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FESTIVAL SERBIA IN THE RHYTHM OF EUROPE NEXT YEAR IN NIS

 

Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic, and the Member of Nis City Council for Education, Bojan Krstic, welcomed at Nis City Hall the team from Nis who took part for the first time in the Festival Serbia in the Rhythm of Europe held in Sombor and they returned as the winning team.

The Member of the City Council Bojan Krstić, who was a member of the jury at this competition and traveled with competitors to Sombor, said that this was a special experience and that the young people from Nis, who performed singing in Turkish and representing Turkey, were the best according to the jury and the votes of the audience. Sanja Krstić, the participant in the competition, said that it was a great honor for them to participate in this event and represent their city. She pointed out that she was particularly happy that they returned from the first competition as first ranked.

Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic congratulated the children, but also their parents, and once again thanked the former Ambassador of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Bozaj, who suggested that children from Nis should represent Turkey at this competition. He thanked the media representatives for their support and all Nis citizens who voted for  the team from Nis.




AWARDS FOR BEST STUDENTS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS

 

The students who won one of the first three places in national and international competitions in 2016/2017 school year, as a team or individually, were awarded city recognition awards. This year, 297 students won prestigious awards and showed that the City of Nis could be proud of its future generations. According to the Member of Nis City Council for Education Bojan Krstic, who addressed the audience on the behalf of the City of Nis, this award was an incentive for further work and progress, and the City of Nis would always be there to recognize hard work and talent.




80 YEARS OF MONUMENTS DEDICATED TO LIBERATORS OF NIS

 

The monument dedicated to the liberators is located at the central location of the city, King Milan Square. It presents the period of wars for liberation waged against the Turks, Bulgarians, and Germans. The monument contains inscriptions on the four most significant years of this period: 1874 and 1877 – the period of the fight for liberation from the Turks, and 1915 and 1918 – the beginning of the occupation and the liberation of the city in World War One. The monument is made of black marble and has a broad base with four reliefs, a bronze sculpture and a high pedestal whose lower part exhibits figural compositions of soldiers fighting. At the top of the monument there is a natural size horse rider – the Herald of Liberty, holding a flag. The monument was presented to the public on 28 June 1937, on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nis from the Turks. This monumental sculpture is one of the most significant creations of more modern Yugoslav art, made by the well-known sculptor from Zagreb, Croatia, Antun Augustincic. In 1983 it became protected by the law as part of the national heritage.




NETWORKING TO IMPROVE THE POSITION OF LGBT PEOPLE IN SERBIA

 

This year, for the first time in Nis, Nis Pride Week is organized, and it would last from June 27th to July 2nd. The idea is to promote a culture of dialogue and tolerance, affecting the reduction of discrimination and homophobia, and increasing the visibility of the problems that the LGBT community encounters daily. Within the Pride Week the conference was held on the topic “Networking to Improve the Position of LGBT Persons in Serbia” during which the activists of  human rights organizations and representatives of relevant institutions discussed ways to overcome discrimination against people in terms of sexual orientation.

The Assistant Mayor Prof dr Nebojsa Randjelovic spoke on the behalf of the City of Nis at the conference and he said that the City of Nis, through the local network for fighting against discrimination of the LGBT population, together with other institutions, was actively involved in the fight against homophobic and discriminatory actions by individuals or groups. “For us, this is not just our wish to follow the world trends when the LGBT population is in question, but we want to engage in dialogue and involve all relevant institutions at the local level and, in practice, win against the discrimination that violates the basic rights of citizens”,  as Assistant Mayor Randjelovic said.




AMBASSADOR OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION ALEKSANDAR VASILJEVIC CHEPURIN IN NIS

 

Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic and his associates met with H.E. Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Serbia Alexander Vasilevich Chepurin and talked about continuing and fostering traditionally good friendly relations with the Russian people, as well as cooperation between the City of Nis and the Russian City of Kaluga. The Mayor stressed on this occasion that the meeting with the Russian ambassador was the chance to present to him the projects that the city was implementing with the support of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. The Mayor and His Excellency agreed that the Nis Airport Constantine the Great was excellent connection between Kaluga and Nis, which would be twinned in several months, and that there was a great opportunity for establishing charter flights between the two cities. The two officials attended the ceremonial opening of the premises of the Society of Serbian-Russian Friendship Naisus and the First International Festival of Traditional Russian Drinks which was organized at Officers’s Mess Building in Nis.




