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In the Mosaics of Belgrade’s Views
Painter, writer and essayist Mileta Prodanović has for nearly three decades been doing battle with his own expression, using the forthright eye of an artist, against a warped system of societal values, revealing to us the sights of a city in transition, in the windswept places of actual events. (...)
Public Celebration of Christmas
This is a story about the long history of Serbian tradition connected with the hearth that became a public celebration first under the auspices of the state, and then more than a half century later, under the auspices of the church. (...)
Boundless Trust in Life
The reason why renowned Russian sinologist Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Malyavin was recently a guest of Belgrade was twofold: to attend the Belgrade Faculty of Philology conference on China, and to promote the Serbian edition of his book China: History, Culture, Religion, issued by NNK Internacional publishers. (...)
Chilandar’s Treasure
A representative exhibition of our cultural legacy titled "Treasuries of the Chilandar Monastery" is open at Belgrade’s Applied Arts Museum from early November 2008 to mid-January 2009. The exhibition and the two-volume bilingual catalogue are the product of a several-decade effort by the museum’s experts, headed by Dušan Milovanović, who curated the exhibition. (...)
Moscow – Russia’s Undying Pride
The ancient Ipatiev Chronicle from 1147 recorded a meeting between the Suzdal Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy and Novgorod Prince Svyatoslav Olegovich at the border point of the Russian steppe. It was there, where the Moscow River meanders around a hill, offering a view of the endless Russian steppe, that Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy laid the foundation stone for the new Russian capital city - Moscow. (...)
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