#Nikola Markovic

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Nikola Markovic by Raja Siregar

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Adidas Eurocamp Announces Roster of Top Next-Generation Basketball Prospects

Adidas Basketball has revealed the roster of top draft-eligible athletes, seasoned coaches, and special guests for the 17th edition of the premier pre-draft scouting event, adidas Eurocamp. The event will take place from June 1-3 at Ghirada La Città Dello Sport in Treviso, Italy. This renowned talent showcase aims to discover the next generation of star athletes, ages 18-22, who aspire to pursue professional basketball careers.

Led by Coaching Director Bill Bayno and Scouting Director Gianluca Pascucci, the high-profile coaching lineup includes David Vanterpool (Washington Wizards), Jason Terry (Utah Jazz), Dave Joerger (Milwaukee Bucks), Jordan Ott (formerly Los Angeles Lakers), Chris Fleming (Chicago Bulls), and Rico Hines (Philadelphia 76ers). These coaches will train and mentor the elite group of players invited to this year’s camp.

Joining the esteemed group of coaches and mentors are adidas NBA athletes such as Nikola Jović (Miami Heat), Austin Rivers (NBA veteran and current ESPN commentator), and Vasilije Micić (Charlotte Hornets), with more special guests to be announced. Additionally, NBA future-Hall of Famer and adidas signature athlete James Harden (LA Clippers) will make a special appearance to support the Harden Vol. 8 "Eurocamp" PE, which is exclusive to this year’s adidas Eurocamp athletes and participants.

The following teams and draft-eligible standouts are slated to participate in this year’s adidas Eurocamp:

Team Next Gen

Jack Kayil (Germany) – MVP of the U18 Final Four Tournament

Savo Drezgic (Serbia) – ABA League champion 2023

Egor Denim (Russia) – FIBA U16 European Challengers 2021

Nikola Bundalo (USA) – Consensus No. 1 player in Ohio, the No. 7 power forward in his class, and a top-30 overall player in the class of 2025

Michael Ruzic (Croatia) – Hoops Agents Player of the Week

David Mirkovic (Montenegro) – 2023 U18 Euro Championship B All-Tournament Team

Team World

Wei Zhao (China) – FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2023

Mohammad Amini (Iran) – France Espoirs Elite 2022-23 and Euroleague Adidas Next Generation

Lucas Giovannetti (Argentina) – FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2023

Assane Sankare (Senegal) – U18 Next Generation Team Paris

Julius Halaifonua (New Zealand) – Ambassadors Trophy for Male Junior Player of the Year

Team Eurocamp

Nikola Djurisic (Serbia) – ABA League Top Prospect 2023, Euroleague NGT champion 2022

Mohamed Diawara (France) – FIBA U18 European Championship 2023

Martin Kalu (Germany) – FIBA U16 Challenger 2021

Mouhamed Faye (Senegal) – NIJT All-Tournament Team 2022-2023, Zadar Tournament (ANGT) All-Tournament Team 2022-2023

Ousmane Ndiaye (Senegal) – Early entry candidate for NBA Draft 2024

Bogoljub Markovic (Serbia) – MVP of the ABA U19 final tournament 2024

Reynan Dos Santos (Brazil) – All-Star Five honors at the FIBA U18 Americas Championship 2022, MVP of the FIBA U18 South American Championship 2022

Ruben Dominguez (Spain) – Silver medal FIBA U16 European Championship 2018, MVP of FIBA U16 European Championship 2019

Michael Caicedo (Spain) – ACB All-Young Players Team 2023

Team USA

Darryn Peterson (USA) – Top 3 HS prospect Class of 2025, Consensus top-5 2025 guard and U16 USAB Gold Medalist

Caleb Holt (USA) – Consensus top-5 2026 guard and U16 USAB Gold Medalist

Moustapha Thiam (USA) – Five-star 2025 center and Central Florida commit

Nate Ament (USA) – Five-star 2025 wing

Joson Sanon (USA) – Four-star 2025 guard and Arizona commit

For more information on Eurocamp and to register, visit adidaseurocamp.com.

[fictifile-plays-arcana]

So in the short time I’ve been in this fandom, I’ve really enjoyed learning about everyone’s apprentices, and – I wanted to put my apprentice out there too, for the record if nothing else? I’m not by any stretch of the imagination an artist, so I’ve relied on Picrews to create a couple of different impressions of him, haha. And for comparison, I also made his LI, Asra, in each one!

