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	Fair Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leskovac Fair was founded on 28th February 1955 under the name "Leskovac Fair of Textile and Textile Machines".
		The town of Leskovac is situated by the railway and the highway Belgrade-Nis-Skopje-Athens.
		The distance between Leskovac and Belgrade is 280 km and between Leskovac and Skopje 160 km.
	www.lesajam.co.yu /en/info.html (105 words)

	protests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During half-time of a high-interest basketball game between Yugoslavia and Germany on 1st of July 1999, spectators of the local state-owned "TV Leskovac" were shocked when TV technician of that station surprisingly and unexpectedly appeared on the screens of their TV sets.
		Leskovac was traditionally labeled as the "red city" by the rest of the country.
		The verbal attack of the TV technician was not only the attack against local regime, but also attack against the head of the state and his regime, for the first time done in that manner.
	www.parlament.org.yu /en/protests/protests.html (358 words)

	------ Open Secret ------
		Leskovac is one of the largest minicipalities situated in the south of Serbia.
		By 1945, Leskovac was the second most developed town in Serbia after Belgrade and was known as Little Manchester because of very strong textile industry.
		Although it has many potentials, Leskovac has very high percentage of unemployed and is concidered undeveloped.
	rex.b92.net /javnatajna/leskovac_eng.html (260 words)

	Free Serbia - Other voices from Serbia - Interviews
		The situation in the town is very complex, Leskovac has collapsed economically, its economy ranks near the bottom nationally.
		What's even more tragic is the fact that Leskovac was experiencing slight economic decline even during the period when Dragoslav Avramovic was at the post of the Yugoslav National Bank governor.
		Leskovac received this flattering title, but I'm not the only one to be credited with it.
	www.xs4all.nl /~freeserb/interviews/2000/e-novkovic24032000.html (1835 words)

	Leskovac -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leskovac (Лесковац) is a city located in (A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe) Serbia and Montenegro at 43.00° North, 21.95° East.
		It is the administrative center of the (Click link for more info and facts about Jablanica District) Jablanica District of Serbia.
		In 2003 the city has total population of 63400.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leskovac.htm (90 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 20,000 protestors who gathered on Monday in Leskovac, a town in southern Serbia of only 70,000 people, urging their president to resign, did so in response to a statement read out over local television during the break between two halves of a crucial European championship match involving the national team in France on Friday.
		Before the NATO bombing campaign and before several hundred young men from Leskovac were sent to fight in Kosovo, the town had been one of the strongest bastions of support for the Milosevic and his ruling Socialist Party.
		People in Leskovac now say that they took on NATO because of the stupidity of their authorities and that the price that they have paid has been too high.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19990706_3_eng.txt (822 words)

	strana
		According to the information by the Leskovac criminal investigation police on duty, a missile attack was carried out on April 12, 1999 by NATO warplanes on the highway bridge near Grdelica, the so-called "Sarajevo" bridge, as well as on the railway bridge and a passenger train in close proximity to the said bridge.
		Therefore, the criminal investigation police of Leskovac was instructed to find out, through competent administration services and field work, the exact number of passengers on board the train at the time of its departure from Grdelica station, with a view to establishing the number and identity of the killed people.
		Therefore, Leskovac Police Department sent out a circular dispatch No. PU 834/99 aimed at collecting information on the passengers who were on board the train at the time of bombardment by the NATO enemy forces.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /wb1/06.htm (12071 words)

	Reservists a Crucial Factor in Effort Against Milosevic [Free Republic]
		LESKOVAC, Yugoslavia -- Beneath a sign for the Swing Jeans Shop, a dozen or so Serbian policemen in powder blue uniforms stood around tonight, glaring at locals who dared gather here for the fourth night running to demand the resignation of President Slobodan Milosevic.
		The principal object of the reservists' frustration here in Leskovac is Zivojin Stefanovic, the local chairman of the Socialist Party, who runs this down-at-the-heels textile town of 170,000.
		It was his house that reservists smashed up on Tuesday night, and it was his resignation that remains a non-negotiable demand of their demonstrations, which are scheduled to go on until he quits or is fired.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3785777135a4.htm (1248 words)

