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Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

She started working as a journalist in 2002, as a freshman at the Faculty of Philosophy. Then she came to the weekly "Vreme" and stayed there until today. It covers topics from politics and society, with an emphasis on violence against women. She is the winner of several journalistic awards, some of which are the "Dejana Anastasijević" award and the EU award for investigative journalism.

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Progressive propaganda

Hostages of their own shame and shame

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.

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

PICTURE AND OPPORTUNITY OF PROGRESSIVE SERBIA: Police officers on citizens and the brutal arrest of high school graduate Bože Vasović

Regime violence against citizens

People on the barricades

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

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

Comment

Vidovdan, the day after: Students, thank you and there's no going back

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

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Comment

Establishment of ANS: Media Country

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.

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

Interview: Prof. Tanasije Marinković, Faculty of Law in Belgrade

Revenge against the University is proof of Vučić's downfall

"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"

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

Tanasije Marinković at a protest in front of the Government

From the new issue

The government's attack on the university: Starving the rebellious professors

While students and professors have been resisting the regime of Aleksandar Vučić for months, the government retaliates with economic pressure and attacks on academic autonomy. In an interview for Vreme, Professor Tanasije Marinković explains why the university has become the last line of defense of a free society and why the government wants to break it.

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Comment

Kosjerić and Zaječar: The government is cracked, and it is about to crack

It turns out that the opposition did not win in either of these two places. But before we fall into the abyss of defeatism, it should be noted that everything has gone as well as it can at this point. And that from now on, it can only get better

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Protest 2024/25

The long march to elections and justice

The cross section of the week is as follows: we have the overlap of two opposing currents. One wants to free herself from the hostage crisis in which the other is holding her. The first party wants elections. The second one leaves no choice. The essence is in the difference: the ruling clique wants everything to remain the same, and the citizens - for everything to be different. In this sense, students and citizens have already won in a way: nothing is the same anymore and will never be the same

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

All mistakes of the president of Serbia

Aleksandar Vučić, leader of the opposition

Since the blockades began, the head of state and the party has been making mistake after mistake and doing so with undiminished ferocity. There were moments during these six months when the protest against the government could have died down. Only thanks to the engagement of Aleksandar Vučić, that did not happen

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

Aleksandar Vučić's speech in Niš

The threats of a man offended to the core

After more than a decade in power, Aleksandar Vučić for the first time no longer dictates political processes but reacts to them. And that's bad, in every sense: neither does he tolerate well, nor does he cope well. His speech in Niš shows this very clearly

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

“From my village to Brussels”

How students ran into the EU

While the student marathoners, after 18 days of relay running and 2000 kilometers covered, are talking to EU parliamentarians in Brussels, Vučić is meeting with the president of the European Council. In the background of these two events, the government's evident influence on the judiciary is reflected in two decisions: the extension of the detention of activists from Novi Sad and the requalification of the offense of the woman who hit a student with a car

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

Aleksandar Vučić's parallel universe

Paratrooper in Florida and other shenanigans

Maybe the correct version is that Aleksandar Vučić got sick and that's why he returned to the country. But the whole thing still leaves a lot of open questions. To begin with, why did the president of our country go to a donor evening intended for the internal political goals of another country? Why did he go to an event where you can't get in unless you donate money? And who called him? If this soap opera is seen as an isolated event, outside of the domestic context, it really is something that escapes common sense.

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Comment

Why do we want elections now?

There are no more students ahead and us behind them. Now we are all in the same situation: we drove the beast out into the open. We know how it goes

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

Blockade of RTS

Nobody is tired.

Less than two days of blockade - that's how long it took to see how weak and powerless the public media service is, both from the outside and from the inside. At the moment of writing this text, it is the eighth day of the blockade, and the sixth that RTS is not broadcasting its program. They also seem to be facing a strike inside the house. And the essence of blocking RTS is not in what it publishes, but in what it keeps silent

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Vučić and Šešelj: Where I stopped, you continue

The return of radical violence

Arrests out of the blue, banishment from the country, beatings... All this happened to us in the last week alone. The Serbian Progressive Party, born from the foam left behind by their spiritual father Vojislav Šešelj, is returning to its roots. I can't escape from myself

