Criminal clans, secret services, regime beaters

Who is doing all this in Serbia?

The days of "open doors" for various persons of security interest continue and it is not entirely clear who controls that sector. It is possible to do the same as in foreign policy - arrests are made on all sides, they are released on all sides, depending on the given political moment - so in the same week, Radoičić and Nedić are on the side of the regime, and Russian spies who are trained and bred in Serbia are arrested.

Political crisis

The future of student and popular revolt

It is clear that the regime is in a knockdown, but is the other side also firmly on its feet? There is also a topic that is being vigorously discussed in this small part of the free public: whether the front of the struggle should be expanded, how to create relations between the non-partisan student block and the opposition parties, as well as in how many columns the anti-Vuvučić forces should go to the elections when they are called.

Valjevo

Sing, Serbia, when you feel like crying.

The thugs started strangling the student in front of the police cordon, the citizens shouted, "Do you see what they are doing to him", the gendarmerie did not move

Interview: Stefan Simić, Movement of Free Citizens

The only vision of SNS for Belgrade is corruption

"The first move after the change of government must be to draw a line, to say exactly how much is owed, how many fictitious people were employed, how many official vehicles were used, what are the disadvantages of city companies, who are the subcontractors...", says Stefan Simić, stating that the City's serious problem today is lack of transparency. "We have projects like 'Security of Belgrade'... A good idea raises doubts because everything is non-transparent - who are the people who are employed, what are their qualifications, how does the surveillance system work, where are the recordings stored, is there room for abuse? We don't know any of that, even though we ask questions every day"

Students, rebellious society and the opposition

How to reach a common goal

The seemingly harmless and undemanding word "coordination" awakened many spirits, appeared like a specter and loomed over Serbia. All the forces of old and new Serbia "united in a holy hunt against that specter"

Interview: Vukašin Milićević, Democratic Party

Supporting students is the only way

"I am absolutely sure that no one who is serious about the political future of this country, and I believe that these people also support the student list, has no intention of destroying political parties. That is why I am convinced that some mode will be found for the parties that support students in the elections to survive in the long term."

NSPM Survey – September 2025.

Vučić's pumping into a punctured balloon

There are more "us" after all, but with all the students, mutually very diverse, left and right opposition, pro-Europeans and pro-Brixists, true and false sovereignists, those who are "against the government, but still don't know for whom"... which is a group that even God himself could not, and should not, assemble into one whole. However, it is encouraging that in the past five or six months, the regime threw and burned literally all possible and impossible cards and trump cards and only managed to stop or slow down the shedding to some extent.

Financial life and death

What do we owe to whom?

When evaluating the budget for 2025, the Fiscal Council warned that the item with the greatest growth in the proposed budget is precisely the one that should pay interest on the public debt. According to the budget for 2025, interest expenses have increased by as much as 19 percent, i.e. to 1,9 billion euros in absolute terms. What does that mean? This 2,1 percent of GDP that goes to interest is quite higher than the average of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, where they allocate around 1,4-1,6 percent of GDP for this purpose.

Attacks on the judiciary

Unsuccessful attempt to discipline

How criticism behind closed doors was used to persecute the accuser. The interlocutors of the weekly "Vreme" emphasize: "This is revenge against Savović for raising her voice, but also preparing the ground for disciplining prosecutors throughout Serbia for what they did or did not say in a private conversation."

Safety of journalists at the local level

The case of Sonja Kamenković

"I began to look around the street and avoid going out after dark. My son was six years old at the time and it was difficult to explain to him why the police were visiting us every day. He went out to play in front of the building, and I watched him and thought that if someone really wanted to harm me, they could do it by harming my child. I reduced both my and his going out and reduced our life to only what was absolutely necessary. The fear grew and with me and with the whole family. As time went on, it was more and more difficult - not only for me, but also for my loved ones."

Interview: Vesna Goldsworthy, writer

That "wild Balkans" again

"At the moment, Russophobia, for which there are good reasons, is also used as a means to divert attention from British problems. Including the problem of Palestine and Israel, because it is real dynamite there. And the Balkans come here like some entertainment: it goes, it comes back, both in popular stories and in those heating up the idea of ​​renewed conflict, which, rationally speaking, is really not easy to imagine"

Dossier on the occasion of the 35th birthday of the weekly "Vreme": Journalism in the twilight of the Gutenberg era (3)

Journalism and journalism: written press and big uproar

The archivist of the modern Borges World Library Alef (a fictitious personalization of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT) about eight hours a day in front of screens, the attention of newspaper readers and the scattered attention of digital readers, about influencers as court fools of the digital age, about "flat earth news", about journalism and speed, as the enemy of depth, about the revolution of the press in the world and in Serbia, about the support that certain countries provide to preserve the press and how important world newspapers strive to maintain printed editions as a pillar of their reputation - and for the weekly "Vreme" as a paradigm of drama between the Gutenberg era and the digital age

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