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Sonja Ciric

He has been working for "Vreme" since the sixth issue. She was the editor of the culture section twice, and in recent years she has been editing Mozaik. She was a permanent contributor to magazines such as "Status", "Prestupa" and "Scene" and the weekly magazines "Zabavnik" and "Bazar". She published nine novels and received four important awards for "I will not think of Prague".

Latest news

The General Staff Affair

Attempted theft of cultural property

Goran Vasić, acting director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, admitted that he falsified the letter on the basis of which the General Staff's status as a cultural monument was revoked. It is not known whether he revealed on whose orders he committed the crime. The laws require that all negotiations and discussions about turning the General Staff into a hotel be stopped immediately until the Vasić case is concluded and the truth is established.

City and Bitef

Svetozar Cvetković: Miloš Lolić is the new artistic director of Bitef

As "Vreme" learns, the new artistic director of Bitef is Miloš Lolić, and the new date of the festival is the end of November. To make this decision, the Bitef Board waited for the new rules of the City Assembly

General Staff - same monument, different packaging

General Staff between Investments and Institutions: Counterfeits, Pressures and the Trump Hotel

While the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, says that the planned construction of Jared Kushner's hotel on the site of the General Staff is an "important project" and rejects allegations of falsification of documents, experts and the general public are concerned about the way in which they attempted to remove protection from one of the most significant buildings in Belgrade's modern history.

Bloomberg / Sonja Ciric

Beograd

Tenants of Knez Miloš: The Ministry of Construction is not responsible for the permit

The Ministry of Construction issued a building permit for Knez Miloš 42, although it is not authorized, according to the tenants of neighboring buildings. The six-story building under construction is right next to the neighboring building and could collapse it. The tenants therefore started an administrative dispute against the Ministry, and blocked the construction site

The General Staff case

The role of Goran Vasić in the intention of overthrowing the General Staff

Although he admitted that he falsified the proposal on the termination of the protection of the General Staff, Goran Vasić remains at large. The court only prohibited him from contacting the witnesses, while the public is wondering - who is the real orderer of the attempt to demolish this cultural monument?

Inheritance

Scenario for saving the General Staff

After the arrest of Goran Vasić on suspicion of forging the document on the basis of which the General Staff was stripped of its status as a cultural monument, experts are preparing a scenario for its restoration

Interview

Gojko Božović: Times are difficult, but we have experience

We didn't choose the circumstances, but we chose what we would do and how we would work in those circumstances - says Gojko Božović, whose publishing house "Archipelag" turns 18

Beograd

Who suits the 56-meter tower across from the Fair

The owners of the company that finances the development of the Draft Plan for the block across from the Belgrade Fair are the owners of the plot on which the 18-story tower is planned. The opposition councilors of the Sava County are trying to prevent this and other illegalities in that document

State and culture

Shkodër na Bojana: Will the Belgrade Philharmonic once again hang on to the building

The Ministry of Public Investment submitted a request for a building permit for the construction of a new building for the Belgrade Philharmonic. Given that it is known that the project is too expensive and that there is no money for it, it seems that this too is just another colorful lie

Jubilee

Ten years of talking about the love of reading

Ten years of the Literary Festival on the ship will be celebrated with the promotion of the monograph "RandeLJvu with writers and books" by Đorđe Randelj. The ship is a large white Zeppelin ship on the Danube at the foot of the Novi Sad Fortress, and the festival is like no other anywhere

Interview: architect prof. Branislav Mitrović

Forest and urban in the same space

"Changing existing practices in Belgrade is necessary. The key to solving urban issues today is the demand to overcome the gap between urban and non-urban, built and unbuilt, which has long burdened the entire area of urban-architectural research and practice"

Theater

Director of the Šabac Theater: Well, what if the employees don't want me

Aleksandra Delic was appointed director of the Šabac Theater a little over a month ago, and her conflicts with employees are daily. In the Open Letter, they listed only the main ones out of a series of problems for which they are asking the City Assembly to replace her

Architecture

A retrospective look at BINU: A proposal for a possible future

The exhibition "The Public of Architecture", marking the 20th anniversary of the Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA), proposes the establishment of a Center for Architecture with the intention of bringing this most public of the arts as close to the public as possible.

A story from life

Slovenians in Belgrade: Why did you allow it?

The most common question that guests from Ljubljana asked me during a tour of Belgrade, which they love and claim to have what no one else has, was - why did you allow it?

Festival

Investing in the NAFIT festival, a national project like EXPO

It seems that the National Film and Television Festival is for the Ministry of Culture what the EXPO is for the country. Minister Selaković announced the digitization of the cinema hall in Nova Varoš, the host of NAFIT

Interview

Tatjana Mandić Rigonat: The situation we are in is a real toi-toi genre

"The Tsar is naked, but the Tsar does not care that he is naked, he remains the Tsar and brags about his nudity in the style you can't do anything to me," says the director of the play "Broken Jug" of the Banja Luka Theater, which is visiting Belgrade on Sunday

City and culture

Who are the current users of the Belgrade Cultural Center Hall?

In DKC, it is no longer Culture in Blockade, which occupied this cinema hall in February, but a group led by Ratibor Trivunac, an activist and anarchist. The city assembly is silent, it seems that the Cultural Center has been let down the drain

Interview

Pianist: The monument to Stefan Nemanja has a sword, so it calls for force

The Ministry of Culture is seeking sanctions against Andrej Josifovski the Pianist, because of his intervention at the monument to Stefan Nemanja. The artist says - it hurts them that I did it in front of their noses

competition

The City of Belgrade suspended all competitions for cultural projects

Certain members of the Commission have resigned, this is the explanation why the City Assembly made a decision to cancel all this year's competitions for co-financing cultural projects

State and culture

Is there money in the budget for culture?

Neither the Ministry nor the City Secretariat for Culture have announced the results of the competition for co-financing projects, although the deadlines have long been exceeded, so the question arises as to whether there is any money for culture in the budget at all

Interview

Branko Milisković: We are an unnecessary layer of society for the state

"In countries with dictators at the helm, culture is reduced to propaganda. Everything that goes out of that frame, or tries to criticize the regime, is considered undesirable activism, an intrusion of state enemies, which should be suppressed and discouraged"

Metastasizing the tent in front of the Assembly

Beograd

Why don't the city authorities remove the umbrellas from Pioneer Park

The one who initiated and implemented the occupation of Pionirski Park and Bulevar Kralja Aleksandar with chadors violated the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property. Why are the authorities silent?

Culture and budget

Zrenjanin: We have not lost the status of Capital of Culture

Due to the lack of money, Zrenjanin canceled the tenders for the programs of the Capital of Culture, but that does not mean that they have lost this flattering status - they answered the inquiry of "Vremena". They claim to continue with a somewhat revised program

Beograd

Festival rush in September

September will be the month of festivals in Belgrade this year: Fest, Bitef, March Festival, "Seven Magnificent"... Unless the City Assembly decides that some of them will take a break this year

Bitef and the City Assembly

Svetozar Cvetković: We will make a decision about Bitef that we will not be ashamed of

The city assembly did not respond to the proposal of the Bitef Board that Nikita Milivojević, the previous artistic director of the festival, continue the work he had started, and he wrote a letter thanking him for the offer. Svetozar Cvetković, chairman of the Board, believes that a solution will be reached after all

Recommendation

Two books to think about theatre

The two latest books by Svetislav Jovanov deal with theater theory, and are not meant to pass the time. They are for those who need theater, who think about it

Festival

Beldocs: It doesn't depend on anyone

This year, Beldocs will be held as always, in May, unlike other festivals in Belgrade, which got some new dates.