SESSION OF THE MANAGING BOARD OF THE EUROPEAN PROGRESS PROGRAM0

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• 25. February 2015.

Blace – The fourth meeting of the Managing Board of the European Progress Program will be held at 12.30 am on Friday, February 27, 2015. The meeting will take place on the premises of the Business School of Professional Studies in Blace. 

“ONE STEP FORWARD – ONE STEP CLOSER” PROJECT0

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• 24. February 2015.

Vranje – The "Nexus" NGO, in cooperation with the partner "Ofer" NGO from Bujanovac, launched the first phase of the project "One Step Forward – One Step Closer" by organizing educational workshops for the use of the "Forum" theater in Vrnjacka Spa.

“POR WERNER WEBER” COMPANY DONATED A CAMERA TO SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MEDVEDJA0

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• 24. February 2015.

Medvedja – Members of the photo club of the “Nikola Tesla” secondary technical secondary school in Medvedja received a “Nikon” camera as a gift. The camera was donated to them by the “Por Werner Weber” (PWW) company, which deals with garbage collection in the municipality of Medvedja.

16 AFGHAN NATIONALS DISCOVERED ON THE TRAIN0

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• 23. February 2015.

Presevo – In a joint operation of the police and customs officers at the Presevo railway station, 16 citizens of Afghanistan were prevented from illegally entering the Republic of Serbia.

“THE HEART MADE OF VELVET” WON THE FIRST PRIZE0

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• 23. February 2015.

Medvedja – Students of the “Radovan Kovacevic” elementary school in the mining village of Lece, near Medvedja, which is attended by 50 students, have been making the best short films for the past two years and winning in the Agency for Fight against Corruption’s competitions.  

All fifteen students of the schools’ seventh and eighth grade play in the film, which was shot by Sinisa Stankovic, the school’s informatics teacher.  Although these students make the best movies, they never had the opportunity to visit a larger cinema. 

While filming the winning film "The Heart Made of Velvet", they, like real actors, had to repeat  some scenes of the film for as many as ten times.    The story of young people in love, who at one point decided to break into the school, for which they were punished, thrilled the jury, which presented them with the first award for the second year in a row.  

In the competition of primary and secondary schools, "The Heart Made of Velvet" won 14.5 out of a maximum of 15 points.

In the 2013 competition of the Agency for Fight against Corruption, students from Lece also won the first prize with the film "The Surgery".  

PCINJ DISTRICT GETS A SAFE HOUSE ON MARCH 19, 20150

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• 20. February 2015.

Vranje – The first users of a safe house in Vranje, which will be regional in character, should move into it on March 19, 2015.  

SMUGGLED TOBACCO DETECTED IN TRAIN’S TOILET0

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• 20. February 2015.

Presevo – On the night between Wednesday and Thursday, customs officers at Presevo railway station prevented the smuggling of 30 kilos of cut tobacco belonging to an unknown person. 

ONE THOUSAND CARTONS OF CIGARETTES FOUND NEAR PRESEVO0

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• 19. February 2015.

Presevo – The police said that members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Vranje had found 1,000 cartons of cigarettes with excise stamps of the Republic of Macedonia. The cigarettes were found on February 17, in an abandoned tractor-trailer in the village of Norca, which is situated in the municipality of Presevo.

GERMAN FILM “LOST IN TRANSITION” SHOT IN SOUTH SERBIA0

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• 19. February 2015.

Vranje/Bujanovac/Bosilegrad – The first official trailer of the German documentary “Lost in Transition”, which was filmed in Vranje, Bujanovac, Bosilegrad and Belgrade last December, was posted on Vimeo. com website.

960 KILOGRAMS OF TOBACCO SEIZED0

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• 18. February 2015.

Bujanovac – Members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior in Vranje discovered and seized 960 kilograms of cut tobacco at a family house located in the Albanian village of Lucane near Bujanovac. 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR MILITARY SCHOOLS ANNOUNCED0

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• 18. February 2015.

The call for applications for the admission of students and cadets to military schools was announced on February 16 and it will run until March 31, 2015.  90 students will be enrolled in the Military Secondary School, 99 cadets in the Military Academy, while there are vacancies for 25 cadets at the Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy.  

ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO BUSINESSMEN IN SOUTH SERBIA0

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• 13. February 2015.

Zeljko Sertic,  Minister of the Economy, said in Bujanovac that the government, through various programs, would continue providing assistnce  to the underdeveloped municipalities in southern Serbia, which included the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, too.