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Belgrade Fair

09.August 2026 MLJ

"Sava Properties 2026": A new company that disposes of the property of the Belgrade Fair

The Government of Serbia founded the company "Sava Properties 2026", whose basic capital is 13,64 billion dinars, in which it entered numerous cadastral plots and the objects of the Belgrade Fair as a non-monetary contribution.

Book Fair

06.march 2026 Sonja Ciric

Publishers were not elected to the Board of the Book Fair

The Assembly of the City of Belgrade decided that the new Board of the Book Fair will not include publishers, as was the case until now. Jelena Medaković, secretary for culture of the city, says that the number of members has only been reduced for better functioning. The Association of Publishers and Booksellers of Serbia is seeking a new Board election

Belgrade on water

03.February 2026. S. Ć.

Is the Belgrade Opera moving to the Fair in Hall 1

Siniša Mali and the company Belgrade on water announce an opera in Hall 1 of the Belgrade Fair. It is assumed that they are referring to the National Theater Opera

Comment

30.October 2025 Sonja Ciric

Experiencing the regime: Belgrade Fair punishes publishers

The decision of the Belgrade Fair to punish publishers who will close their stands on November 1 is the latest scandal and the collapse of the Book Fair's reputation. The regime's trampling of cultural institutions continues

Book Fair

24.October 2025 NM

The book fair went a step further: on November 1, it offers free admission and a game

Although the Book Fair refused to close its doors on November 1 in memory of the victims of the canopy fall, the organizers devised an inadequate way to remember the anniversary - they offer a portion of the tickets to the families of the victims

Book Fair

02.October 2025 KS

Belgrade Fair: No publisher canceled participation

While the publishers announce that they will not participate in the upcoming Book Fair in Belgrade, the organizers state that no publisher has canceled their participation, and that only one company from Belgrade has canceled its exhibition.

The book and the country

01.October 2025 Sonja Ciric

Book Fair: A Tale of Two Serbias

The management of the Belgrade Fair announces that the Book Fair will be better and more successful than last year's, despite the fact that many publishers are canceling their participation and that Dušan Kovačević and Vladislav Bajac have resigned

The country and the book

19.September 2025 Sonja Ciric

The fate of this year's Book Fair is being decided

The publishers are asking the Belgrade Book Fair to change the term of the Book Fair so that it does not include November 1. They say that the Book Fair is not possible at that time

Urbanism

12.September 2025 Sonja Ciric

Private investor's trick: Where is the basis for the demolition of the Belgrade Fair hidden

The thesis presented these days that there is no precise insight into the condition of the halls of the Belgrade Fair, and that the estimation of the costs of bringing them to a new purpose is therefore uncertain, says professor of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, Dušan Najdanović.

The state and books

12.September 2025 Sonja Ciric

The anniversary of the fall of the canopy: There will be no one to come to the Book Fair

This year, the most visited day of the Book Fair falls on November 1, the anniversary of the deadly fall of the railway station canopy in Novi Sad. Did the management of the Belgrade Fair forget about that when making the schedule for the autumn events?

Belgrade on water

08.September 2025 Sonja Ciric

False hope that the halls of the Belgrade Fair will be preserved

The citizens of Belgrade have superficially read the Commission's decision on the plan covering Halls 2 and 3 of the Belgrade Fair. It does not say anywhere that the halls will not be demolished. Actually, some works on the area of that plan have already started

Belgrade on water

03.September 2025 S.Ć.

Will the halls of the Belgrade Fair be preserved in practice?

It was decided to accept the objections of the citizens of Belgrade, to preserve Halls 2 and 3 and the office building of the Belgrade Fair. Did the "Belgrade on the Water" company get something in return for this concession?

Urbanism

25.August 2025 S.Ć.

