Whoever is in leadership positions in the Security and Information Agency (BIA) until recently or is preparing to take them over - it is good for the government, it is bad for the people. This removed all dilemmas about what it means that instead of "comrade Marko" the chief of operations in BIA became "comrade Nidža"
The murder of Filip Ivanović, a member of the Skaljar clan, in Belgrade on the water has opened up a series of questions for which an answer is suspected - instead of chasing criminals, the police and security structures are bodyguards and nannies for persons on Interpol warrants who find refuge in the most elite part of the Serbian capital.
"Vreme" investigates how the mafia liquidation in Belgrade revealed that the police are watching and protecting criminals, instead of arresting them. So they are still killed in front of their eyes
By a final judgment, psychiatrist Aleksandar Miljatović from Belgrade was banned from practicing his profession for two years for falsifying the diagnoses of patients at the Palilula Health Center. False diagnoses have led to serious problems for patients, including loss of the right to work and disability pension
How criticism behind closed doors was used to persecute the accuser. The interlocutors of the weekly "Vreme" emphasize: "This is revenge against Savović for raising her voice, but also preparing the ground for disciplining prosecutors throughout Serbia for what they did or did not say in a private conversation."
Rape threats and beatings followed when, after another protest in a row, the demonstrators went home. According to the testimonies of victims of torture, students and citizens were kidnapped from central Belgrade streets, taken to the building of the Government of Serbia - the seat of the executive power - where they were tortured or forced to listen to and watch others being beaten.
The construction of small hydropower plants (MHP) in Serbia is a topic that has long caused divisions. Environmental activists have been warning for years about their harmfulness to the environment, the rivers on which MHPs were built have dried up, the fish have died and disappeared, the fields in the area have ceased to be as fertile as they used to be, and in the meantime it has been discovered that people close to the government are seriously involved in construction works that bring millions of profits.
We are not on the streets to monitor the professionalism of police officers, but rather their loyalty to the ruling party, an inspector of the Department of Internal Control of the MUP told "Vreme"
Who and when is allowed to wear a phantom? When and why are the police silent, and when do they beat? Who orders them, that is, whose responsibility is it for the scenes we witness? Are citizens being attacked by criminals in uniform? Who's who among the party police? How did SNS change the image of the police?
People are enlightened, encouraged and united. United like that, we can do anything. This whole process is significantly healing for the whole society, now we all learn what we can do together when we have the same basic values. I think that the students also learned a lot, they experienced a lot on their own skin, and, honestly, we "older" people learn from them as well. Unlike many, I think it's good that this is taking longer, because sudden, faster changes would probably be short-lived.
Prosecutor Bojana Savović raised her voice. According to the sentence, she was placed in a small room on the fourth floor of the Palace of Justice. But you can hear it even better from there. He now speaks for "Vreme"
These days, four years have passed since Ivanka Mićić (62) died near Loznica. And only these days did the trial of Đorđe Danojlić really begin, accused of hitting a woman who was walking with a car, leaving her to die by the side of the road and running away. The accused is in the courtroom, but the truth has begun to be buried and drowned among court records, numerous expert reports and analyses. Prosecution experts claim one thing, and defense experts completely different. Legally, the question is now which vehicle hit the woman. As if it is no longer important what the truth is, but whose experts will defend their opinions more strongly. And the opinions of experts in a corrupt and politically burdened society are more susceptible to influences than science... What will prevail
After the dismissal of the head of the department of the First Surgical Clinic, professor Dr. Vladimir Dugalić, patients are looking for answers. One of the most respected experts in liver surgery in the region was dismissed because he criticized the Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar and was among the first to support the student protests
The hero of this text was an intelligence officer of the former State Security Service of former Yugoslavia. He was allegedly hired by the UDBA to organize criminals to attack and kill problematic emigrants around the world. Serbian authorities arrested him twice, but he was never convicted. The foreigners never arrested him, but they did convict him - albeit in the first instance. For decades now, Spasić has been a frequent guest of the media where, as if on assignment, he criticizes the past and praises the current government. He worked as a detective, journalist and published two books. Precisely because of what he writes and says, Spasić caused more trouble for himself than any domestic or foreign enemy.
Veselin Vukotić and Andrija Drašković were not sentenced to life imprisonment in Belgium for the murder of Enver Hadri, as reported by almost all Serbian media
The higher public prosecutor's office misled the public with an official announcement that the official note that inspector Slobodan Milenkovic, who discovered Jovanjic, was offered a bribe was "strictly confidential". Vladimir Đukanović, SNS MP and lawyer for the owner of Jovanjica, now claims that Milenkovic does not want to testify in the proceedings in which he is suing "Radar" journalist Vuk Cvijić
People's deputies Marinika Tepić (SSP), Miroslav Aleksić (NPS) and Radomir Lazović (ZLF) speak for "Vreme" when they first suspected that their every word was going to the secret services and that the regime was abusing that information. Although their privacy is threatened even when they are in their own home and when it comes to their health problems, they have remained silent for years. They say they were overcome by the fear of having their words twisted in public and of being stigmatized as paranoid.
