Overview of the week
Vučić under the hood
As a special-purpose parastatal that uses metal bars to create "order and peace", Vučić is legalizing the hoodies. It is - approximately - something similar to Mussolini's "combat alliances" from 1919-1922.
Early Elections
Professors submit a petition for elections, Vučić will not respond to "meaningless demands"
The academic community will hand over the petition for the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections to the Presidency and Government of Serbia on Friday (May 23). The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said once again that he will not respond to "meaningless" requests
Breaking down blockades
Đokić, Kandić and Tomanović: Why are they suddenly the main targets of the regime
While colleges vote on the beginning of online classes, students demand elections, and the government draws targets for "enemies". How does he choose them?
Vučić's rhetoric
Heroes break jaws: Vučić compared the injured student to Hitler's followers
In his latest appearance on pro-government television, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić defended the suspects in the brutal attack on students in Novi Sad, calling them "heroes" and accusing the injured of being similar to Nazis from Nazi Germany.
Blockade of the court
Madness only in Serbia: The executive power threatens to block the judiciary
The progressives decided to block the court in Novi Sad, and this decision was supported by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, which is a precedent in political history.
Early Elections
Rector: I would experience the invitation to be on the list of students as a trust and an honor
After the President of Serbia publicly questioned the legality of Rector Vladan Đokić's participation in the student electoral list, the Rector replied that as a citizen and professor he was guaranteed the right to be elected. He argues that political engagement does not conflict with academic integrity, as long as it takes place outside university institutions
New address of the president
"The state is me": Vučić's latest confrontation with the institutions
President Aleksandar Vučić's statement that the SNS will block the courts in Novi Sad raises serious questions about the attitude of the executive power towards the independence of the judiciary. While the courts are being accused of "injustice" and "color revolution", the president is sending a message that looks less and less like an institutional dialogue and more and more like an open confrontation with all those who are not loyal to him
Vučić's students
"Students" threaten the media: New SLAPP lawsuits announced
Based on the methodology of the work of the Serbian Progressive Party and its followers, "Students who want to learn" announce lawsuits due to "frequent publications containing unfounded, tendentious and offensive comments" against them, but primarily against Aleksandar Vučić and SNS
Extraordinary parliamentary elections
Demand for early elections: "Coward!"
Students challenge Vučić to stand on their side in the elections and call him a coward. The government is running away from the elections for the first time, but so is a part of the opposition that is not happy with the student conditions
Dragan Stojkovic Pixie
This is not Pixie's first time: He also supported Milošević
The coach of the Serbian national football team, Dragan Stojković Pixi, appeared at the SNS rally in Nis to support the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić. He similarly supported the regime of the nineties
Comment
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
Archive of public meetings about Niš
Three-day two-hour Vučić gathering
The pompously announced "National Assembly" of Aleksandar Vučić in Niš was prepared for days, and dispersed in a few hours
Two gatherings in Niš
Showdown: A day of high risk in Nis
On one square in Niš, a rally by Aleksandar Vučić, on another, a gathering of students in a blockade. A close encounter between supporters of progressive and different Serbia is inevitable
University of Niš
Students from Niš to Vučić: Call elections or bear political responsibility
The blockade of the University of Niš took on a new political dimension - the students asked President Vučić to prove the legitimacy of the government in the elections. In the letter, they tell him that free and fair elections are the only way to test the will of citizens and restore trust in institutions
General Staff - same monument, different packaging
General Staff between Investments and Institutions: Counterfeits, Pressures and the Trump Hotel
While the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, says that the planned construction of Jared Kushner's hotel on the site of the General Staff is an "important project" and rejects allegations of falsification of documents, experts and the general public are concerned about the way in which they attempted to remove protection from one of the most significant buildings in Belgrade's modern history.
Niš
A close encounter of another kind: What are the students planning in Nis on Saturday?
An informal group of students from Nis will organize a large protest "Elect(we)se" on Saturday, not far from the place where the three-day All-People's Assembly of Aleksandar Vučić will begin on Friday.
SNS rally in Niš
Who is allowed to touch Vučić's stage in Niš: Instead of a podium, the inspection paper has disappeared
Although the communal inspection ordered the removal of the stage set up for the meeting of the Serbian Progressive Party in the Niš municipality of Medijana, for now, instead of the stage, only the decision of the inspection was removed
President of Serbia
Vučić: Elections in a year and a half
Students in the blockade demand extraordinary parliamentary elections, the opposition demands a change in election conditions, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić says that there will be no elections for a year and a half.
Niš
Niš is preparing for Vučić: Ćaciland and the announcement of a student protest
On the eve of the three-day SNS assembly and the triumphant arrival of Aleksandar Vučić, the center of Niš is transformed into Belgrade's Pionirski Park 2.0. At the same time as the main progressive event on Saturday, the students are announcing their rally
Extraordinary session of the High Prosecution Council
Prosecutors without protection from Vučić's pressures
According to the Commissioner for Independence of the High Council of Prosecutors, pressure on prosecutors in Serbia comes from various sources, but it seems not from the office of President Aleksandar Vučić. "The avoidance of Commissioner Milan Tkalac to explicitly state his position when it comes to the statements of the President of the Republic is professionally unacceptable," the President of the Association of Prosecutors of Serbia, Lidija Komlen Nikolić, told Vreme. What can the president say without it being understood as interfering with the independence of the judiciary
Personal attitude
Serbia and the European Union - is there an end to the "matchmaking"
Putin nevertheless received Vučić. If the latter is to be believed, Serbia will have as much oil and gas as our hearts desire. And a cheap one. I am afraid, however, of the folk saying "He who does not pay on the bridge, pays on the bridge". And if the situation could be even worse, this behavior of Vučić could "burn" all bridges and bridges towards the EU. And then there is neither the opening of clusters, nor the first 110 million non-returnable euros from the Growth Plan, nor European investments
A cheerful humorist
How we hurt ourselves
A short, sometimes darkly humorous account of historical events and moments when we invariably made mistakes in judgment, chose the wrong side or did things to ourselves, unjustifiably and unprovoked, that brought us here
President of the Assembly
Brnabić: The Serbian people are one of the most suffering, we had a place in Moscow
"I explained what President Aleksandar Vučić was doing in Moscow and that he went to pay his respects to the shadows of those who gave their lives for the freedom of Europe," said Ana Brnabić during her visit to The Hague
Unauthorized in intensive care
Students reported Vučić for parading his shock room
Students of the Faculty of Law in Nis filed a criminal complaint against the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, because of his media tour of those injured in the fire in North Macedonia.
Student movement and political tensions
A student of the Faculty of Law on the fight for elections: It must remain our matter
The students participating in the blockade, after sending a request for the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections, are currently working on forming their electoral list. However, according to Petar Živković, a student at the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade, the names of the candidates will not be announced until the elections are officially announced.
Demolition of the General Staff
"The arrest of Vasić is not a revenge against Trump, but an insult to the public"
"Vremen" interlocutors do not agree with Miroslav Aleksić's assessment that by arresting the acting director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia, Goran Vasić, the President of Serbia "consecrates" the President of the USA
Foreign policy
British MPs are asking for sanctions against Vučić because of the presence of the parade in Moscow
After Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić attended a military parade in Moscow, a group of British MPs demands from their government a change in its attitude towards Belgrade. In the letter, they accuse Vučić of authoritarianism, destabilization of the Balkans and ignoring European values