocked the route with their bodies chanting 'Serbia, Freedom' and urging KFOR to withdraw.
At 6 a.m. local time, the barricades were removed, while Serbs dispersed.
Strong KFOR and police forces are still controlling this section of Kosovo Polje, located near Pristina, chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, while two helicopters are flying over the town.
The incident has caused unrest among the local Serbs who are now uncertain how to exercise their right to remain in their ancestral lands.
ETHNIC ALBANIANS CAUSE SEVERAL INCIDENTS
The situation in Kosovo Polje is against tense on Monday, and ethnic Albanians caused a number of incidents last night and early today.
A group of ethnic Albanians beat up a Serb near the railway station that is still blocked by ethnic Albanians, who also control all access roads.
Several hundred Kosovo Albanians rallied this morning outside the Culture Hall and railway station, where they burned Serb and Yugoslav flags and abused the few non-Albanian passers by.
Ethnic Albanians also went on the rampage last night, stoning 16 houses in which Serbs live.
The offices of the Yugoslav Red Cross were broken into last night.
Serbs of this town in Serbia's southern Kosovo and Metohija province, as well as of Ugljar and Bresje, are still blocking the main road Pec-Pristina. They refuse to remove the barricades until their demands are met, or at least the one that the Sveti Sava School of Kosovo Polje be a Serb school.
Bakeries owned by ethnic Albanians no longer sell bread to Serbs.
EFFORTS GIVE RESULTS IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
The setting up and latest organization of the committee for cooperation with the UN civilian mission UNMIK and international force KFOR in Serbia's southern Kosovo and Metohija province give results which are not spectacular, but things are changing for the better, Serbian Minister Slobodan Tomovic said late Sunday.
Speaking on the local television station in the central Serbian town of Kragujevac, Tomovic said negotiations were the only way to resolve problems.
Explaining the work organization of the committee, which has three vice-presidents including Tomovic himself who is in charge of the economy, he said the worst-case scenario would be to abort negotiations, as that is precisely what ethnic Albanians want.
"It is very important also that as many Serbs as possible return to their homes, in spite of efforts by ethnic Albanians to intimidate them and force them out of Kosovo in the greatest possible numbers," Tomovic said.
SERB PHYSICIANS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA PROTEST WITH GARROD, KOUCHNER
Serb staff at the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica, which was placed under UN control on Aug. 21, sent Tuesday a letter of protest to chief UN administrator for the Kosovska Mitrovica district Martin Garrod and head of the UN civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) Bernard Kouchner.
In the letter, the Serb medical staff said that health care protection at the hospital had reached its lowest level when ethnic Albanian personnel that are not qualified for the work they are doing were employed there.
The letter also said that the security situation at the hospital was deteriorating and that seven attacks on Serb medical staff by ethnic Albanians had been registered over the past month alone.
"The hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica is the only hospital where Serbs are still members of hospital staff and where Serb patients can be treated. This is the reason why pressure exerted and attempts at cleansing our multiethnic institution of Serbs are so intense," it said.
"A hundred and fifty Serb doctors and medical technicians have been sacked from the outpatient clinic located in the southern section of Kosovska Mitrovica whence all Serb families have been expelled," it said.
"We shall allow ethnic Albanian physicians and other medical staff to enter the hospital once the Serb medical staff have been enabled unhindered access to the outpatient clinic in the southern section of Kosovska Mitrovica and once Serbs employed at the post and the baker's shop in this part of the town have been allowed to do their jobs," i said.
RUSSIA SAYS BOSNIA AFFECTED BY DISRESPECT OF RESOLUTION ON KOSOVO-METOHIJA
The disrespect of the Security Council resolution on Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province has a negative effect on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina too, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said meeting Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik Monday in Moscow.
Violations of the resolution diminish the effects of all endeavours exerted by the international community in Bosnia and the atmosphere prevailing lately around Kosovo-Metohija is making more difficult the already complex process of peaceful settlement of the situation in Bosnia, Ivanov said.
The situation in Bosnia can, however, improve through a strict abidance by all UN decisions and respect of Bosnia's territorial integrity, Ivanov said.
Dodik also met Monday the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, with whom he agreed to discuss bilateral cooperation in the coming two days.
Deputy Mayor Sergei Yastrzembski said the talks would focus on the export of Srpska agricultural produce to Russia and the participation of Srpska construction companies in projects in Moscow.
RUSSIA CHANGES SECURITY CONCEPT DUE TO BALKAN DEVELOPMENTS
Developments in the Balkans and the unprecedented growth of aggression of international terrorism inside Russia require changes in the concept of national security of the country, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
The changes of the concept were discussed Tuesday at a session of the Russian Security Council, when the prime minister said that the meeting was held under the directive of the head of state.
The existing concept of Russia's national security, Putin said, was formed in 1997 and has been in force to date, but that since then have occurred "developments in the Balkans" and the "revival of growing international terrorism in Russia itself."
E.U. DECIDES TO EXEMPT MONTENEGRO, KOSOVO AND METOHIJA FROM OIL BAN
Belgian media reported Tuesday on the European Union's decision to exempt the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro and the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province from an oil ban imposed on the country earlier in the year.
The controversial, politically-motivated decision was taken by E.U. justice and interior ministers in a meeting in Luxembourg late on Monday.
The decision was taken despite the fact that reasons, quoted by the European Union in order to have at least some pretext to impose sanctions on Yugoslavia, no longer exist. Namely, the sanctions, the oil ban included, were allegedly imposed over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Kosovo and Metohija.
