Public debate on the draft amendments to the Law on the Basics of the Education System

Strictly controlled education

12 August 2026, 22:47 Marina Vidojevic

Minister of Education or Minister of Revenge

Although the contested bill has numerous shortcomings, such as the exclusion of the school secretary from public procurement, the abolition of the Self-Evaluation Team, the presence of representatives of the Student Parliament at the School Board meeting only at the proposal of the president, and the like, they can be discussed. But the article that changes the powers and structure of the Council of Parents must be a red line

We bravely walked out of the school buildings for sixteen minutes of silence and on the steps of the same buildings gave speeches about the unshakable principles behind which we stand. We prepared for the consequences, but the retribution did not come as a verdict, suddenly and definitively, but in stages, like a temporary tide that you think will bypass your school. First, last summer […]

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Towards the elections (2)

12.August 2026 Gojko Božović

Condition for changes

At a time when the generational movement of young people bridged deep differences by restoring a political community based on the ideas of freedom, justice and anti-corruption in an atomized, apathetic and divided society, a necessary and sufficient condition for changes in Serbia was created.

Vučić and the region

12.August 2026 Slobodan Georgijev

Last lap, guys.

Both Vučić and Dodik know that where they were walking now there are fewer inhabitants than when the war ended, and therefore less perspective. These two "Serbian leaders" seem not to have learned the messages of the past, at least when it comes to politics: Serbia did not progress when the Bosnian Serbs looked to Belgrade, as Vučić says, but when Serbia was the Piedmont of the entire Balkans, so everyone wanted to be with it.

Political violence, season summer 2026.

12.August 2026 Jovana Gligorijevic

The perpetrator is unknown, the principal is known to everyone

The attack on Stevan Filipović, the persecution of the lawyer from Valjevo, the beating of Vladimir Arsenijević, are events that differ only in details. Broadly speaking, they are part of the same picture, pictures of a regime that is disintegrating before our eyes and is now doing only what it knows best: torturing and beating

Vučić – Zelensky meeting

12.August 2026 Mirjana Nikolić

What was this supposed to mean?

It was striking that the Serbian president again spoke about economic cooperation, while the Ukrainian stated that 13 people had been killed in Ukraine in the last 24 hours and that it was the "tragedy of Russian aggression against independent Ukraine". If the visit had to be mentioned, then the thesis was used in the pro-regime media that only Vučić could do this - that Zelenski should come to his feet until he imposes sanctions on Russia.

Animal welfare

12.August 2026 Marija Vidic

Pictures from Instagram, reality from hell

The new Draft Law on Animal Welfare, according to experts, only legalizes the existing black market in dogs and introduces us to new, even more difficult problems

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Desnica and Vučić: Caliph instead of Caliph

Right-wing parties cannot support the student movement, despite the Kosovo students' pledge and all that iconography according to the principle "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia". Because the right-wing understanding of the world is particular, and the students firmly stand on the universality of the republican soil

Ivan Milenkovic

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There are no regrets after the election.

Political parties and organizations that are against the regime of Aleksander Vučić hold everything in their hands. If they are defeated in the elections, whenever they are held, they will have themselves to blame

Andrei Ivanji

Overview of the week

Veselin Milić hits back

Will Veslin Milić be declared a "blockade" in the tabloids? Is his criminal complaint against Marko Kriček a message for Aleksandar Vučić? And, if so, can we expect new dirty laundry cameras from the MUP?