Vranje

Marking the beginning of the bombing in Vranje

State party meeting

25.march 2026 Dejana Cvetković

Pursuing the people to Vranje: Vučić "honor" and the toll

"Vremen" sources confirm that on Tuesday before the rally in Vranje, they did not pay the toll. They were succinctly told that "the honorable president"

Students are walking again.

25.February 2026. IN THE

"Pčinjski march" of unity: Gagi Jovanović with students from Vranje to Bujanovac

Exactly one year after they walked to Niš, students from the south of Serbia are going on the road again. This time they are marching from Vranje to Bujanovac, with the support of citizens, actor Dragan Gagi Jovanović and the Belgrade Trade Union

11.February 2026. IN THE

The earthquake near Prizren was also felt in Vranje

According to the data of the Republic Seismological Institute, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4,3 on the Richter scale was recorded on Tuesday evening in the vicinity of Prizren. The earthquake was felt in several parts of Kosovo and Metohija, North Macedonia and central Serbia.

Public Debt

10.February 2026. KS

There is no lying in Vranje, there is - a big debt

The total public debt of local governments in Serbia at the end of last year was 48 billion dinars. Vranje is by far the biggest debtor in the south of the country, and how is it in other parts

Weather disasters

20.November 2025 IN THE

Floods in the south of Serbia: Nine people were evacuated, among them five children

Nine people, including five children, were evacuated on Thursday, November 19, from flooded households in the Vranje area, after heavy rainfall raised the level of South Morava and led to flooding in southern Serbia

Economy

04.November 2025 IN THE

Another factory closed in Vranje: 60 workers out of work

After the closing of the "Kentaur Balkans" factory, the "SolPro" factory also stopped working in Vranje. Another 60 workers will lose their jobs,

28.October 2025 Ivan Mitkovski

SPS officials' attack on InfoVranjska journalist: "Pigs with bulging eyes"

Local SPS official in Vranje, Darko Stanojević, vulgarly insulted the editor of the "InfoVranjska" portal Mihajlo Stojković and his family, calling him a "pig with bulging eyes". The reason for this reaction was a newspaper article about the mobbing of local health center workers to go to the regime rally. There is no reaction from the competent institutions, as before

Closing factories

28.October 2025 MLJ

"Young people from the south": Call to "Centaur" workers to join the protests

The closure of the "Centaur Balkans" factory in Vranje is evidence of the unsustainable policy of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), says the group "Mladi s juga" and calls on workers to join the student protest

Layoffs

27.October 2025 KS

Why were 270 people fired in Vranje?

The Danish factory "Kentaur" in Vranje is closing its plant, leaving around 270 employees without work. The reason - an increase in the minimum labor price

Liquidation

27.October 2025 MLJ

Another factory closes: 270 people lose their jobs in Vranje

Another foreign investor is leaving the country. The Danish factory "Kentaur" in Vranje is closing its plant, leaving around 270 employees without jobs, it was confirmed to "Vremen".

"Service for quick actions" in Vranje

25.October 2025 Ivan Mitkovski

"Take the invitation extremely seriously": How workers are mobilizing for Vučić's rally

Messages from the Viber group "Service for rapid actions", published on the InfoVranje portal, testify to the pressure on the employees of the Vranje Health Center to attend the "Serbia against Blockades" rally. The signatory of the messages is the head of the service and member of the SPS, Darko Stanojević, known to the local public for earlier incidents

Vranje

04.August 2025 MLJ

Twenty people were poisoned at a village feast in a village near Vranje, among them children

During the weekend (August 2 and 3), 18 adults and two minors came to the Vranje Health Center with symptoms of food poisoning, this health institution confirmed.

Traffic safety

12.July 2025 Marijana Makismovic

Danger to children: The dark side of electric scooters

A boy from Vranje almost died on an electric scooter, although he was not even allowed to ride it. The traffic culture in Serbia is close to zero, the interlocutors of "Vremen" warn, and this often costs the lives of children in particular.

New Pazar

01.July 2025 MT

The administration of Novi Pazar in cooperation with the publisher "Informer"

Despite public protests and criticism due to the lack of media objectivity, the city administrations in Novi Pazar, Niš and Vranje signed advertising contracts with the company "Insider Team", the publisher of the pro-government tabloid Informer. During this year alone, millions of dinars were allocated from local budgets for these purposes, despite warnings that this supports hate speech and the collapse of journalistic standards.

