The territorial organization of Serbia is regulated by the Law on Territorial Organization, adopted by the National Assembly of Serbia on 29 December 2007. Under the Law, the units of the territorial organization are: municipalities, cities and autonomous provinces.
The Republic of Serbia has instituted its Ministry of Education to attend to the educational needs of the country.
The main Church of Serbia and Montenegro is the Orthodox Church. Like Russia, the tradition is to use the Julian calendar as opposed to the modern Gregorian calendar - at least when it comes to holidays and traditions. Day to day life is ruled by the Gregorian calendar.