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Nedim Sejdinovic

Nedim Sejdinović has been a journalist for the weekly "Vreme" since 2018, a writer and essayist. He is the author of two books of prose, one book of poetry and one book of political essays. He has been engaged in journalism since 1992. He is a collaborator of numerous media in Serbia and the region, as well as the founder and editor of the publishing company "Cenzura". He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS). From 2004 to 2012, he was the general secretary of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV), and from 2012 to April 2016, he was the chairman of the Executive Board of this association. He was the president of NDNV from 2016 to 2019. He is the winner of the 2018 OSCE Personality Award for his personal contribution to the fight for media freedom in Serbia.

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Interview: Dragan Markovina, historian

Yugoslavia was better.

"The former Mostar still exists - it lives on. There is also the former Sarajevo, and the former Belgrade - but as a minority energy. Which will not disappear. That is why it is impossible for the space to be 'cut' to the end and for everything to end the way the nationalists wish. That is why the nationalist spasm is coming. They would so much like that minority, that common cultural and social reflex to be gone - that it does not exist, that it does not survive - but they cannot fight against it. And that is, paradoxically, both our strength and our worst problem: we are a media and publicly influential minority, numerous enough to bother, but not strong enough to turn things around"

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Interview: Slobodan Beljanski, lawyer

The demon of evil is rampaging through our country

The granted and announced ex officio pardons testify to the fear that the judiciary will not be obedient. The President of Serbia, by all accounts, is not aware that by acquitting him of criminal prosecution, he indirectly admits that he does not trust the judiciary, because he knows that until now the judiciary could be influenced from the top, but that recently the success of such patronage is uncertain, and that the guilt of those pardoned would be proven in regular proceedings. Otherwise, there is an obvious misuse

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Interview: Branko Stamenković, President of the High Prosecution Council

Threats to prosecutors lead to prison

It is completely unclear to me what the platitudes that individuals use about alienating, separating and endangering the state from public prosecutors really mean. It is symptomatic to me that they appeared when the competent public prosecutor's offices, acting according to the laws, began to act ex officio in connection with criminal proceedings in which high representatives of the executive power were involved. I will remind you that the government has repeatedly proclaimed the fight against corruption as one of the most important goals of its work

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Novi Sad

The progressives are running in a dishonorable circle

From various quarters, various well-informed people report that Maja Gojković has expired and that she will soon be thanked for her cooperation. In what form, we will see. If that's the case, why did Maya get hurt? She is obedient, but perhaps not quite as much as expected of her. Maybe she was acting more crazy than she was allowed to be. Last year, the Development Agency of Vojvodina, which was founded in that form by Mirović's government, was liquidated overnight. Part of the employees, those eligible, were transferred to the Fund for European Affairs of AP Vojvodina, which is managed by the "famous European" Ognjen Dopuđ, with a recognizable appearance, "famous" for physically attacking and insulting students who blocked the entrance to the Novi Sad Rectorate last September. Now, does the eventual departure of Maja Gojković have anything to do with all of this? If there is, then it is because it was not more efficient and faster in differentiation, there is no other

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The Caciland dossier

Diagnosis of Vučić's Serbia

Ruglo in the center of Belgrade is a classic paramilitary camp that "guards" the space for protests against the government and is ready to use force against critics of the regime, as is happening. Furthermore, it is also a kind of defense garrison because the regime is really afraid of the protesters. It is also about the place from which citizens are continuously provoked. In any case, it is a closed, organized and militarized structure that has a command headquarters, a clear hierarchy, security, control of space, entrances and exits, with the presence of uniformed and semi-uniformed people under police protection

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Interview: Ana Oreg, PSG MP

How I became an international terrorist

When it was announced that I had been on the measures since May 2024, I remembered that this was the period before the local elections in Novi Sad. It seems that it was practical for them, following me, to eavesdrop on internal party discussions in the PSG, as well as the entire pre-election opposition-coalition agreements and negotiations, in order to know what the opposition is planning for the local elections. Given that I was actively participating in the negotiations, maybe I could have thought that I was the one being tapped, but it all seemed so crazy and pointless, so I didn't even think about it. I could hardly believe it when a journalist from "Danasa", who came into possession of the complete indictment, called me and asked me to comment on this monitoring.

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After marking the anniversary of the tragedy

Regime debacle in Novi Sad

The regime's big defeat is also the fact that the citizens, together with the students, have matured politically - at least the vast majority of them. This was seen in Novi Sad, heard from the statements of citizens and students. There are fewer and fewer impatient people who expect that something can change overnight or in one day. The goal is close, but you still have to stomp to get there, all with wounded legs. Those students who marched to Novi Sad with bloody socks from blisters symbolically showed that determination exists and that nothing can stop them

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The case of the "Novi Sad Twelve"

BIA at work: Eavesdropping on a mysterious person

BIA eavesdropped on the premises of the Free Citizens Movement in Novi Sad, allegedly following a mysterious person "on the clock". This is now the official explanation. However, everything points to a serious criminal act by Orlić's subordinates, for which someone will have to answer

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From November 1st to November 1st

How students restored hope to Serbia

A multi-volume encyclopedia could already be written about the student-citizen rebellion. Due to lack of space, many important events and many important persons who survived torture have been omitted from the chronological review that we have prepared. The events that we considered the most indicative were selected

