Nikola Selakovic

08.February 2026. S. Ć.

Why the rush of cultural goods to the National Assembly right now?

Since the beginning of the year, the Government of Serbia has forwarded to the National Assembly for adoption eight proposals for obtaining the status of cultural property. All of them were proposed by the Ministry of Culture, on whose proposal the Government and the Assembly had previously revoked the status of cultural property of the General Staff

Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković

The General Staff case

04.February 2026. Sonja Ciric

The absurdity of Đukanović's claim that the proceedings against Selaković are a "legal absurdity"

Vladimir Đukanović, the lawyer of the accused Minister Selaković, claims that the protection of the General Staff as a cultural property was declared "null and void" a long time ago, and therefore the process being conducted against his client is a "legal absurdity". The Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments says that such a decision does not exist

Nikola Selaković, Minister of Culture

Portrait

04.February 2026. KS

Nikola Selaković: Orthodox radical on the dock

The youngest minister in the first government in which he sat, a lawyer by profession, a radical in disguise - what characterizes the career of Nikola Selaković, who found himself on the other side of the judge's bench

Weekly newspaper Vreme

New issue of Vremena

29.January 2026 RV

The regime knows its fate: They are yet to be judged

Minister Nikola Selaković "spews poison" because he is going to court, President Aleksandar Vučić fiercely defends him. In its new issue, "Vreme" examines the scope of the General Staff case and the settlement with the Republic Institute for the Protection of Monuments

A miracle never seen in Serbia - the trial of a minister

28.January 2026 Nedim Sejdinovic

Who is afraid of the case of citizen Selaković

The trial of the Minister of Culture should begin on February 4 on charges of abuse of office in the General Staff affair. "By announcing that he will pardon the accused in this case, Vučić is announcing what no one has ever done - he will absolve himself of criminal responsibility," believes Professor Bojan Pajtić. "All this looks like the defense of a man who knows that he is responsible for what he is charged with, and which of course needs to be proven during the procedure itself", assesses Selaković's actions, lawyer Jovan Rajić. "There is evidence - and this can also be seen from Vučić's statements - that he is the 'alpha and omega' of the business move of demolishing monuments of Serbian culture at the expense of bribing the American president", emphasized lawyer Božo Prelevic.

Interview: Nemanja Smičiklas

28.January 2026 Sonja Ciric

The regime wants to abolish the Republic Institute

"Minister Selaković's exposés are an unforced attempt to divert attention from his criminal responsibility and replace it with some other affair, of course non-existent, as we are already used to from our politicians. That speech in the House of the National Assembly was actually a dress rehearsal of presenting a defense before the prosecution and discrediting the Institute's experts who, among other things, are witnesses in the "General Staff" case. Every word uttered was a distortion of the truth and a spin of the facts."

New museum

09.January 2026 S. Ć.

Viminacium Museum, the first museum on the site itself

The recently opened Viminacium Museum is exceptional in the country because it is located on the site itself. Archeology and the protection of immovable cultural heritage are priorities of the Ministry of Culture, Minister Selaković said. However, there is no money for Belo brdo in this year's budget, and the General Staff was stripped of its status as a cultural property

Collage photo of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić

Overview of the week

09.January 2026 Philip Schwarm

Hello Maduro, goodbye friend

What is the real security challenge for Serbia? Most citizens know the answer at noon and midnight - it is Vučić's progressive regime

The "General Staff" Affair

08.January 2026 Ugljesa Bokic

Today: Details of the indictment against Culture Minister Nikola Selaković

The Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime filed an indictment against the Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković and three other officials for alleged falsification of documents and abuse of position during the removal of the status of cultural property from the General Staff building. The newspaper Danas published the details of the indictment

Interview: Nenad Leibensperger, Person of the Year 2025.

I have no right to remain silent about injustice

"The government shows that it does not respect its own decisions, nor does it know what it wants and what it is doing. When they say that they will only deal with the General Staff from the second half of the 20th century, and not the barracks of the Fifth Regiment or the old General Staff, it is clear that they cannot be trusted. No one can guarantee that any object in that scope will remain protected and preserve its monumental integrity. We are ready to fight in a civilized way. There is also a need, which part of the public has clearly expressed - asking for support from us as a profession, to which some of us have agreed - that, if the demolition begins, we defend the buildings physically... In any case, our next steps will depend on the government's moves. We know the legal framework, but we also know that the government does not follow the law."

General Staff

04.January 2026 B. B.

Leibensperger: If necessary, physically defend the General Staff

"Those objects can be restored and reconstructed. They are statically stable. The statics will be checked again when the time comes for the works. The destroyed parts can be restored and look as they looked when they were built," says Nenad Leibensperger, a historian at the Republican Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, who was named the Person of 2025 by "Vreme" about the state of the General Staff.

The General Staff case

30.December 2025 Sonja Ciric

Dismissal for two conservators: "It's not my fault"

The official reason for the dismissal of the two conservators of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments is the lack of money, and the unofficial reason could be the dismissal of acting director Goran Vasić. "It's not my fault," says one of the fired Tihomir Dičić.

The collapse of the "General Staff" project and the indictment against the Minister of Culture

18.December 2025 Radmilo Marković

The day they went downhill

If Selaković or the government do not invoke the minister's immunity, if something does not happen to the acting prosecutors and their families, if the chief prosecutor of the TOK and Mladen Nenadić does not decide that the TOK will "battle" the whole case or is content to leave everything up to Minister Selaković, if the government fails to suppress the prosecution or block its work, if the police and other state bodies act according to the orders of the prosecution, it is possible that the "General Staff" case will penetrate to the very "heart of darkness". where he came from

The lex specialis remains in force, which means that nothing prevents the regime from finding another investor instead of Jared Kushner and overthrowing the General Staff.

General Staff

16.December 2025 Bojan Bednar

Is the General Staff threatened by Tenis' scenario?

The lex specialis remains in force, which means that nothing prevents the regime from finding another investor instead of Jared Kushner and overthrowing the General Staff. Will the lex specialis for the General Staff serve as well as the Lex Tenis, which provided selected investors with lucrative leases of agricultural land