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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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Radivoje Jovovic, PSG

From the new issue

Radivoje Jovović: PSG does not distance itself from its people

"We don't give up any of our people, and we leave criticism for later. At this moment, everyone, from the smallest board and trustees to the party presidency, is working to free our comrades," Radivoje Jovović said in an interview for the new issue of "Vremena".

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Arrest of "terrorists"

Lawyer: Arrest of activists of PSG and Stav - the most ordinary propaganda trick

The lawyers of the Movement of Free Citizens and the organization Stav were not presented with any evidence against their clients, who were detained on Friday (March 14).

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See you on March 15

Holy Saturday

There is no doubt that the gathering will be extremely large, hundreds of thousands of people are being talked about. It is not an unrealistic forecast, regardless of the campaign of intimidation that the regime has been conducting in recent days and regardless of the eventual blockade of the roads to Belgrade, which, according to some of the public, the regime is planning for Saturday. Crta announced that at least 410 rallies were held in Serbia during the past week. There is almost no place, or even a village, where the citizens do not publicly show, at least in some way, a strong revolt. Enormous energy will pour into the capital for a protest that has been announced in advance as a crucial one event, after which nothing will be the same. Surprisingly, both the protestors-citizens and Vučić agree with the fact that it will not be the same after March 15

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Novi Sad

Trunking a city

Before the SNS came to power in 2012, "Vodovod" produced an average of about 1400 liters of water per second. Today - and in the meantime, Novi Sad gained at least 100.000 new residents - it emits about 400 liters less. The reason for the restrictions is the current low level of underground water, but the essential cause is carelessness. In other words, the system was neglected, the investments were far from what was needed

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Interview: Predrag Voštinić, activist of the Local Front from Kraljevo

Freedom has already happened.

We are also working on better communication with the student and youth movement. It is also completely understandable to me that they distanced themselves from the incident in front of the Assembly of Kings. The nature of their struggle does not match the nature of this incident. Therefore, my comrades and I take full responsibility for him. We do not want to shift the responsibility to the children, whose protests were and remained peaceful, without any eggs and without aggressive opposition to the authorities.

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Novi Sad

"Buried" police

The authorities claimed that the opposition councilors were invited to attend the session of the city assembly, but numerous recordings show the exact opposite. Not only were they prevented from entering "their house", but they also suffered violence from members of the police and gendarmerie. Perhaps this is the model that the progressives are devising for other local as well as for the provincial and republican parliaments. They prevent the opposition from attending the sessions, and then - no opposition, no problem

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Comment

There is a greater chance that a meteor will hit the Presidency than that Vojvodina will secede from Serbia

No one who has not had a part of their brain removed with a shovel believes that the students secured the largest foreign investment ever, i.e. that they received three billion euros to overthrow the government and secede from Vojvodina.

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Meeting in Sremska Mitrovica

A sad gathering on a holiday

Parallel to the all-day mass gathering in Kragujevac, organized by students and activists, which was an eruption of good energy, creativity, youth and hope - in the ancient Roman Sremska Mitrovica on Sretenje, a progressive-Dodik meeting took place which, to put it mildly, was a promenade of sadness, hatred and tectonic lies. The capricious head of state, called the "subject institution", gave a usual speech, similar to thousands of previous public appearances. He added a new "quality" to it: he uttered nothing but untruths, completely dislocated from reality. And threats, undisguised, and insults addressed to citizens who have been protesting all over Serbia for three and a half months, demanding the return of the stolen state

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Regional echo of student protests

Who the hell will reconcile us?

