It is not representative, but it can serve to listen to the pulse of the critical public - these days, 10 percent of the readers of our newsletter Medjuvreme stated that power will surely fail in the elections, while 47 percent think there is a chance.
8 percent of them think that the moment has passed, and 35 percent that there is no chance because the government would not admit defeat.
It's a spicy moment - the unbridled optimism of last year doesn't exist, but it's too early for any despair. Student movement, the workhorse of the resistance and bearer of hope, is between the complaints of a part of the public that does not cooperate with the opposition and the regime that beats and breaks.
That is the title of the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from this Thursday (February 19).
When is it really over?
It could turn out, writes Jovana Gligorijeviฤ in the introductory text, that both the student movement and the stormy past year are only one phase in the overthrow of the regime - perhaps not the last.
"Such processes rarely have a clear beginning and even less a denouement; they proceed in waves, through seeming setbacks, false expectations, and occasional illusions that 'this is it.'"
The key to success, he writes, does not lie in students or anyone else being ideal anyway. "It lies in something much simpler and at the same time more difficult: in the unconditional cancellation of support for Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ," he writes. "Autocratic regimes survive not because they are loved, but because they are tolerated."
All on one horse?
In Ivan Milenkoviฤ's article, we deal with the (non)cooperation of students and the opposition. The former judged the latter to be ballast.
The regime, as well as some opposition members who have been in politics for a long time, are responsible for the image of the opposition, historian Dragan Popoviฤ tells us.
"I think that the request that the student list be without recognizable politicians is quite expected and it would be difficult to imagine a different scenario. If the key goal is the overthrow of the autocracy, it must not be lost sight of and tactics must be subordinated to it," he says.
Economist Sava Tatiฤ believes that the recipe for success lies in the broadest "popular front". "You have to put everything on the only horse that is capable of winning the race. And that horse is, clearly, the student's. The political sacrifice is not as big as it seems."
Behind the loyalist cordon
While all this is going on, President Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ and his regime are using force. But first the man is hidden, even when he appears in Novi Sad to secretly eat a sandwich, writes Nedim Sejdinoviฤ.
"It's almost commonplace that totalitarian rulers, who propagandize themselves as great heroes, are actually pretty scary individuals. Instead, they constantly talk about their strength, determination and courage and personal heroism, while surrounding themselves with dozens of layers of super-loyalists."
Read all these and other articles, columns and interviews in the hellish issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands. Or better yet, subscribe now printed or digital edition
