News

20.January 2022 MN

Savo Manojlović: Moratorium for 20 years or blockades

In many cities, signatures for the people's initiative cannot be verified. If the government obstructs the collection of signatures, if there are new attacks on activists and if the people's initiative on the moratorium on the exploitation of lithium and boron for 20 years is not found in the Assembly before its dissolution before the elections on April 3, Kreni-promeni announces new road blockades

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19.January 2022 Andrei Ivanji

Green Toping: Verbal Acrobatics with Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto found itself in the middle of a campaign for elections that have not even been called yet. The government is trying to cushion the onslaught of environmental rebels, and environmental movements and organizations are pushing Vučić and his people more and more against the wall. Verbal acrobatics no longer help here

Comment

18.January 2022 Ivica Dobrić

Referendum and elections: Warning for the government, encouragement for the opposition

The results of the referendum are not the "first blow" to the autocratic government. At best, it is a mild reminder to Vučić that there must be no relaxation. Nevertheless, these 700 people who came out and voted against Vučić, are barely a third of those who would come out to end their misery with a pen and a ballot, but they therefore need a minimum of meaningful opposition articulation

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11.December 2021 Zora Drcelic

Opposition and protests: Penalty to win

The opposition leaders realized that the Rio Tinto issue could create the desired referendum atmosphere for Aleksandar Vučić to remain in power, but they do not agree on the tactics of how to use the awakened environmental awareness of the citizens. It could be said that Vučić's team committed such an obvious foul in the penalty area that the referee could not ignore it. The only question is who will take the penalty and how, and whether the goalkeeper is afraid of the penalty

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05.December 2021 Andrei Ivanji

The Second Blockade of Serbia: The Day After

The "destinies of mercenaries" who "harassed millions of decent citizens" forced President Vučić to say on Saturday that he would order to amend the Law on Expropriation. A man whose power is based on intransigence has at least verbally announced that he will relent. Which leads to the absurdity of his statement "that the street will not determine politics in Serbia" and other things

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04.December 2021 A.I

Citizen protests: Blockade in 10 pictures

The same pictures could be seen all over Serbia on Saturday: Citizens peacefully expressing their dissatisfaction with the current state of society, albeit in the middle of traffic roads. The absence of the police was conspicuous. Apart from individual incidents, everything went well

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04.December 2021 A.I

Blockade of Serbia: Epilogue of the second protest

It should be worrying for the government that a significant number of people went to the protests and that a few young activists showed great organizational skills and no fear, under a regime whose power is intimidation. Where there were provocations, the demonstrators did not back down. Finally, there was a change of generations in the civil protests. There are still four months left until the elections

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04.December 2021 A.I

Blockade of Serbia: Where did the President go?

Today, due to protests against the law on referendum and expropriation, roads will be blocked in about fifty towns and cities across Serbia. Just today, President Aleksandar Vučić wants to go to the village of Gornje Nedeljice to talk to the locals who are worried about the consequences that Rio Tinto could have on nature in the Jadra valley. The question is whether there will be a close encounter with the protesters

I remember

30.November 2021 Ivan Ivanji

What is fascism to whom: Assault party squads

For his personal protection and for the sake of crushing all movements that rebelled against his rise, Hitler founded a paramilitary organization called the SA (Sturmabteilung), a kind of party assault squad

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28.November 2021 Andrei Ivanji

One-hour warning lockout: The day after

The question now is how far environmental activists are willing to go and, if they do not back down, whether they will have more mass support from citizens. Because if they abandon the announced blockade next Saturday, they will lose credibility. And if they repeat the action, they would have to have much more massive support from citizens dissatisfied with this government, since it cannot be ruled out that the government will use state or parastate force for the sake of "establishing order and peace." There are more options on the table