Towards the elections (1)

12.August 2026 Isidora Ceric

What the student campaign will look like

When the elections are formally announced, the students explain that the essence will not change, but the scope of the campaign. "The campaign will remain based on what the student movement has been for two years, but we expect that during the campaign it will be more massive than ever, because a large number of people respond to our invitations to join the municipal teams", student Filip Kovačić explains to "Vreme".

Interview: Vujo Ilić, political scientist

12.August 2026 Nedim Sejdinovic

The regime did not weaken so much as the students strengthened

Maintaining the belief in invincibility in elections serves to deter one's own voters from changing sides, and to demobilize opposition voters. That is why an extraordinary effort was made to discredit the research presented by Crta. Most of the attacks did not even deal with the content, but were directed at Crta as an organization, and part at the methodology. In both cases, it was persistent repetition of easily verifiable falsehoods, for example, the claim that the sample was 558, not 2.324 respondents. All this shows how much they cared about covering up the finding that had the most resonance with the public with false narratives

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.