Interview: Prosecutor Bojana Savović

Everyone should live with their conscience - if they have one

People are enlightened, encouraged and united. United like that, we can do anything. This whole process is significantly healing for the whole society, now we all learn what we can do together when we have the same basic values. I think that the students also learned a lot, they experienced a lot on their own skin, and, honestly, we "older" people learn from them as well. Unlike many, I think it's good that this is taking longer, because sudden, faster changes would probably be short-lived.

New issue of Vremena

Find Bojana Savović: Prosecutor in the "Language Department"

Prosecutor Bojana Savović raised her voice. According to the sentence, she was placed in a small room on the fourth floor of the Palace of Justice. But you can hear it even better from there. He now speaks for "Vreme"

The case of Novak Djokovic

Always your own, and on the right side.

How the pride of the Serbian people became one of the main enemies of the state in the regime media and why, according to the president, his name is no longer read as "Novak Đoković" but as "Nikola Jokić". And what, after the gold in Paris, slowed Djokovic down to reach the jubilee hundredth title? Motivation, age, new generation or something else

Extraordinary parliamentary elections

Demand for early elections: "Coward!"

Students challenge Vučić to stand on their side in the elections and call him a coward. The government is running away from the elections for the first time, but so is a part of the opposition that is not happy with the student conditions

Overview of the week

It's dark and cloudy, bazaar storks

If the various opponents of Vučić's regime are unable to help the student youth, they could at least not retaliate. They have been working the same way and with the same disastrous results for too long to expect anyone to ask them anything

New issue of "Vremena"

"The student movement has a real chance of winning the elections"

The students in the blockade demand the dissolution of the Assembly and the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections. What are their chances? It is the title theme of the new "Vremena"

Student request for calling extraordinary parliamentary elections

Serbia's historic chance

The students' decision to submit a request to the regime for the dissolution of the state parliament and the calling of extraordinary republican elections did not fall from Mars. This option has been vigorously discussed at plenums for a long time, and the matter was cut short when it became clear to everyone, but absolutely everyone, that the government not only does not want to fulfill the students' demands, but responds to the political crisis with ever stronger repression and increasingly dirty propaganda. And when no one could dispute the fact that the regime is the generator of all social and political anomalies, and that thanks to it the Novi Sad canopy hangs over the head of every citizen of this country

Student movement

Can the impossible become possible?

The call for elections is a call to the regime, and it remains to be seen whether there will also be a student call to everyone else for a social agreement on how to oppose the regime in future elections. They can be announced unexpectedly quickly, and may not be there before some "regular appointment" unless there is extremely strong pressure on the street.

Comment

Long student march: How the government is crowned

Serbian students repeated a hundred times that this is a marathon. Similar to Adam Mihnjik in the eighties in Poland, when he talked about the "long march". The government in Serbia is on the way to the end - you just need to be patient

Personal attitude

Do students have to choose their own "leaders"?

The fact that students may choose their representatives before some elections in the coming period is not the opposite of the direct democracy of the plenum. On the contrary, those two types of democracy can complement each other

Siege of the center of Belgrade

A fire, a fight and an attack on a journalist: What is happening in the white tents in front of the Assembly?

A new incident in Ćaciland 3.0 - inside one of the white tents, a gas stove caused a fire. It is still not clear what the purpose of those tents in the middle of Bulevar Kralja Aleksandar is

Government response to peaceful protests

Invoking war in the name of peace

The regime and its media have been trumpeting the "civil war" for months, and the government is the only one that has a patent for peace and stability - of course, with the help of the propaganda machine and the use of force. "It is a propaganda tactic of SNS that says: 'violence is everywhere, terrorists surround us, but we are here to save you,'" explains communication professor Jelena Kleut for "Vreme".

Novi Sad

The authorities of Novi Sad set up fairground "pears" for hitting "in order to promote sports"

The explanation of the city administration of Novi Sad is that the apparatus was installed in Jevrejska Street "for the purpose of promoting and motivating young people to engage in sports and martial arts."

