Overview of the week

14.January 2022 Philip Schwarm

Elections and parties: Democracy is not for everyone

The head of the OSCE mission in Serbia, Jan Brat, said that "it is not advisable to compare the systems in Norway and Serbia" and that "there are fair conditions" for the April elections. Is that statement a clumsy tribute to "quiet diplomacy, or did he mean that what would be abnormal in a highly developed country is quite normal on the European periphery

News

30.December 2021 Filip Mirilović

"Jadar" project: It is binding, it is not binding

"The implementation of the Jadar project has been ongoing for a year and a half, permits are being obtained, conditions are being met, EPS is installing a high-voltage network for the needs of the project, and on what basis?" There must be some legal basis, otherwise the funds will be spent for no purpose", lawyer Sreten Đorđević told Vreme.

Controversy surrounding the election of Goran Marković as "Vremena" personality of the year

27.December 2021 Andrei Ivanji

Brnabić: "Vreme" is a dialogue when "you should shoot someone"

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić is still either knowingly lying that director Goran Marković said that someone should be shot, or she didn't have time to read what he really said and read what others write to her. In any case, now from the position of the head of the government, she is spreading falsehoods about "Time" as well.

In the new issue

24.December 2021 Đorđe Vukadinović

Public meetings with the president: Once shocked, now Googled

Compared to 2014, the position of Aleksandar Vučić is significantly different today. He is more experienced, more confident, more relaxed. Acting is an undoubted element of continuity, but now with much more overpowering and slyness. He learned to combine "good" and "bad" news, albeit often in a grotesque way

News

19.December 2021 A.I

Ranko Panić: Abuse of a tragic death for marketing purposes

One of the few things that Aleksandar Vučić did not renounce from his radical biography is the event of July 29, 2008, when Ranko Panić was injured during the violent demonstrations of the SRS. His death two weeks after the protest will become one of the symbols of Vučić's "struggle for change in Serbia", Vučić's refrain and "proof of what they were like", and what "we" are today, that is, they, the progressives

Analyze

17.December 2021 Nemanja Rujevic

Serbia in a collision of elephants: How REM urgently gave a license to a Russian channel in German

Since Thursday, Russian state broadcaster RT has been broadcasting a linear program in German - citing a license recently issued by Serbia's REM. Serbia thus entered into a tug of war between the great powers, the tension between which these days can be cut with a knife. At stake are the price of gas, sanctions, political murders, but also Moscow's many years of attempts to market its state media on the German market.

From the printed edition

16.December 2021 F. Š

Electric power industry: Complete collapse of the system

The source of "Vremena" says that not enough good lignite is sent to TENT and that is why it has already happened that the mixture of lignite with tailings is burned with the help of fuel oil: "They tried that this time as well, but now they were not lucky."

News

14.December 2021 A.I

Thermal power plant "Nikola Tesla": Restrictions in the announcement

"Postponing investment repairs, both mines and mining equipment, is the constant action of the CEO of Elekroprivreda Srbija Milorad Grčić. Over time, tailings removal was reduced to scratching, regular annual overhauls were skipped as much as possible, and all forces were focused on coal production, because the boss likes big numbers." This was written more than four years ago in the text "Restrictions in the announcement" by "Vremena" journalist Zoran Majdin. It was as if he was writing today

News

11.December 2021 A.I

Blockade of Serbia: Epilogue of the third protest

The game of nerves, endurance, persistence and patience that the president of Serbia has always won since he was in power began. Despite the aggravating circumstances, enough people took to the streets to block roads and deter the police from intervening. The President of Serbia cannot allow himself to be defeated by "the street" once again. There are less than four months left until the elections

Interview

11.December 2021 Nedim Sejdinovic

Blockade in Novi Sad: Protests until Rio Tinto leaves Serbia

Vesna Jovljević from the environmental organization "Osna" says that Rio Tinto is "just one step away from the construction permit", that she regrets that there was a disagreement among the organizers of the blockade, but that she is glad that the ultimate goal is "Kreni-Change", which will not participate in today's protests, and all other environmental organizations, the adoption of a moratorium on the construction of mines in the Jadra valley

From the printed edition

10.December 2021 MN

Nebojša Zelenović: People on the streets now have power

In an interview for the new "Vreme", Nebojša Zelenović talks about relations with the co-organizers of the protest, guest appearance in "Impression of the Week" with Savo Manojlović, coalition partners from "Ne davimo Beograd", Olivera Zekić and REM, Rio Tinto and numerous other topics