Without further ado, let me introduce –

Nikola Markovic

pronouns: he/him

birthday: 3rd May

height: 180 cm (5’11)

favourite food: pierogi (or the Arcana-world equivalent 😅)

favourite drink: chai

favourite flower: baby’s breath

favourite season: autumn

And finally, some pictures of him & Asra in their day-to-day clothes and Masquerade outfits (I was limited by the assets included in each Picrew so I had to play a bit loose with canon appearances – you’ll notice that I basically redesigned Asra’s Masquerade outfit each time – but I had tons of fun haha 😅)

picrew credit: deerinspotlight

picrew credit: baydews

picrew credit: sosolenoo

And as a bonus: Nikola & Asra in the bathrobes Nadia designed for them 💕

picrew credits: baydews & sosolenoo

And… that’s it! Thanks to anyone who read this far haha. And any more good Arcana Picrews, lmk, I’m always on the lookout ☺️

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Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Krnjaca // Büro-Mobil

Photos by Dejan Golic

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Refugee Centre Krnjaca, Belgrade // Buero-Mobil

Photos by Dejan Golic

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[hufmagazine]

Illusions, photography by Contrast Light for HUF Magazinehttp://hufmagazine.com/illusions-photography-by-contrast-light-for-huf-magazine/

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Group America (90s): An old picture of Vojislav “Voya the American” Raičević, right, and Veselin “Teddy Bear” Raičević, left. Vojislav Raicevic, aka Voja the American, was the chief executor of the "America" ​​clan, whose members were mostly Montenegrins trained in America. The "Americans" are said to have represented Milosevic's death squad and to have a list according to which they killed for service. It can be said that they were "Zemun citizens before Zemun citizens", that they performed dirty work for the state. It is said that they cleaned up almost the entire Voždovac clan, as well as other unsuitable fierce guys, but also journalists and politicians. Allegedly, the "Americans" cooperated with the Serbian and Montenegrin services all the time. The Ministry of the Interior spoke of this clan as a group consisting of the Raicevic brothers, the Roganovic brothers and others, and an informant named "Srecko" reveals details: That the clan consisted of a core of 15 professional assassins a death squad carrying out contract killings. He cited two high-ranking police officers, one from Serbia and the other, as associates of the clan from Montenegro. Srećko asked for a settlement, that the police guarantee his safety and that he would tell everything, but since he did not receive guarantees, he disappeared. Seselj was the first to speak publicly about the "Americans" when he accused the head of the DB, Jovica Stanisic, of killing his death squads in Serbia. Allegedly, the connection between Montenegrins from America and the Serbian DB was Boško Radonjić, the head of the Irish mafia in New York and a good friend of the last great Italian godfather, John Gotti. It is said that when Radonjić came to Serbia in the early 1990s because he was being tried in America for influencing the jury that tried Gotija, Stanišić personally assigned him security. When the clan was formed, it was allegedly headed by Joca Amsterdam, who is leaving Serbia due to the accusation that he ordered the murder of Goran Marjanović Bombaš. Then, at the head of the clan comes Voja, who worked for the Italian mafia in America until he hooked up with some and had to come here. In the middle of the nineties, Voja organized, but he also carried out many liquidations. They say that he was extremely skilful, he did not hesitate to disguise himself as a beggar or a woman in order to approach the victim. It is said that when Ćenta blackmailed the head of a man for 80,000 marks, Voja did it and went to Ćaldović, but he made him say: "You killed someone? Don't make me laugh, look at yourself!" It will cost him his head. The next time they met, but through a crosshairs. Voja allegedly killed Ćenta in the center of Belgrade together with journalist Maja Pavić, Ceca's godfather. Although Voja was close to Arkan's godfather Milan Djordjevic Bombon and although Arkan did not like Centa, because Voja killed his godfather and Colonel Garda, Shuca (the first husband of Legija's second wife), Arkan was very angry. Jenta and Jusa did not like Arkan, but there was respect between them because, together with Ashanin and the late Ljubo and Giška, they formed an old guard of fierce guys and used to work together abroad. By killing Jenta and Maja, Voja gained powerful enemies, Jus and Arkan. Besides them, the Americans were already at war with the people of Surčin. The agreement between the Belgrade bosses and the top of the police that Voja must leave allegedly fell. His former friends Rogo and Bojan Petrović, with whom he held "Stupica" together with Ćenta's son-in-law Mišo Cvijetinović, kidnap Voja, film him and torture him in order to admit that he killed Ćenta. Misha's motive was revenge, while the other two wanted to take over Voj's affairs. Allegedly, Bojan held him, Rogo shot him 4 times in the shoulder until he confessed, and then Misha Tiger shot him in the head. Bojan allegedly cooperated with the Americans before, who did Goran Vukovic in order for Petrovic to take over the affairs of his former friend. The soldier's body was not found, but it is said that he was butchered, and parts of the body were thrown into the Danube or buried somewhere. After that, Vojin's protector Bombon and Luka Pejović were killed (a member of the "America" ​​clan and, according to the former head of the DB, Goran Petrović, Ćuruvija's killer). After Vojin's murder, war begins on the streets of Belgrade! The soldier's friends take general revenge and eliminate everyone they suspected of being involved. There were about twenty names on the alleged list, the most famous of which were: Rogo, Petrović, Miša, Jusa, Badža, Šijan, Ašanin, Kundak, two police colonels and many others ... According to informant Srećko, Mileta Miljanić Mike took the lead. clan, and the direct perpetrators of the murders that followed as revenge for Voja were: Veselin Raicevic Medo, Zeljko Maksimovic Maka, Ivan Delic Ico and Nikola Maljkovic Maljavi. Mike was sentenced in Greece to 40 years for smuggling 114 kilograms of cocaine. Ico allegedly killed Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic. Maka killed a policeman who tried to identify him in '95, and in 2002 he was accused that his group that took over the American clan, known as the "Maka group", organized the assassination of General Boško Buha, although there are indications that Zemun people set it up as they would drive them out of Belgrade. After the war in the underground at the end of the 1990s, it was obvious that Stanišić had let go of the reins and that the DB no longer controlled the mafia. After the stories that he and Arkan intend to betray Milosevic, he will be replaced, and the old mafia lose the protection of the state. He will be replaced by Radomir Markovic, the first man next to him will be the commander of the strongest unit, Milorad Ulemek (Legija), and the new clan in charge of dirty business: Zemunski. Thus a new death squad was born.  

