Serbia

Coordinates: 44°N 21°E / 44°N 21°E / 44; 21

Serbia (i/ˈsɜːrbiə/, Serbian: Србија / Srbija, IPA: [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija), is a sovereign state situated at the crossroads between Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. Serbia is landlocked and borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro to the west; it also claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. The capital of Serbia, Belgrade, is one of the largest cities in Southeast Europe. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents.

Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans from the 6th century onwards, Serbs established several states in the early Middle Ages. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by Rome and Constantinople in 1217; it reached its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire territory of modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottoman Empire, at times interrupted by the Habsburgs. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and subsequent unification of Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, which had devastating effects for the region. As a result, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro in 1992, which broke apart in 2006, when Serbia again became an independent country. In 2008 the parliament of Kosovo, Serbia's southern province with an Albanian ethnic majority, declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.

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Goodbye Tito? Tomb at risk as Serbs argue over Yugoslav legacy

Atlantic News Telegraph 09 Oct 2024
Sapic insists Tito has to go if Serbia is to "move away from communism", and wants to turn his mausoleum into a museum of Serbian history ... Serbia's nationalist government later rehabilitated the Chetniks with a 2003 law giving the two movements equal status ... Tito's tomb is not the only symbol of the former Yugoslavia under threat in Serbia's capital....
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Serbia announces 1 GW solar, 400 MWh battery storage sites

PV Magazine 25 Sep 2024
According to the Association of Renewable Energy Sources of Serbia, the country has installed around 95 MW of solar ... Last April, Serbia switched on its ... Under the proposed changes to the Law on Energy, Serbia is looking to abolish net billing and net metering by the end of 2026....
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Wider Europe Briefing: In Kyiv, Sunshine Before The Storm

Radio Free Europe 24 Sep 2024
The Briefing. Kyiv In The Sunshine -- For Now At Least ... EU Enlargement Enthusiasm ... have arrived yet ... At the council on September 24, Europe ministers from the 27 member states will welcome their counterparts from the EU candidate countries Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia to discuss the state of the rule of law in their countries ... .......
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Limping Serbia Shoots Itself in the Foot: Refusal to Russia’s Invitation to the BRICS Conference

GlobalResearch 23 Sep 2024
Serbia’s leadership are lucky that international law does not prescribe liability for political malpractice ... Public opinion poll data confirm the existence of a deep discrepancy between the servile pro-European Union rhetoric of the ruling Serbian nomenklatura and the views of the ordinary citizens of Serbia....
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Serbian Mercenary: Russia's War In Ukraine Built On Lies And Death

Beijing News 23 Sep 2024
Participating in foreign wars is a crime that can carry an eight-year prison sentence since Serbia tightened its laws in 2015, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's public warnings against it have stiffened since early 2022 ... The average monthly salary at the time in Serbia was around $808....
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Big opportunities ahead for Serbia economy, but also obstacles

CyprusMail 22 Sep 2024
Yugoslavia was formed after the end of the first World War, by the union of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia ... Furthermore, the rule of law in Serbia is, according to observers, subject to political interference, corruption and bureaucracy, while the country is characterised by a lack of structural reforms....
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Inside the sinister world of hired guns, the targets billionaires pay them to

The Daily Mail 22 Sep 2024
a lead member of a group that finances Houthi militants in Yemen, but who is at that time living in the relative safety of Belgrade, Serbia.Read More ... But Serbia has a weak and corrupt law enforcement system, making it easier to get out of the place in a pinch ... 'You must immediately leave Serbia, as your visa has expired.'....

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