Victories and advancements - five months later

Taking life back into your own hands

When one makes even a superficial specification of the scope so far, that is, political and social changes during the winter struggle of citizens for a normal Serbia, things are not bad. It is not an empty optimism. Let's try to sort things out with some logic

Progressive rallies

The People's Movement for Check-In and Check-Out

The largest gathering in the history of Serbia, according to the announcements of the President of Serbia, was supposed to be held on March 28. But as loudly as it was announced, it was quietly cancelled. A new progressive gathering has been scheduled from April 11 to 13, with "a lot of content", all with the aim of once again presenting the new movement that was unsuccessfully announced years ago. Then the public will probably find out what is wrong with the personnel and program of the Serbian Progressive Party, so the "proud member" wants to distance himself from them. But that will still be a topic

Versioning

"Students 2.0": It is important (not) to be called students

Although "versioning" is not a fully developed concept in social-humanistic contexts, apparently someone's idea was to insert the 2.0 supplement to "modernize" the narrative, which intuitively suggests to the external audience that it is about some more updated and up-to-date practice, i.e. the group, not about the students

They are very strong.

Is the headquarters of the Customs Administration one of the headquarters of Vučić's "loyalists"?

While students are marching towards Belgrade to join the protest "15. for 15", the citizens of New Belgrade report the gathering of unknown persons in front of the Customs Administration

Interview: Nemanja Nenadić, program director of Transparency Serbia

Things are even worse.

"It is very wrong that Serbia's progress in the fight against corruption at a high level is measured only on the basis of statistical data on the number of indictments of the Prosecutor's Office for organized crime and accompanying verdicts. In Serbia, the performance in that field should be measured first of all by whether there were cases where the corrupt participation of high state officials was suspected - and those cases were not investigated"

Politics

Vučić: Violence is inevitable

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, stated that the new mandate will be discussed only after the formal resignation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević, stressing that he will not allow the formation of a transitional government. Vučić warned of plans for violence during the protest and urged young people not to participate in it

The fight against corruption

Arrests for pennies

In February, as part of the "fight against corruption", 153 people were arrested and charged with a total of slightly more than twenty million euros. In progressive Serbia, these can only be small fish

Miloš Jovanović, New DSS

"Only students and only marches cannot carry out this struggle and disempower Vučić"

"The walks are magnificent, the students have done a large part of the work, but it seems to me that only the students and only the walks cannot carry out this struggle," Miloš Jovanović, president of the New Democratic Party of Serbia, told Vreme.

This situation

Fear and paranoia in the SNS

What do the arrests of the middle and bantamweight progressive cadres really represent? How does Vučić militarize the party with this? And why its attraction is being demagnetized

Comment

Who took American money and who took Serbian money

The "combing" of non-governmental organizations is a confrontation with critics of the regime. If not, the prosecutor would first knock on the door of Ana Brnabić, who was the thorn in the side of USAID. Those who "comb" are for Ana the third league

Overview of the week

The country we live in

In Serbia, no one knows what its president is talking about anymore, journalists are punished by God's justice, scandal-mongering magnates are declared saints, and public office holders spread public scandal. People - how long will we go like this

The President and Serbia

Armchair keeper in winter

How did we get from "Aco Srbina" to "You are not welcome here" and what other options Vučić has on the table this spring

Interview: Slobodan G. Marković

The wave of delegitimization of government is unstoppable

The student protest marches map a new Serbia that self-identifies as a Serbia freed from fear (...) Every place the students passed through, anthropologically speaking, participated in the transition process. That transition was from a state of anxiety and anguish to something that those who participated in the students' receptions, according to their own statements, experienced as a newly acquired freedom. It is difficult to find something similar in the recent political history of Serbia

TV maniac

Lie and paralysis

The strained political relations in Serbia led to an intense propaganda war through the media. While RTS is desperately trying to reconcile the irreconcilable positions of the government and the opposition, commercial channels controlled by the government are conducting an intensive campaign primarily against students, educators, non-governmental organizations and NGO activists. To this list should be added influencers on social networks who are a specific thorn in the side of Vučić's and his activists' attempts to conquer virtual space in cyberspace.