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Workforce Diversity

24th July, 2019. By Naomi Takamine, Nikola Markovic, Ryle Antonio.

Workforce diversity today is becoming a business necessity for any organizations in order to open doors for more opportunities with a broader client base.

So what is this significance of workforce diversity?

Workforce diversity is the organization hiring employees from different backgrounds.

Aiming to create equality and a more productive environment in the workplace based on demographics.

Workforce diversity has many advantageous not only for organizations but also for society since it can bring a better understanding of new culture, new marketing, moreover, expand clients demographics worldwide. 

Here’s the short clip about how important workforce diversity is and how they impact on workplace, employees, and society.

Diversity in the workplace is not just considered as something nice to have for the sake of having it, but it is in fact an essential and key for businesses to be successful. 

Some tips and advices to take in order to go towards a more diverse workplace environment are ensuring leaders of the business are aware of the importance of diversity. 

・Upper management have a great amount of influence on the people they oversee and manage so the process starts with the ones at the top. Leaders leading other workers by example in regards to diversity will have a tremendous effect on the workplace environment. 

・Companies also must ensure that their diversity policy is up to date and enforced consistently upon employees for them to be more aware and updated. Group meetings, hosting diversity classes for employees and the community, and diversity articles in company weekly newsletters are examples of how the messages can be relayed to workers in the business. 

・Training and educating can also be very beneficial especially to those employees with the power to hire potential employees. The recruitment process is a critical stage for the candidate and the company so it must be done with all fairness and away from any biases. Therefore, training sessions for employees are essential to overcome unconscious bias they may be faced with.

The image above shows that with diversity, it strengthens and opens the workplace to more opportunities. With more colored handprints – which signifies different races, ethnicities, ages, genders, religions and so on – it allows the tree of success to grow and propagate, allowing the business to prosper and be fruitful.

