John Peoplefox

Digging a tunnel in the center of Belgrade

Master, how far does the "little metro" go?

In the area between Lomina and Gavrila Princip Street, 3500 residential buildings and 4550 commercial square meters are planned to be demolished. 54 apartments will be removed, and 162 citizens will be displaced. The government's contract with contractors from China is not available to the public and it is not known who are the subcontractors on the project. That is enough to worry about, but Šapić says that "there is no turning back".

Danilo Savic

Controversies

The Symphony of the State and the Church (and the consequences)

Both the current regime and the Serbian Orthodox Church claim that the idea of joint work on the establishment of the University "Sveti Sava" came about out of concern for the well-being of the citizens of this country. But the actions of the current government years ago, as well as the actions of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and their unpublished coalition in the fight against Serbian universities, raise deep doubts about the benevolence of such an idea.

Viktor Radonjic

Inner voice

Internal dialogue

Psychology clearly shows that every form of fanaticism - reducing oneself to one dimension, be it religious, ideological, political, social, professional or belonging to a certain group - is a defensive attempt by a person who cannot discover a stable personal identity and then throws dust in the eyes of himself as well as others by convincing himself that not only does he have an identity, but that it is so obvious that no one should ever doubt it.

Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

The impact of artificial intelligence tools on education

AI (i) University

The question is not whether to allow AI in education, but what AI specifically changes in the way we learn and teach. It is important to know that AI does not eliminate the need for education, it multiplies it, but the multiplier works only where it already has something to multiply - if you multiply zero by a thousand, you will get zero

Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Selakov

Theater

In a whirlpool of lies

Florian Zeller, The truth, Bitef theater; director Damjan Kecojević; played by Gordan Kičić, Nebojša Cile Ilić, Tamara Dragičević, Milica Trifunović

Marina Milivojević Madjarev

Novel

Unbearable self-obsession

Dubravka Rebic, The summer is over., Prometheus 2025

Ivan Djurdjevic

Design

Hand-guided lines

Ivan Doroghy, Book of impressions;
private edition of the author, PUBLISH press, Belgrade, 2025.

Jaroslav Pecnik

Cinema

A frantic walk through the minefield of disappointed expectations

Sorella di Clausura, directed by Ivana Mladenović (Romanian-Serbian co-production)

Zoran Jankovic

Refleksije

The law that does not come

Jelisaveta Blagojević

Balinese culture

When ball gowns were bought on credit

Promoted from the Serbian court, the balls were the pinnacle of the social life of the elite for the citizens of Belgrade. The craziest, however, were the potato balls, for the lower classes, where they played Baba Mudra's Wheel

Jelena Janic Ljubisavljevic

Essay

Europe at noon

El Greco was not a favorite painter of Ortega and Gasset. However, the philosopher had a reproduction of this great Spaniard's painting in his study, and he analyzed his art in his essays

Miloš Cipranic

Elections for the Student Parliament of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade (Part II)

Tradition of rebellion

"Thanks to our professors, optimism and enthusiasm were maintained and a meeting was arranged with representatives of both organizations ("Medical Circle" and SINAPSA), vice dean Živaljević, acting dean Trajković and independent professors," representatives of the Student Protest told "Vreme". "Waiting for Friday and the confirmation of all invited members, the SINAPSA organization with the help of professors and lawyers is preparing criminal reports and lawsuits"

Viktor Radonjic

Commemorations: 81st year since the breakout from the Ustasa camp in Jasenovac

Systematic fanning of the Jasenovac myth

While in the Republic of Croatia the number of victims of the "Jasenova myth" is decreasing as much as possible and is constantly decreasing (the number of those killed and not tortured in the camp does not exceed 7000 people, maliciously insinuates the pseudo-scientific, Ustasha-like dredge), in the neighboring Republika Srpska, with mandatory patronage (undoubtedly also instructions) from Belgrade, headed by President Vučić and with the assistance of Patriarch Porfiri, the number of those killed is increasing to the maximum

Jaroslav Pecnik

Interview: Branislav Jakovljević, founder of the Belgrade Public Aquarium and Tropicarium

Belgrade needs an aquarium, not a dolphinarium

When our aquarium and tropicarium survives with a minimum of money, imagine what would happen if it were invested at a higher level, in the right way, with the right people, expert and experienced, who are truly respected in the region and this part of the world. However, the dolphinarium is the wrong story. As a nature lover, underwater photographer and videographer, I would not like any sentient, conscious being to live in such conditions

Danilo Savic

Inner voice

Freud's century

Even the fiercest critics should not lose sight of the fact that all of Freud's questions are our questions to this day, and that they will probably continue to haunt future generations. What are the causes of emotional suffering? How do dreams come about? Where are the traumatic memories until we are able to think about them? What is it in our unconscious that psychotherapy cannot help us change? Why someone is unable to grieve... It takes incredible insight to be able to formulate all these questions, and Freud's texts contain an incredible number of them.

Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Memoirs of a Correspondent from Iran: In the Heart of the Islamic Revolution, Tehran 1978–1979

Persian miniatures

Why did four of us journalists from the "Washington Post", "Los Angeles Times", BBC and "Politika" enter the Doshan Tapeh airbase, in the east of Tehran? What did we see on Farahabad Avenue? At what point were daggers at our throats? As the BBC reporter and I entered the buildings and scrambled across the rooftops watching the commotion below us, what happened to the Los Angeles Times colleague who was spotted by a sniper from the base?

Bosko Jaksic

Straits

Bottlenecks of geopolitics

Who controls the world's seven great straits - bottlenecks at the most critical points of the planet that have redirected the flow of world politics since ancient times and continue to do so today?

Slobodan Bubnjević

The Century of David Attenborough

One hundred years of beauty

David Attenborough led us to a new way of observing and understanding the living world in the natural environment and realizing our own influence on it, and his series set new standards for the quality of filming and storytelling. The fact that he is turning 100 years old is at the same time the realization that we will be without him, but also an occasion to celebrate life, struggle, love and nature

Marija Vidic

Social connections and the planet

The world is really small.

Is it possible that in a world of almost eight billion people you can reach any person - the Dalai Lama, Shakira, Nikola Jokic, the Mongolian equestrian champion or Miss Cambodia - in just six jumps? And what impact does it have on our lives, in the way (dis)information, epidemics, world crises spread

Dr. Saša Marković

Jazz

The ostrich trick

"Tigran Hamasyan Quartet", Kolar Foundation, Belgrade, April 26, 2026.

Dragan Kremer

Books

Fascism is hiding everywhere.

Based on the study of its development, we know that fascism does not need any spectacular 'march' on the capital to take root - apparently conciliatory decisions to tolerate lawlessness against the national 'enemies' are enough for that. Robert O. Paxton, Anatomy of fascism, translated by Željko V. Mitić; PineTrie, Belgrade, 2026.

Zoran Jankovic

Good memories

The Battle for Beoizlog

The Belgrade Showcase, a shop of practical souvenirs designed by artists and based on Belgrade motifs, has just turned 35 years old. It turned out that those first days of his would become an important part of history. They are remembered by Gorica Mojović, who with the Cultural Center of Belgrade was the initiator of Beoizlog, one of the city's toponyms.

Gorica Mojović

Inner voice

Bard's Day

An American Shakespearean scholar claimed that Shakespeare is the inventor of modern people, that he showed us how we can express our feelings and shape our identities. As for the first, it seems strange to us today that people once did not know how to express love, jealousy, greed, ambition or grief with words. All these feelings were best described by Shakespeare, at least until that historical moment, and some were even described first in the entire history of literature.

Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Artificial intelligence

Between hype and panic

The real issues are not those that dominate the public space. Nor the enthusiasm of a part of the technological scene, which more and more often sounds as if it is talking to itself, convinced that it is building a god. Nor the panic of those who see the apocalypse in every algorithm. Already sober, but stubborn insistence on answers to the questions: How much does this cost? Who pays? Who does it serve and what happens if it fails? The history of technology – from the steam engine to the nuclear bomb – has shown that major changes alter the distribution of power, economics, politics, and often societies, much more deeply than their creators initially understand.

Aleksandar Selakov

Bulgaria

A pilot against firemen and corruption

The former president of Bulgaria Rumen Radev (pictured) with the "Progressive Bulgaria" coalition, which he led in the elections last weekend, won the majority - 133 out of 240 seats in the Assembly. For the first time in the country's democratic history, he will not have to think about a coalition partner in order to form a government that he claimed during the election campaign would tackle systemic corruption.

Zoran Kosanović

Israel-Iran conflict (2)

Iranian political magical realism

And while the world is moving forward, Iran is lagging behind it more and more. And it is not America's fault (exclusively). When you constantly keep your guard up against the whole world, sooner or later the world will raise its guard up against you. States, like people, do not seek the company of those who are in constant conflict with their environment. After all, in the 21st century, a political model based on the promise of a divinely inspired savior has little to offer a nation of nearly 90 million people, where 60 percent of the population is under 39 years old. And it has even less to offer neighboring countries

Vladimir Eisenhammer

Pavel Vilikovski, a classic of Slovak and Central European literature

What we (can't) know about man

The task of literature - if it has any task at all - is to get to grips with appearances, to question not only the meaning of life and human existence, but the meaning as such, the very "nature" of meaning, that is, to answer the question: how to reach knowledge? This is the key idea of literature, which, Vilikovski is convinced, must, far more than the story itself, be interested in the act of "telling the story". This is where (s)thought and the secret of beauty and art are hidden

Jaroslav Pecnik

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