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Armenia Serbia tonight at 8:00 p.m. in Yerevan for qualifying for Euro 2016

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arton104121-448x281Tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Republican Yerevan (18 pm in Paris) stadium, the national team of Armenia will face Serbia on behalf of the Euro 2016 qualifying football. After his defeat (1-2) against Denmark, the Armenian team coach Bernard Challandes Swiss, deprived of its top four players injured Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Yura Movsissian Araz Özbiliz Kevork Ghazarian- is greatly diminished. Only a feat or a misstep Serbia could still give the advantage to Armenia tonight. Armenia who will face Tuesday, October 14 in Yerevan (18 pm in Paris), the team of France (match live broadcast on TF1).

Krikor Amirzayan

Armenia FM to travel to Serbia

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FM-To-SerbiaYEREVAN. – At the invitation of Ivica Dačić, the First Deputy Prime Minister  and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will pay an official visit to Serbia on Thursday.

In the Serbian capital city of Belgrade, Nalbandian is scheduled to meet with senior representatives of the legislative and executive authorities of Serbia, and the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, informed the Armenia MFA press service.

shocking news from Serbia, they will teach Turkish in there schools after what Turkey did to Serbia?

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It is unbelievable what serbian Government is doing, it was the Turkish government who train the KLA Kosovo liberation terrorist organization  and created atrocity in Kosovo, Bosnia And led to NATO destroying Serbia.

Now Anadolu Agency reporting,

turkish-studentThe Association of Turks in Serbia has launched an initiative to introduce the Turkish language as an elective subject, starting in the country’s elementary schools’ fifth grade classes.

Ali Sahovic, the president of the association, said there was a huge level of interest, primarily in the Novi Pazar region in southwest Serbia and the surrounding municipalities. Sahovic added that his association had held discussions with members and directors of a number of schools already.

The Association of Turks in Serbia is headquartered in Novi Pazar, a city in the Raska district, which is the cultural center of the Bosniaks in Serbia’s historical region of Sandzak. Sahovic said the association would also launch the initiative in other parts of Serbia.

“The town of Tutin in the Raska district is an example of where this initiative has already been implemented, and this will trigger the Turkish language’s becoming an elective subject in schools,” he said.

The association is conducting a survey with students and parents. If a sufficient number of students show interest, the schools’ directorates will notify the Ministry of Education on the need for the Turkish language to be offered as an elective subject.

In Serbia, elementary school is divided into two stages: lower grades (grades 1-4), and higher grades (grades 5-8). Starting from lower grade 1, it is compulsory for children to learn English as a foreign language.

Floods have united the people of the Balkans

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Catastrophe has again struck the former Yugoslavia – but this time we are not killing each other but helping each other

Andrej Nikolaidis
theguardian.com,

Volunteers and police officers pass sandFloods have united the people of the Balkans

Catastrophe has again struck the former Yugoslavia – but this time we are not killing each other but helping each other
Link to video: Floods in Serbia and Croatia cause mass evacuation The floods came like a thief in the night, just as the Red Death did in Edgar Allan Poe’s story. They hit hard, as if their aim was to establish an “illimitable dominion over all”. The flooded territory in the former Yugoslavia is currently larger than the state of Israel, Kuwait or EU member state Slovenia. The part of Bosnia underwater is the size of Montenegro. There, one million people are affected by the floods.

The water has claimed its reign over Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and smaller parts of Croatia. The map of flooded territory brings back bad memories: it is reminiscent of the war maps of the three major actors in the Yugoslav conflict of the 90s. Trouble never comes alone, says a Bosnian proverb. What escaped from the flames of war is now taken away by water. TV footage from Bosnia shows a man sitting in a small boat silently watching his new house – built on the foundations of one burned down in the war – collapsing and sinking.

There are dozens of dead and counting. The apocalyptic landscapes are like scenes that didn’t make the final cut of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah.

However, if there is something that brings hope, it is the rediscovered solidarity of the people of the former Yugoslavia.

Volunteers and police officers pass sandbags to reinforce the bank of the river Sava near Sabac, west of Belgrade. Photograph: Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Images

The government of Montenegro, for instance, on Friday offered “all possible help” for flood-hit areas. This included cheap electricity for Serbia and the assistance of the Montenegrin army and police rescue, diving and medical teams and hundreds of volunteers. Thousands of citizens of Montenegro have donated money and essential supplies. Lots of Montenegrin companies, even banks, have sent money to Serbia and Bosnia. Two decades ago, “volunteers” from Montenegro were coming to Bosnia to bomb Sarajevo and Montenegrin armed forces fought Bosnians in Mostar and surrounding areas.