After the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution on a peaceful settlement for Kosovo and Metohija and the reaching of a military-technical agreement on the deployment of a multi-national force to the province, in Kumanovo, Macedonia, it became evident to all that there was no reason whatsoever for the E.U. sanctions to remain in force, especially in the light of the fact that Yugoslavia has fully complied with all obligations assumed under the resolution and the agreement.
Under the decision, oil must on no account be delivered to Serbia from its province of Kosovo and Metohija or Montenegro, which will be strictly monitored by relevant E.U. bodies.
One of the conclusions adopted by the E.U. Council provides for oil deliveries from Montenegro and Kosovo and Metohija to other parts of Serbia exclusively for humanitarian needs and provided that there is strong evidence that such needs exist. The Council warned, however, that it would strictly control the developments in the area.
The E.U. ministers have shown in this way that they do not care whether the humanitarian problems facing Serbia will be resolved or not and that they directly interfere in a sovereign country's internal affairs.
The European Union's latest decision has proved its declarative support to Yugoslavia's unity to be false.
By imposing the sanctions, the European Union violated the UN Charter because decisions of this kind are within the jurisdiction of the United Nations.
Moreover, the grave economic situation in Yugoslavia has been triggered by NATO's March 24-June 10 aggression, which was not approved by the UN Security Council but was backed by the E.U. member states.
The ministers' decision not to lift sanctions against Serbia is yet another attempt on their part to justify the aggression on a sovereign state.
SAKIC SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON
Dinko Sakic, 77, a former commander of the WWII Ustashi concentration camp Jasenovac, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes against civilians by a Zagreb District Court on Monday.
The seven-judge panel thus ended the trial that began six months ago.
FILM ON NATO AGGRESSION OPENS IN SERBIAN CITY OF NIS
Yugoslav film director Dragoslav Lazic's film Ranjena Zemlja (Wounded Country) that tells a story about NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia and people in an air-raid shelter opened in Nis, south-eastern Serbia, late Monday.
After the special showing of the film for journalists, Lazic said that Goran Mihic had started writing the script for the film during NATO's March 24-June 10 bombing. He said that his intention had been to make a film that would be a tragicomedy while feelings caused by the aggression had been still fresh.
Lazic also said that he did not expect the film to be distributed in countries that took part in the 78-day-long bombing, saying that preparations were underway for the showing of the film in five major Greek cities, in Cyprus and very likely in China.
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FROM WEEK TO WEEK
For whom the Bells Toll
Aleksandar Djaja
When almost two years ago, at this same place, I suggested to the then (which means today) city government - to cancel the city transportation - I had not expected it would, that seriously and with such enthusiasm start doing the job. I must say that my arguments were merciless: a) the world medical studies have a long time ago concluded that the modern man walks very little which causes serious consequences for his health; b) the drivers of the City Transportation Company have the possibility often, with a threat of a strike, to get higher salaries, which at the same time, throws in despair other users of of the city budget: street washers, teachers, actors, librarians… c) the enormous sums of money allocated for CTC, patching up of the old buses, printing of the tickets nobody buys, expenses for the fuel, spare parts, taxes for importing of the dumped second hand buses from all over the world, etc., all those expenses definitely are higher than the sum that would be enough to buy a car for every Belgrade family! That is why I suggested for us to be the first in the world in something: to abolish the City Transportation and enable every family to buy its own car with the funds from the city budget!
As we can see today, the city transportation is practically abolished - but there is not a trace of the cars! The average Belgrade family not only had not been given a Yugo from the city strongbox, but those who owns a car cannot drive it, because there is no petrol.
But our simple and average religious citizen in this, or God forbid, worse situations, will be able to address the God - on many locations in the city! According to the information of a clergyman in a show on Studio B TV, in Belgrade, with a moral and financial help of the city government, there are as many as seventeen churches being built.
Haven't we gone a little too far? Is the Lord specially asking for so many of his "offices" on Earth, or would he maybe rather that we started building those angel virtues that we have recently, easily lost?
But, that is the way we are. Impulsive. We have not built a single church in fifty years and then, in the next five, we want to build all fifty of them. Although we know that every fifth can be finished and pictured. Or when, long ago, while "the boogey man of communism" (and today NATO) circled the Europe, we did not baptize our children, and now we do not baptize only the citizens that are to be retired - but also different public buildings!
So, as far as our theatres are concerned, everything is clear. The city with two million-population (with several dozens churches) has as much as three to seven theatres! And half of these numerous theatres are in the phase of life-long adaptation!
If you did not know (and you should know) there is a great musical theatre in our city, which is called Terazije Theatre. However, it is not, according to its name on Terazije, but has been wasted away in the home of culture "Vuk Karadzic". In this environment celebrated and awarded plays are performed, at the same time desperately trying to resist the flood of surrounding "private initiatives", which are conquering the building - fast food restaurants are opened one next to the other. The problem of this theatre, which is the only of the kind in the Balkans, whose original building on Terazije is deep down in carefully made draft plans of the life-long adaptation and reconstruction - was not been attempted to be solved by any previous city authorities, nor the present one. There are differences in the approach of course, but like the song says, … "the principle is the same, all else are the shades of gray".
So, what do we do in the end? How do we use the city transportation now that it has been cancelled to reach the theatres that mostly do not have the correct working conditions, taking a break by the numerous half-finished churches, praying to God to give us better future?
I do not know. However, I must admit, I have been seeing more and more those people with characteristic clothes, hair-cuts and make-up, in the limousines that have never heard of the shortage of fuel, and with heavy gold chains around their necks and even heavier golden crosses on them - it seems that they are not even a little bit concerned with the issue of city transportation, theatres and God…