Meet the People
July 11, 2018 - An American with Balkan origins, retired as a member of the US Army, Mary Borojevich has been devoted to various projects to help children and young people with disabilities in the area of the Balkans for 18 years. She started her mission in the USA, continued in Serbia, and then in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For two years now, Mary has been working in Montenegro, which she has chosen for her new address.
June 28, 2018 - Andrej Nikolaidis was born in 1974 in Sarajevo to a mixed Montenegrin-Greek family. Until the age of six, he lived in the city of Ulcinj, where he returned in 1992 after the war in Bosnia erupted. Since 1994, he has written for regional independent and liberal media, as well as for cultural magazines. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential intellectuals of the younger generation in the region, known for his anti-war activism and for his promotion of the rights of minorities.
June 23, 2018 - Tivat's painter Vladimir Jovićević builds his professional career in Florence, where he paints and teaches at the prestigious Florence Academy of Art. This very productive painter show his talent early, when he started to study drawing and painting in the Drawing and Painting School, under the auspices of the Tivat Culture Center. Today, his paintings can be found in private collections all over the world.
June 23, 20181 - Balša Brković is a Montenegrin writer, essayist and theatre critic. He is also the editor of the cultural section of daily newspaper Vijesti.
The Tourism Organization of Kotor Executive Director, Ana Nives Radović, is the very first Montenegrin Fin Tech author, financial analyst and author of the "Dividing by Zero" scientific project. She is also an amateur painter, exhibiting all around the world, giving all the money from selling her art works for humanitarian purposes. How she finds time for painting, we don't know, since she managed to succeed in a lot of various professional fields.
Mrs. Wright, the former Olga Ivanovna Lazović, was born in Cetinje. She was the granddaughter of Marko Miljanov, a duke, and general, the man behind the "čojstvo i junaštvo," national motto of Montenegrins.
The true friend of Montenegrin kids, a poet, and TV journalist that taught us about all the "little big" heroes of Montenegro. In 2013, eleven years after his death, a street in Podgorica was named after him.
Total Montenegro News meets Cecile Dimitrijević on May 24, 2018.
Those born in the stunning Boka Bay fell in love at first sight, and this deep feeling guides them through their lifetimes. “I've loved the sea most of all in my life”- says the grey-haired man in a hat in front of me rolling a cigarette. “Returning home after studying at the Belgrade Music Academy, I immediately ran directly to the shore, jumped in our boat and went to the sea.” Zoran Proročić is a famous Montenegrin composer whose creations sing of the beautiful Kotor bay life, its charming people and old Mediterranean traditions. He is the father of a big family and the owner of an authentic Kotor restaurant “Konoba Scala Santa”.
The architect Slobodan Bobo Mitrovic is one of the most competent experts in the spatial planning and protection of Montenegro's architectural heritage.
