Jelena Obucina

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24.February 2026. RV

Vremena interview - Jelena Obućina

Voices of Rebellion interviewer Jelena Obučina has the rare gift of articulating what society feels and putting it into words in her editorials for Dnevnik Nova S. What does it look like to leave a "state job" that is considered safe, but remain loyal to yourself, what does it really look like when a journalist is removed from the newsroom because he was doing his job, what are the personal stakes in the game, she tells Interview Vremena

Interview: Nenad Pavlović, director

18.December 2025 Bratislav Nikolic

Creativity is the only antidote to mortality

It is about the relationship between father and son, about facing the finality of the father figure, which always happens suddenly, regardless of how much you have prepared for it in your mind.

Interview: Snežana Petrović, painter

24.September 2025 Bratislav Nikolic

Against irrational fears

The style and poetics of each of us depend on the sensibility and character of the person. In my case, it's been like that since I was little, I'm an extremely perceptive type by nature and I attach great importance to details, so my work is full of symbolism and harmony of artistic elements that I play with during the installation. Details and scenes in a work of art mean nothing if the artist does not have a sharp eye and a sense for the harmonious relationship of the artistic elements in the composition of the work

Interview: Srdjan Cvijic

10.September 2025 Filip Mirilović

Liquidation pits in the heart of Europe

"At the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies of the last century, money began to replace ideology in Yugoslavia, criminal activities increased. Criminals became a social phenomenon, and the secret service began to hire them abroad, giving them immunity in the country. This increasingly produced corrosion within the state. As a symbol of that time, I talk about Arkan in the book."

Interview: Stevan Subić

31.July 2025 Nikola Dragomirović

The common denominator is passion

"We are a small country, a small speaking area, with radically sinking standards, including living standards, and yet, with a deep and rich tradition of visual storytelling. When you add it all up, we get something like a break, a quiet respite between two epochs, in which new generations and a wider audience wake up to a world in which authorship in Serbia is slowly gaining weight and quality."

Interview: Alpar Loshonc, philosopher

02.July 2025 Ivan Milenkovic

Europe cannot be understood without ordoliberalism

In 2012, Barack Obama sent his finance minister to reason with his German colleague who, against the over-indebted Greeks, emphasized the moral importance of suffering pain in the short term, for the sake of integrity in the long term. The persuasion failed. In any case, one cannot understand the creation of the EU without ordoliberalism, as well as Germany's position in Europe. In fact, even the XNUMXth century cannot be interpreted without it

Interview: Snezana Mijić, painter

04.June 2025 Nataša Gvozdenović

It's important to take yourself seriously

Snežana Mijić is a painter, conservator at the "Gallery of Matica srpska", currently studying for a doctorate in applied art and design at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. The immediate reason for our conversation is her exhibition "About the most beautiful pigs", in the Cultural Center "Laza Kostić" in Sombor. Curator Iva Leković writes in the catalog: "Snežana Mijić's Zoopraxiscope starts from a simple idea that multiplies in several directions of interpretation. Taking the motif of a pig from the photographic series of animals in motion by Edward Maybride, who can be considered a pioneer of multimedia and intermedial research, the author re-examines the relationship between traditional and new media, at the same time sketching the (always) current state of society."

TV Maniac

23.April 2025. Dragan Ilic

Silence on the streets... and then noise!

"Masts", Try a naked man, Excellent hamster, 2024

We never looked retro, but the way people who are not ready to humiliate themselves look. Who is to blame for the enslaved majority who humiliate themselves by following seasonal trends?

Alexander Weizner

Interview

26.February 2025. IN THE

Alexander Weisner: Education makes soldiers out of children

"When you create an educational system tailored to the needs and goals of militarization, then it is a kind of special war that you are conducting against the future of society," says Alexander Weisner, an international expert on conflict resolution, in an interview for the new issue of Vremena.

Interview: Goran Ješić

27.November 2024 Nedim Sejdinovic

The chain of responsibility in the mafia pyramid is clear

We have to fight for the financial-corrupt dimension to be prosecuted. We need to find out where 24 million euros disappeared, because this obvious theft is the direct cause of the death of 15 people. Of course, the tragedy also starts the story of countless secret contracts that follow large public and infrastructural projects, which are the breeding ground of enormous corruption. The companies that did the reconstruction of the station in Novi Sad are more or less the same ones that build, say, Belgrade on the water or work on EXPO projects

Politics

25.November 2024 IN THE

Vučić for the BBC: Dream Expo

"Serbia accounts for 55 percent of the total export of the Western Balkans." Serbia accounts for 64 percent of the total attractiveness of the Western Balkans. That's what I dream about, my dream is EXPO 2027. That's what I'm focused on,'' said Vučić in an interview with the BBC

Interview: Milan Kučan

02.October 2024 Tamara Nikcevic

A ticking time bomb in Europe's pocket

To put it simply, Yugoslavia was a country that allowed all Serbs to live in the same state. How, under the existing conditions and over the decades, that, shall I call it, "primordial interest" can be realized, that is another question. The way in which the then leadership of Serbia tried to do this led, among other things, to the disintegration of the country. And the only ones, I repeat, in which all Serbs really lived in one state

Interview

24.January 2024 NR

Ivan Ivanji: "I like to talk to myself"

Writer, translator, man who went through hell, but says his life was mostly good. Ivan Ivanji speaks for "Vreme" more about the future than about the past

Person of the year

11.January 2024 F.Š.

Bjelogrlić: I'm hitting from the left, and I'm about to

In a big interview for "Vreme" ("All my rebellious career"), which declared him the person of the year, Dragan Bjelogrlić talks about his student days, beginnings as an actor, cheering for Partizan and standing up for the little man

Encounters on "Desire" (2): Marko Mandić

07.December 2023 Nataša Gvozdenović

Acting as a way to freedom

"I have always liked digressions, it seems to me that we are mature, especially the young generation, at least for this you open a lot of windows, you come to some code, you search further, then you return to the basic narrative. Since life is chaotic, there is a need for calmness that would give (and hence the desire in the theater) clean storytelling. It seems to me that purer forms are on the rise - the story, the return to realism, we put the microphones away, we build, in fact, a scenography that evokes, closes, does what a film does for us"

In the new issue

23.November 2023 JJ/NR

Peca Popović: Where did the pride go?

ProGlas reminded people that this is their country and that they can influence its future with their voice and engagement, says Predrag Peca Popović for "Vreme".

Interview: Dragan Bjelogrlić

08.November 2023 Philip Schwarm

The changes begin with this election

"A person also asks himself the question of what he has done in his life, not only in his work. Therefore, living in a time that is upside down, not reacting and not opposing - especially if there are objective possibilities for my voice to be heard - it is not only my obligation and duty, but also a matter of honor. That's why I broke, aware of all the troubles and threats. This group in power has various possibilities to harm me and, by God, they are not sparing in it. But I'm ready for that. I'm ready to live with it, I'm ready to defend myself and I'm ready to face all their attacks with a raised forehead"

Zdravko Ponoš: We want to show goodwill.

Interview: Zdravko Ponoš, president of Serbia Center

11.October 2023 Nedim Sejdinovic

Threats of sanctions are not naive

"It seems that Aleksandar Vucic Milosevic told the Serbs from the north of Kosovo - here, I have to hide, and you take responsibility for yourselves, organize yourself, and we will help you as best we can. And before that, he took everything away from them, including participation in the judiciary and participation in the police. He left them alone and told them to make a parallel story. He also said that he would send a trusted man to organize them, and that the army would be close by to come to their aid if necessary. And then the army was dragged to the barracks near the administrative border with Kosovo, but not in combat formation but for taking pictures"