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Destiny of Serbia Is In Our Hands
Dr Miodrag Stojković, a scientist, was in 2004 considered to number among the twelve most perspective scientists in the world. Today he is deputy director at the "Principe Felipe" Research Center in Valencia, Spain with a staff of scientists that numbers about three hundred people. Their task is to make stem cells available to patients as quickly as soon as possible in order to successfully treat heart conditions, diabetes, Parkinsons and Alzheimer’s diseases. (...)
A Man for All Time
The one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of great Serbian and world scientist Nikola Tesla was marked in Belgrade, throughout Serbia, in his native Smiljan, but also elsewhere in the world: in Graz, Niagara Falls… (...)
What Has a Leap Year Leapt Over?
Subotica is an amazing city. At one time it was considered to be the largest village in Europe and to me it seems rather strange that it had a population of one hundred thousand people in 1959, the year I came to Belgrade, and still has that same number today, while the number of Belgraders has increased from three hundred to two million in that same period! How has Subotica managed this? What is its secret? There are many answers to this question. My own answer is that it is a wonderful city for growing up, and when one grows up, then one can leave. (...)
Guardians of the Belgrade Cultural Heritage Treasury
"Everything may be but one thing: a great, wise and still spiritual people who build lasting works for the sake of divine love in order to make a country appear nicer and to enable men to have an easier and better life, may not vanish forever. If they disappear, that would mean that divine love would also fade and go out from the world". Ivo Andrić ("The Bridge on the Drina") (...)
All the Gold of Golden Mountain Zlatar
This is one of the most beautiful mountains of Serbia whose name embodies all the wealth it has to offer: dense evergreen forests, sweet-smelling meadows with white patches of sheep, a blend of Mediterranean and mountain climates, salubrious air enriched with ozone, stunning panoramas… (...)
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