STUDENTS OF NIS FACULTY OF ECONOMICS IN THE FINALS OF THE PRESTIGIOUS COMPETITION

 

Nis City Deputy Mayor Milos Prof. Banđur met with the Dean of the Faculty of Economics in Nis Prof. Jadranka Djurovic Todorovic together with a team of students from the faculty, who won first place in the regional finals of one of the most important and largest global student competition – Loreal Brendstorm.  The meeting was also attended by the Head of the Youth Office Stevan Zivkovic and the Secretary of the City of Nis Assembly Ruzica Djordjevic.

Aleksandar Djordjevic, Novak Stamenkovic and Jelena Todorović make the team called Stilistiko who will, along with colleagues from Croatia, present their innovative projects in the world finals in Paris. With the aim to attract as many young innovators from different fields, Loreal Brendstorm has prepared two competition categories: BRAND CHALLENGE – for students of economics, marketing and communication, the winner of which was the team from Nis and technological challenge for future engineers, and students of the faculties of technical sciences, the winner of which was team GRUM from Croatia.

The deputy mayor gave as the present the laptops to the students and wished them every success in the finals of this competition.




INCREASED NUMBER OF TOURISTS IN FIRST QUARTER OF THIS YEAR BY 39%

 

In the first quarter of this year (January-April), there was an increase in the number of tourists in Nis by 39 % compared to the same period last year, of which as much as 50 %more are foreign tourists, while the number of domestic tourists increased by 31 %.

The total number of overnight stays for the same period this year increased by 22%. Of these, the number of overnight stays of foreigners increased by 35 %, while the number of domestic tourists staying overnight increased by 12%

The continuation of the positive trend is expected as well as the increase in numbers of those who see Nis as an interesting destination. In the coming period the promotion of Nis as a tourist destination will be continued at the Days of Serbia in Timisoara, and then within the My Serbia Campaign during June and July, and at the Days of Serbia to be held in Thessaloniki on July 12th.

During June Tourist Organization of Nis together with the Airline Ryanair will implement a joint campaign via the company’s website for a period of three weeks and in the countries where the company has direct flights from the Nis airport and thus trying to attract even more tourists to Nis.




FIFTH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SPIRITUAL MUSIC – MUSIC EDICT

Before a packed Saint Sava Hall the Fifth International Festival of Spiritual – Music Edict began. At the opening night two local host choirs performed together with the guest choirs from Slovenia and Russia. Slovenian mixed choir came from Jevnica, while Russian student choir of the Conservatory in Moscow received all the sympathy of the audience when they opened their performance with Serbian national anthem.

The festival was opened by the Mayor of Nis, Darko Bulatović, welcoming the guests to one of the oldest Serbian cities, the imperial city of Emperor Constantine to whom not only Christianity, but also the whole civilization owed a lot because of his work.




RECEPTION FOR THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE SYMPOSIUM NIS AND BYZANTIUM

 

Nis City Council Member Mrs. Jelena Mitrovski met today with the participants of the scientific conference Nis and Byzantium which, on the occasion of the city festivity days celebrating city patron St. Emperor Constantine and St. Empress Helen, was held in Nis.
It is a prestigious scientific conference which has been organized in our city for 16 years, and, which brings together world-renowned scholars studying Byzantine period. This year’s scientific symposium Nis and Byzantium was the central Serbian scientific conference dedicated to the most important event in the history of Serbian statehood , i.e., the 800th anniversary of the First Serbian Kingdom and the coronation of Stefan the First Crowned. It is a great tribute to the efforts of the organizers to keep this conference going for so many years and to be a good host and preserve initial scientific and organizational level.

 

According to Nis City Council Member Mrs. Jelena Mitrovski the goal was set 16 years before to set the profile of the symposium Nis and Byzantium profiled as a respectable international congresses Byzantium studying scholars, after which the City of Nis would be recognized outside our country. She thanked the participants and invited them to come and take part in this prestigious scientific meeting again.




CITY OF NIS CELEBRATES THE DAYS OF ITS PATRON SAINT DAYS

 

“I congratulate from the bottom of my heart to all the citizens of Nis the days of our city patrons – St. Emperor Constantine and St. Empress Helen with the wish for our city to be, in the years which ate ahead of us, the driving engine of the progress in the South of Serbia, and that every following year, we celebrate these days in good health happiness and prosperity. In line with our rich tradition and values ​​on which it is based, our efforts are directed towards improving the quality of life of our citizens. To make the most of the opportunities that are before us, we need unity and cooperation. With the desire to implement positive economic and cultural projects in the years ahead, once again I extend my congratulations on this occasion, “as Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovi said in his speech.

Previously, in the church of St. Emperor Constantine and St. Empress Helen, His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Nis, presented to the Mayor the labarum with the monogram of Christ, which symbolically marked the beginning of the celebration of the city festivity days.