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April 10, 2025

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Who are Vučić's political prisoners?

10April 2025. Nedim Sejdinovic

Freedom for Novi Sad activists

Marija Vasić, Lazar Dinić, Mladen Cvijetić, Lado Jovović, Srđan Đurić and Davor Stefanović are in custody (pictured in order). If they are not released soon, it is clear that we are on our way to Belarus. Those people in the regime media turned out to be more dangerous than Al-Shabaab bombers or any other prominent terrorist organization. Who they really are, who they have, what they do, what they believe in and what they fight for

Election of a new prime minister

10April 2025. Slobodan Georgijev

I'm not a politician, but I can look

It seems that Đuro Matsut is what a part of the public was looking for, and got in Vučić's perverse way: he is an expert who should lead the transitional Government of Serbia, but not in order to create a political consensus and calm the social crisis, but to bridge the time period until the moment when Vučić - formally or with Zoran Janković in the team - can again sit in the cabinet at Nemanja 11

Police brutality

10April 2025. Jovana Gligorijevic

The trail of death behind "small" mistakes in work

Dead, maimed, beaten, abused... That's how the citizens who, for various reasons, find themselves under the hand and baton of the Serbian police end up. The last case, which few believe really happened like that, is the most bizarre: a man hanged himself in a garage, while his hands were tied

Challenges of the political past and future

10April 2025. Đorđe Pavićević

Do we need lustration?

The state has become a paradise and protection for criminals, mobsters and instigators, robbers, thugs, and even murderers, provided that they are part of a "permanent alliance of sufficiently strong interests". Therefore, the struggle with the legacy of this government will be more like a struggle against feudal or post-colonial structures that wanted to change clothes, adapt and preserve political influence through control of resources than the processes of disqualification of guardians of the ideology of totalitarian regimes who did not care about human rights in their service. Investigations and court processes will play a much more important role in that process than administrative measures prohibiting the performance of functions

Cyclist's diary

10April 2025. Viktor Radonjic

On the road to justice

"In the capital of Hungary, we were welcomed and supported by the mayor there, which could not be said for our embassy - in addition to being ignored, they symbolically lowered the blinds on the windows. We spent some time at the university in Budapest, where we learned that the students there are also going through a similar situation as we are in Serbia, only without blocking classes - they have five demands and a movement to replace the rector. A party followed in our honor, and then we were placed in the houses of people who wanted to I was hosted by a Mexican," ETF student Aleksa Ognjanović writes for "Vreme".

Authority and undermining student blockades

10April 2025. Filip Mirilović

Inserted elements and other attempts

In what way is the regime trying to extinguish the revolt at the faculties from within? How much room for maneuver do they have? How much influence do representatives in SKONUS have on that? How is pressure exerted on faculty administrations? What else can be expected

Interview: Maja Kovačević, Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade

10April 2025. Marija L. Jankovic

I expect something unpleasant to happen to me

We often rightly criticize the European Union for actually sacrificing democratization and the rule of law in our country for the sake of security. These are the issues of Kosovo, Serbia's relationship with Russia, as well as the fear of causing regional conflicts. However, what is happening now is that the regime is causing internal instability in Serbia. It is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous than what the European Union is afraid of. For this reason, I think they will understand that the priority at this moment must be the internal stabilization of the situation in Serbia. And that means the end of intimidation, the end of hate speech, the end of terror, as well as the insistence on the action of judicial authorities, prosecutors, courts

Research

10April 2025. Nemanja Nenadić, Transparency Serbia

The wishes of the citizens and the will of the authorities

It is a common practice to justify the non-disclosure of contracts by real or alleged demands of companies with which the state does business. After the tragedy in Novi Sad, while the government still did not enter the "all student demands are fulfilled" mode, the story was different - that the contracts were secret, because the "Chinese side" was allegedly asking for it. This is, of course, not the first government that contracts huge benefits from the budget without the intention of presenting complete information to those who will pay for it all. But even when secrecy is unfounded, contracts are simply not published with surprising ease of irresponsibility. Currently, the "tariff" for publishing documentation about one project is sixteen dead passengers and several hundred thousand persistent protesters

Corpse portrait

10April 2025. Dragan Todorovic

Ilija and Đura are back in their element

The President showed on TV what dialogue is, Students violate the Constitution and the law every day, commit terror, and this is an attempt to overthrow him. Then he selected his expert as the representative, who could have been Đura Čvorović, his name is Đuro and he is 10 times better than them

Personal attitude

10April 2025. Dusan Pavlovic

Students, where next?

The success of the various protests so far has depended on three elements. First, the opposition, in a rare moment of political maturity, overcame its own divisions. Second, the protest grew into a wider social coalition, in which, in addition to the opposition parties, civil society actors, independent intellectuals, prominent public figures, the academic community and international partners were also present. Thirdly, the citizens showed the ability of strategic political reasoning, rejecting the defeatism expressed in sentences like: "everyone is the same". They voted strategically

Confession of Mira Marković

"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"

Interview - Sanda Rašković-Ivić, Commissioner for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia

15march 2001 Jelena Grujić

We don't want ghettoization

"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 case of the three beaten

15march 2001 Uroš Komlenović

Nothing new in Pozarevac

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?

Macedonia

15march 2001 Nenad Lj. Stefanović

The collapse of ethnic romanticism

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.

In memoriam

15march 2001 Olja Bećković

Maja Tasić-Maršićević

1965-2001

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"Informer's research team" defends the homeland

Lucky that Serbia has the "Informer research team"! Dragan J. Vučićević discovered the infernal plan of "criminals" and "blockaders" at the last minute and thus saved the country again. That he is lying is less important

Nemanja Rujevic

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Judicial impasse: Release Marija Vasić immediately

Keeping sociology professor Marija Vasić in prison on charges of terrorism is an anti-civilization crime. Or grotesque, whatever you want. Why don't judges, prosecutors, policemen, security guards rebel against it

Andrei Ivanji

Central meeting within the framework of the National Assembly

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Vučić has nothing more to offer, no one and no way

In a speech that made no sense from the point of view of logic and integrity, Vučić offered his voters everything they wanted to hear. But, all in contradictions. The spirit of rebellion can no longer return to the bottle because the bottle is broken

Ivan Milenkovic

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Time 1788

Who are Vučić's political prisoners?

Freedom for Novi Sad activists

Election of a new prime minister

I'm not a politician, but I can look

Police brutality

The trail of death behind "small" mistakes in work

Challenges of the political past and future

Do we need lustration?

Cyclist's diary

On the road to justice

Authority and undermining student blockades

Inserted elements and other attempts

Interview: Maja Kovačević, Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade

I expect something unpleasant to happen to me

Research

The wishes of the citizens and the will of the authorities

Corpse portrait

Ilija and Đura are back in their element

Personal attitude

Students, where next?

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