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• The country has come a long way since the destruction of the 1990s, but there is still progress to be made
• A recently found skeleton may boost visitors - -
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Progress toward uneventful normality
On a warm spring day a few weeks ago, a knot of people shouted angry slogans and hoisted black and white banners at the entrance to Serbia’s grandiose parliament building.
Closer integration with the EU boosts growth
A line of cranes, towering 80 metres above the River Danube, incessantly swings loads of concrete, steel and other equipment into position at Serbia’s most impressive construction site.
Mammoth may draw numbers
In the twilight of her life, the lumbering beast wandered away from her herd on to marshy ground. Stuck, she started to sink. But rather than struggle, the elderly mammoth squatted down and died peacefully
Copper mill rolls out strong balance sheet
With grime coating the walls and bald patches on the football pitch, western Serbia’s remote metal town of Sevojno looked like a recession victim long before the global downturn.
Customer is king for soya bean company
Country folk driving horse-drawn carts are a common sight in Becej, a sleepy town of 26,000 souls 130km north of Belgrade on the Vojvodina plain. It may seem an unlikely location for cutting-edge Serbian commerce; yet that is exactly what Milenko Tica, head of exports at Sojaprotein.
Organised crime and narcotics: Strong measures win plaudits
One of Serbia’s biggest achievements of the past year took place nearly 9,000 kilometres from Belgrade
