While some of the foreign embassies were being set on fire in Belgrade in protest to the unilateral proclamation of independence of Kosovo, Serbian embassies in Belgium and Russia were having diplomatic activities of a different kind – and Serbian bloggers took interest in them.
[…] Today I've read in Kurir the contents of a protest note by the Serbian embassy in Moscow, which, on recommendation by foreign minister Vuk Jeremic, was sent to […] the national television and its editor instead of Russia's government.
“Belgrade – yesterday, on request of foreign minister Vuk Jeremic, the Serbian embassy in Russia sent a protest note to the editor of national television “Russia” because of the insulting statements by one of its news hosts, announced Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It says in this protest note that the actions of journalist Konstantin Syomin, who had insulted Zoran Dindic and justified his assassination, are absolutely unacceptable for Serbia.
The note also expressed disappointment because of the comment on the Russian national television, especially at the moment when Serbia was facing the problem with the sovereignty over Kosovo. Serbian embassy demands that “Russia” TV Channel publicly dissociate itself from journalist Syomin and familiarize the Russian public with the contents of the protest note.”[…]
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Here's what happened in Belgium yesterday:
“The Flemish television (VTA) should send an apology to the Serbian embassy because of the way of it portrayed Serbs in a program about the Eurovision [Song Contest].”
This TV station broadcast two make-belief characters, two Serbian girls named Mirjana and Milena, who were drinking vodka, smoking, looting mobile phones, then hiding them under fur caps. This program provoked protest of Serbian residents in Belgium and an official protest of the Serbian embassy.
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