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.

New issue of Vremena

27.November 2025 S.Ć.

Conservators from the Institute: We are not deleting the General Staff, even if they were fired

Destroying cultural heritage is a crime, and if someone does it to their country, then it is a clear act of treason, say in the headline of the new "Vremen" the conservators of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Monuments, who are threatened with dismissal if they do not remove the General Staff and surrounding buildings from the list of protected properties

The General Staff Affair

26.November 2025 Sonja Ciric

The last defense against the barbarians

The employees of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments are asked, under the threat of dismissal, to act against the Constitution, the profession and morals, so that the lex specialis on the General Staff can take root in practice. They refuse. What is happening to them and what values ​​of the General Staff are they protecting?

Lex specialis

21.November 2025 Sonja Ciric

Conservators of Serbia refuse to delete the General Staff from the register of cultural assets

Employees of the Republic and City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments refuse to comply with the demands of lex specialists and delete the General Staff complex from the Central Register of Immovable Cultural Properties of the Republic of Serbia, even though they are threatened with dismissal. Apart from the heritage, they also defend the integrity of their institutions and their profession

Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments

07.August 2025 IN THE

The director under investigation for the General Staff has returned to work

Although he confessed to the crime and was under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office for organized crime, Goran Vasić returned to head the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments. The decision of the Government of Serbia to cancel the protection of the General Staff now has a new light - its proponent, suspected of forgery, continues to lead the institution responsible for the preservation of cultural heritage

A cultural treasure

26.August 2023 Sonja Ciric

Are Neolithic remains disappearing in Vinci?

The association "Naša mesna zajednica" believes that Dubravka Đukanović, director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, is responsible for the destruction of Neolithic remains at the Belo Brdo archeological site in Vinča.