Macedonia has sent help too, and even the minister of the security force of Kosovo, Agim Ceku, declared that “ignoring the relations between the two countries and the fact that these countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia) have not recognised us, we’re ready to intervene when it comes to human lives”.

On the other hand, the Serbian Orthodox Church took care that the necessary dose of Balkan madness in the otherwise too-good-to-be-true-story was provided. The head of the church in Montenegro, Metropolitan Amfilohije, felt that the occasion of a great natural disaster was the perfect moment to attack the LGBT population. He said that by sending the floods on them, God was punishing his people for Conchita Wurst, Eurovision and the upcoming gay pride marches in Belgrade and Podgorica.

In Tito’s Yugoslavia, a high level of solidarity was a political priority, according to its ideology based on the Louis Blanc slogan, adopted by Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Montenegro was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1979. During the next decade it received $4-5bn in aid from other former Yugoslav republics.

Yugoslav solidarity worked just fine for 45 years. Then the fairytale slid into another genre and ended with solidarity being eaten alive by the beast of nationalism. Wars have cleared the path for our crony capitalism with its ideology of social Darwinism: those in need were treated like social parasites and a barrier on the path of “dynamic development” of Balkan states.

Now catastrophe in the former Yugoslavia is in the headlines once again. But this time, we are not killing each other.

We are helping each other instead.

The people of the former Yugoslavia haven’t had much to cheer about in the past quarter of a century. The fact that through the bloodshed of civil wars and the rise of “wild east” capitalism they somehow preserved a sense of solidarity is one of those small triumphs that provides you with the strength to keep swimming when you’re about to sink.

BBC: Bosnia and Serbia floods: Death toll rises (Video)

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Serbia needs rescue teams, saving lives priority
Source: RTS, Tanjug

BELGRADE — Ivica Dačić has said that Serbia now above all needs assistance in equipment, along with rescue teams to save the affected towns and their residents.
More than two dozen people are feared dead in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia after the worst floods in more than a century.

_74930939_022274649-1Tens of thousands have fled their homes as several months of rain fell in a few days and rivers burst their banks. Landslides have buried houses.

In one Bosnian town alone, Doboj, the mayor said more than 20 bodies had been taken to the mortuary.

In Serbia, an outer suburb of the capital Belgrade has been inundated.
Tsunami-like

“More than 20 corpses have so far been brought to the city’s morgue,” the mayor of Doboj, in the north-east, was quoted as saying.

The republic’s police chief, Gojko Vasic, said the situation had been particularly difficult in Doboj “because the flood waters acted as a tsunami, three to four metres high. No-one could have resisted.”

Serbia: State of emergency declared due to flooding

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Source: Tanjug

BELGRADE — The Serbian government on Thursday decided to declare a state of emergency in the entire territory of the republic.

21158889215374a9520a13b212843108_v4bigThe government sent a letter to the Russian government, the European Commission and the Slovenian government asking for humanitarian and technical help to address the consequences of floods, it was stated after the government’s session.

The government ordered the Directorate for Commodity Reserves to deliver to the most affected areas a thousand tons of commercial corn needed as feed.

The state of emergency in the territory of entire Serbia was declared on the request of the National Emergency Situations Headquarters, which earlier on Thursday conferred to discuss the heavy rainfall and floods.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić announced on Thursday morning that a state of emergency would be declared as he chaired a meeting of the Emergency Situations HQ, and said its goal was to allow all available resources to be deployed to mitigate the consequences of the flooding.

“This is the biggest disaster that can be remembered in the history of Serbia,” he was quoted as saying, and adding that “nobody can defeat water and fire and that is why it is paramount to save lives.”

Vučić once again appealed on citizens to comply with instructions given by competent state bodies in the flooded areas, and ordered engineering and other units of the Serbian Army (VSS) to be engaged in the rescue and assistance efforts in Mačva, Kolubara, and Morava districts.

Vučić said that the situation in some particularly vulnerable municipalities was “kept under control” but that it was necessary to send army and police units to the three districts.

“I am appealing on people to listen, you cannot beat nature, and when you don’t listen to rescuers you risk your own and their lives,” said the prime minister.

He noted that more than four-month average amount of rain fell yesterday and today in Valjevo, Čačak, Loznica, and Ub in western and central Serbia.

Justice Minister Nikola Selaković informed the meeting of the particularly difficult situation in the prison in Valjevo, where the ground floor had to be evacuated, with some inmates transferred during the night to Belgrade.

Vučić congratulated all members of the MUP and the Army on their performance in the rescue efforts during the night.