Marija L. Jankovic

In journalism since 2008. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, and already during her studies she entered the editorial office. She collaborated with numerous domestic and foreign newsrooms, and is especially proud of the story about corruption in the trade unions of Serbia and Croatia, which she published as a BIRN scholarship holder, as well as the documentary that follows the victims of rape as a war crime in Bosnia, which was released on the BBC. He has been working for "Vreme" since 2025 and hopes to stay there for a long time.

Support for protests

Dedication to students from Carnegie Hall: Gold came from Space

At the Kronos Quartet's concert in Carnegie Hall, New York, on March 28, the founder of Kronos dedicated one track - to students in Serbia.

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Progressives

SNS counter-rally in Vranje: Car horns sounded during silence

The second rally in Vranje, which was held on the evening of March 28, was marked by the presence of a large number of policemen, as well as a convoy of hundreds of cars that entered the center of Vranje during their gathering with flags, SNS symbols and a picture of President Aleksandar Vučić

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"Serbia must reverse the negative trend in relation to freedom of expression and academic freedom and should ensure further progress regarding the electoral process," European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos stated.

The European Commission

Marta Kos: Students demand from Serbia the same as Europe

Marta Kos, the European Commissioner for Enlargement, said that she was amazed by the energy of the demonstrators in Serbia, to change the circumstances they were not happy with.

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Economy

Chamber of Commerce: Something that no one has anything from

For all companies registered in Serbia, membership in the Chamber of Commerce, and therefore payment of the membership fee, is mandatory. However, there are businessmen who refuse to pay this levy, because they believe that they do not receive any benefits by being a member of the PKS, and that the membership fee should be voluntary.

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Energy Industry

Đedović Handanović: The official confirmation from the USA has arrived that the sanctions against the NIS have been postponed

The official confirmation of the US delaying the sanctions on the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS) until April 28 has arrived, announced the Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović

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Daylight saving time

The clock changes tomorrow.

Daylight saving time in Serbia will begin on Sunday, March 30, at 2 a.m

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Fraud

Association from Niš: The wind park near Aleksinac is another robbery of the state

The association "Nišlije da se pitaju" claims that the construction of a wind park is planned near Aleksinac and that this project represents another robbery of the state by the authorities, or persons close to the authorities.

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America

Trump announced tariffs of 25 percent on all imported cars

US President Donald Trump has announced plans for long-promised tariffs of up to 25 percent on car imports

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The strike of educators

Brnabić: Work has been suspended in 58 out of 1.767 secondary schools

The President of the Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, says that 75 percent of elementary schools are working regularly, while only one school is in a complete suspension of work.

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Education on strike

New economy: About 20.000 teachers did not receive their February salary

In two weeks of solidarity support for employees in education, citizens of Serbia and companies paid 76,29 million dinars into the dedicated account of the "Alek Kavčić" Foundation.

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Counter rally

Will there be a meeting of progressives on March 28?

Will there be a counter rally of the authorities, which was pompously announced as "the biggest in history" for March 28? If they want, will the progressives be allowed to go out on the streets of a city or will the event be held in some facility, so that they are safe from the already angry citizens?

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Digging

Jadar will still be on the list of the European Union

Although the European Commission announced on Tuesday, March 25, strategic projects for critical raw materials that do not include Jadra, it turned out that the projects for countries outside the Union will be adopted only afterwards

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(Un)diplomatic

All the outbursts of Jelena Milić: Professional event leaver

Serbian Ambassador to Croatia Jelena Milić, who was recalled suddenly and without explanation on March 25, has been filling newspaper columns in Croatia with incidents in recent months.

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A boy was killed and seven other children were injured in a serious accident that took place between Tuesday and Wednesday on the Novi Sad - Belgrade highway.

State action

New arrests for corruption, again small players

The state continues its fight against corruption. Now the assistant of the mayor of Bor and the investor of the building near Manjež have been arrested. Judging by the actions so far, the state leadership is clean as a tear

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Ecology in music

Massive Attack: Environmental champions to role model

The popular UK electronic band Massive Attack has broken a specific record - not musically, but environmentally. In July, the band is visiting in Kragujevac

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Protests and blockades

Rebellion in New Belgrade: The opposition left the meeting, the citizens dispersed

The session of the municipality of Novi Beograd began on March 25 at 10 am, and the opposition left the session. Although tensions were announced, everything went peacefully

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Kragujevac

"Baja Mali Ćaci": The concert was interrupted by "pumping"

A video from the concert of Baja Mali Knindža from the "Jezero" hall in Kragujevac is spreading on social networks, when the crowd supported the students in the blockade and started shouting "pump, pump" in the chorus.

