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“Bombed by NATO on 3rd, 26th and 29th May, 1999. I’d seen a photograph of this building, and received instructions of where is was - Mišeluk - and how to get there. Something along the lines of ‘leave the bus station, keep walking, walk more, cross the Danube (don’t fall in), go through the road-tunnel (don’t get run over), take the slip-road on the right, follow it around the hill….’ and there it was in the distance. The NATO strikes on Novi Sad from the end of March to early July were prolific. Electrical installations, military objects, water supplies, refineries. A suburban, residential areas.
After crossing a few more eerily quiet over and under-passes to get there I arrive at the gate house. I’d been instructed to locate the guard to seek permission to enter. Three dogs where in the kennel at the ramshackle gate house building. A few bits of timber and what looked like a television set fake balustrade made up the gate itself. The dogs were as curious as I was wary. I didn’t anticipate Serbian dogs being any less aggressive than Moldovan ones, so I proceeded toward the gate house with caution. It looked empty and the dogs were sizing me up. No growls yet, but I did begin to notice that of the three dogs one was lame, the other blind and the third seemed somewhat dazed. Not wanting to cross the line at which their territory begins I shouted ‘zdravo’ (hello) to see if the guard was around. Nothing. More ‘zdravo’, more volume. After five minutes or so an old-ish man came out and on sight of my camera he happily let me in. He could see I was wary of the dogs, but he dismissed them and laughed.”
Television Novi Sad by Ross McRoss, March 2011
fved:
On June 21, Goran Divac created this caricature of Edvard Munch’s The Scream for Serbian newspaper Večernje Novosti, in response to the country’s increasing food prices.
