RSLive in English

RSLive is a practical encyclopedia about relocation, documents, institutions and everyday life in Serbia. Most of the encyclopedia is written in Russian; the English edition is a selective edition, not a machine-translated copy of the whole site.

It focuses on material that is useful on its own in English: information about RSLive, procedures that can be shared with an English-speaking landlord or other counterpart, and reference articles explaining Russian migration and Russian organisations in Serbia.

About RSLive

• About RSLive — how the encyclopedia is edited, checked and corrected.
• RSLive stickers — the sticker pack, Open Graph illustrations and how they are used on the site.
• Pig Peter and the RSLive mascot — the origin of the mascot and its Russian internet and emigration context.

Guides

• Beli karton: registering a foreigner’s stay in Serbia — a shared guide for foreign visitors and hosts: the 24-hour duty, eUprava and eTurista, electronic and paper proof, fines and registration after a new entry.
• How to register a foreigner’s stay through eUprava — the detailed electronic-filing guide for a property owner: eID, ConsentID, a qualified electronic certificate and the eUprava procedure.

Hosting tourists in your own property

Serbia has a special regime for a private individual (fizičko lice) who provides short-term tourist accommodation in an apartment, room or house (domaća radinost) or in a rural tourist household. The host must be the owner or co-owner of the property; a member of the owner’s household may provide the service with the owner’s written consent. The statutory limit is up to 30 individual beds and no more than 30 guests at the same time.¹

For an apartment, room, house or rural tourist household, categorisation is handled by the local self-government unit (JLS) through the state eTurista system. The host’s eTurista account is opened through the JLS. Once the accommodation is operating legally, guests are registered and checked out through eTurista; the system also contains the data fields used for foreign guests and can generate a confirmation of stay after registration.¹

A private host also has separate annual obligations for the lump-sum tourist tax (boravišna taksa) and tax on income from accommodation services. For private individuals, the tourist tax is paid by the host in the amount set by the competent authority; it is not charged to the guest as a separate line in the same way as by companies and entrepreneurs.¹

For foreign property owners

The public eTurista FAQ describes the private-host regime and ownership requirements but does not publish a complete separate onboarding procedure for a foreign owner. Before listing the property on Airbnb, Booking or another platform, ask the JLS where the property is located which identifiers and documents it requires for your eTurista profile and tax decisions. Ownership of the apartment alone is not the final step.

Do not confuse commercial tourist accommodation with ordinary registration of a foreigner staying at a private address. The Beli karton guide explains the shared duties and proof for the host and guest; the eUprava host guide covers the electronic filing procedure in detail. A categorised accommodation provider must follow the eTurista regime for its guests.¹

Russians in Serbia

• Russians in Serbia — an overview of the different communities and institutions and why they should not be treated as one organisation.
• Demographics — temporary residence, permanent residence, citizenship data and how to read the statistics correctly.
• KSORS — the Coordinating Council of Organisations of Russian Compatriots in Serbia and its member organisations.
• National Council of the Russian National Minority — its legal status in Serbia, powers, elections and activities.
• Russian House in Belgrade — its history, institutional status and programmes.

The English edition grows when a topic benefits from a self-contained English-language page. It does not attempt to mirror every Russian-language article.

Footnotes

1. eTurista — current FAQ for accommodation providers: private-individual accommodation, ownership, 30-bed limit, categorisation, guest registration, tourist tax and accommodation-income tax. eTurista is the state tourism system under Serbia’s Ministry of Tourism and Youth. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