Early in the morning on the 24th March 1914 two trains arrived at the Railway station in #Belgrade carrying the first generation of recruits from the newly liberated regions, Old #Serbia and Southern Serbia. After the official reception, the recruits headed via central city streets towards the barracks in the Upper Town of Kalemegdan Fortress.
Courtesy of the #Museum of the Revolution of the Peoples of #Yugoslavia, inventory numbers: 6331, 6339, 6343, 6359 and 6360. The #photos were bought from Vojin Đorđević from #Belgrade on 26.01.1965.
After the capture of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, the #medieval#Smederevo#Fortress was designated as the storehouse for the captured equipment, ammunition, weapons and petrol of the Royal Yugoslav Army, which was to be used in the attack on the USSR. 🔽
#Trump’s son-in-law said he was close to finalizing real estate projects in the two #Balkan nations, an example of the Trump family’s pursuit of deals abroad as the former president seeks the White House.
#Kushner, who was a snr WH ofcl, said he had been working on the deals w/ #RichardGrenell, who served briefly as acting director of national #intelligence under #Trump & also as ambassador to Germany & special envoy to the Balkans.
One of the proposed projects would be the development of an island off the coast of #Albania into a luxury tourist destination.
A 2nd — w/a planned luxury hotel & 1,500 residential units & a museum — is in #Belgrade, the capital of #Serbia….
Another photo from the Portra 800 roll of 2023. I remember the moment I took it: the sun was going down, I wanted to finish the roll and just shot random stuff around me.
I’ve been #cycling in lots of cities … here’s a thread of some of my favourite urban bike corridors. Hopefully #biketooter can add any that I missed so I can plan some future trips!
A reddit-compiled map of likely electoral fraud in #Belgrade#Serbia, from public data gathered by the Istinomer portal. Each of the 11 000 instances is a single residence/dwelling with 20 or more voters registered at the same address. Some are pizzerias with over 100 voters registered! Pre-election polls showed ruling populist party heavily losing the capital.
"Serbian police said Monday they detained at least 38 people who took part in a protest against reported widespread irregularities during a recent general ballot that declared the governing populists as winners of parliamentary and local elections.
Opposition group #Serbia Against Violence has been staging protests since the Dec 17 #elections, saying there was election fraud, particularly in the capital, #Belgrade. Some opposition politicians went on hunger strike" #News https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-serbia-detain-40-people-opposition-plans-protests-105907197