World Championship in basketball

Order, work and iron discipline

A silver medal was won at the World Basketball Championship, representative basketball is back in fashion. The team play and dedication of our national team members turned out to be contagious. Would this team have the same chemistry if all basketball players responded to Svetislav Pešić's call? However, a direct placement at the Olympic Games, which will be held in Paris next year, may be a more important thing for our basketball than winning a medal. The best players from Serbia play in the NBA and Euroleague and are usually prevented from participating in qualifying tournaments

Portrait of a contemporary - Nebojša Bakarec

The endless fall of angels and poets

Although he often managed to surprise the public with his statements and moves, when the line is drawn, Nebojša Bakarec can still be called a typical representative of Serbian politicians in the last twenty years. Despite the often displayed eccentricity, an analysis of his statements in those twenty years shows that, as with most domestic politicians, they are characterized by exceptional inconsistency, depending on what the situation dictates.

Portrait of a contemporary - Igor Brnabić

The Prime Minister's invisible brother

The renewed story about the possible conflict of interest of the Prime Minister of Serbia only helped her to become even stronger in the eyes of Aleksandar Vučić and easily win another mandate. Her brother remained an ordinary citizen of Belgrade who did well in business when her sister was in politics

The deceptive summer of 1990 – August 17, the anniversary of the barricades around Knin

How the "Mupovci" crossed Kravlja Draga

"Around 17,18:15 p.m., people started to gather in front of the station. Milan Babić arrived with them, he shouted at me: 'What are you waiting for, sound the alarm siren, the Mupovics entered Oton (a village 20-XNUMX kilometers northwest of Knin), shoot While he is shouting, I am trying to reach Martić. No one answers the phone. Babić shouts, and I press the button siren, and then Knin was alerted, and the news about the declaration of war came on the radio. Later I realized that instead of the button for general danger, I pressed the wrong button - for the end of the danger. But no one noticed it in that insane asylum " a former militiaman

Hundredth birthday

On the sunny side of the street

This Tuesday, the BIG band of RTS will celebrate the hundredth birthday of Vojislav Bubiša Simić, a great jazz musician, with a concert in the MTS hall. On the occasion of this beautiful anniversary, a repeated text from "Vremen" about the details of his career

Remembering the Holocaust

Auschwitz is not a metaphor

The United Nations declared January 27 as the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism. On that day in 1945, Soviet army units liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Council of Europe recommended that, on that occasion, a lesson on the subject of the Holocaust be held in all schools. In Serbia, Saint Sava is celebrated on that day, it is not convenient to remind about the concentration camps at the same time, but another day could be set for that. I use this opportunity to draw attention to the fact that Serbia does not have its own national exhibition in Auschwitz, although the first floor of block 17, which should be shared with other countries that emerged from Yugoslavia, was made available to it a long time ago.

In memoriam: Aleksandar V. Stefanović (1926-2024)

Morality of a translator

A few days ago, the translator, literary editor and publisher Aleksandar V. Stefanović died in Belgrade, the Serbian PEN Center announced. On this occasion, we are publishing an interview he gave to "Vremena" five years ago

Interview - Zdenko Tomanović, lawyer

A journalist has the right to doubt the state

"Political elites called the public public opinion, and then they identified that public opinion with media opinion. By further reduction, that media opinion came to the position of a few newspapers or media that are under their control, and then an illusion was actually created that the position of the public what some of their media outlets write, and that is equated with the attitude of our political elite"

Portrait of a contemporary - Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister

As he tells her

The same intolerance towards the critical attitude, towards the other and the different, which is more than obvious in Vučić's case, is more and more difficult to hide in Brnabić and emerges more and more often. In the same way, the two of them declare themselves about the workers on strike, about the media, about the opposition, about pensions, about poverty, about every statement that they consider negative, only that the Prime Minister controls herself as much as possible.

Interview - Dr. Ranko Bugarski, linguist

Care and "care" about language

"The biggest threat to the Serbian language is not some kind of dark foreign forces like Latin, anglicisms or the Internet, but stubborn domestic illiteracy and lack of culture"

Person of the year - Ivan Ivanji, writer

My beautiful life in hell

I used to be able to say that I was a Yugoslav, now I could say that I am nostalgic. Ideologically I was a Yugoslav during Tito's time, very consciously and very deliberately, and now I would not be able to define myself. I don't belong to anyone, although I have two passports, Serbian and Austrian, and I could get an Israeli and a Hungarian one. I'm at home here, so I'm definitely from Belgrade, but otherwise I'm stateless

Side effects

A Chinese copy of Shame

We are once again under the tyranny of people without qualities, but with insatiable ambitions and advanced subservience

Potatoes

Potatoes were a must at the table in my childhood. Regardless of whether it was baked, boiled, roasted or pureed, there had to be enough left over for dinner. Potatoes were part of order

Bankruptcy of IMT

Chronicle of the breakdown of our "Ferguson"

A look in the rearview mirror of an old tractor shows how the tractor industry was created in one system and disappeared in another, how it traced the path of our industrialization and transformation of agriculture, and then shared the fate of not only deindustrialization but also deagrarianization of our country.