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Chamber of Commerce of Serbia

New economy: What is the purpose of such a Chamber of Commerce

Firms that did not pay the mandatory membership fee to the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia started receiving warnings before being charged. Some of them do not want to pay, because they believe that this levy does not provide them with any benefits

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Putin and Trump are scheduled to meet next week

Peace negotiations

Ending the war in Ukraine: What did the Americans and Russians talk about?

A 24-hour meeting between the American and Russian delegations on the conditions for ending the war in Ukraine ended in Riyadh on the evening of March XNUMX.

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Security

BIA and MUP seize protectors as drugs: Who are these "special students"

On Saturday evening, the police announced that, in cooperation with the BIA, they found "a large quantity of shields and a box with 30 'protect' gas sprays" in the car of a student from Kragujevac. They presented the action as if they had caught the biggest terrorist

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Protests in Turkey

Vučić and Erdogan: Same vocabulary, same target

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić use the same vocabulary when dealing with dissenters

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Sound cannon

The black hoods that followed the roar

A few minutes before the silence in Kralja Milan was broken by an ominous roar, 30 masked hooligans burst into Pionirski Park in an organized manner and began to target student-guards and those gathered in the surrounding streets

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Suspicion of corruption

New economy: Sound cannon em illegal, em many times overpaid

The price of the acquired sound cannons is several times higher than the Americans paid for the same device. And they are also prohibited by law in Serbia

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GPS garage lock

Blockade of the GSP depot: "I agree with the students, but what should I say in the company"

On the first day of spring, students launched another sudden action - they blocked the GSP garage in New Belgrade. They stay, as they say, until their demands are met, and they are preparing new actions

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Security

The mystery of three white vans without plates in Kralja Milan

Three white vans without license plates are parked right next to the Presidency building, a highly protected facility. Is there any special operation in the middle and whose vehicles are there, which were also there during the noise on Saturday

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Student guards

Berets we are not afraid of

According to one of the student guards, the veterans said: "Children, you are in command here, and we are here to protect you." They were with the students non-stop from 11 am until the end of the protest

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What happened on March 15th?

The student officer for "Vreme" about the wave: "Trk students stuck the whole of Kralj Milan to the walls? Please"

One of the student guards comments for "Vreme" on the thesis of the tabloids and the security services that it was the guards who caused the stampede and the ominous wave in Ulica Kralja Milana on the evening of March 15

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And indeed, she did not wait long, the first man of Serbia needed her. Having nowhere and how to fight against the students in the blockade, the rebellious people and, above all, raising awareness of the SNS and SPS, Vučić called her name.

In a guest appearance on Informer television, he hinted that the former vice-president of the party is returning to SNS.

"I am unusually strict with my party, and there were other parties that resisted the revolution, but you can't find any that left the party in such difficult times. And even some, like Mrs. Mihajlović, are returning," explained Vučić.

When asked if it is true that she is back among the progressives, whom she criticized when she left the party, even asking them to delete her name from the SNS database, Mihajlović says that she is not.

"I'm not in a party, but I love my country, and I support the president's policy of developing, preserving and caring for the country," he says.

At the same time, she managed to publish an author's text for Politika, a newspaper that was never in her favor, because it is pro-Russian oriented, and she, ostensibly, works for the West.

In "Politica", the former minister and SNS official writes about the accusations against the reconstruction of the railway from Belgrade to Budapest and her communication with the president's office. He compares the protests against the project to Luddism, a 19th-century movement when people blamed machines for unemployment.

Mihajlović was also the Minister of Construction when the decision was taken on the reconstruction project of the Railway Station in Novi Sad, but no one mentioned her anywhere later, nor was she held accountable. Except for one Dragan J. Vučićević. She was also called to the police for an interview on this issue, but, she says, only as a witness. For the tragedy, in which 16 people died due to negligence and corruption.

