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Society

15.June 2023 Sonja Ciric

Civic initiative: Let Split and Novi Sad unite

This week, an action was launched to unite the second largest city in Croatia and the second largest city in Serbia, both with the area code 021. In half a day, at the invitation of the initiator of the civic initiative "Drugi grad", about fifty applications arrived from both cities. Ante Tomić and Aleksandar Samardžija were the first to respond

Interview: Psychologist Ana Mirković

14.June 2023 Milica Srejić

The whole society is a victim of psychological violence

"Every day, through news shows, we are brutally and emotionally abused by the leaders of the system. If we agree to be victims, then how can we explain to our children that they should not agree to that? How can they believe us? Children learn mostly by modeling. By acquiescing, we set a model for our children that they should suffer. I really hope that this society has woken up"

Constitutional violence

14.June 2023 Anya Klein

From judicial abuse to freedom from fear

"Labor disputes should be resolved urgently, but if the court proceedings last 20 years, then all we have to do is cross our fingers and ask ourselves, for God's sake, where are we?" With these words, the retired judge of the Supreme Court, at the same time one of the best experts in the field of labor law, Dr. Zoran Ivošević, addressed those present at the conference "On legal uncertainty and the position of illegally dismissed journalists in the light of the role and jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court."

World Day Against Child Labour

12.June 2023 S.Ć.

Results of the latest research: Every tenth child in Serbia is a victim of abuse at work

Last year, almost 82.000 children in Serbia were exposed to the abuse of child labor, mostly in agriculture and in households with a lower level of education. Children of both sexes often work on the street under the supervision of an adult

"Serbia against violence"

09.June 2023 BG

Fellow pilot Omer Mehić: Patriotism is to admit and resign

"Six good people and one baby died. They did not want to become heroes. The wrong people wanted to become heroes that day," said Saša Jovanović, a colleague of the fallen pilot Omer Mehić and his crew.

Freedom of speech

09.June 2023 Jelena Zoric

The case of the nuclear engineer: Fired for politically inappropriate tweets

Under the nickname Mila Sila on the social network Twitter, she criticized and commented on the actions of ruling politicians. Because of this, she was fired from the Directorate for Radiation and Nuclear Safety and Security, where she worked for years. This is her story

Comment

09.June 2023 Ivica Dobrić

The share of miracles and effort in politics: What should the opposition do?

In the destroyed public space, political substance appeared again - the awareness that civic energy must be articulated in political terms. Citizen political parties and citizens' representatives serve exactly that

Interview

08.June 2023 Branislav Grković

Dejan Šoškić: We have no money for Vučić's promises

"This measure may be politically popular and someone may think that it can reduce domestic demand in the short term. However, given the structure and weaknesses of our economy, this measure will in practice only increase public expenditures and public debt and stimulate inflation," says the professor. Faculty of Economics for the portal "Vremena"

Kosovo Chronicle

07.June 2023 Slobodan Georgijev

Reanimation of the Ohrid Agreement

After a week of tension and the pre-war situation came a week of anticipation. The conflicting parties are in the same positions, the mediators are in the region. It looks like there is nothing to the deal

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, awarded the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, with the Order of Alexander Nevsky

Personal attitude

07.June 2023 Nemanja Todorović Štiplija

Winners of the Order of Alexander Nevsky: Vučić, Dodik and 750 others

Neither is the Order of Alexander Nevsky the highest decoration of the Russian Federation, nor does it have anything to do with the old order of the same name, nor is it rarely awarded, as Serbian tabloids wrote. Apart from Vučić, Dodik and, for example, Lukashenko, more than 750 other people were awarded with it. The highest decoration of today's Russia is the Order of St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called and was awarded to only four foreign citizens

07.June 2023 Vremena editorial office

Action "Hand over your weapons": Tomorrow is the last day

Citizens of Serbia can hand over illegal weapons today and tomorrow without criminal consequences. According to official data, more than 78.000 weapons were collected in the operation

Society

06.June 2023 Z.S.

Devastated villages of Serbia: Hungarians leave the country en masse

Young Hungarians go to the countries of the European Union in search of work, and they take their entire families with them. Their departure is most noticeable in Subotica, where they used to be the majority, but now there are more Serbs

International politics

03.June 2023 BG

USA and Serbia: Can the "New York Times" article about Vučić change anything

Although the text of the American newspaper was the subject of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Council for Democratization Policy analyst Kurt Basiner is not sure how much the "New York Times" story will change the way the US relates to Serbia.

Comment

02.June 2023 Andrei Ivanji

Where next, relatives: Belgrade against violence

The time has come for the opposition politicians, who on so many occasions, with their narrow-minded disputes, have masterfully succeeded in turning the authorities away from the unwilling citizens and drowning them in any hope of change, to step out of the shadow of these protests and show that they are up to the situation in society, which is on milestones

Diplomacy

01.June 2023 BG

Summit in Chisinau: Vučić approached Zelenski, they shook hands

As the FoNet reporter reported, Vučić approached Zelenski, who was standing with Macedonian Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski, Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović and Luxembourg Prime Minister Bethel Xavier.

