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Interview: Laszlo Wegel, writer

05.February 2026. Nedim Sejdinovic

The student movement has deeper roots than daily politics

"Viktor Orbán started as a Soros scholar, continued as a prominent liberal, but he recognized the dominant value system of Hungarian society and moved to the center right, where he gained permanent power. Aleksandar Vučić started from the extreme right, over time he found his place on the center right, where he also gained permanent power. Both of them identified liberalism and the left as their main opponents."

True patriotism

05.February 2026. Jovana Gligorijevic

America is great because of Bruce, not because of Trump

Springsteen wrote Streets of Minneapolis January 24. On that day, a film was broadcast on TV Nova S A precedent about the police brutality that happened in Valjevo on August 14 last year. Minneapolis is easily mistaken for "Valjevo, I hear your voice...", or, even more frightening, "Novi Sade, I hear your voice as you sing through the bloody fog..."

Protest in front of the bakery in Surdulica

Ethnic relations

13.February 2026. Dejana Cvetković

Persecution of Albanians from Surdulica: When the lynching moved from Viber to the street

The owner of a bakery in Surdulica tells "Vreme" about the agony he is going through with his family since his cousin caused a traffic accident in which a Surdulica resident died

President of Serbia

13.February 2026. MLJ

Vučić: "In Munich, everyone is talking about the war"

Aleksandar Vučić said that he never saw people in uniform in Munich again, and that everyone was talking about the war. The neighbors are also worried, he says

Comment

Overview of the week

Special Forces Belly Dance

Why is the belly dance of special forces at a show competition in Dubai so important in Serbia and similar authoritarian countries? It will have to do with media and other freedoms

Philip Schwarm

Comment

Happy New Year to everyone celebrating

Manja Grcic comes to RTS with the image of a peasant - between journalism, loyalty to the regime and big capital, she always chose the other two

Nemanja Rujevic

Overview of the week

Life in a mafia state

What are the similarities and differences between a classic mafia family and a mafia state? What role does Capo di tutti capi play in both cases? And where is Serbia?

Philip Schwarm

See all

Cuba

13.February 2026. MLJ

Oil crisis: Half the country stops and the question is how to proceed

Donald Trump has cut off oil from Cuba and plunged the country into its worst energy crisis in decades. Everything stops and the question is how it will continue

In memoriam

13.February 2026. Milan Milošević

The deceased historian and Soviet dissident Roy Medvedev: Judge of the Great Terror and Stalinism

He considered his life's work to be the book "On the Court of History: The Genesis and Consequences of Stalinism", about the Great Terror in the USSR. Together with the physicists and dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Valentin Turchin, he published an open letter to the Soviet leaders in 1970 about the need to democratize the Soviet system. He criticized the coup against Gorbachev in 1991, but also the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin

Security

13.February 2026. NM

The Russians trained about 150 people in Serbia for attacks

Russian security services recruited around 150 people who underwent specialized training in Serbia to carry out direct attacks on selected targets, the Estonian intelligence service announced.

Cinema

05.February 2026. Zoran Jankovic

What is comfort and what is support?

28 years later: Temple of Bones
directed by Nio DaCosta
starring: Jack O'Connell and Ralph Fiennes

Interview

13.February 2026. Sonja Ciric

Staša Koprivica: How Ibi seduces citizens and they agree to it

"Ibi and his wife, Mama Ibi, are neither particularly powerful nor particularly genius in themselves, but their cheap, absurd populism and demagoguery spin and seduce citizens incredibly effectively," says Staša Koprivica, director of the new version of "King Ibi".

Kosovo

13.February 2026. Iva Manojlović/DW

An attack on the remaining Serbian institutions in Kosovo

The Serbian institutions in Kosovo are dying, and the official Belgrade is silent, although it bursts with nationalism whenever it needs to

Comment

Overview of the week

Special Forces Belly Dance

Why is the belly dance of special forces at a show competition in Dubai so important in Serbia and similar authoritarian countries? It will have to do with media and other freedoms

Philip Schwarm

Comment

Happy New Year to everyone celebrating

Manja Grcic comes to RTS with the image of a peasant - between journalism, loyalty to the regime and big capital, she always chose the other two

Nemanja Rujevic

Overview of the week

Life in a mafia state

What are the similarities and differences between a classic mafia family and a mafia state? What role does Capo di tutti capi play in both cases? And where is Serbia?

Philip Schwarm

See all

Last edition

This situation

Justice, the regime's enemy number one

What is the Center for Social Stability?

