Archive for April, 2008

Picasso Sketches’ Exhibition Opens in Dubrovnik

Zagreb, April 30 (CP) – Dubrovnik’s Sebastijan gallery is hosting an exhibition by Pablo Picasso entitled Sketches on paper for the Guernica from the Prado Museum Collection from Madrid.
Exhibited are lithographs of some of the sketches the artist had made when preparing Guernica.
The exhibition was opened on Wednesday evening in the organisation of the Spanish […]

Serb Entrepreneur Mitrovic Acquires Several Local TV Stations in Croatia

Zagreb, April 30 (CP) – Serb businessman Zeljko Mitrovic, the owner of the TV Pink station has confirmed to the Belgrade TANJUG news agency he had expanded his business to Croatia by purchasing several local TV stations.
Mitrovic confirmed TV Pink would take off in Croatia once he joins the network of nine local TVs, some […]

Two War Crimes Indictees Extradited to Croatia

Zagreb, April 30 (CP) – The Foreign Ministry has announced that the Greek authorities had extradited to Croatia Ernest Radjen and Dusan Maslovar, who have both been indicted for war crimes by the Croatian judiciary.
The Justice Ministry has put in a request for the extradition of Maslovar in July 2006 and of Radjen in October […]

Croatian Foreign Ministry Provides Documents Proving Croatia Did Not Make a Mistake as Claimed by Slovene Foreign Minister

Zagreb, April 30 (CP) — The Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic had denied claims by his Slovene colleague Dimitrij Rupel that official Zagreb had conned the public saying that in August of last year, during a meeting of two PMs Ivo Sanader and Janez Jansa, an agreement had been reached on the arbitration of the International […]

Renowned Croatian Artist Arsen Dedic Plays the Vatroslav Lisinski Hall Tonight

Zagreb, April 29 (CP) — Croatian signer/songwriter and poet Arsen Dedic will be playing the Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall at 7:30 tonight, marking 50 years of his career.
His guests will include the Zagreb Philharmonic conducted by Pavle Despalj and Josip Cvitanovic.
Dedic’s film and TV series music, as well as many of his songs will be […]

Croatian Secondary School Pupils Manage To Stave off Introduction of New Final Exam for a Year

Zagreb, April 29 (CP) — Speaking for Croatian Television last night, Education Minister Dragan Primorac, said that the introduction of a national level final exam for graduating secondary school students would be postponed until next year.
Primorac said that a lack of information regarding the exam had prompted students protests, and that this problem would be […]

Croatian Midfielder Luka Modric Formally Signs for Tottenham

Zagreb, April 29 (CP) — Croatian international midfielder Luka Modric of Dinamo, Zagreb has formally signed a transfer contract with Tottenham Hotspur football club in line with an agreement reached with Dinamo Zagreb and Luka Modric, for a total consideration of 21 million euro payable in instalments over the next four years.
The player’s contract is […]

Croatian and Slovene PMs To Meet on Wednesday at Bregana

Zagreb, April 29 (CP) – Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and his Slovene counterpart Janez Jansa, agreed on Tuesday to hold a meeting at the Bregana border crossing on Wednesday, as a sign of support for the Croat-Slovene initiative “Trade unions without borders”.
The two also agreed that the border regime between the two countries would […]

Dubrovnik-based Adriastar Company Takes over Management of Two Montenegrin Hotels

Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – The Dubrovnik-based Adriastar company has taken over management of two Montenegrin hotels in Kolasin: the Bjanka and Lipa hotels.
Adriastar has signed a contract on managing the hotels and organising the training of staff, the sale of the hotels’ capacities and promotion.
Adriastar has already signed a similar contract with the Queen […]

A Section of Central Zagreb House Facade Falls off; No One Injured

Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – A section of a facade on an old building in the center of Zagreb fell onto the roof of a nearby house, damaging it, but luckily no one was injured in the incident.
The emergency services hurried to the scene and a construction firm is now making the facade safe.
Zagreb has […]

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