Vranje

03.June 2025 AI

The Vranje model: How SNS captured local communities in elections in which parties are not allowed to participate

The Serbian Progressive Party is celebrating a magnificent victory in the elections for local communities in Vranje, Vranjska Banja and Dimitrovgrad. Only, the parties should not mediate in the local communities, the turnout was around 27 percent and there are criminal charges for theft.

Local community elections

02.June 2025 IN THE

Elections without elections: How SNS and the Election Commission "won" everything in Vranje

When one party wins 324 out of 325 seats in a city, and 51 out of 51 in its municipality, it is absolute dominance, but also a deep defeat of democracy. In Vranje and Vranjska Banja, the local communities, which by law should be the area of civic decision-making, have once again become an extended arm of the party's power

Local community councils

31.May 2025. KS

Elections for local communities in the south of Serbia: Part of the opposition for a boycott

Part of the Vranje opposition is calling for a boycott of the elections for local communities in Vranje, Vranjska Banja and Dimitrovgrad because numerous regulations have been violated. In practice, this means that without a fight they would be handed over to the SNS, into which they were turned into local committees

Abuse of social networks

07.May 2025. KS

When a student edits photos of friends and teacher: Digital violence in Vranje

A few days ago, photomontages of the naked bodies of several schoolgirls and one elementary school teacher from Vranje appeared on social networks. What does the director of a school say about this, how far the procedure has come and what if a child is a victim of digital violence

Mediji

02.April 2025. Mila Jovanovic

How millions from the budgets of Niš and Vranje flowed into "Informer"

The city administrations of Niš and Vranje paid millions of dinars from their budgets to pro-government tabloids, and especially to Informer. It is a systematic abuse of the media law, says Professor Rade Veljanovski

Progressives

29.march 2025 MLJ

SNS counter-rally in Vranje: Car horns sounded during silence

The second rally in Vranje, which was held on the evening of March 28, was marked by the presence of a large number of policemen, as well as a convoy of hundreds of cars that entered the center of Vranje during their gathering with flags, SNS symbols and a picture of President Aleksandar Vučić

Sorrow in the South

23.January 2025 Ivan Mitkovski

How the distance Vranje - Belgrade of 342 kilometers turned into a gap of 342 years

Once known for its colorful spirit and industry, Vranje is now experiencing a mass exodus of residents. Poverty, low wages and poor working conditions have taken their toll, while the city remains trapped in a maelstrom of political and economic problems. While sausages and dried meat are offered to guests, many residents of Vranje barely make ends meet

Vranje

24.December 2024 S.Ć.

Silencing the actors: The canceled play "The Seagull"

The management of the theater in Vranje canceled the performance of the play "The Seagull" allegedly due to technical reasons, as soon as it found out that the actors would publicly support the students. Before Vranje, the management of the National Theater in Belgrade did not like the fact that the actors expressed their opinion publicly

Ecology

05.November 2024 B. B.

Tailings in Kriva Feja: Does it endanger Vranjska Banja and Vranje?

Drinking water, which is already becoming a strategic resource and for which wars will be fought in the future in Serbia, is being mercilessly polluted, warns the Ecological Uprising

Police

17.August 2024 S.Ć.

Arrests of activists in Serbia

In Belgrade, Vranje, Vršac and Vrbas, today the police brought activists to informative interviews, broke into their apartments and searched them. Among them was a pregnant woman

Health

15.August 2024 SZ

The people of Vranje are dying quietly

The text of a woman from Vranje gained a lot of attention on social networks, when she called on everyone to react in order to draw the attention of the authorities to investigate why the people of Vranje are massively suffering from various types of cancer.

Roads of Serbia

09.July 2024 SZ

The toll gets more expensive, the further south, the more expensive it is

Driving on the highways in Serbia will be about 10 percent more expensive from Wednesday, July 10, so citizens will pay about 100 dinars more for the toll from Niš to Belgrade. For those who live further south, it will be more expensive, and the most expensive will be the trip from Preševo to the capital - 1.890 dinars.

Assembly of the City of Vranje

20.June 2024 B. B.

Councilors scrambled around the microphone, representatives of the government and the opposition screamed

At the beginning of the session, the opposition protested because of the large number of items on the agenda, which were presented on 1500 pages