Belgrade portal: How Gracanica is filled with Albanians “on retirement day”

Belgrade's online newspaper “blic” has published a writing on life these days in Gracanica, the majority Serb municipality near Pristina. It calls “the protector of Serbism in the vicinity of Kosovo's capital”.

Also cited is Serbian-Albanian business co-operation, while adding that on pension delivery day, the post of this municipality is filled with Albanians ...

Time.net publishes the whole scripture.

Stevan Silgeliq, leader Karadjordje, Car Lazarus would certainly today be the most proud to live in streets with their present-day Serbian braves -- the residents of Gracanica surrounded by Albanian villages and cities.

Just a few miles from the municipality building to Milos Obiliki's memorial, even the most common ground route is through cavalry tracks. In fact, there are no random passersby here. Here or stay forever or leave forever. Before this Haitian solution, there was no pensioner Nicole.

I've been in Gracanica since birth, for 66 years. I never thought of leaving him. Not now when I live with 14,300 dinars (about 145 euros). The wife receives 19 thousand dinars a month (190 euros) and lives somewhat, wrinkling her arms that retired her old age after 30 years as a truck driver became unemployed.

In Gracanica, the old seven - century monastery in the center of the city bears that name in various ways.

“People these live in leaders with minimum wage, with social help or with child additions. Good wages for 50,000 dinars (500 euros ) have only 60 thousand employees in state institutions, in the municipality, or in health. Agriculture is dying and almost out of work, so young people are going”, speak sincerely to Nicolaus.

The spirit of entrepreneurship is investigated only along the main Car Lazarus street, where cafes, ovens, fast - food restaurants, sweets, pizzas, and even bets are listed.

This bet is shared by a Serb with an Albanian. He brings together his business. The raid is Albanian and the country is Serbian. To prevent the Albanian from opening the book, the Serb has opened it. Otherwise, Albanians are very grateful as working partners. They do not cheat, they keep their word, they respect everything they agree upon. Get the stuff there. We're used to each other, we've got to live at”, the owner of a store.

In the small centre of Gracanica, which has more than 10,000 Serbs, Albanians are mostly on retirement day.

Then the mail is full. They come to get Serbia's pension. They live mainly in Kishnica, Hyval, or Gjilan. I also have friends among them, I go to one often for tea, we talk Serbian, but that's not all. I would sin if I said we had problems with them. For example, I often fish in the lake with Albanians and we never had the smallest fight”, Nikola relates.

Tenkm from Gracanica is Pristina, where only a few Serbs live. The capital in Kosovo also belongs to Ulta Brnica, who has 100 Serb homes.

The large majority of Serbs have remained there as well because they work in state institutions: Come, health school. They get 50 grand wages and they can live normally. Otherwise, if they hadn't had this job, they'd have gone where the head is standing, explains businessman Slobodan, who lives in Lower Brnica and works in Gracanica.

The curse “God forbid that Serbs have any harmony” has even arrived in Gracanica, where locals do not view so - called refugees well.

Many of them have sold their homes to Albanians, taken the money, and taken home some 200m away in Gracanica. The State Home is in use for the rest of their lives, and yet it's in profit from”, the natives speak.

Like all fellow countrymen in Kosovo, Serbs in Grecanica expect the long-standing warning of the Serbian Communists Association to bring security of work and life, but at no cost of war.

If, O Lord, there were no fighting, we would be surrounded by Albanians on all sides, residents said unanimously.