	PRESS REVIEW
		LESKOVAC, May 14 -- Dobrosav Nesic, the president of the Leskovac Human Rights Committee and editor-in-chief of the monthly Rights of Man yesterday began serving a thirty-day sentence in the Leskovac Municipal Gaol.
		On January 21, in Leskovac, the Offences Board upheld a decision under Article 69 of the Republic Information Act under which Nesic was fined 70,000 dinars and imprisoned for 30 days for an article, To Write Like All Normal People, published in issue five the Rights of Man.
		The professor is obviously a victim of Borba's interpretation of the world which represents independent developments in technology in which a man, the creator of all technology, eventually becomes subject to this progress.
	www.b92.net /media/press/160599.shtml (1225 words)

	CLAMP-DOWN IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
		Even before NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia, Leskovac and Vranje, two towns in southern Serbia, were notorious for the way in which the authorities stamped out dissent.
		Vranje and Leskovac are two of the poorest towns in Serbia - the average salary before the war was a meagre 50 German Marks ($27) a month - and state television has always been the principal, if not the only, medium.
		Dobrosav Nesic was released from Leskovac prison on June 7 after serving a one-month sentence that was imposed on him on January 21 in accordance with the law on public information.
	www.gsoa.ch /zivil/kosov@/kosov@_nato/199906/19990614.0.html (1086 words)

	NATO hits Passenger Train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leskovac, April 12 (South News) - NATO's terror over civilians has reached a new high today when the international passenger train No. 393, travelling from Belgrade to Thessalonika, Greece, was bombed.
		Leskovac Railway Station chief Radonja Pantic said the NATO missile had hit the second coach, destroying it completely.
		The train left Leskovac, southern Serbia, at 11:25 a.m., the station chief said, adding the train was hit while crossing the Bistrica Bridge in Grdelicka Klisura gorge.
	southmovement.alphalink.com.au /southnews/990412-trainhit.html (536 words)

	YDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And the state will resolve this other part of the problem which no company can settle individually, no-one can ask companies in Leskovac to solve the problem of the highway, to solve the problem of water supply in general, to solve the problem of the power infrastructure, the state must be efficient here.
		LESKOVAC, Serbia, Oct 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was made honourary citizen of the southeast Serbian (Yugoslav) town of Leskovac at a formal function of the municipal council on the occasion of municipal Liberation Day on Monday.
		Leskovac Mayor Nikola Jovanovic said on the occasion that the charter making President Milosevic honourary citizen expresses appreciation and recognition of the just struggle for protecting the sovereignty and integrity of Yugoslavia and the freedom of all, and of his outstanding contribution to the NATO-devastated country's reconstruction.
	www.suc.org /news/yds/b121099_e.html (3849 words)

	GLAS JAVNOSTI - The Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to eyewitnesses, a powerful, large-scale blast was seen in the sky over Leskovac, indicating that the Yugoslav anti-aircraft artillery hit a NATO warplane.
		LESKOVAC - The area around the southeastern Serbian town of Leskovac was fiercely pounded by NATO force on Saturday.
		EPS said that its teams were making efforts to restore electric power supplies to households in the country, appealing to citizens to use electricity economically and reduce the consumption to a minimum.
	arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu /arhiva/1999/05/23/en-latest-news-0522.html (2355 words)

	Leskovac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was erected between 1906 and 1908 according to the design of an architect Svetozar Jovanovic Senior.
		During the 60's Leskovac got a new and spacious building for the museum which enabled the city to exhibit its valuable archaeological collection from the Iustiniana Prima site, undoubtedly one of the most significant early Byzantine sites on the Balkans, which stared to be investigated between the two wars.
		The best examples from the collection are being exhibited in the ground floor gallery, whereas other valuable parts of the collection and other collections are deposited and are only exhibited occasionally.
	www.yuheritage.com /leskovac.htm (297 words)

