Why is Vučić forced to form a forced and tumultuous government? Why is Serbia from February 2025 no longer the same country from October 2024? How did the head of state come to extortion that none of the moves he has been making for three months are working for him? Where is the opposition in all this, how can it be divided and what should it understand
The sale of parts of the United Group from the state-owned Telekom creates an almost monopoly in the field of media content. When you add to that the attacks on small and independent media, the landscape in which Serbian citizens are informed takes on an even darker shade of black.
The disappearance of N1 and Nova S in today's form would mean a dark media age in Serbia. Granted, it has been dark for four decades, but it would be even blacker
Now this generation, which has not fenced itself off yet, is rising up, walking, carrying icons and crosses and Ferrari flags, singing and Bilećanka i Who says that, who is lying, Serbia is small, and with them the Bosniaks from Pazar hand in hand, and while they are being baptized after 15 minutes of silence, they recite the prayer and pray standing up, as is the only and mandatory thing for the dead. "For the first time, I feel like a citizen of this country," said one of the students from Novi Pazar
Parallel to the all-day mass gathering in Kragujevac, organized by students and activists, which was an eruption of good energy, creativity, youth and hope - in the ancient Roman Sremska Mitrovica on Sretenje, a progressive-Dodik meeting took place which, to put it mildly, was a promenade of sadness, hatred and tectonic lies. The capricious head of state, called the "subject institution", gave a usual speech, similar to thousands of previous public appearances. He added a new "quality" to it: he uttered nothing but untruths, completely dislocated from reality. And threats, undisguised, and insults addressed to citizens who have been protesting all over Serbia for three and a half months, demanding the return of the stolen state
"Dodik supports Vučić out of his personal interests, but he does so in a way that creates long-term problems and divisions between Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina and those in Serbia, who are justifiably angry because of the behavior of the authorities in the RS," Aleksandar Savanović, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Banja Luka, told Vreme.
The status quo is unsustainable in the medium term - the current state growth model is being exhausted, and high corruption and low level of rule of law will continue to stifle the domestic private sector and occasionally lead to a collapse such as the one in EPS or the tragedy in Novi Sad. Therefore, the eventual, transitory economic costs of these protests are negligible in relation to the economic prosperity that would be made possible by the fulfillment of their demands.
How did we get from "Aco Srbina" to "You are not welcome here" and what other options Vučić has on the table this spring
The student protest marches map a new Serbia that self-identifies as a Serbia freed from fear (...) Every place the students passed through, anthropologically speaking, participated in the transition process. That transition was from a state of anxiety and anguish to something that those who participated in the students' receptions, according to their own statements, experienced as a newly acquired freedom. It is difficult to find something similar in the recent political history of Serbia
Benetton's announcement that it is closing its plant in Niš means that more than 900 people in that city will lose their jobs. Other factories in the south of Serbia, such as Johnson Electric, Jure and Aptiva, have problems that could lead to an additional increase in unemployment. What should the state do so that workers stop being cheap and replaceable labor force
What are the parallel universes that, as part of protest folklore, have been launched by our respected spiritualists in a god-pleasing attempt to dissuade students? What kind of physics do they profess?
The strained political relations in Serbia led to an intense propaganda war through the media. While RTS is desperately trying to reconcile the irreconcilable positions of the government and the opposition, commercial channels controlled by the government are conducting an intensive campaign primarily against students, educators, non-governmental organizations and NGO activists. To this list should be added influencers on social networks who are a specific thorn in the side of Vučić's and his activists' attempts to conquer virtual space in cyberspace.
"I believe that the members of the SPS and JUL, those who are not mentioned in the newspapers and on television as thieves, rich or that they are suspicious and responsible for some other reason - I believe that they are the ones who made an agreement with the new authorities to that government protects their material and other interests, their rather large wealth, and that in return they contribute to the bribery of their yesterday's comrades and personal friends"
"Refugees have been manipulated like no other population in recent times. Perhaps only the mentally ill were manipulated that way in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign of terror."
The new authorities shout at the top of their voices that those responsible for the collapse of the state will be tried. Wouldn't it be more logical to rehabilitate the victims first?
In some reflections on the latest events not only in Macedonia but also in the south of Serbia, one hears how the Albanian side is allegedly trying to catch the "last train" for a more comprehensive solution to its own issue and to reach, possibly, a new Dayton by radicalizing the situation on the ground.
Ministers often call Vučić a class teacher. There is no joy or critical reflection in his classroom. Everyone has to bow their heads over the benches, hum and listen. What this is about, the reader sees on television every day
RTS is blocked, universities do not work, and threats, insults and calls to the prosecutor's office and the police to arrest blockers, rioters and terrorists are pouring out from the top of the government. The Serbian state has turned into a farce
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
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