The area of the former Yugoslavia still breathes together. There is still some common political, social and cultural space. First of all, this is evident through the support that students receive from all Yugoslav countries, but also by the fact that they have become an inspiration for similar, though not so numerous and large protests in the surrounding area, primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

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Interview: Borislav Novaković, vice president of the People's Movement of Serbia

Novi Sad, an example of corrupt connections

"Nikola Vasiljević, yesterday's regional head of the BIA, and now Vucevic's security advisor, was and still is friends with Zvonko Veselinović and Goran Kovačević Goranec. That practice remained even after Vasiljević, only now it is more intimate and firmer. Namely, the current head of the BIA for Novi Sad Bečić, his deputy Simo Aleksić and Goranac have known each other since Vrbas and 'now only the sky is the limit'! That bestiality of Nikola Vasiljević went so far that he does not even hide his corrupt savings. He registered the elite wine shop 'Dekanter' in an exclusive part of Belgrade on the water on his wife. The estimated value of the wine shop is around 2.000.000 euros.

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Towards a general strike

Serbia on its feet - government on its knees

On Sunday and Monday, January 26 and 27, another spectacular protest (pictured) was organized by students - a twenty-four-hour blockade of Autokomanda, a key Belgrade traffic interchange. Everything seemed like a dream. Impeccable organization, messages on banners that we will remember for a long time. These protests are different from all previous anti-regime protests because of their endless creativity, wit, and branching culture of rebellion, which testifies to its great vitality and ability to intensify. And further - the citizens prepared food for the students, the atmosphere was very good, the students played basketball, tennis, farmers, bikers, taxi drivers also joined the protest.

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Andrej Vucic

Comment

Criminals on steroids, from Andrej and Zvonko

The beating of students in Novi Sad can only surprise someone who knows nothing about progressive Novi Sad. The decade-long negative selection ended there by the so-called only criminals and scoundrels remained in the government structures

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Gojko Božović, writer, publisher and one of the initiators of ProGlas

A Serbia worth fighting for

The rebellion of young people, students and high school students, introduced a whole series of new elements into social and political life. In the first place, the student revolt renewed hope in Serbia. The students turned on the light and that light cannot be extinguished. That cheerfulness, that liveliness, that triumph of life and new ideas, that freedom from old forms, old and outmoded thinking, old fears and malignant propaganda - that's the breath of freedom that the country longed for, but had neither the luck nor the strength to take. get home

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Political extremism within the limits of progressivism

Right, righter, rightmost

To what extent is a relevant right-wing political option than the progressive one possible in Serbia, that is, is it possible to overtake Aleksandar Vučić on the right? The answer, apparently, is negative. A good part of Vučić's party shares the views of Bihali and his team. They even seem more moderate than, say, Vladimir Đukanović

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Protest in Novi Sad, painting Freedom Square

Comment

Holidays, protest energy

These holidays are different - neither the students nor the citizens calm down. The city where a terrible tragedy happened on November 1 is still full of adrenaline, anger, and hope. It's as if the holidays are on the back burner, and resistance is visible at every step

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A holiday gift - a meeting at Slavia

To citizens from citizens

The messages from the protest rally show that there are no more doubts and confusion among citizens, they have recognized where and how problems in society and the state are generated and have become resistant to cheap tricks. It is clear to everyone, not only in principle but also in details, that behind the regime's big words and the entire mechanization of memory loss and violence, behind the killing of the institutional and constitutional order, there is nothing but theft of historical proportions. And it is clear that such a state is dangerous to life

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Interview: Tanja Ćirković Veličković, professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and member of SANU

Young people show us that we have to be better

We teach students that the difficult path - the path of knowledge and honesty - is the only correct one. And then they see countless affairs in higher education and how easy it is to get a diploma and a job. They understand what is happening and that is one part of this phenomenon, where they tell us that they no longer want to study

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Number theme

Riot of students on dahias

The inscriptions worn by senior citizens at some anti-regime actions look touching, and on which the same message is written in different ways: "Students, please, save our country!" At the moment, about thirty faculties are blocked, with the tendency for this number to increase significantly, and the mass of demonstrators to increase, which is greatly contributed by the axis of Vučić's government. The strength of the student rebellion is expressed through the birth of a complex and innovative culture of resistance that has been so lacking until now, as well as through mutual solidarity

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Tribune

Justice for politics

Is there politics in Serbia? Who and how disgusted citizens with politics and political parties? Who is afraid of politics and why? Is Vučić's regime in the most serious crisis to date? Can citizens' anger be appeased by disinformation, media spin and violence?

