RAS sponsored the play called "THERAPY", on March 23rd and 24th of 2011. The play was written by a young writer from Belgrade Jordan Cvetanovic and directed by New York City director Sanja Bestic. It was performed in Serbian language by the three young actors from Serbia: Katarina Radivojevic, Jack Dimich and Igor Jokanovic...
RAS - The International Serbian Organization grants its Annual award for truth and justice for struggle against anti-Serbian disinformation, falsehood, corruption and bias in the realms of media, politics and academia. The following distinguished individuals have demonstrated exceptional courage, determination and success in this struggle and have worked tirelessly to preserve the values of truth and justice in politics, the media and in academia...
On Saturday, June 12 RAS, in collaboration with Slavic DC, Slavic Foundation and Art Soiree presented work by artists of Slavic origin who live in Washington DC Metropolitan area. It featured paintings by Dejan Roncevic, photography by Vadim XXX and photographs of the fine jewelry created by Dejan Jovanovic. The exhibit was followed by a party organized by “Troyka”, another Slavic organization, to complete the Slavic Night at Slaviya event...
RAS - The International Serbian Organization grants its Annual award for truth and justice for struggle against anti-Serbian disinformation, falsehood, corruption and bias in the realms of media, politics and academia. The following distinguished individuals have demonstrated exceptional courage, determination and success in this struggle and have worked tirelessly to preserve the values of truth and justice in politics, the media and in academia, and as such, have offered those who experienced injustice and suffering as a result of their Serbian ethnicity and heritage, a sense of hope...
The Festival is proud to welcome to the United States for the first time a youth performing group from Serbia. From the capital city of Belgrade comes the young Cultural and Folk Art Association Sveti Sava These children, ages 11-15, represent their proud heritage and will delight American audiences with traditional dances accompanied by their own musicians...
The exhibit opened on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, in the Gallery of the Washington School of Photography in Bethesda, Maryland. Organized by RAS-The International Serbian Organization, and the Washington School of Photography, a premier school of photography in the Washington Metropolitan area, this exhibit presents photographs made by the Serbian children who live in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija...
Washington DC Serbian activists, RAS members and a coalition of supporters in the Washington, DC area, on Aug. 5, 2009, protested against Croatia’s celebration of its 1995 ethnic cleansing of over a quarter-million Serbs in Operation “Storm”. The demonstrators blocked the Croatian embassy for most of the day with the help of peace groups, Greek and Cypriot Americans, other Orthodox Christians, and local civic activists...
On May 5, 2009, Washington, D.C.'s City Council passed a resolution recognizing April 22 as the Nation's Capital Jasenovac Day. The Resolution, prepared by RAS, the International Serbian Organization, and sponsored by the Chairman of the City Council, is to educate the residents of Washington, D.C. about the holocaust that happened at Jasenovac death camp during WWII. Jasenovac, located near Zagreb, Croatia, was the largest concentration camp in the Balkans during WWII..
The conference started with the presentation of a documentary film on the bombing of Serbia. Keynote speakers were Jasmina L. Vujic, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkley, CA; Zorka Vukmirovic, Ph.D., Chemistry, Research Professor Emeritus, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia, and Sriram Gopal, M.S., former Institute for Energy and Environmental Research staff scientist...
A Serbian documentary film Festival “A vigil of the soul”, organized by RAS - The International Serbian Organization, took place on Saturday, February 9, 2009, in the Washington, DC City Hall under the patronage of the chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia Vincent Gray. The auditorium of the City Hall with the capacity of 200 people, was nearly too small to receive all those interested in the new documentary movies and the life in Serbia they portray. Among visitors, many of them distinguished members of the Serbian community...
Hundreds of pro-Serbian activists gathered Sunday outside the White House to decry Kosovo's secession from Serbia this month and to demand the Bush administration retract its recognition of Kosovo as an independent country. "We hope to change Kosovo to be Serbian again, like it was before and always will be," said Milan Dimic, a former resident of Belgrade. "It's Serbia." Serbs also staged anti-independence rallies on Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland, Vienna, Austria, and other European capitals...