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ZAGREB, 12 Feb 2022 - Croatia has advised its citizens to leave Ukraine, joining other countries that have done the same for fear of a Russian attack on the country. Croatians are also advised to avoid travel to Ukraine, particularly to areas along the border with Russia and Belarus and near the separation line with the temporarily occupied areas of the Crimea and Donbas, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs said in a statement on Saturday.  Those who cannot leave Ukraine are advised to exercise caution and contact the Croatian Embassy in Kyiv. The United States, the United Kingdom, the…

ZAGREB, 12 Feb 2022 - As people are continuing to emigrate from Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Catholic Croats, the country's authorities are showing no interest in addressing this problem, the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sarajevo, Tomo Vukšić, warned on Saturday. Speaking in an interview with Fena news agency, Vukšić cited data from the parishes according to which 424,000 Catholics had lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina immediately after the country's 1992-1995 war, and the country was left without as many as 100,000 Catholics in the 2003-2019 period alone. Before the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early March 2020, slightly…

ZAGREB, 12 Feb 2022 - Social Democratic Party (SDP) leader Peđa Grbin said on Saturday that this incompetent government should be forced to do at least something to make people's lives easier in the present time of high inflation. Speaking at a press conference in the southern coastal city of Split, Grbin said that the government should have acted four months ago rather than announce only yesterday measures that he did not expect would improve people's lives. He acknowledged that the only thing the government had done then was cap fuel prices, which  increased again as soon as the prices were…

Rijeka is about to get its second wheelchair-accessible beach, namely at Ploče beach in Kantrida. An adaptation project of the western plateau of Ploče beach, including the new wheelchair ramp design, is currently in development. As stated by the City of Rijeka, a working meeting was held by the city officials and representatives of local associations of persons with disabilities. Rijeka Deputy Mayor Goran Palčevski said the implementation of the project is underway, and that one of its goals is to relieve the pressure on Kostanj beach, the only other beach in Rijeka which was purposely designed to be wheelchair-accessible.…

ZAGREB, 12 Feb 2022 - Supreme Court President Radovan Dobronić warned on Saturday that frequent amendment of laws, especially fundamental laws, was not good,. Speaking in an interview with Croatian Radio, Dobronić spoke about the announced legislative changes that are expected to improve the judiciary, warning that one should take into account the process of adjustment. "One can generally say that fundamental laws in Croatia are changed quite often, including the Courts Act and all procedural regulations - both the Enforcement Act and the laws on criminal and civil procedure," Dobronić said. System stability implies the stability of regulations, Dobrinić stressed,…

ZAGREB, 12 Feb 2022 - In the last 24 hours 5,212 coronavirus cases, out of 11,947 tests, and 51 related deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Saturday. There are 41,261 active cases, including 2,092 hospitalised patients, of whom 168 are hooked up to ventilators, while 21,275 persons are self-isolating. To date 56.71% of the total population, or 67.47% of adults have been vaccinated, with 65.18% of adults fully. Since 25 February 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Croatia, 1,015,185 people have contracted the disease, of whom 14,424 have died.

February 12th, 2022 - Stancija Grande near Stara Savudrija, one of Istria’s most beautiful historical residential objects, is about to be renovated and developed into a luxury tourist destination  Namely, the estate in north-western Istria is to be transformed into an exclusive tourist resort and golf course, as envisioned in the project launched back in 2006. As reported by Glas Istre, the investment is worth between 80 and 90 million euro, and is split between two companies, Golf Stancija d.o.o. and Golf Hotel Savudrija d.o.o. so that the project could be more easily managed. The estate spans over some 70…

ZAGREB, 12 Feb 2022 - Croatia's population has shrunk by more than half a million since 2001 but the number of employees in local government units has swollen in the past 20 years, the Večernji List daily reported on Saturday. In municipalities, the number of local government employees has increased by 2.5 times, in cities it has increased by 50% while in counties it has doubled. "The number of local and regional government employees has increased from 10,692 to 19,047, that is, by as much as 78.4%. The same trend can be noticed as regards employment in the state and public sectors,…

February 12, 2022 - English Premier League side Chelsea won the Club World Cup trophy on Saturday against Palmeiras, giving Mateo Kovačić the trophy for the third time in his career.  Chelsea footballers defeated Palmeiras 2-1 (1-1) in a dramatic outcome only after extra time in the Club World Cup final. With a goal scored by Lukaku in the 55th minute and a penalty by Kai Havertz in the second half of extra time, Chelsea became world champions. Kovačić was subbed out just before the match went to extra time, in the 91st minute.  Thomas Tuchel returned to the bench after recovering from the…

ZAGREB, 12 Feb 2022 -  "Dizionario geografico portatile" by Swiss geographer and cartographer Isaak Bruckner, royal geographer of the French king Louis XV, a valuable book stolen in 1987, was returned on Friday to the National and University Library (NSK) in Zagreb, the Culture and Media Ministry said. The book was handed over to NSK director Ivanka Stričević by Culture and Media Minister Nina Obuljen Koržinek and Croatia's Ambassador to Italy, Jasen Mesić, who reported on the process of locating and returning the book. The book was stolen together with a large number of other valuable library items in the 1980s by a three-member…