Prepared and edited by: Nedim Sejdinović

Interview: Goran Ješić

The chain of responsibility in the mafia pyramid is clear

We have to fight for the financial-corrupt dimension to be prosecuted. We need to find out where 24 million euros disappeared, because this obvious theft is the direct cause of the death of 15 people. Of course, the tragedy also starts the story of countless secret contracts that follow large public and infrastructural projects, which are the breeding ground of enormous corruption. The companies that did the reconstruction of the station in Novi Sad are more or less the same ones that build, say, Belgrade on the water or work on EXPO projects

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Goran Jesic

Interview

Goran Ješić announces a new party - headquarters in Novi Sad

After being released from custody, Goran Ješić told Vreme that he is actively returning to politics, but that he sees the need for a new organization that would be ideologically profiled and clearly pro-European.

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Novi Sad: Tragedy and consequences

Deputies who started doing their job

The opposition called on the policemen to take off their helmets and put away their "anti-terrorist" equipment, or at least to return to the building, protect it from the inside and not make an unnecessary circus and commotion. At times, the situation was on the verge of a more serious incident. One photo attracted a lot of public attention: a grandmother from the local "Bravo" movement kept the baton and ballistic shield of a policeman who went to the toilet. Another curiosity: some lawyers who went to the court for the hearings stayed in front of the court, as a sign of support for the MPs - they brought them water from a nearby tobacconist. It was too much for us, one will say. Be that as it may, the blockade was successful

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Protest

Political life and death

Opposition parties, canopy and rallies

What did the opposition complain about? Some claimed that he was trying to kill the anger of the citizens because parts of it were working for Vučić. It is a well-known conspiracy theory, which sometimes really rests, at least apparently, on good arguments. However, it may still be an optimistic version of our political scene. The more pessimistic one is that the opposition is by default incompetent and stupid, and that it is led by political dilettantes, as other critics have claimed. We also heard that the relations between the opposition parties are so dynamic, so to speak, preoccupied with the struggle for personal positions, that the reality around them becomes quite irrelevant for them.

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A progressive firm hand

All defeats of Serbia are their victories

Any concession in the Serbian Progressive Party causes a feeling of humiliation, collapses the self-image of uniqueness and uniqueness. They find every defeat humiliating because they need complete control and omnipotence and because it threatens their sense of dominance. Therefore, they react to defeats with anger and rage, they certainly shift the responsibility to others. They have a constant need for recognition and admiration, and any retreat, even a symbolic one, puts them in a field of insecurity, which they cannot stand. They are ready to win by absolutely any means: lying, manipulating, breaking the law and all moral norms

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Comment

Tragedy in Novi Sad: A life-threatening system

If a construction inspection had done its job, if the law and the rules of the profession had been followed, it is certain that the tragedy at the train station in Novi Sad would not have happened.

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Vojvodina and progressives

Task accomplished, Vojvodina no longer exists

The province has ceased to exist as a political entity, there is no doubt about that. Its institutions work only as much as they serve to finance SNS needs, and the cities have been turned into lifeless shanties. Novi Sad swelled, but not from activism, culture and life, but from simpletons, greed, wild construction and urban crime. Autonomous political parties do not exist, non-governmental organizations are also dead

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Lithium, government and opposition

Ivo Andrić in "Zadruza"

The parliamentary discussion served the authorities to show that behind the opposition to the "Jadar" project is the "evil opposition". This gives him a big advantage, he thinks, and unfortunately, by all accounts, he is right. Why? Vučić's regime is known for its successes in the field of general destruction, and it reached the greatest extent in the destruction of politics as such and the destruction of the very concept of opposition political activity

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