Culture of memory: 26 years since the assassination of the former president of the Presidency of Serbia

26.August 2026 Igor Božić

Ivan Stambolić's sneaker

The kidnapping of Ivan Stambolic in the middle of the day in Košutnjak was also a message to all those who opposed the regime. If the authorities decide to make you disappear, there will be no witnesses, no clues, no investigation. There won't even be news that you're gone. The court's conclusion also speaks of how much the state was turned into a means of private survival in power: the members of the JSO and the leaders of the Department of State Security did not act as an independent criminal group, but used the state apparatus of force to preserve the political power of one man.

This situation

21.January 2026 Philip Schwarm

Warnings and lessons from the Government of Zoran Đinđić

What were the expectations of citizens in 2001 and what might they be in 2026? What unites the political reality of that time with today's? Why are organized crime and systemic corruption still among the biggest problems in Serbia? What is the most important political legacy of the first democratically elected prime minister? How much can the government that comes after the progressives learn from his example

Interview: Ivan Vujacic, economist, former ambassador to the USA, president of the board of directors of the Zoran Đinđić Foundation

21.January 2026 Ivan Milenkovic

Juggling 18 balls in the Government

Djindjic alone could not transform Serbia. The sentence that says "it would have been different with him, and now everything is over" is simply defeatist. If you respect Zoran's work so much, do what he would have done - fight now, believe in yourself and don't stumble and give up

TV maniac

27.November 2024 Dragan Ilic

Saber and cutting

It doesn't matter what feeling I have as I recognize people and events, footage and testimonies, from the time of B92, while Legija is seeking parole because he served 20 years

The murder of Zoran Đinđić

03.November 2024 AI/Archive "Time"

Saber: the TV series and the reality behind it

RTS started broadcasting the mini-series "Sablja" on November 2. That police action after the murder of Zoran Đinđić showed how deeply organized crime and the structures of State Security, parts of Public Security and parts of the judiciary and some political parties have grown. There were mistakes in such an extensive operation

Playing with symbols

12.march 2024 AI

What about the monument to Zoran Djindjic?

At a time when he was still happy to compare himself to Djindjic, Aleksandar Vučić promised that the monument to the murdered prime minister would be unveiled on the fifteenth anniversary of his liquidation, on March 12, 2018. Long ago, Vučić stopped presenting himself and Djindjić as the only visionaries in modern Serbian history, and neither there is nothing from the monument

Concert

06.march 2024 S.Ć.

World premiere at the Philharmonic concert in honor of Djindjic

On the program of concerts that the Belgrade Philharmonic has been dedicating for 20 years on the second Sunday of March to the assassinated prime minister, there are compositions of visionary and creative expression, which correspond to his politics. This year it is the world premiere of "Legend" by Nimrod Borenstein

Comment

30.October 2023 Ivica Dobrić

Vučić's violence over meaning

Zoran Đinđić's sentence "Serbia must not stop" does not make any sense when uttered by any member of the Serbian Progressive Party, because then it acquires a completely different meaning - suicidal