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Interview: Vasko Kelić, Center for Economic Research, Institute of Social Sciences

A time of energy uncertainty

"The only solution for Serbia's energy stability - in the context of US sanctions on the Serbian oil industry - is the nationalization of this company or the forced takeover of its management. Vučić's government avoids this and in this way subordinates the interests of the citizens of Serbia to Russia. By the way, our country has the most expensive oil derivatives in the region due to Nisa's extremely monopolistic position on the market, and the consequences of the sanctions will most likely be additional price increases", are the accents from the conversation with Vasko Kelić, researcher at the Center for Economic Research of the Institute of Social Sciences and councilor of the Green-Left Front in the Belgrade municipality of Stari Grad

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Opposition in Brussels

The struggle to win over Europe

The interlocutors of "Vremen" - representatives of pro-European parties in Serbia - agree that in the past year there has been a significant change in the attitude of the institutions and parties of the European Union towards the regime in Serbia. That change is visible even on a monthly basis

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Psychology of lies

The President's policy of lies

When a pathological liar reaches positions of power, the lie becomes an instrument of control, manipulation and self-protection. Why many people tend to believe liars, even when common sense tells them they are not telling the truth

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Political crisis

The future of student and popular revolt

It is clear that the regime is in a knockdown, but is the other side also firmly on its feet? There is also a topic that is being vigorously discussed in this small part of the free public: whether the front of the struggle should be expanded, how to create relations between the non-partisan student block and the opposition parties, as well as in how many columns the anti-Vuvučić forces should go to the elections when they are called.

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Interview: Vida Petrović Škero, lawyer

Aleksandar Vučić is carrying out a coup d'état

"After the October 5th changes, we made numerous mistakes. This must not be repeated. Proceedings must be initiated, responsibility must be determined and all those who, through action or inaction, led to the current situation must be held accountable for their inaction. All those who passively observed, and did not dare, the attempt of one man to usurp the entire power by unconstitutional means will have to be held accountable."

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Jovo Bakić, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade

We have people who will deal with crime

The regime does not know where it is hitting. This can be seen by, even by his standards, the frequent, public addresses of non-memorials. It can also be seen in the fact that he is executed and confused, and he often addresses citizens in a visibly intoxicated state. Self-control had never been his strong point, and now it was completely gone. The weakness is also reflected in the method of fighting against the mass student and civil movement. The method is called - monkey imitation. Their position is getting worse as time goes on. Not only on the political but also on the economic level. Salaries are late, budget funds are getting thinner

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Srđan Rončević, dean of the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Novi Sad

Defense of ethics, students and university autonomy

When we understood that the situation had calmed down considerably, we told the people, relieved, that they could go. They left the building and after just a few minutes a real stampede broke out. They ran back to the university, the police chasing them. The veterans were in front of the building and prevented the police from entering. Then I went out and told the police that they were not invited, that there was no need to enter, that the situation was under control. All in all, the events were so dramatic that it could very easily have had much more serious consequences

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Interview: Jelena Kleut

Colleges turned into police stations

If someone had told me just a month ago that the police would be sitting in my house for days, at the Faculty of Philosophy, I would have thought that it was impossible. But so far we have learned that anything is possible here. We know that Vučić copies many things from Viktor Orban. Why not start copying another authoritarian leader, Recep Erdogan, and start shutting down social networks

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Interview: Nenad Tasić, lawyer

The political authorities prevent criminal prosecution for the canopy

All court presidents in Serbia are party trustees of the ruling party. They are the channel through which the executive power liquidates the independence of judges in decision-making. The presidents of the key and most important courts were appointed directly by the political authorities, although it is known that at the time of their election they were not even among the top ten best candidates. They have a great influence on the selection of judges, as well as on which of the judges will decide which case

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Political crisis

SNS without a strategy: Vučić acts like a fly without a head

Progressives have ruled for years by promoting omnipotence and intimidation. Now, when the fear has healed to a good extent, they are confused and disoriented, so Aleksandar Vučić is trying to reproduce the fear by using sheer force. There is no strategy, it is a daily reaction to the rebellion in society that is getting out of their control

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Justice and politics

Can the prosecution defeat high corruption

It would not be surprising if evidentiary material arrived from European institutions, primarily from the European Prosecutor's Office, which TOK decided not to ignore. If that material has arrived, then it is also a message from the European institutions that something is expected to be done about it. Maybe even a message that the prosecutors will have some kind of political protection", lawyer Vladimir Beljanski tells Vreme. His colleague, lawyer Jovan Rajić continues: that this is not a show directed by Vučić shows the behavior of his media, who have been campaigning against TOK for months and who knew what was coming. Secondly, Vučić sent his personal lawyer Palibrko to defend Momirović and make sure that he does not tell the prosecution anything inappropriate

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Kragujevac Market

On the spot

Kragujevac: Aca, Toma and the "Ustasha" from Šumadija

Kragujevac is a city of hospitable people and drinking bars. A kind of comparative advantage of poverty can be observed. There, Aca Vučić came to the feet of Tomi Nikolić, whose mustache is smiling as he watches what happens to the one who brutally got rid of him when he served his purpose

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