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Police brutality

The trail of death behind "small" mistakes in work

Dead, maimed, beaten, abused... That's how the citizens who, for various reasons, find themselves under the hand and baton of the Serbian police end up. The last case, which few believe really happened like that, is the most bizarre: a man hanged himself in a garage, while his hands were tied

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Belgrade, March 15, 2025: The largest protest rally in the history of Serbia

“15th for 15”

If the rally in Novi Sad was a reflection of sadness for the 15 victims, in Kragujevac it was an expression of great unity, and in Niš of general joy, the protest in Belgrade was the moment when we stood before the corrupt government and looked it in the eye. We didn't back down. Bloodshed was prevented by young people barely of legal age, girls and boys who had never fought in their lives. They didn't give anything away when they took off their police vests. On the contrary, that act is an act of supreme responsibility

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Comment

Why March 15 couldn't be the Fifth of October

We allowed ourselves two dictators in 30 years. That is the core of our problem. There is no quick fix for this. And that's why March 15 could not be the Fifth of October. Because the Fifth of October is not enough now. Must be slower, must be smarter. It needs to be more thorough. Yesterday was not the end, because this is just the beginning

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Interview: Svetislav Kostić, Green-Left Front

Students cannot solve everything for us

"That March 15 can be a perfect day if on that day there is an opportunity for broad segments of the society that rebelled - students, opposition parties, professors and other social groups - to reach a common agreement about what we should do next. Such an agreement would be an incredible success, something that would move this society in an unstoppable direction - to replace this government and this system quite quickly.

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Vučić against RTS

An extended festival of insults

Last week, the President of Serbia managed to send even worse and bigger insults than the initial ones in the form of an apology to the Nis correspondent of Radio-television of Serbia. The industry still rose. About forty journalists from Niš refuse to report on Vučić's performances, and they were joined by the Novi Sad correspondent of RTS

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

MARCHES THAT RAISE AWARENESS: Students in rebellion

Suggestion for rereading

Young people's demands as required reading

With their demands, the way they articulate their protest, the way they plan marches and large blockades, the students in the blockade have set a framework for all the others who have why to stand up and what to fight against. Now is a unique opportunity for us to reevaluate ourselves, pick our battles, and stop dealing with ourselves.

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Kragujevac, the day after

We met at Sretenje.

Now this generation, which has not fenced itself off yet, is rising up, walking, carrying icons and crosses and Ferrari flags, singing and Bilećanka i Who says that, who is lying, Serbia is small, and with them the Bosniaks from Pazar hand in hand, and while they are being baptized after 15 minutes of silence, they recite the prayer and pray standing up, as is the only and mandatory thing for the dead. "For the first time, I feel like a citizen of this country," said one of the students from Novi Pazar

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

On the eve of the blockade in Kragujevac

Let's meet at Sretenje

Kragujevac students could not have chosen a better and more beautiful date than February 15 for the big blockade of this city. Everything about this selection is perfect. Both time and place and the multiple symbolism that Sretenje, Statehood Day and Kragujevac bear when they are connected

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Continuation of progressive violence

Dialogue with bats and bloody hoods

Since January 27, the authorities have been inviting students and professors to a dialogue. However, several things stand in the way of dialogue: the students' demands are so clear that there is nothing to discuss, and the government continues its violence against citizens at the blockades. In addition, the one who calls for negotiations is not competent

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic

Interview: Ivanka Popović, professor and member of the "ProGlas" Initiative

We know what we should do.

This is not a colored, imported or any other revolution, but an authentic aspiration of students and citizens of Serbia to bring about changes in our country. That's why I don't think we should pay too much attention to the statements of foreign officials, neither from the USA nor from Russia. We have our authentic and national goal, which is to survive and enable a normal life

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Jovana Gligorijevic

Ivanka Popović

Interview

Ivanka Popović: "Unrest in the authorities is obvious"

"It seems to me that it is unclear to them how and in what way to approach solving the crisis, without jeopardizing the support of their loyal voters," Professor Ivanka Popović tells "Vreme"

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Comment

Performance of Vučić, Vučević, Brnabić: Nobody asked them anything

The people who killed dialogue in this country are now calling for it. You are no longer in charge. The students did. Your hand of reconciliation is bloody up to the elbow, and that's why you won't even touch the students with it

Jovana Gligorijevic

Jovana Gligorijevic