Macedonia

On the Balkan route

The candidacy of the Republic of Macedonia is definitely the initiator of positive changes. Our country has taken further steps to bring the national legislation closer to the legal acquis of the European Union, which establishes the minimum standards for the conditions for the admission of asylum seekers and the procedures for issuing and canceling refugee status.

Interview - Radoslav Petković, writer

Literature and history

"History is not cyclical, it is rather a spiral movement. So, even if something happens that looks the same, it is not the same again because it happens at a different place in the spiral. And whether my novels talk about today or not, it is related for what history is. I even tend to think that my novels are exclusively about today, even A perfect memory of death, although that novel takes place during the fall of Byzantium"

Interview - Misha Blum, jazz musician

All my jazz

Mihailo Miša Blam, legendary jazz musician and author, historian of Serbian jazz, died 10 years ago, on June 19, 2014. This is his last interview for "Vreme".

Destination Danube

Tourism erases borders

The second largest river in Europe connects not only countries, but also people and ideas. It and its potential can bring cross-border partners

Essay

Record of an addict

When I take the princess to the ballet, which lasts an hour, I carry at least three books. And all three are read to me at the same time. That's why it's best to bring a fourth

Rites

Where after death

The funeral business of the future is definitely directed towards "green burials" and finding places for new cemeteries

The culture of memory - Autobiography of Dr. Feodor Lukacs (1892–1973)

A stormy century in the diary of a doctor

Surgeon, pioneer of sports, lover of gymnastics, football player and track and field athlete-record holder, volunteer in the Serbian army in the First World War, public educator and promoter of healthy life Feodor Lukač, grandson of farmer Simo Lukač from Vrginmost near Karlovac in Croatia, son of Steve Lukač, a forestry engineer with a Vienna diploma, and Katinka, born Popović, from Slavonski Brod, father of the famous professor of journalism Sergi Lukacs, in his 1972 autobiography, he dramatically summarizes an era through what he lived in Sarajevo, Pest, Vienna, Bern, Galicia, Albania, Mostar, Zrenjanin, Novi Sad - two world wars, life in Austria-Hungary and in two Yugoslavias

Interview - Vojo Stanić, painter

Live and die laughing

"I love life and I'm sorry that I'm going to die. If it ever happens to me. And it seems that it will. Although, I always say that we're not going anywhere; everything that is seen and heard lasts forever."

The dynamics of the 2012 apocalypse.

Waiting for the end

In every known prediction, from the Mayan calendar legends to the historical analyzes of Mommsen and Spengler, civilizations eventually collapse. What is the natural shelf life after which civilizations break down, or are they returned to the manufacturer?

DIY - Roman Orgies

The art of having a good time

Catullus considered that there is no good dinner without wine, refreshments, and the company of beautiful girls; the connection between food, drink and sex is ancient and undisguised. In this sense, one of the "dishes" at some feasts were the women themselves, entertainers, actresses, dancers, singers and musicians. So are boys, after all

Islamist terrorism

Who uses Wahhabis

In broad daylight, a man dressed in Wahhabi costume started shooting at the American embassy in Sarajevo. He wounded the policeman, but was soon overpowered. It turned out that it was Sandžaklija, that it had connections both there and in central Bosnia, but also indirectly in Vienna. The attack appears to be a symbolic act on the verge of suicidal behavior and is not the first of its kind

Quite personally

The dust of the mouse era

On the night in which I am writing these lines, the one from the first Thursday to Friday in March, I am left without the address from the title. Midnight has already struck, no one has been on the third or fourth floor of Mišarska 12-14 for a long time, only the night porter is dozing downstairs and wondering when the hairy madman will go to rest. And I'm still here because these lines can and must be created only there, in the last moment when the already badly wounded but still alive heart of my Mišarska is beating

Ten years since the murder of Željko Ražnatović

Arkan's legacy

When he was killed, Arkan was forty-eight years old and had nine children. He spoke at least three world languages ​​and spent at least ten years in prison. He was one of the world's most famous paramilitary commanders and the most powerful mafia boss in the region. At the time of his death, Arkan was a person on the red wanted list of Interpol and the Prosecutor's Office of the Hague Tribunal