Photo: Milenkovic MilovanWhat did the TENT collapse reveal? Why did Darija Kisić Tepavčević become a character from Goran Marković's films? And what is the name of the last democratic institution in Serbia
The gold medal for this Sunday was won by discomfort. It is about the dominant feeling of the citizens after the collapse of TENT: while the price of gas on the stock market breaks through the sky, announcing an energy crisis, it is an open question what kind of winter awaits Serbia.
Namely, the management of EPS and those who appointed it - from the President of Serbia downwards - cause deep anxiety. There really is a perfect storm at work. In meteorological terms - a cyclone of incompetence caused by an authoritarian and demagogic way of running the state.
The case of TENT also shed light on the directors of other public companies. What kind of staff is that? Picking out individual names leads nowhere as they all resemble each other beyond recognition. In short: "deserving" party members, mostly with bought diplomas and plagiarized doctorates, aware of who they owe their appointments to and ready to swallow everything and do anything to keep them. It is rare to find someone really professional among them.
If the management of EPS is exposed in its stupidity and incompetence, there is no reason to believe that anything is better in other public companies that are not of such importance and in the spotlight of the public. After the progressives, will there be any stone on stone in Serbia?
This is how we get to the silver medal won this week. It belongs Daria Kisić Tepavčić for a unique contribution to the history of dishonor. Even Seselj himself would not be ashamed of her attack on director Goran Marković. Basically, it's a realistic self-portrait: from the lowest politron needs, the minister of labor and a little bit more in order not to fall out of Aleksandar Vučić's sight. Nothing here alters the possibility that its simplicity is just a project assignment as part of diverting public attention from the collapse of TENT.
Because of all this, Tepavčević Kisić seems like certain characters from Marković's films. Let him look at them, he will recognize them easily.
In the end, the bronze medal goes to the organizers of environmental protests. After the withdrawal of the law on expropriation and the referendum, the fight for "air, land and water" is far from over. Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta and others therefore call for the continuation of the protest after Christmas.
In general, it is not true that all democratic institutions have been leveled in Serbia. There is only one left, and its name is - street.
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A group of individuals has created two websites where public procurement of the Telecom and IT sectors can be searched and compared. They invite the media, experts and citizens to review the documentation and submit reasoned observations
Very soon it could become obvious whether Milan Radoičić has left Serbia or not
The hospital formed a commission for an extraordinary expert check and informed the health inspection. Cases of death during childbirth in Serbia rarely receive a judicial epilogue.
Two unions of public services supported the request of FDU students for information about RTS employees, since claims appeared in the public that it was a request for "files". The students say they are looking for "public truth about public service."
Among those pardoned is the man who attacked a citizen who came to ask about the street in the office of the mayor of Kosjerić in April. The pardon applies only to one of the two offenses, and the injured party announces a constitutional appeal.
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
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