In conclusion workplace diversity is important because it plays a big role in most workplaces. It gives businesses a chance to have people of different cultures, backgrounds and ages working together with different skill sets. Which also means people can speak different languages and could help businesses expand and grow around the world. It can also create trust among employees. Especially if employees work together in groups because of all the different work styles, skills, and cultures all working together to a common goal. There are always positives and negatives to workplace diversity. We could always do more to improve workplace diversity.

Resources

https://blog.trueaccord.com/2017/08/diversity-builds-successful-teams-tech/

https://workology.com/what-is-workforce-diversity-and-why-does-it-matter-to-your-business/

https://youtu.be/Pn6WzHw7gHY

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List of all 2018 Vaganova Ballet Academy graduates

Teachers of the graduating classes: Lyudmila Kovaleva, Yulia Kasenkova, Fethon Miozzi, Alexei Ilyin.

There are four types of diplomas:

Comprehensive - Honours: Completed Grade 8 / Level III with honours

Comprehensive: Completed Grade 8 / Level III 

Basic: Completed Grade 7 / Level II 

Foreign Trainee Certificate

From what I’ve seen in the past, students who received their “Basic” diploma / completed Grade 7 / Level II may choose to either join a company or return to Vaganova to complete Grade 8 / Level III.

Comprehensive Diploma - Honours

Maria Bulanova

Anastasia Demidova

Daria Ionova

Anastasia Nuykina

Maria Khoreva

Comprehensive

Peter Attikov

Olesya Bocharova

Alexander Volodin

Sofia Voronova

Anita Voroshilova

Timur Dunarv

Ervin Zagidullin

Lada Ivanova

Daria Isaikina

Alexei Kalinin

Lidia Kovalenko

Stepan Korolev

Mikhail Los

Stella Malkina

Alena Mashintseva

Ilya Mogilnikov

Ilya Morozov

Alexandra Moroxova

Maria Petukhova

Roman Suslov

Vakhtang Kherheulidze

Alexei Shmetoev

Basic

Mark Andreev

Saiyn Barilei

Issa Bolkoev

Diana Inglina

Ksenia Lushnikova

Olga Petrova

Anna Shishanova

Zhanna Shurygina

Foreign Trainee Certificate

Orina Anzai

Rasmus Ahlgren

Nikolas Gkentsef

Valerie Gomez de Cadiz

Jolt Kovach

Biborka Lendvai

Davide Loricchio

Anamarija Markovic

Shinnosuke Ono

Alice Otsuka

Karen Otsuka

Jorge Palacios

Magda Studzińska

Kanon Suzuki

Jiachen Sunn 

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Zusammen mit den zwei Volontärinnen Anke und Isabel aus der Organisation RAS Refugee Aid Serbia, mit Mitgliedern aus dem Fotokollektiv Belgrad RAW und dem Künstler Grebo G. haben wir einen weiteren Tag bei der Gemeinschaftsunterkunft in Krnjaca verbracht.

Photos by Grebo G. 

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Together with the two volunteers Anke and Isabel from the organisation RAS Refugee Aid Serbia, with members from the Belgrad RAW photo collective and the artist Grebo Gray we spent another day at the Refugee Centre in Krnjaca.

Photos by Grebo G.

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“The Artist and Modern Life” - Exhibition of the RAY BUILDING Architectural Project at the ForA CONTEMPORARY ART PLATFORM Gallery in Berlin, Marburger Strasse 3 - 10789 Berlin. Opening 9 September 2020, until 27 October 2020.

https://www.foraplatform.com/darko-mladenovic

https://www.foraplatform.com

Photos : Nikola Markovic

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Dokument Povlastice sabora sv. Mihovila od 9. 02. 1450. Predstavnici pet sela su Nikola Uglješić i Vule Markov iz Luštice, Stijepo Andrić iz Krtola i Tripo Ivov iz Bogdašića.

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Montenegro completes NATO’s control of the northern Mediterranean

WHEN Donald Trump shoved Montenegro’s prime minister aside to get to the front of the pack at a NATO meeting on May 25th, a film of the incident went viral. But most people were interested in Mr Trump, not poor Dusko Markovic. For Mr Markovic the meeting was supposed to be a celebratory preparation for Montenegro’s formal accession to the alliance on June 5th. Instead the symbolic humiliation was seized on by those in the Balkan country who opposed joining. The Russian media, meanwhile, have been gloating.

