Column

10.July 2023 Ivan Ivanji

My leader's anthem to Serbia

My hometown has been Voždovac for over half a century. Voždovac is in Belgrade, Belgrade in Serbia. In that name, I can write "Long live Serbia!" in my Voždovac apartment with a clear conscience. Vučić has no monopoly on that exclamation, and I certainly do not mean Serbia as he, I guarantee, only temporarily created

Women

05.July 2023 Sonja Ciric

What is the cost of knowing you are right

"The story of Ksenia Atanasijević is the story of the suffering of a thinking individual who sticks to her moral principles. Because, if you are principled, talented and wise, you will either be forgotten, or you will be sharpened by the leveling blade of untalented petty citizens"

Solar power plants in Serbia

05.July 2023 Damjan Martić

The sun is there, you just need to use it

According to the specialized climate portal "Klima101", numerous studies show that the energy potential of solar radiation in Serbia is about 30 percent higher than in Central Europe. However, data from the independent energy research center Ember, which analyzes data on the total share of renewable and non-renewable energy sources at the level of countries around the world, shows that the share of solar energy in total electricity production last year was only 0,04 percent.

Child pornography on the Internet (1)

05.July 2023 Andjela Andrijevic

Intimacy on a tray

There is more and more child pornography on the Internet - in three years, the prosecutor's office has increased the number of cases three times, as well as the number of adult citizens who are prosecuted for this crime, and this is only the tip of the iceberg because such cases are rarely reported. We still have many unpunished cases. What are the consequences for children and how dangerous social networks really are

Natural increase

03.July 2023 AE

Serbia: 400.000 fewer inhabitants in the last nine years

At the regional level, only Belgrade recorded an increase in the number of inhabitants until 2020, and that trend would change from 2021, while in the other regions there was a decrease in population throughout the observed period, according to the estimates of the Republic Institute of Statistics

Crisis in Kosovo

02.July 2023 BG

EU: Punishment for Kosovo, we are watching Serbia

The European Union has imposed measures on Kosovo because it is not doing anything to calm the situation in the north. In the meantime, he is closely monitoring whether Serbia fulfills the official requirements

Protests and public opinion

28.June 2023 Rasa Nedeljkov

Awakening from apathy and inertia

Research by Crta points to the return of citizens to politics, which, on the wings of the "Serbia against violence" protest, is changing the paradigm according to which the regime easily controlled all the damage it (in)action produced. It is more important for the citizens who are protesting that they know what they are against than that they are still not clear who they are for

Debt reprogramming

27.June 2023 Z.S.

China's turn is a sign of mistrust in Serbia

"Public finances in Serbia have a lot of details that cause concern and uneasiness, such as, for example, the distribution of money from the budget to various categories of residents. This will not ruin the budget, but it will be a burden that is not pleasant," economist Prof. . Dr. Ljubomir Madžar adds that it is not excluded that China follows the public spending program and that the planning of some items causes a degree of mistrust

Economy

27.June 2023 Z.S.

China refused Serbia's debt reform program 

The Serbian government recently tried to agree on a rescheduling of its obligations to Chinese creditors, but the partners from Beijing were not interested in any concessions. After the negative response, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić asked Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bethel for help on the sidelines of the European summit in Moldova earlier this month.

Electric cars in Serbia

21.June 2023 Damjan Martić

Still an elusive future

The reasons for the weak representation of electric vehicles in Serbia are primarily of an economic nature. Environmental awareness takes a back seat if the average consumer doesn't have enough purchasing power to afford these cars

Interview

21.June 2023 Sanja Zrnić

Evan Trace, CEO of IREX: And big changes start with changing a few people

"Protests are a good thing for democracy." This means that citizens are engaged, dedicated, that they care about certain changes happening. Worse than that is when nobody says anything in a society that is facing a lot of challenges, about which nothing has been done. That's why I think that these civil protests are an indication that people in Serbia are hurt, challenged and want that to change."

Viktor Orban's visit to Belgrade

20.June 2023 A.I

Serbia and Hungary: Formation of the Strategic Council of Two Friends

Judging by the statements of Aleksandar Vučić, Serbia has no greater friend in the white world than Hungary, and he has no greater friend than the Prime Minister of the neighboring country, Viktor Orban. Mutual respect and camaraderie is understandable, considering the methods of governance they practice, and it resulted in the formation of the Serbian-Hungarian Strategic Council

Culture

19.June 2023 Sonja Ciric

Fahri Musliu: Bekim Fehmiu bothers both Belgrade and Pristina

What does the great Bekim have to do with what is happening to us, asks one of the authors of the documentary film "Bekim Fehmiu". Vučić, Brnabić, Gojković did not respond to his emails. It is also said that Belgrade has not been interested in a monograph on the great actor for years

Beograd

19.June 2023 I.Đ.

Initiative: Name the park after Dušan Jovanović

Twenty-six years after the brutal murder of the then thirteen-year-old boy in Beogradska Street, in the light of the new tragedy in "Vladislav Ribnikar", the story of a park being named after him has been brought up to date again.

Floods in Serbia

17.June 2023 S.Ć.

Čačak: Bridges fall like towers of cards

This morning, the Old Bridge on Velika Morava collapsed. Minister Vesić said that the infrastructure in Serbia is "not ideal" because nothing has been invested in it for decades. Residents wonder why the state and the City of Čačak have no money for a bridge, but they have money for a glass observation deck