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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.

Overview of the week

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  

This situation

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.

This situation

"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

Alexander Vulin and his boss

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The General and the Lab Mouse

Vulin's lies about Zdravko Ponoš have only one goal. And that is the regime's attempt to establish control over the future by controlling its own ugly past. Hence all that servitude to the people and violence against common sense

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Serbs are really not a genocidal people

One question cries out to heaven. It reads: why did the regime ban the festival "Mirdita, dobar dan" and allow a chauvinist orgy in Novi Sad where they mock the Srebrenica victims, their families and every honest person

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Presentation: Fiery service of the people on the 24th

If the citizens of Serbia are really safe, why does one gendarme have to correct the mistakes of the entire security sector? What does the scandalous conduct of the investigation into the disappearance of little Danka Ilić say? Or - ghostly silence after the incident in the village of Banjska that blackened the Serbs in Kosovo

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Brother to brother, with Mark the Commander

Why did the "Mirdita, good day" festival have to be banned? What unites the regime, the hooligans from the fans' pits and the local right-wingers, supposedly in the opposition? And how miserable all this is, it couldn't be more miserable

Interview: Dušan Pavlović

There is no stable government without an educated administration

It is known that in our public policy we have a lot of problems with defining the priorities of budget projects. Why is spending on the military and police growing faster than spending on, say, education? Why are stadiums being built when parts of Serbia do not have water supply and sewerage? Why are hospitals being built that don't work afterwards? Why is green space in cities decreasing, while business space is increasing

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Days of domestic violence

If it is established that before the tragedy in Knjaževac, the competent institutions made an appointment, no one will be surprised. How many more families are in danger due to illness, lack of professional care, poverty? Instead of a systemic solution to this problem, the regime spends money on Šapić's singing and dancing

Comment

Niš, a symbol of hope

The defense of the electoral will of Nišli is not only important for that city. She is a clear and concrete example for all of Serbia that change is possible. You have to start from something. Why not - just like in 1996 - right from Niš

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The case of Vuk Cvijić: They will hunt us on the streets

Will independent and professional journalists still be allowed to sit in cafes and walk on sidewalks? Is Serbia really condemned to the North Korean model of information - the cult of personality of the great leader, the hunt for "enemies and traitors"? Sunday is a great day to say no to all of this

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Meeting the Serbian Parliament

If there was no genocide in Srebrenica, does that mean that innocent individuals were convicted for this crime, such as Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic? The Republic of Serbia - just to be forgotten - is recognized by the Hague Court

Interview: Edward Ferguson, Ambassador of Great Britain to Serbia

Two hundred year old friendship

"Some things remain in discussions between state governments and are not for the public. It is evident that there are media in Serbia that are channels for spreading Russian disinformation. I am referring to President Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine and, at times, the role of other countries, including Great Britain. We place great importance not only on supporting independent media in countries around the world, but also high-quality media whose work is based on facts, not misinformation or conspiracy theories. It's okay to disagree, but if you stick to the facts, we have a better chance of finding common ground."

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Machiavelli in the Balkans

What is the secret of the vitality of right-wing populism in the former Yugoslavia? The answer is - in eyeless cynicism, lying and trampling on democracy. This is how they have been holding citizens as hostages in nationalist and atavistic basements for decades

Comment

New Government: People without properties

None of the new or old ministers in Miloš Vučević's government has political weight, nor will they create anything important in their department. That's why it's worth paraphrasing Radoj Domanović: Serbia is known for smart young people and ministers; the former is exported all over the world, and the latter - unfortunately - not

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Opposition meetings and farewells

Jovanović and Vučić, unlike Grbović and Đilas, do not recognize the judgments of the Hague Tribunal. However, PSG and SNS will be reflected in the Belgrade elections, where there will be no SSP and NDSS. The attitude towards the Resolution on Srebrenica is far from the biggest problem of the opposition in Serbia, but it is quite illustrative

Comment

Did the last word fall?

Anyone who knows anything about active opposition activities must beware of labels such as "Trojan" or "Vučić's man" - most of these people paid a huge price for their political involvement. That is why the worst thing would be if both wings of the divided coalition start a mutual confrontation instead of the progressives