Moscow's influence in Serbia today is primarily the result of three phenomena: the issue of Kosovo's status, Serbia's energy dependence, as well as the existence of a majority pro-Russian orientation of the public even after the aggression against Ukraine, which includes the actions of the (pro) Russian media. As reported by the media, Serbia is one of the few European countries that has allowed Russian official media (Sputnik, RT - Russia Today) to operate on its territory. In addition, some of the most watched Serbian TV stations with a national frequency, such as TV Happy, have specialized daily shows whose content is in the service of Russian propaganda.
The Serbian authorities constantly point out that they are bound by an "iron friendship" with the Chinese. The loans that Serbia takes from China are presented as investments. Little is known about these loans, as well as what consequences debtors can expect if they do not return the money. It is presented to the public that all over Serbia we do business and build jointly with the Chinese, from sewerage, through ironworks, mines, smelters, tire factories, parts of highways and high-speed railways, all the way to the construction of projects related to the national stadium and Expo 2027.
"We will have privileged defendants. Those will be the ones the prosecutor decides to hear first. The first defendant will be heard without the presence of the other defendants and their lawyers. In the case of the second defendant in the order of hearing, during the testimony, only the first defendant who was heard with his lawyer will be able to be present. Therefore, when the last one comes to testify at the prosecutor's office, everyone who has already been heard with their defense attorneys will be able to follow his presentation and ask him questions, and he had no right to ask them those questions. How the prosecutor will determine and according to which criteria which defendant will be heard first, and who will be heard second or third or last, is not prescribed.
The top of the government is spreading fear and panic about revolutions, about some "Beomajdan", about blood on the streets, in order to actually open up space for an attack on freedom of speech. They see a danger in Serbia from freedom of speech. They are trying to convince a free people to give up their freedoms and rights. Their campaign Let's close ranks now to defend Serbia it is intense because they want to convince people that it is justified to target citizens, develop insecurity and spread self-censorship. It spreads the fear that someone will pick you up at the airport, in a store, in the aisle and that they could bring you under some criminal charge
The trial of the inspectors of the Department for the fight against drugs of the Belgrade police who participated in the exposure of Jovanjica on the charge of abuse of office is riddled with numerous contradictions. The judge will not even hear about the largest marijuana plantation in Europe that seems to disappear in the smoke of hookahs that are at the center of this case.
"You want to write an article after this and I'll pay you handsomely?" This was asked by the father of Benjamin Hasanagić, the journalist of the N1 television station Ana Novaković, who is being treated as the injured party in the trial against the inspector of the Department for the fight against drugs of the Belgrade police.
Who dared to illegally eavesdrop on the inspectors for the fight against drugs who discovered Jovanjica and arrested Koluvia, as well as to include such conversations from illegal eavesdropping among the evidence in the proceedings against them
Basketball player Alen Smailagic (pictured) was known by many sports fans until now, and recently the whole public knows about him as a "victim". So the tabloids state that he was "racketed", "fled from Serbia" and "went through threats, blackmail and agony" because of which, allegedly, his career is failing and the like. Smailagic remained mysterious to the media and said that he cannot talk about everything he went through
After a series of failures by the police and the prosecutor's office in the investigation, justice for the football manager Uroš Janković - the victim of the Terzić brothers - remained slow and unattainable, and for the bullies it was blind... It just felt them. Thus, Kostadin and Nikša Terzić, the sons of the general manager of FC Crvena zvezda Zvezdan, as well as Luka Kurtović, the owner of the club "Nana", entered into plea agreements with the Second Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade. They were sentenced to probation and fines for a number of crimes. Instead of gathering evidence, "Vreme" reveals how the police officers and the prosecutor's office made mistakes: they never heard the main witness, there is no footage of the beating from surveillance cameras, and several people participated in the attack, while only three were prosecuted... At the time of the attack and months later, Nikša Terzić remained working at BIA
Mysteries about military trucks, as well as controversies and changes to the defendant's testimony about weapons marked the beginning of the trial of Uroš Blažić, accused of killing nine and wounding 4 people on May 12 last year. Because of this massacre, Blažić's father Radašin, who is otherwise a military person, is on trial. He was accused of illegally acquiring a large amount of weapons, and his DNA was found on the weapon that Uroš Blažić used in the massacre
