In a country where political problems are often solved by pretending they don't exist, the students did something radically simple: they named the problem and tried to measure it. And speaking of naming, let's not ignore what those 400.000 citizens did. They stood behind the request for elections with name and surname, address and phone number
In 2025, the citizens also changed in that they no longer looked for leaders. They did not wait for a signal from the stage, nor did they expect salvation from the election. They learned that pressure is itself a political fact. In this quiet transformation lies the biggest problem for the government. A regime based on control does not know what to do with people who have stopped being afraid
What happens when the dams around the Pionirski Park break and hordes of people pour into cities in Serbia where local elections are held? We saw that last weekend in Mionica, Negotin and Sečnje. This is not a text about local elections, nor about the results, because there were essentially no elections that day. All we saw was lawlessness, terror, the suspension of law and the state, and the general rule of thugs and thugs in black caps. Also a new phase of repression that is even stronger and more irrational
As "Vreme" exclusively learns, the house arrest of the former Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Tomislav Momirović was extended for another three months.
Dijana Hrka and Milomir Jaćimović are not just individuals on hunger strike - they are a symbol of the moral injury felt by the whole society. When we look at moral injury in a political context, it becomes clearer why otherwise reasonable and decent people can feel strong anger or even hatred towards those who behave cynically and without a shred of empathy.
Who among us has ever looked at all 250 names of parliamentary candidates on the list for which they want to vote? Although it is not stated anywhere, it is clear that the student list will be a buffet. If it matters to anyone, they have my vote, even if I don't like 249 names
Diana Hrka's decision to go on hunger strike must be seen in two contexts, human and political. On the human side, absolutely everyone who stands by her wants to end the hunger strike and preserve her health. On the political side, her move is something that Aleksandar Vučić has no answer for
"My opinion is that the student list will have more and more support. Some think that support will decrease over time, I think the opposite. There is increasing dissatisfaction with the authorities and if the elections are in a year, I think that the students will have even more support than now, regardless of what happens in the meantime"
The European Union has invested millions of euros to help Serbia manage the removal of medical and infectious waste. Niš is one of the first cities to receive a facility for this activity. However, it is not used today, the waste removal jobs are given to a private company, and the licenses of the health institutions have expired. The conditions for their extension are set in such a way that they cannot fulfill them
"When times are really difficult, that's when people show themselves, loyal first to themselves, then to their family, neighbors and the state. Justice is perhaps the closest competitor to trust today. But I mean pure justice, devoid of personal interests and all surrogates that could serve as substitutes. To quote Adam Mihnjik - we don't need mercy or revenge, we need justice"
Populist measures, no matter how much Vučić insists, have no chance. And the fact that it now seems that he is on the offensive and that he has consolidated is far from the truth. How can a man who offers a house for one hundred euros with one hand and shows the police a sign that he mercilessly attacks the citizens can be consolidated?
This regime is falling because people have stood up who have a clear political stance, clearly distinguish between justice and injustice, but are not organized activists or politically engaged. The regime knows that they are the biggest threat to the survival of the corrupt system because they are the majority in this society. That is why we must protect them at all costs
Attacks on pubs, on people sitting in bars, attacks on schoolyards... All this is part of the systemic intimidation of a rebellious society. In a country where the institutions do not work in the interests of the citizens, we can only trust each other and protect each other
One day, which is not far away, Vučić will only be able to write echoes and reactions, in the hope that someone will publish them. The only important question for society in Serbia is: where will they be written from?
In order to even have the right to call for dialogue, Vučić must answer the question of why he has stifled and prevented dialogue so far. Why has one part of the media scene, the one we call independent, exposed to satanization, and the other subjugated and turned it into a weapon of intimidation? Why is every parliament, from the republican to the municipal, today the scene of verbal and physical confrontations
The only dialogue that Vučić deserves after all is the one that takes place at the polling stations. And the only thing he should be grateful for is that the citizens ask for it. Just that. He owes them much more
If he were the kind of person he is not, Dacic would have wondered how people on the streets, mass demonstrations and a deep division of society happened to him for the second time in his career. If they weren't like that, he and Vučić would wonder if maybe it wasn't up to them
Aleksandar Vučić has finally stopped hiding behind the office of the President of the Republic and is speaking as he really is: the leader of the joint criminal group that occupied this country
Darko Glišić, Minister for Public Investments, had a stroke in front of the cameras. The regime tried to somehow blame the citizens for it, because the citizens, apparently, did not show enough empathy for what happened to the minister. However, it is the regime that is systematically trying to kill the compassion of the citizens. And this with Glišić is just a signal that society has partially removed compassion from itself as an act of self-defense
Apart from being in charge of directing and legitimizing Vučić's arbitrariness, these are the people whose windows the citizens come to whistle at. Around the country where the ministers move in secret, like bandits, they meet with local mobs, then quickly run back. In Knjaževac, they were guarded by the Gendarmerie when they celebrated one hundred days of work. That's why - the last government of Vučić. They will hardly find people willing to be humiliated by him, and the citizens despise them
The several-minute-long outpouring of the president's anger on the citizens of Novi Pazar is nothing but the last gasp of a defeated policy of a man who thinks he is a state, but is actually a country.
Attacks happen on the street or in connection with reporting on the street, and they don't happen because the journalist is reporting on such and such a topic, but because she is reporting at all.
The President of Serbia thinks that rebellious citizens are capable of persuading someone to leave and kill themselves. It would be less worrying that he was lying, that is, that he didn't believe what he said. Because, if he really believes that this is possible, then he is a politician ready to give someone of his own a can of gasoline and a lighter under the pretext that Serbia needs it.
Serbia entered into civil disobedience, and that brings with it consequences. In the days behind us, it became impossible to count those detained, arrested and injured. It will be recorded that police cars ran into peaceful citizens at full speed and that one man wanted to harm himself, under the pressure of the authorities
Who is bothered by the general tone in which yesterday's "See you on Vidovdan" protest took place, remember: on June 28, 2025, heads were bleeding under batons because Aleksandar Vučić "defended" the filthy, smelly fair that he turned Pionirski Park into. We don't have any other students you will like more. This is the only opportunity to get rid of the repressive regime, there will be no other
Employees of pro-regime propaganda newspapers founded their own association - the Association of Journalists of Serbia, another creation of the parallel cosmos of the outgoing regime.
"I think it is wrong to ignore Vučić, to pretend that he has already fallen and lost all sense. With him, the rational and the irrational intertwine. Both are strong, and that is why all responsible parts of society must unite and organize in order for him to be replaced in a legal and democratic way. That approach does not contradict the slogan 'You are not competent'. I am proud of the Serbian students who had enough knowledge or, rather, the feeling to understand how much he, malignant narcissist, that attitude hits"