Poison and fog production

The myth of vote theft in the USA

How Serbia became collateral damage

The Epstein dossier

Now we only know how much we still don't know

Dossier "Vremena": A century of solitude

Eleanor Rigby and all those lonely people

See all

Politics

President of Serbia

13.February 2026. MLJ

Vučić: "In Munich, everyone is talking about the war"

Aleksandar Vučić said that he never saw people in uniform in Munich again, and that everyone was talking about the war. The neighbors are also worried, he says

Kosovo

13.February 2026. Iva Manojlović/DW

An attack on the remaining Serbian institutions in Kosovo

The Serbian institutions in Kosovo are dying, and the official Belgrade is silent, although it bursts with nationalism whenever it needs to

Beating of demonstrators in Valjevo, a man on the asphalt, a policeman with a baton raised

Protests in Serbia

13.February 2026. KS

Six months since the "blackest night" in Valjevo: Protest regarding the August police brutality

On Saturday, February 14, a protest will be held in Valjevo on the occasion of six months since police brutality against the citizens of that city. What is the plan of the meeting and what happened in Valjevo last year

Students

13.February 2026. Filip Djordjevic (DW)

Students and the opposition: Will political maturity prevail over vanity?

"According to the trust we respect, we act consciously and responsibly, therefore we do not want to allow ourselves to depend on other actors in any way," explains Anja, a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade.

Newest

Chronicle

pre 59 minute RV

Former tennis player Tatjana Ječmenica died

Tatjana Ječmenica was a professional tennis player and coach of the Fed Cup national team of Serbia and Montenegro

President of Serbia

pre 13 sati MLJ

Vučić: "In Munich, everyone is talking about the war"

Aleksandar Vučić said that he never saw people in uniform in Munich again, and that everyone was talking about the war. The neighbors are also worried, he says

Cuba

pre 15 sati MLJ

Oil crisis: Half the country stops and the question is how to proceed

Donald Trump has cut off oil from Cuba and plunged the country into its worst energy crisis in decades. Everything stops and the question is how it will continue

Interview

pre 16 sati Sonja Ciric

Staša Koprivica: How Ibi seduces citizens and they agree to it

Security

pre 16 sati NM

The Russians trained about 150 people in Serbia for attacks

Russian security services recruited around 150 people who underwent specialized training in Serbia to carry out direct attacks on selected targets, the Estonian intelligence service announced.

Economy

Petroleum industry of Serbia

13.February 2026. KS

NIS submitted an application to OFAC for a new license

Before the old one expired, NIS requested a new operating license from OFAC

Leskovac

13.February 2026. KS

Jura: Unions block management measures for 300 workers

The company "Jura" requests an extension of paid leave for workers due to a drop in orders and announces up to 45 layoffs. The trade unions insist on a dialogue on overtime work and warn that the crisis in "Jura" is part of a wider wave of departure of foreign investors from Serbia

A man in a factory with a cable in his hand

Foreign investment

12.February 2026. NM

Abrupt return of foreign investments in Serbia: Uncertainty, corruption, labor shortage

The latest Demostat research showed that foreign direct investments in Serbia almost halved last year, because in the first nine months the gross inflow was around 2,5 billion euros.

Electricity meters

12.February 2026. Marija L. Jankovic

"Vreme" learns: A high-level conflict is hidden behind the meter tender

A former associate of Bratislava Gašić again defeated the tender for meters to Danet Šijan. EDS workers suffer the most because of this, but also citizens - because who knows who and how their meters are read

Dairy protest

11.February 2026. IN THE

Milk producers blocked the Ibar highway - tons of milk spilled

Dissatisfied with the purchase price of milk, large imports and the termination of cooperation with dairies, milk producers organized mass blockades in Mrčajevci and Knić. They demand an urgent reaction from the Government of Serbia

Energy Industry

11.February 2026. KS

Wind farms: How South Banat became an energy epicenter with the growth of Chinese capital

While wind energy in Serbia and North Macedonia is being promoted as a pillar of the green transition, the development of wind farms in South Banat and the Demir Kapija region has opened up questions of transparency, ownership and the role of the state.

Society

Chronicle

14.February 2026. RV

Former tennis player Tatjana Ječmenica died

Tatjana Ječmenica was a professional tennis player and coach of the Fed Cup national team of Serbia and Montenegro

Security

13.February 2026. NM

The Russians trained about 150 people in Serbia for attacks

Russian security services recruited around 150 people who underwent specialized training in Serbia to carry out direct attacks on selected targets, the Estonian intelligence service announced.