She wrote in "Politics" that she is returning to the public because she refuses to be a "prisoner of manipulated students and that kind of pseudo-anarcho-totalitarian ideologies and pathological politics." It is possible that Mihajlović rather refuses to be a real prisoner, if her eventual responsibility in the entire project in which the canopy collapsed was determined.

The fact that Aleksandar Vučić accepted her back into his flock also says that he needs her very much. Because, in 2023, he sacrificed her and did not appoint her as a minister, which was her position for many years. Her departure from SNS was preceded by numerous quarrels with pro-Russian politicians in Serbia - Aleksandar Vulin, Dušan Bajatović, and even Tomislav Nikolić.

By returning Mihajlović under the umbrella of the SNS, Vučić is probably addressing all those whom she has ever liked, even though they do not like progressives, but potentially also international institutions, such as officials in Brussels, who occasionally cancel meetings with him or are not as cordial as expected.

"Since Aleksandar Vučić spectacularly resurrected in our lives, there she is somewhere around him, as an on-call corrective, as an allegedly unequivocal symbolic proof that Serbia has not moved out of its home continent, even the planet, and that everything will be fine in the end," Teofil Pančić wrote in "Vremen" when Zorana Mihajlović left SNS.

"Now," continues Pančić, "the fact that nothing in these ten years has ever looked like anything will ever be okay, that's a specific law of dramaturgy: the happy ending is the strongest if things seemed hopeless before."

"It's just that there's no happiness here, and it seems that the only one who is genuinely surprised and offended by this is Zorana Mihajlović herself. So that it doesn't even appear that she wasn't surprised and offended enough, the SNS Information Service made sure that already in the first hours of the minister's still informal 'ex', she began to express herself with the cynicism and contempt long reserved for the opposition and other dubious elements."

She received her doctorate in economics in Belgrade. It was originally a member of G17 plus. One of the founders of SNS, a long-time minister of energy, who was in constant conflict with Dušan Bajatović, the director of Srbijagas, and who allegedly advocated for Serbia to become less energy dependent on Russia. However, she never implemented her ideas.

From the position of Minister of Energy, she moved to the position of Minister of Construction, allegedly again due to the dispute with Russia.

She left SNS in 2023, allegedly because the European path of progressives was stopped, so she formed her own movement that never took off.

She began to slowly fall into oblivion. Until the student protests, when she again started pushing herself to get the word out.

It's been months. Zorana Mihajlovic she called the students fascists, dilettantes, wretches, liars who manipulate people with the story of "innocent, free-thinking student children" and mistreat her and all of Serbia.

Since none of the regime media invited her to the shows, and the tabloids ignored her, she started self-promotion on Instagram - it costs nothing and no one has to invite her. A Aleksandar Vučić no way to look back or mention her name.

The experienced politician, who has been working hard in the progressive system for a decade, knew that she just had to continue praising Vučić, the president's "enemies", and put herself and her image as a second-Serbian favorite, "the only one even remotely correct among the terrible SNS", at the disposal of the head of state, so that DJ Vučićević and others like him knock on her door again.

The tabloids quickly arrived, so in their broadcasts and texts, she began to wish Vučić the best in his fight against the "colored revolution". For these needs, she reconciled with the boss of "Informer", with whom she has been in a dispute for years, and who himself called her names in November 2024, when her arrests began due to the fall of the canopy.

"Where is Zorana Mihajlović, who was a minister at the time? Does anyone mention her and why not," Vučićević said in a guest appearance on Pink TV.

Nevertheless, a few months later, Mihajlovic had no problem thanking "Informer" for caring for the president, making a guest appearance on television and calling Vučić "a gladiator who always fights for his country."

In a guest appearance on Informer television, he hinted that the former vice-president of the party is returning to SNS.

"I'm not in a party, but I love my country, and I support the president's policy of developing, preserving and caring for the country," he says.

At the same time, she managed to publish an author's text for Politika, a newspaper that was never in her favor, because it is pro-Russian oriented, and she, ostensibly, works for the West.

From the position of Minister of Energy, she moved to the position of Minister of Construction, allegedly again due to the dispute with Russia.

She left SNS in 2023, allegedly because the European path of progressives was stopped, so she formed her own movement that never took off.

She began to slowly fall into oblivion. Until the student protests, when she again started pushing herself to get the word out.