"Vreme" learns: Halls 2 and 3 will not be demolished

As "Vreme" unofficially learns, the members of the Commission for Public Inspection of the Draft of Changes and Supplements to the Spatial Plan of the "Belgrade on the Water" project are of the opinion that halls 2 and 3 of the Belgrade Fair should be preserved

Urbanism

02.August 2025 Sonja Ciric

Demolition of the Belgrade Fair: Both halls 2 and 3 remain - allegedly

After numerous objections from citizens and experts, the Urban Institute decided that halls 2 and 3 of the Belgrade Fair will not be demolished. The Planning Commission, however, has the final say

Ever since the potential demolition of the Belgrade Fair was announced, experts have warned of the consequences that will be felt by future generations

Belgrade's expansion on the water

30.July 2025 MM

The authorities still gave up on the complete demolition of the Fair: Halls 2 and 3 remain, the purpose is changing

The competent commission made the decision that Halls 2 and 3 of the Belgrade Fair should still be preserved, despite the original decision to demolish them for the purpose of expanding Belgrade on the Water

Urbanism

25.July 2025 S.Ć.

Belgrade remains: People, report to the public meeting on the expansion of Belgrade on the water

A new electronic session has been scheduled for the adoption of the Spatial Plan for the expansion of Belgrade on the water. The "Belgrade Remains" initiative urges the citizens of Belgrade not to allow this

Cultural heritage

22.July 2025 KS

Slovenians send support for the General Staff and the Fair: This is our common past

While uncertainty hangs over the fate of the General Staff and the Belgrade Fair, a voice of support arrives from Slovenia. The leading professional institutions of this country signed a letter in which they provide moral and professional support to the appeal of the Serbian professional public for the preservation of two key symbols of the modernist architecture of the former Yugoslavia

Initiative

18.July 2025 Sonja Ciric

Will the Republic Institute manage to save the Fair?

The Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments already has a ready proposal to restore the status of a cultural asset to the Fair. They ask their colleagues from the City Institute to do their part

Demolition of the Fair

17.July 2025 IN THE

The police broke the blockade near the Fair, and the three detainees were released

This morning, members of the police broke up an attempted blockade in front of the Belgrade Fair building, on Vojvode Mišić Boulevard, telling the crowd that they were violating public order and peace and to return to the sidewalks. Three people were detained, who were then released

17.July 2025 MLJ

Blockade of the Fair: Stop the demolition of another symbol of Belgrade

The demolition of the Belgrade Fair has unofficially begun. Blockade students and civil initiatives call for protests and blockade

Belgrade Fair

16.July 2025 B. B.

Students against the devastation of the Belgrade Fair

The students called on the authorities to immediately stop all works and to protect the entire complex of the Fair as an immovable cultural asset.

Fair

16.July 2025 MLJ

Everything you need to know about the demolition of the Belgrade Fair

With the removal of the so-called Painting Gallery, the demolition of the Fair in Belgrade unofficially began. Why and under what circumstances will this symbol of the capital go into oblivion, and what will spring up in that place

Beograd

15.July 2025 S.Ć.

Demolition of the Belgrade Fair has begun

Although the plan for decorating the Belgrade Fair was not adopted, the demolition of this symbol of the capital has begun. According to the media, the general director was also replaced, it is stated that the new director is the former head of the Pošta fleet, and the President of the Assembly is the owner of STR from Zemun.

Urbanism

03.June 2025 S.Ć.

Belgrade on the water: Flats in the sun, school under the bridge

The public inspection of the draft plan, according to which the future residential area of Belgrade on the water will replace the Belgrade Fair, and according to which the school and kindergarten will be located in an area without enough sunlight, is in progress.

Beograd

14.May 2025. Sonja Ciric

Who suits the 56-meter tower across from the Fair

The owners of the company that finances the development of the Draft Plan for the block across from the Belgrade Fair are the owners of the plot on which the 18-story tower is planned. The opposition councilors of the Sava County are trying to prevent this and other illegalities in that document

Protests

02.February 2025. TS

Protest in Čukarica, traffic blockade near the Fair

Several thousand citizens blocked the Belgrade settlement Čukarica, and at 17.30:XNUMX a traffic blockade will be held near the Belgrade Fair.

Projection of buildings at the location of the General Staff

Demolition of Belgrade

30.January 2025 Tijana Stanic

Who cares about history: Belgrade, a training ground for investor games

"It's a question of the moment when schools, hospitals and other social infrastructure will become a nuisance on valuable land, so they too will start to be erased so that elite housing and business complexes can be built in their place," Olga Andrić from the Ministry told "Vreme" space