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January 16, 2022 - The Domino association has announced a programme for the 20th anniversary of Queer Zagreb this year, which will feature over 100 Croatian and foreign artists at over 50 events. "This year Domino marks the 20th anniversary of Queer Zagreb. Since the first Queer, Domino has hosted many artists, activists and theoreticians who paved the way for the idea that a different art, a more open city and a different view on diversity are possible," the association said in a press release. The association provides support and works with organisations, institutions and initiatives from different sectors, notably…

January 16, 2022 - Although the latest census shows that all Croatian counties, including the City of Zagreb, have fewer residents than 10 years ago, the number of persons with health insurance in Croatia still exceeds the number of its residents by 209,000 and the number of voters exceeds the number of adults. According to the first results of the 1021 census, Croatia has a maximum of 3,888,529 residents while on 3 January 2022 it had as many as 4,097,903 persons with health insurance, says the Večernji List daily of Sunday. After the census, it will also be necessary to make order in the…

January 16, 2022 - In the last 24 hours, 5,732 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed and 45 deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Sunday. There are 55,499 active cases, including 1,717 hospitalised patients, of whom 224 are on ventilators, while 25,448 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has registered 817,435 coronavirus cases to date. The death toll is 13,118. To date, 56.19% of the population has been vaccinated, including 66.90% of adults, of whom 64.23% fully.

January 16, 2022 - Croatian actress Gracija Filipović, who made her leading role debut in Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's feature film Murina, has been included in the European Shooting Stars programme of this year's Berlin International Film Festival. "We are impressed by her intuitive and original acting, which she performs with a level of maturity surprising for her age," the jury said in their decision to include the Croatian actress in the European Shooting Stars programme, according to the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC).  Every year the European Shooting Stars programme presents the best new European acting talents during the Berlinale. Thanks…

January 16th 2022 - Ivan Meštrović, a master sculptor and one of the most renowned Croatian artists of all time, died on this day in 1962. A lesser known fact about Meštrović is that he was friends with another famous figure from these parts, the great inventor Nikola Tesla. The two great men met in New York and maintained a decades-long friendship through correspondence Ivan Meštrović, a master sculptor and one of the most renowned Croatian artists of all time, died on this day in 1962. Having gained United States citizenship a few years earlier, Meštrović passed away in the…

January 16, 2022 - How the Bagatin global anti-aging treatment brought life back to my bura-broken skin in Split.  There are several reasons why Bagatin Polyclinic is the best. And it's not just because they were named the International Cosmetic Surgery Clinic of the Year at the prestigious IMTJ. Or that they became the first clinic in Croatia and only the 65th in the world to receive the coveted TEMOS Accreditation - in the fields of Medical Tourism Excellence and Quality of International Patient Care. Or that 11 Bagatin Clinics’ doctors made the list of best doctors in 2018 chosen by patients…

January 16, 2022 - The latest flight news to Croatia as TUI Zadar flights are on the list of Croatian destinations this summer, while Austria Airlines will temporarily suspend Vienna-Zagreb flights from Monday.  TUI fly Belgium, a member of the well-known TUI group specializing in organized tourist trips to a number of well-known leisure destinations, including Croatia, has announced a number of destinations in the upcoming 2022 summer flight schedule. In the past summer season, TUI Group planes flew to Pula, Dubrovnik, and Split, and this year, according to the announcements, we can expect them in Zadar as well, reports…

January 16, 2022 - TCN spoke to Nick Hobbs of Charm Music Croatia, a concert division of the Charmenko group in Eastern Europe organizing the biggest shows in the country this year - from Sting to Arctic Monkeys and The Cure.  If there is one thing Croatians can be excited about this year, it is a stacked concert calendar, which is more than welcome after two years of cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the return of music festivals on the coast, Croatians are particularly looking forward to three massive shows this year announced at the end…

January the 16th, 2022 - Croatian exports have done well despite the circumstances posed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and exports to neighbouring Slovenia have exceeded pre-pandemic 2019's record by an impressive 25%. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Brnic writes, statistically speaking, ''last year'' isn't quite over yet, but it is already clear that 2021 was a record year in economic relations with Croatia's most important foreign trade partners, in which Italy returned to first place on the list of the main Croatian export markets. Last year will also be recorded as a time when perhaps the strongest shift was achieved in…

January the 16th, 2022 - A Croatian lawyer has been ordered to pay 10,000 kuna for refusing to disinfect his hands as the coronavirus pandemic continues and hand washing is part of the most basic of epidemiological measures. He also referred to the disinfectant on offer to him as ''poison''. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, before the start of a main hearing in court recently, the judge told those present to put their things away and spray their hands with the available disinfectant, but the prosecutor's Croatian lawyer said he did not want to do so, according to a report from…