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Jelena Jorgacevic

She has been with the weekly "Vreme" since 2008 as a journalist, and since 2023 as an assistant editor-in-chief. She completed basic studies in journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, master's studies in Cultural Theory at the same faculty, master's studies in Religion at the University of Erfurt (Germany), and is now a doctoral student at the University of Regensburg (also Germany). She is the winner of several journalistic awards. She is the author of several books, as well as several scientific articles in foreign magazines and anthologies. She is the vice-president of the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ).

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Zorana Nikoletić, a journalist who was fired because of a gaffe

Comment

Rigor Training: The media is great by the way, let's fire the girl for a slip

The general director of the RTV public service does not see any other problems either in his house or in the media world, except for the young weather forecaster, who got a gaffe and someone broadcast it by mistake.

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Interview, Aleksandar Dimitrijević, psychologist

The scream of the trauma of a silenced society

I remember a patient from the hospital in Padinska Skela, who was depressed and hospitalized for the first time in the forties because her son told her: "You work all your life, you have nothing, and Arkan's people have everything." He left with them, got hooked on heroin and was devastated. She did not come to the hospital because of psychopathology, but because of social pathology; society was completely disrupted, and consequently she suffered and had to seek help. In the hospital, or in psychotherapy, you help someone, that person returns to the family or to the society of a perverted value system, of rampant violence, and everything you have achieved is destroyed very quickly.

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Interview, Duško Vujošević

I am the general of the dead army

"The players are different, very talented and less talented, smart and not so smart, but they are a difficult people because they all have great vanity. It is already undermining the team spirit in the national team when you announce that you called Jokić. Maybe now everyone is expecting that presidential invitation. And if Vučić really called him, which I think is a mistake, then he should not publish it yet as part of his marketing. Of course, players must have certain privileges when they sacrifice their rest and need for recovery to play for the national team; they should have certain privileges even if they are not members of the Serbian Progressive Party. But it seems to me that Vučić did it in order to take credit for Jokić's playing. To him, we are all - and Jokić in this situation - indirect means"

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Interview: Professor Chris Alden

Africa between China and the West

"Some countries in Africa have a much stronger civil society and are more vocal when it comes to non-transparency of loans, corruption or human rights. They see China as a violator of human rights, and Western sources are more attractive to them. However, I have heard many times what African politicians say to their colleagues from the European Union and the West in general: 'Yes, we would rather have a loan package and we are happy to have human rights as part of it, but there is no money from you. In fact, you are only talking big stories, pointing fingers at us when we borrow from China, but you are not offering us any alternative'”

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Interview: Peter Beyer

Changes to come

"Europe will play a smaller and smaller role in global politics in the future. Not only do we have a shrinking population, but also a shift in global power. Even with Biden, one of his successors or with Trump, US politics will be different compared to the past fifty, sixty years. There's globalization, supply chains, different interests in the Pacific, China, Taiwan... The US has always been both a transatlantic and a Pacific nation. So the turn to Asia is not a new thing. And we Europeans have to find an answer to that."

Interview: Professor Klaus Buchenau

Corruption between the two wars

"While Pašić's circles were in power, there really was a lot of high-level corruption and even though it was known, the courts did nothing because Nikola Pašić was protecting his people. In the 1930s, the country was different, there were obstacles, not everything could be done. But those punitive measures were not directed against their own, against the royal camarilla, but against those who had already lost power, so their examples proved the fight against corruption."

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Commentary: Exposition in numbers and pictures

Simulacrum and poetics of Miloš Vučević

Miloš Vučević's presentation lasted for three and a half hours of reading, after which he presented the new Government of Serbia. When it comes to expertise, the connection between ministers and portfolios generally seems as if they were pulling a name from one drum, and a portfolio from another drum, so what suits whom. But well, it's not about expertise. But as far as the exposé is concerned, it contained all sorts of things: a handful of commonplaces, soulless odes to one's own party, a description of Serbia that you certainly wouldn't recognize, and poetic moments of escape.

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Comment

Do you remember Stanimir B?

When it turned out that DD had died a violent death, few were really surprised. It wasn't just about the desire for revenge, it wasn't even about the fact that we googled different forms of evil, but that we expected the state to act against the state, that those who should protect the system are the same ones who undermine and destroy it

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Interview: Sergey Guriev, author of the book Spin dictators

Is there a cure against modern autocrats

"The spin dictator needs to convince the public that he is a competent leader. That is why it needs economic growth. His problem is that for economic growth he needs a modern knowledge-based service sector - and for that he needs a creative class, entrepreneurs and highly educated professionals. So the economic problem of the spin dictator is that he needs an educated class for economic growth, but if this class becomes too numerous, it becomes too expensive to silence and/or co-opt. And the more money is spent on silencing the educated class, the less there is for the rest of society."

