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August 22, 2022 - The trend that saw continuous growth before the pandemic, river cruises, seems to be coming back in style. From this year, all Croatian river tourism piers will welcome guests with a uniform visual identity. As SiB writes, from this summer going forward, Croatian river piers will have a common visual identity. A logo, six identical masts, and seven flags were created for the Danube ports of Aljmaš, Batina, Vukovar and Ilok, the Drava port in Osijek, and the Sava ports in Slavonski Brod and Sisak. The project is worth slightly less than HRK 92,000 and was…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić has strongly dismissed statements linking Serbia's indictment against four Croatian Air Force pilots, charged with ordering the shelling of a Serb refugee column in 1995, with Serbia's EU entry talks, with attorneys for the survivors announcing more criminal reports. The Belgrade Appeals Court has upheld the High Court's decision which upheld an indictment by the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office against Croatian Air Force pilots Vladimir Mikac, Zdenko Radulj, Željko Jelenić, and Danijel Borović. They are charged with having ordered, on 7 and 8 August 1995, the shelling of Serb refugee columns…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 -  A new cultural and tourist attraction "Sit&Meet – Path of Croatian Greats" has enriched downtown Zagreb with sculptures of 13 of the most significant and popular Croatian greats, created by prominent Croatian and foreign sculptors, the project's organisers said on Monday. Thirteen interactive sculptures of Faust Vrančić, Slavoljub Penkala, Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Nikola Tesla, Marko Polo, Ivan Meštrović, Ruđer Bošković, Dražen Petrović, Marin Getaldić, Milka Trnina, Ivan Vučetić, Andrija Mohorovičić and Josip Belušić are exhibited around downtown Zagreb. Those interested can learn about the lives and works of those mentioned inventors, scientists political leaders, artists, and athletes on a guided short…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - The government adopted a new decree on Monday on capping retail prices of petroleum products and, as of Tuesday, a litre of petrol will remain at HRK 11.19 per litre while the price of a litre of diesel HRK will go up by HRK 0.23 to HRK 12.35, and the price of a litre of blue-dyed diesel will remain HRK 8.49. Thus, diesel prices will go up, and the prices of petrol and blue-dyed diesel will be unchanged in the next seven days. The latest calculation will be in force for the next seven days and…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - Croatia's long-distance swimmer Dina Levačić swam the North Channel on Sunday, becoming thus the first Croat to swim this 34-kilometre-wide strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland. It took 10 hours, 26 minutes and 58 seconds for this 26-year-old girl from Split to conquer this channel, and she is the 104th person and 43rd woman to complete this adventure. In June this year, she swam the Strait of Gibraltar. So far, she has completed six of the Oceans Seven swims. Oceans Seven The Oceans Seven is a marathon swimming challenge consisting of seven open water channel swims. It was proposed in…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - There were 1.63 million employed citizens in Croatia in July, which was 1.6% more year-on-year and 1.1% more month-on-month, the national statistical office (DZS) reported on Monday. According to the data provided by the DZS, the country's total active population stood at 1.74 million, or 1.2% more than this June, or 05% more than in July 2021. Furthermore, 109,600 persons were out of work in July, rising 3.6% month-on-month and falling by 13% compared to July 2021. The total registered unemployment rate in July 2022 was 6.3%, growing by a mild 0.2 percentage points from June 2022.…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - Croatia has registered 46 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours and eight related deaths, the national COVID response team reported on Monday. There are 5,537 active cases in the country, including 603 hospitalised patients, 22 of whom are on ventilators. Since the outbreak of COVID in Croatia on 25 February 2020 to date, a total of 1,206,633 cases of the novel coronavirus have been registered, and 16,579 people have died as a consequence, while 1,184,517 people have recovered., including 1,030 recoveries in the last 24 hours. There are currently 3,454 people in…

August the 22nd, 2022 - Russian warships recently entered Croatian waters, and despite the dire situation for which Russia is wholly responsible in Ukraine, the Croatian Ministry of Defense claims it ''didn't have a reason to react.'' As Index Vijesti writes, just three weeks ago, warships belonging to no less than the Russian Navy tried to block the exit of the American aircraft carrier Harry Truman from the Adriatic Sea, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chief of the Italian Supreme Defense Staff, revealed in an interview with Rome's La Repubblica. He said that Russian warships had arrived along the Italian coast…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - Retired Air Force pilot Danijel Borović said on Sunday that after Serbia's media outlets reported that an indictment against four wartime Croatian pilots had been upheld by a Belgrade-based court, one should now wait for Croatia to take the next move. Borović told the N1 commercial broadcaster that he had learnt from the media about the indictment which allegedly charged him and three more pilots with war crimes in during the liberating Operation Storm. "I have no other information. I can see that Justice Minister (Ivan) Malenica has also stated that they have not been given any…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - Croatia's tennis player Borna Ćorić on Sunday beat World No. 7, Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, (7-6, 6-2), to win the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati. The 25-year-old Ćorić, who currently ranks 152nd, has thus become the lowest ranking tennis player to win a Masters 1000 tournament. This has been the second final in a Masters 1000 tournament for this Croatian player born in Zagreb. Four years ago he reached the final of the ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai, where he was defeated by Serbia's Novak Đoković. Ćorić's career high was the 12th place on the ATP rankings in 2018.