Serbia

29.May 2023. Z.S.

Vouchers for vacations in Serbia: Financed from EPS subsidy funds

The Government of Serbia provided half a billion dinars from the current budget reserve, from the section that was intended to subsidize the Electric Power Company of Serbia (EPS), for 100.000 new vouchers for holidays in Serbia

Protests in Belgrade

27.May 2023. Z.S.

"Serbia against violence": The fourth protest has officially ended, citizens persist in their demands

A large number of citizens, despite the rain and bad weather, gathered for another protest against violence. Ranka Kašiković, an employee of the Gerontology Center in Subotica, addressed the crowd, who suffered mobbing because of her refusal to attend the SNS rally and sued the director, Brankica Tešanović. After her address and demands, the citizens formed a ring around RTS, after which the organizers called for a new protest on Friday.

Side effects

24.May 2023. Teofil Pančić

What life? Which system?

We have already been trained not to ask ourselves or others important questions, but to deal with banalities, trivia and bullshit (where they always beat us because they are there on home soil), even when we proudly think that we are "oppositionists".

Personal attitude

24.May 2023. Bojan Šumonja

(Sports) future of Serbia

Creating good media content for young people is an extremely simple job, just like tending an English lawn. It should be cut and watered regularly. And so for a hundred years

A view of Kosovo

24.May 2023. Ljubomir Madjar

A pity for the lucidity of princely diplomacy

There is no known case of saving a Serb from Kosovo from local violence by the current authorities in Belgrade. When relations were more strained recently, permission was requested for those thousand armed Serbs to cross over to Kosovo, but the permission was not obtained, and nothing would come of that crossing. The summary of all this is short and simple: the policy towards Kosovo has no instruments and no power to do anything to those suffering specifically and effectively help, but with its empty aggressive rhetoric, it permanently and systematically worsens relations with the Albanian majority

Personal attitude

24.May 2023. Lena Petrović

West of Pink

Violence in Serbia was not imported from the West (as if everything is peaceful in the East), as the former Minister of Education Ružić said, but is largely the result of a long-term cover-up of crimes committed during the wars in Yugoslavia. Every country has its crimes, but a responsible state does not cover them up for the sake of a good image and protection of the ruling elite

TV maniac

24.May 2023. Dragan Ilic

Reality Matrix Serbia

We have found ourselves in a kind of media meta-reality, where a complete polemic, investigation, manipulation and commercialization of these two massacres, in which children and young people died without any fault, is practically taking place. This is precisely where the eerie paradox of the media in Serbia is hidden, that whether they defend or attack the concept of reality, they actually enter a kind of meta-reality, which in many ways strangely resembles reality.

24.May 2023. SP

Freedom House: Serbia is not a democracy

For the fourth year in a row, according to the Freedom House report, Serbia is not a democracy, but a "hybrid or transitional regime" with fragile democratic institutions and questionable protection of political and civil rights and freedoms. The quality of Serbian democracy was rated 3,79 on a scale of 1 to 7

Society

20.May 2023. S.Ć.

Census results: There are 2,6 percent of abandoned houses and apartments in Serbia

The number of apartments and houses where no one lives is not negligible, it is the result of the Population Census of Serbia. RZS has no data for AP Kosovo and Metohija since 1999.

Serbia against violence

20.May 2023. Z.S.

The opposition calls on citizens to persevere: New protest on Saturday

The organizers of the "Serbia without violence" protest announce that the next protest will be held on Saturday, May 27, and that citizens will be informed about the details during the following week

Research of the weekly "Vreme"

19.May 2023. Jelena Zoric

In the new issue: The Balkan cartel in the service of the 'Ndrangheta

Skilled bandits and robbers, contract killers, drug dealers, sailors and drug smugglers are part of the Balkan cartel, which has been managing the transportation of cocaine from South America to Europe for decades, as well as the further distribution of drugs. Above them is only the biggest mafia in the world - the Italian 'Ndrangheta, which is actually the real owner of more than 60 percent of the cocaine that is distributed from the jungles of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia to all continents. Who is who in the Balkan Cartel and how are they connected to the 'Ndrangheta, but also to the motorcycle gang "Hell's Angels"

The World

18.May 2023. S.Ć.

US Senate: Have you read the "New York Times" about Vučić

Speaking about the policy of the Biden administration towards the Western Balkans, the US Senate discussed the New York Times article about Aleksandar Vučić. The administration believes that the text is credible, said Derek Schole and specified: "we call President Vučić and his colleagues to account for corruption and other activities."