The regime against the people 21.August 2025 Jelena Zoric Torture in the garage of the Serbian government Rape threats and beatings followed when, after another protest in a row, the demonstrators went home. According to the testimonies of victims of torture, students and citizens were kidnapped from central Belgrade streets, taken to the building of the Government of Serbia - the seat of the executive power - where they were tortured or forced to listen to and watch others being beaten.
The regime against the people: The case of the beaters 21.August 2025 Slobodan Georgijev The mafia has two ends. In addition to Andrej Vuฤiฤ, Vlada Mandiฤ and Ljuba Jovanoviฤ, former athletes who obviously have control over certain groups of "youngsters", took the place at the helm of the club. This especially applies to those from Republika Srpska because Mandic was active with them there as well. In addition to them, those from the public sector "who know how to fight" were hired, as was the case with Luka Petroviฤ, the city secretary for investments.
Regime against the people: Sources of violence 21.August 2025 Ivan Milenkovic Pendrek as a technology of survival in power "At first glance, an individual act of extreme violence - when a civil servant threatens a girl with rape - may seem like an isolated outburst," Zoran Pavloviฤ, a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, told Vreme. "But it's not just a matter of his private 'pathology' - even if it was, it's still not just his problem - but a symptom of a system in which such behavior is tolerated and even encouraged"
The Regime Against the People: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Police 21.August 2025 Marija L. Jankovic Ministry of Interior of Serbia in numbers and letters While an "ordinary" police officer without a university degree works for about 80.000 dinars, his colleague in the Gendarmerie has at least three times the salary. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia has about 46.000 employees, of which 21.000 work in the administration. There are about 15.000 authorized officials, namely policemen in uniform or plainclothes, criminal, traffic and border police, and special units in Serbia. However, not all of them can be found at protests in Serbia, because many of them perform other tasks within their jurisdiction
Regime against the people: Ivica Dacic, portrait of a contemporary 21.August 2025 Jovana Gligorijevic The midnight minister for beating citizens If he were the kind of person he is not, Dacic would have wondered how people on the streets, mass demonstrations and a deep division of society happened to him for the second time in his career. If they weren't like that, he and Vuฤiฤ would wonder if maybe it wasn't up to them
Regime against the people: Three days and four nights 21.August 2025 Dragan Todorovic Battle of Valjevo The police, who were brought in from the side, brutally beat and trampled the demonstrators. The whole of Serbia responded to the rally condemning that violence. At the end of the protest, a group of masked "kids" demolished SNS premises and some other public buildings "at will". There is a suspicion that the "kids" were on a "task"
Government against elections 21.August 2025 Maja Stojanoviฤ Violence instead of democracy So far, every attempt by the regime to suppress the protests by force has only produced the opposite effect - more public anger and the determination of the demonstrators. In such an atmosphere, the only solution that can bring things back into the constitutional framework is elections where citizens would freely express their will and give mandate to those they trust. Now is exactly that moment - huge protests and social crisis unmistakably indicate that the majority will of the people is for change to come at the polls, not on the street. If elections are not called urgently, it is very likely that we will witness a continuation of the dangerous spiral of violence and institutional breakdown
Can the regime impose a state of emergency? 21.August 2025 Tijana Stanic Unrest, instability, Vuฤiฤ Five years after the pandemic, the term "state of emergency" is again circulating in Serbia - this time not because of the virus, but because of the protests that are shaking the power of the President of Serbia. If that measure were to be introduced - would it strengthen the regime or would it only accelerate its departure into history
Interview: Verica Marinฤiฤ, editor of In Media 21.August 2025 Jelena Jorgacevic I look into the eyes of those who threaten me "The moment the canopy fell and everything started to unfold, we held a editorial meeting and agreed: this time we have to choose a side. I was involved in sports journalism, I always passionately supported 'Partizan' and I never showed sympathy on the field. However, this is a situation - the most difficult in my twenty years of journalism - in which you have to make a clear decision. We cannot support or mitigate what is happening to the citizens of this country."
Serbian-Chinese relations 21.August 2025 Filip Miriloviฤ Why do you say friendship, but you mean bare interest From the beginning of 2022 until today, China has invested slightly more than six billion dollars in Serbia through investments and construction - according to the data of the American Entrepreneurial Institute (AEI) think tank. For the sake of comparison, for the same period of time, more than nine billion were invested in Hungary. In the Western Balkans, Serbia leads in terms of the number of Chinese investments, but when you look at the world map on the AEI tool that maps all Chinese investments, you can see that there are still many countries, on different continents, with which China has a "steely friendship".
Economy and politics 21.August 2025 Dragan Stojkoviฤ The Belgrade Stock Exchange in the era of SNS finance The Belgrade Stock Exchange, as a stock market, is in a very difficult state and without realistic prospects for significant improvement. Contrary to the implemented "modernization" of the stock market website and the very optimistic statements of government representatives, the stock market is on the verge of collapse. The last Report on the Stock Exchange's operations available on the website refers to the year 2022, and the last International Conference of the Stock Exchange was held in November 2019.
This situation 21.August 2025 Philip Schwarm The President and Death Why did Vuฤiฤ announce that it is a matter of days when someone will be killed? Why did he remember Aldo Mora when announcing the murders, and not Zoran ฤinฤiฤ? What else do his thanatological statements say? Are they being issued by a frustrated and scared politician or are they a dangerous self-fulfilling prophecy
exclusive 15.march 2001 Igor Mekina and Svetlana Vasoviฤ-Mekina Confession of Mira Markoviฤ "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 Raลกkoviฤ-Iviฤ, Commissioner for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia 15.march 2001 Jelena Grujiฤ 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 15.march 2001 Uroลก Komlenoviฤ 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 15.march 2001 Nenad Lj. Stefanoviฤ 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.
Comment Vuฤiฤ's meeting in Novi Sad: A demonstration of force and a strategic retreatThe goal of the Novi Sad rally was clear: intimidation, demonstration of massiveness and dominance, as well as showing strong capacities for coercion and violence. Nedim Sejdinovic
Comment Appointment with freedom"People don't want freedom, and that seems to be for one reason only: if they wanted it, they would have it." This is what Etienne de la Boessy wrote 500 years ago. And the citizens of Serbia shook themselves and scheduled a meeting with freedom, ready to reject "voluntary slavery" Ivan Milenkovic
Overview of the week One man has no luck.Why does everything that Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ touches turn into a mockery or a scandal, and most often both? And why it is clear that he lost, but no one told him that yet Philip Schwarm
