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Philip Schwarm

Filip Švarm, born in Karlovac in 1966, grew up in Korenica, Lika. Journalist of "Vremena" since 1992. Wrote about wars in the former Yugoslavia, war crimes, crime and political life. Since 1998, responsible editor, and since 2020, chief and responsible editor of "Vremena". Author of eleven feature-length documentaries or series. For his journalistic work, he won the "Jug Grizelj" award, as well as the NUNS and UNS awards.

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Trust, the most expensive Serbian word

How did Vučić know that no sound cannon was used on the streets of Belgrade, and only three and a half hours after the citizens reported the symptoms caused by this device? Why does Serbia not really care about the statements of the institutions under the progressive regime? Can anyone seriously swear that a group in the spirit of the Red Berets - adapted to new times and circumstances - does not still exist

The biggest protest in the history of Serbia

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Aleksandar Vučić's heavy defeat

The speech of the head of state, Aleksandar Vučić, is best described by the word - indisposition. The March 15 protest is his heavy political defeat. Now everyone saw that he no longer had the ability to prevent events, let alone create them

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Stroke

The eavesdropped discussion of the Novi Sad PSG board is at the level of banter in pub conversations, such as are held throughout Serbia. Its publication shows all the misery of the severely shaken government, as well as the wanderings of parts of the opposition parties

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Holy week

On the 2000th of October 15, citizens recognized Milošević as a man who stands on the way to a better future for the country and each of them individually. This is what the people are saying to Vučić today with their massive arrival in Belgrade on March XNUMX, on Holy Saturday

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Counter-students as a diagnosis

Daily protests, assembly sessions at all levels with the presence of the police, education in disarray, universities in open rebellion, and Vučić and company "defend" stability. What are you guys talking about? You just destabilized Serbia

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The fifth high school cannot calm down

Why student whistles are the most gruesome testimony, and calling students "Serbian Ustasha" is not. And why do Vučić and Diodik sing "Peace, brother, peace" in a duet after "We are stronger than fate", relying on the mercy of strangers

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Fear and paranoia in the SNS

What do the arrests of the middle and bantamweight progressive cadres really represent? How does Vučić militarize the party with this? And why its attraction is being demagnetized

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The country we live in

In Serbia, no one knows what its president is talking about anymore, journalists are punished by God's justice, scandal-mongering magnates are declared saints, and public office holders spread public scandal. People - how long will we go like this

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Twilight of a career

Why is Vučić forced to form a forced and tumultuous government? Why is Serbia from February 2025 no longer the same country from October 2024? How did the head of state come to extortion that none of the moves he has been making for three months are working for him? Where is the opposition in all this, how can it be divided and what should it understand

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Everyone for Kragujevac

When students can walk to Kragujevac in ice, snow and rain, holding each other - spending the night in greenhouses at a seriously minus temperature - you can also sit in a car, bus or wagon, and follow them

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Poor him and us with him.

Aleksandar Vučić complained that "because of everything they do to him", his parents are suffering badly. Mothers and fathers of daughters who have been trampled or had their jaws broken by a baseball bat - they do not suffer. On this basis, the head of state offered a dialogue

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Progressive Transitional Government

Aleksandar Vučić claims that he will never agree to the transitional cabinet. He should be trusted, but conditionally. Why? Because he will agree to anything as soon as he is forced to. And it will be

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Referendum to thank President Vučić

Reduced to the right measure in the student protest, Aleksandar Vučić does not think that he is "checking" the will of the people, but to convince his electorate that he still asks about everything. Otherwise, SNS disappears like a tower of cards in a basket

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Your hands are bloody for the umpteenth time

In the regime's orgy of hatred and calls for lynching, it doesn't take much for someone to step on the gas and almost kill a 20-year-old student on the sidewalk. She - like all the others in the blockades - was declared by the government to be an enemy of the state and the people

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Serbia, are you poor who represents you

At the SNV Christmas reception in Zagreb, Jelena Milić acted like that further aunt - a quarrelsome and embittered simpleton - whose mission in life is to ruin every wedding, children's birthday, baptism or reception

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Cool Pyongyang on the water

What does Aleksandar Vučić want? Judging by his daily epistles, he would like fiddlers to sing his fan heroics, and the people to worship him in fear of his every spoken word and listen with bowed heads while he is humiliated and insulted on the screen

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The regime as a caricature

What unites Vučić and Jelena Karleša? Why did the singer fulfill all the given elements of progressive rhetoric? And how strange and funny must be the multi-hour long monologues that its president gives every day of God's day outside the borders of Serbia  

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Liberation of the hijacked state

How did the students see through and despise the progressive regime? Why do they show maturity instead of naivety? What will Vučić never be able to understand? What is the height of his authoritarian temperature? And that's why he looks more and more like his character from the Koraks and Petričić cartoons

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Aleksandar Vučić, alone in the world

As he disavows his closest collaborators and tries to scare the people by whining about "hybrid war" and calling in the secret services, the stench of sulfur from Seselj's days is increasingly felt in the speech of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.

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"Non-professional person" and a doctorate

The court did not dispute that part of Jelena Trivan's disputed doctoral dissertation was copied without citing the source. But, as they claim in the verdict, only "experts" are allowed and can establish that - not journalists

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The Seselje trail is bursting, bursting

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has just drawn targets on the backs of students who are seeking justice by blocking the faculty. Should the "patriots" now be pulling crowbars, knives and baseball bats on these guys and gals accused of being greedy mercenaries

On this day

Why did the First World War start and what does it tell us today

On this day 110 years ago, the First World War began. From a centuries-old perspective, the actual question is whether Serbia should have suffered so many victims - both the Austro-Hungarian crimes in Mačva and the typhus plague and the retreat through Albania and Montenegro to Corfu and the Thessaloniki front, all in all, more than a million dead? The problem with this question is that it presupposes the possibility of an election, which there was neither in 1914 nor later