About standing on the right:
This is a cultural issue, and I think it is largely incompatible with the Balkan psychology.  It is a pedestrian version of cars giving way to ambulances, police and fire trucks, except that here you (voluntarily) give way to other humans. You have to admit that other people could possibly have more important things to do. People don't like to be overtaken when driving, and here you want them to just stand a watch someone run  by? This requires certain humility, which is  rare.