In memoriam

13.February 2026. Milan Milošević

The deceased historian and Soviet dissident Roy Medvedev: Judge of the Great Terror and Stalinism

Threats

13.February 2026. NM

Threats to female activists in Kula: Violence against women due to criticism of the regime

Activists in Kula have received threats in which gender-based violence is used as a political weapon of intimidation. It is an attempt to remove these women from the public space because they criticized the regime of Aleksandar Vučić

Trial of activists from Novi Sad

13.February 2026. NM

The court refused to cancel the arrest warrants and detention of the activists

The High Court in Novi Sad rejected the proposal that the detention and arrest warrants of a group of six activists from that city, who are being tried in absentia for an alleged attempt to subvert the constitutional order, be lifted in order to allow them to return to their homes.

Ethnic relations

13.February 2026. Dejana Cvetković

Persecution of Albanians from Surdulica: When the lynching moved from Viber to the street

The owner of a bakery in Surdulica tells "Vreme" about the agony he is going through with his family since his cousin caused a traffic accident in which a Surdulica resident died

The World

Cuba

13.February 2026. MLJ

Oil crisis: Half the country stops and the question is how to proceed

Donald Trump has cut off oil from Cuba and plunged the country into its worst energy crisis in decades. Everything stops and the question is how it will continue

Sarajevo

13.February 2026. RV

The Sarajevo tram derailed at full speed and crashed into a stop full of people (video)

The tram was moving towards Baščaršija. When he was entering the main road at full speed, he got carried away, jumped off the rails and hit a bus stop full of people. A young man (23) died, and a girl (17), who was seriously injured, had her leg amputated

The war in Ukraine

12.February 2026. NM

Lavrov: The relations between Putin and Trump are excellent, we will do everything to keep it that way

The relationship between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is excellent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

The Epstein dossier

12.February 2026. Jovana Đurđić, Maja Vasić-Nikolić

Now we only know how much we still don't know

The members of the Committee entrusted with the investigation into the affair of the dead American rich man emphasized that their goal is to determine "how such an active predator could act with apparent impunity for so long, despite clear evidence of his crimes that were presented to the authorities as early as 1994." Despite the vast amount of documents that have been dumped into the public domain, it remains unclear how close we are to answering this question

The Founding Fathers of America

12.February 2026. Dragan Simic

John Quincy Adams - the man, the time, the work

The return of the Western Hemisphere to the focus of US foreign and security policy and the existence of what is called the "Donroe Doctrine" requires an understanding of the roots of this policy. The intellectual, state and political legacy of the greatest American strategist in the 19th century and the creator of the Monroe Doctrine, John Quincy Adams, is certainly the first and most important step in the whole process.

Interview: UPC Archbishop Silvester Stojčev

12.February 2026. Jelena Jorgacevic

We must not allow self-isolation

"In order to find a sustainable form of existence of Orthodoxy in Ukraine in the future, it is necessary to start a calm and open discussion about this issue with other local Churches. The longer we all together refuse such a discussion, the more complex the solution of this problem will be in the future"

Comment

Overview of the week

Special Forces Belly Dance

Why is the belly dance of special forces at a show competition in Dubai so important in Serbia and similar authoritarian countries? It will have to do with media and other freedoms

Philip Schwarm

Comment

Happy New Year to everyone celebrating

Manja Grcic comes to RTS with the image of a peasant - between journalism, loyalty to the regime and big capital, she always chose the other two

Nemanja Rujevic

Overview of the week

Life in a mafia state

What are the similarities and differences between a classic mafia family and a mafia state? What role does Capo di tutti capi play in both cases? And where is Serbia?

Philip Schwarm

A special unit of the Gendarmerie in full gear to break up demonstrations on a hummer

Comment

When we blow and fire, we will destroy Ćaciland

Milo Đukanović ruled Montenegro for 32 years. Vučić would at least trade Serbia that much, which means another 18 years - with the police force, secret services, paramilitary party formations, restrained judiciary and enraged tabloids.

Andrei Ivanji

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Đuro Matsut in suits and ties. In the background two flags of Serbia.

Comment

Collapse of the system and Jailization of Serbia

The game mode is all or nothing. Vučić has absolutely no idea what to do, except try to rule, literally, the police force and the tabloids. Because the state system fell apart as a result of violence, theft and incompetence, as in Zaječar

Ivan Milenkovic

Regulation on shops

11.February 2026. Marija L. Jankovic

"Vreme" learns: The price of 600 products in stores is increasing

The state "unlocked" purchase prices in stores, so some suppliers immediately started sending new price lists to retailers. Already in the first week, some raised the prices of more than 600 items by seven percent on average. This automatically means higher prices in stores

Infrastructure

10.February 2026. NR

The fast road arrives slowly: The fiasco of the corridor to Požarevac and Golupac

To Požarevac, instead of the promised fast road, you still go around the village of Vranovo, so when you get there. And President Vučić bizarrely blames the "blockaders"

Public service

11.February 2026. IN THE

Manja Grcic elected director of Radio and Television of Serbia

The management board of RTS elected Manja Grcic as the general director of the public service

Electricity meters

12.February 2026. Marija L. Jankovic

"Vreme" learns: A high-level conflict is hidden behind the meter tender

Marking the anniversary of the fall of the canopy

Novi Sad

13.February 2026. B. B.