	CHF International / Serbia
		LESKOVAC, September 29, 2005 - Citizen assistance center was opened on Thursday, September 29, in Leskovac.
		LESKOVAC, September 12-18 2005 – Tourist Organization of Leskovac, Tourist Organization of Serbia, Serbian Chamber of Commerce Serbia, Regional Chamber of Commerce and CHF supported the 16th Leskovac Grill festival.
		This cultural and gastronomic manifestation was held from September 12-18.
	www.chfserbia.org (642 words)

	Vreme: Leskovac Counts Ivan Novkovic's Prison Days, July 17 1999
		On the third day of protests in Leskovac, Bojana Ristic announced that SRM will take on itself the organization of the rallies because legally the citizens are not allowed to register a gathering with the authorities.
		Only at the beginning of this week when MC Bata was arrested after trying to "register a rally with the authorities" and when Ms Ristic received six citations on the same occasion, it turned out that the rallies were not registered with the authorities, although "they were also not banned".
		The Democratic Party also offered assistance to the Leskovac protests during the first days but were warned not to set up their PA system "because it was to be confiscated and all members of the local party organization arrested".
	www.ex-yupress.com /vreme/vreme51.html (2080 words)

	Serbian customs officers discover arms cache in container shipped from USA
		Leskovac, Nov. 16, 2002 - A large quantity of arms was discovered this afternoon during a routine check at the terminal of the Leskovac customs office.
		The man who attempted to smuggle the arms in a double-bottomed container was a Yugoslav citizen born in Kupinovo near Leskovac, who has been working in the United States of America, on Long Island, New York State, since 1985.
		In the container full of household goods, the Leskovac customs office workers discovered 9 long-barreled rifles and 400 pieces of various types of ammunition.
	www.invest-in-serbia.com /archive/2002_11/2002_11_16_1.htm (200 words)

	Strange ‘Cue: The Adventures of a Norwegian Journalist in Serbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the chefs of Leskovac heard about this, they rejected it, claiming that it is not possible to make such a big hamburger if you do it properly.
		You can come to Leskovac to compete, and I would also like to compete in America." Again, I didn’t have the heart to tell her that beef testicles were not part of the competition at Memphis in May or the American Royal.
		Restaurant owners come to Leskovac from all over Serbia and some from the neighboring country, Macedonia, to the south to set up stands to compete and also sell their meat to the huge crowds.
	www.fiery-foods.com /dave/strangecue.asp (1663 words)

	Archive display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As I am due to go to Leskovac to work with her for several days from tomorrow, I thought it was good that we should get some sort of rapport.
		We arrived in time for the inaugural meeting of an EUS group in Leskovac, but in fact there were only 3 people from Leskovac (balanced by the four of us from Belgrade).
		This American guy had been looking for a place called Malenza, as he had heard the name in a prophetic vision several years ago, and it turns out that there is only one place in the world called Malenza and it is a very little known Montenegrin town near Niksic.
	www.reetpetite.org.uk /archive.php?month=0304 (2794 words)

	CURTAILING POLITICAL DISSENT:
		The article accused Radio Leskovac- a public radio station controlled by the local branch of Serbia's ruling SPS-of "primitivism" and of not reporting the misdeeds of the local SPS politicians.
		In a January 21 decision, the municipal magistrate found that the sentence under contention in the article was untrue and that the article's publication constituted a "misuse of the freedom of public information," as set forth in the Law on Public Information.
		For years Nesic and the Leskovac Council were the most active human rights defenders in the southern part of Serbia, the traditional stronghold of Milosevic's SPS party.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2000/serbia/Yugsrb00-04.htm (2389 words)