In terms of muscle, Montenegro does add much to NATO’s strength. It has 1,950 military personnel, 13 helicopters, two frigates and three patrol ships. Its defence budget is €50m, or 1.7% of GDP. But its soldiers have taken part in NATO, European Union and UN operations, including the war in Afghanistan. Mr Trump hectors NATO’s leaders about the need to spend 2% of GDP on defence, but he still signed off on Montenegro’s accession.

Montenegro’s value has nothing to do with how many soldiers it has. Rather, its accession means that, apart from an insignificant strip of Bosnian coast, the entire northern shore of the Mediterranean from Portugal to the Syrian border belongs to NATO. The Bay of Kotor was a secure base for the Yugoslav and, before that, Austro-Hungarian navies. In 2013 Russia inquired about using Montenegrin facilities for its ships. Only when rebuffed did Russia realise that the Montenegrins were serious about joining the Western alliance. Every ex-communist country that has joined the EU first joined NATO.

Montenegrins hope that NATO membership will protect them in case, say, future Serbian or Albanian leaders try to whip up their ethnic kin inside Montenegro in pursuit of a Greater Serbia or Albania. But only about half of the country supports joining the alliance, according to polls. Among ethnic Serbs and Montenegrins, who together make up 74% of the population, it may be less than half. Bitterness at NATO’s bombing during the Kosovo war of 1999 still runs deep.

The division over NATO has split the country along familiar lines. In 1918 Montenegrins were divided over joining Yugoslavia. In 1948, cleaving to two centuries of friendly relations with Russia, many Montenegrins supported Stalin when he expelled Yugoslavia from the Soviet bloc. Over the past 30 years the percentage of those identifying as Serbs or Montenegrins has oscillated; the country’s Christian Orthodox citizens are often uncertain what to call themselves. During the independence vote in 2006, the split was as bitter as in 1918. “It feels like we are being annexed and occupied,” laments Gojko Raicevic, an anti-NATO activist. Others feel just the opposite. “We need the NATO umbrella, because it often rains in the Balkans,” says Drago, a driver at the defence ministry.

Last October the Montenegrin authorities said they had foiled a coup attempt aimed at stopping NATO accession, which they claim was organised by Russian agents. Nonsense, say opposition leaders like Nebojsa Medojevic. He says the “fake state coup” was a government-produced drama cooked up to scare pro-NATO voters during the country’s general election, which the governing party risked losing. One Western source says the evidence linking one of the organisers to Russian intelligence organs is “incontrovertible”. Russian officials mock the idea.

In 1889 Tsar Alexander III said that Montenegro’s Prince Nikola was Russia’s “sole sincere and true friend” in the Balkans. Russian investors and tourists traditionally love the Adriatic republic. But now Russian media are smearing it as a dangerous country run by a mafia clique. According to Pobjeda, a Montenegrin newspaper, the Russian government has put the country’s pro-NATO politicians on a blacklist. Montenegro is small, but its accession to NATO is a big defeat for Russia in the Balkans.

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "The final push"

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Szerbia fővárosa, Belgrád ad otthont 12 éve a Beldocs nemzetközi dokumentumfilm fesztiválnak. Idén a fesztiválon volt a premier vetítése a „The Blacklisted” című dokumentumfilmnek, amely a Fálun Gong Kínában folyó üldözéséről szól, Sara Markovics és Nikola Dragovics rende... http://hu.clearharmony.net/articles/a113020-Jogtalan-letartoztatas-illegalis-fogvatartas-Azt-hiszed-ilyen-veled-nem-eshet-meg-Ne-legyel-naiv.html#.XQkmsbQOEhU.facebook

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Murad, der kurdische Jornalist bei den Filmarbeiten zum Projekt Büro-Mobil auf den Straßen Belgrads.

Mit dabei ist das Kollektiv Karkatag aus Belgrad, Karo und Anna aus Deutschland sowie Francesco aus Italien.

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Murad, the Kurdish Journalist filming the Buero-Mobile project on the streets of Belgrade. The collective Karkatag from Belgrade, Karo and Anna from Germany as well as Francesco from Italy are there to help.