"Last warning": Threats to students due to the announced protest

On February 16, students in Novi Sad organize a non-violent rally against Vučić's arrival at the Serbian National Theatre. That is why they receive threats over the phone

Culture

Interview

13.February 2026. Sonja Ciric

Staša Koprivica: How Ibi seduces citizens and they agree to it

The Bitef case

13.February 2026. Sonja Ciric

Who manages Bitef if it is not the Board, as prescribed by law

Given that the City Assembly rejected the Bitef Board's proposal that Andraš Urban prepare the program for this year's festival, does this mean that the Board is not actually at the head of Bitef, as stated in the decision of the same City Assembly

Theater

12.February 2026. RV

The hundredth performance of the play "Neoplanta": The courage of memory and reflection

The play "Neoplant" on Friday (February 13) at the Novi Sad Theater opens for the hundredth time the story of man, city and history, but also the place of an individual in a world that is constantly changing.

Art colonies

12.February 2026. Luka Tripković

Against parading decorations and stupidity

Exchange of experiences, joint work and informal conversations become an integral part of artistic practice. The focus shifts from the product to the process, from individual affirmation to collective reflection. At a time when artists are forced to constantly produce evidence of their own relevance, "Mokrin House Art Colony" represents a shift with clear political weight.

Beograd

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Vrsac

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Belgrade, Old Town

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Belgrade, New Belgrade

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Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.

Belgrade, Vinca

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Mozaik

Archeology

12.February 2026. Saša Rakezić

The riddle of the circular trenches from Orničje

During protective research in the atar of the village of Malča, in the Orničje locality, archaeologists found circular trenches from prehistoric times, absolutely unknown in Serbia, whose purpose and meaning have yet to be interpreted.

Profession

12.February 2026. Maja Miljević-Đajić

Archaeologists wanted

The Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Nis covers a territory the size of Slovenia. Eight institutes and around 50 archaeologists work in Slovenia, and two archaeologists in Niš "cover" seven districts and 41 municipalities.

Postcard

12.February 2026. Marija L. Jankovic

Taiwan, the West with a drop of China

Are Taiwanese afraid of an attack from China and what do they think of Trump, and why this Asian island liberally and admiringly accepts everything the West has to offer - except its easy attitude towards foreigners

From the newsletter

11.February 2026. Vukasin Karadzic

How much time do you spend on the phone?

How did shorts and reels take over our attention and why can't we stop scrolling on our mobile phones? Psychologists Snežana Mrvić and Doris Elena Herrera for "Međuvreme" explain how algorithms affect our dopamine system and contribute to the increasing retention of attention on content from social networks

From ace to deuce

08.February 2026. IN THE

Betting shops in Belgrade: How many are there and where are they all located

Belgrade is full of betting shops and casinos, but there are no official statistics. According to unofficial estimates, the number of outlets in the capital ranges from 655 to more than 1.400

Interview: Laszlo Wegel, writer

True patriotism

Ethnic relations

President of Serbia

Overview of the week

Comment

Overview of the week

Cuba

In memoriam

Security

Cinema

Interview

Kosovo

Overview of the week

Comment

Overview of the week

President of Serbia

Kosovo

Protests in Serbia

Students

Chronicle

President of Serbia

Cuba

Interview

Security

Petroleum industry of Serbia

Leskovac

Foreign investment

Electricity meters

Dairy protest

Energy Industry

Chronicle

Security

In memoriam

Threats

Trial of activists from Novi Sad

Ethnic relations

Cuba

Sarajevo

The war in Ukraine

The Epstein dossier

The Founding Fathers of America

Interview: UPC Archbishop Silvester Stojčev

In between

Overview of the week

Comment

Overview of the week

Comment

Comment

Regulation on shops

Infrastructure

Public service

Electricity meters

Novi Sad

Interview

The Bitef case

Theater

Art colonies

Beograd

Pancevo

Apatin

Subotica

Zrenjanin

Vrsac

Novi Sad

Ruma

Kula

shadow

Title

Vrbas

Kikinda

Niš

Kragujevac

Royally

Belgrade, Old Town

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Belgrade, New Belgrade

Medium pollution

Belgrade, Vinca

Medium pollution