	Funny coincidence
		In fairness to Vladimir Leskovac, it must be said that he does not accept that he is in any way at fault.
		Vladimir Leskovac does not consider that the similarity between the two books goes beyond borrowing of some of my grammar, but readers may make their own judgement.
		Vladimir Leskovac’s publishers do not see the matter in the same light as he does, and their public apology appeared in
	bip.cnrs-mrs.fr /bip10/leskovac.htm (3819 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| On the streets of Serbia
		Every night this week in the town of Leskovac in southern Serbia, near the border with Kosovo, people have taken to the streets in large anti-government protests.
		The demonstrations have not been organised by any political group, but are a spontaneous outpouring of anger.
		The man who inspired the protests is Ivan Novkovic, a technician at the local television station in Leskovac.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_391000/391037.stm (564 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LESKOVAC, Yugoslavia - Up to 10,000 people demonstrated in this southern Serbian city Monday evening after a technician interrupted local television to demand the ouster of a ruling party official.
		The protest in Leskovac, 120 miles southeast of Belgrade, was a further sign of growing discontent with the government of President Slobodan Milosevic.
		Last week, during a break in a basketball match, Ivan Novkovic, a technician at Leskovac television, accused Gov. Zivojin Stefanovic of abusing his authority by destroying the local economy and organizing the massive mobilization of local army reservists during NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia.
	www.usatoday.com /news/index/kosovo/koso1016.htm (519 words)

	------ Open Secret ------
		The ingredients - ambitious creative people (young fashion designers and models from Leskovac), successful salesmen (the representatives of the local Chinese community) and experienced industry workers (workers and experts employed at the ailing factories forming Leskovac's textiles industry) are mixed together to concoct a "magic potion".
		The event has the energy of a performance/trick during which the participants find themselves in the situation of becoming accomplices, if not in a commercially successful event, then surely in a emancipating meeting of those who are quick to blame each other for their difficult social position.
		An appallingly turbid sediment present in almost all samples made people reel with disbelief, in spite of the fact that the majority of the residents of Leskovac are aware of the low quality of their drinking water.
	rex.b92.net /javnatajna/leskovac_izlozba_eng.html (893 words)

	Radio 016 ::: Leskovac ::: 101,60 MHz
		It has been organizing the meetings of people form Leskovac in Belgrade, for several years, the manifestation Children singing hits, guest sessions of numerous Belgrade theatre performances and other things.
		It organized, not only in Leskovac, but also in Serbia and Monte Negro, New Year’s Eve in the square in front of the Culture Center.
		Radio 016 cooperates and exchanges its broadcast with many radio and television stations in Serbia and Monte Negro, takes part in the meeting of radio stations from Serbia, it is the member of the association of private radio stations “Spectar”, and it also cooperates with several marketing companies, such as A-Media from Belgrade, and others.
	www.radio016.co.yu /engleski/onama.htm (253 words)

	Forum 18 Search/Archive
		Church representatives are determined to solve the problem without any further friction, and many NGO's and Romany organizations also support the church's wish for a peaceful resolution of the question.
		We had a meeting with the local Romany community representatives and church representatives, and we agreed, or rephrased, they gave guarantees that they themselves will move the tent to the new location, when the location is given to them.
		There are 9,000 Romany people in Leskovac, 14,000 in the region, and 2,560 of them belong to this church.
	www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=311 (1070 words)

	Charisma Gypsies
		In Leskovac, Serbia’s one and only Gypsy pastor, Selim Alijevic, has not been able to seat his congregation for months, although there are now two services each Sunday.
		"In Prokuplje, just north of Leskovac, the house church has grown to 30 people already, and we would need to plant a church there soon." Alijevic, who became a Christian 18 years ago and later went to Bible School in England, is training 20 Gypsy leaders in Leskovac now.
		Because they are held in contempt by the Serbs, the explosive growth of Gypsy fellowship has added fuel to the harassment that all Pentecostals suffer in today’s Serbia –; mostly at the hands of the Orthodox Church.
	solair.eunet.yu /~lechurch/charisma.htm (726 words)

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