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Balkans.com: As Head of Public Relations for HRH Crown Prince Alexander, you are working with many aspects of public relations. What is important in PR that one should keep in mind?   Katarina Jakovljevic: Cultural forms tend to change. But knowing good manners means allowing the liberties and showing respect to people regardless of their social status, religion, political inclinations and background. Having Their Royal Highnesses as my employers and mentors for over six years gave me the access, perspective and insight into what today’s world is about.

Balkans.com: Your Royal Highness, Startup Weekend is a global initiative for organizers to create weekends in order for entrepreneurs or budding entrepreneurs to share ideas, form teams and launch startups. Can you tell us why you thought it was a good idea to bring the initiative to Serbia? HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia: In order for Serbia to move ahead, everyone needs to unite to create opportunities. As part of my education initiative, I thought this would be a brilliant way to launch an entrepreneurship initiative through this program within my education foundation.

By Michael J. Ray:Income investors are usually easy creatures to understand in the financial jungle that we operate in. The name of the game for these people is often times summed up in two concepts, cash flow and asset preservation. All income investors want that competitive cash flow to finance their needs. Of course they also want to preserve their overall fund balance, as what good is a great cash flow if your net worth is being eroded away.

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Russia rebuffed Cyprus’s request for a bailout loan as the euro-area nation sought to salvage talks in Moscow by wooing investment in its energy reserves. Russia is unable to provide loans and will instead consider making investments in the Cypriot energy industry, the island nation’s Finance Minister Michael Sarris said Thursday in an interview broadcast on Antenna TV. Sarris said he will have a later meeting with his Russian counterpart, Anton Siluanov.