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Interview: Dobrica Veselinović

A boycott is not a good solution

"I don't think it's a good solution not to go to the Belgrade elections and go to the elections in other places. This would contribute to the decline of trust in political parties, in the institutional struggle, in the form of organization that says - we organized around the basic postulates, which is participation in elections and winning power in elections. This would lead to an even stronger wave of populist movements, which would then flirt with various non-institutional actions. All this would create even greater social chaos. After so many years of rule by the Serbian Progressive Party, our society has been served"

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Interview: Katarina Đokić

European arms imports doubled

According to a 2012 estimate by consulting firm Jane's, the price of an hour of "burst" was 16.500 US dollars, now it can only be higher, due to inflation. Further, the assessment accepted by NATO is that each pilot should achieve 180 flight hours per year - a low number of flight hours means not only insufficient training for combat missions, but also a higher risk of aviation accidents. According to that calculation, it is necessary to allocate almost three million dollars a year just for one pilot. Even if that money is provided, it will be at the expense not only of other budget users, but also, for example, the possibility of training and maintaining infrastructure in other units of the Serbian Armed Forces."

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Comment

Bringing back the death penalty: The vulture of Aleksandar Vučić

Back then, the program of the Serbian Radical Party stated that they were against the death penalty. Of all the things from the radical past that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić could have repented of, he chose to publicly change his mind and repent of his support for the death penalty.

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Interview: Dido Michelsen, writer

The darker the skin, the harder life was

"There are also many people like me in the Netherlands, we are a mixture of Indonesians and Dutch, and there are, of course, Indonesians as well. And people have a hard time understanding the difference between us. The difference is in our history"

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Interview, Vukosava Crnjanski, director of CRTE

Chronicle of the decline of democracy

"It is not a problem in the relationship between what was said and what was kept silent in the ODIHR report. We should not blame the authors of the report for thinking that they have left room for mutually exclusive interpretations. Because they are not. The problem is in our backyard, in that it has become a practice to convince the domestic public not to see what is completely obvious to them (...) In the shortest and as simplified as possible, the erasure of the border between the state and the party that ODIHR points out means that the elections they are getting to the point where only the government that issues them can get them"

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Orthodoxy in Ukraine

Faith on the crucifixion

What is the religious situation in Ukraine today? What are and what will be the consequences of the religious division among the Orthodox on society and human relations? How many and what kind of relationships and loyalties are intertwined there? How many believers and parishes have transferred from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and what about those who have not and will not do so? What will happen to the gap between Moscow and Constantinople? How do they see all this and what do they say to Vreme, the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Yevstratiy Zorya, a deacon of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who, fearing for his safety, wanted to remain anonymous, the Russian historian Nadezhda Belyakova, who had to leave Moscow to protect his daughter, and University of Regensburg professor Klaus Buchenau

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Comment

Metal detectors in schools would normalize violence

After the tragedy in "Ribnikar", Vučić spoke about 1200 police officers for schools. Now they are calling for metal detectors at the entrances, additional security, searches of children... And maybe we should have just listened to the experts, talked to the children and dealt with prevention

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Comment

Investor urbanism: They concrete our life!

Many values - solidarity, coexistence with nature, relations between neighbors, healthy socialization and healthy development of children - are partly related to the living space. And they are stealing him from us. Concreting green areas, they concrete our life

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Kosovo, today and tomorrow

Serbian community in Kosovo, life in limbo

What can Serbs in Kosovo hope for in the coming months? How do the announcements of all the elections - from the American ones, through those for the European Parliament, to possibly Kosovo - affect their position? To what extent are the attacks on the Serbian community part of the pre-election campaign of Self-Determination, and to what extent is it an attempt to change the situation on the ground to such an extent that possible changes in geopolitical circumstances would not have any impact? What are all the nuances in the events in Kosovo and Metohija that are mostly not visible from Belgrade

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Interview: Dragana Mladenović, writer

Read to the children what they choose

"Today, dozens of domestic films and series are filmed, and hardly any of them are intended for the youngest. Also, I noticed that our children are growing up with musical hits from our childhood. This speaks of the fact that very few authors are seriously engaged in composing new children's songs whose template would be contemporary children's poetry."

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Comment

Verdict of the Supreme Court of Croatia: A Serb is better than Severina

If this is happening to a "very popular and wealthy" singer, as the judge of the Supreme Court of Croatia said, then what can a "small and weak woman" expect? What will happen when you face some powerhouse that swims like a fish in water in these and such systems

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Comment

Progressive Apologies: False and Hypocritical

Vučić's "sorry" is an illustrative example of his entire rule, and even his personality - as "sorry" is to him, he is as sincere, responsible, ready to repent and ready to change

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