BIRTHPLACE OF LETTERS, POETRY AND LAW

BIRTHPLACE OF LETTERS, POETRY AND LAW

REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Numerous civilizations shifted in the area of today’s Iraq, and the area between the Tigris and the Euphrates is considered the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of letters, poetry and law. It was first the...
MILAN RAKIC

MILAN RAKIC

SERBIAN DIPLOMATS Milan Rakic was born in 1876, right in the middle of Knez Mihailova Street, in a respectable Belgrade family. His father, Dimitrije Mita Rakic, was the Minister of Finance and the man who first translated Victor Hugo’s “Poor People”...
MIHAJLO IDVORSKI PUPIN

MIHAJLO IDVORSKI PUPIN

SERBIAN DIPLOMATS The story of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin reminds rather of a movie script than of a cruel and difficult struggle of a poor immigrant. He left everything he gained in his lifetime to Serbia and the Serbs. Apart from the fortune estimated at around 2...
LAND OF MIDNIGHT SUN AND A THOUSAND LAKES

LAND OF MIDNIGHT SUN AND A THOUSAND LAKES

THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND AND THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA The Republic of Finland, whose capital and largest city is Helsinki and its archipelago one of the most beautiful in the world, is also called the land of lakes and forests. Forests cover more than two thirds of of...