The last residents of "Ćaciland" left Pionirski Park on Monday morning. They left behind empty tents, scattered garbage and food, but also things like gas masks. We took a peek at Pionirski Park and brought you a photo gallery from the scene
Although many believe that they have real honey in their kitchens, research shows that the market is flooded with counterfeits. How to recognize fake honey and why it is so present
In 2024, 60.311 babies were born, 502 less than a year earlier, which is the lowest number of live births since 1900, although in the meantime Serbia has gone through two Balkan wars, two world wars, a crisis in the nineties and bombing. So far, the Ministry of Family Care and Demography has tried to raise the birth rate with material incentives, and for the first time, a solution outside the current "here's your money" model is being announced. What is it about?
Benetton's announcement that it is closing its plant in Niš means that more than 900 people in that city will lose their jobs. Other factories in the south of Serbia, such as Johnson Electric, Jure and Aptiva, have problems that could lead to an additional increase in unemployment. What should the state do so that workers stop being cheap and replaceable labor force
Teachers, lawyers, actors and other workers stop work, students are constantly blocking colleges and streets, and there are demonstrations in the strongest strongholds of the Serbian Progressive Party. As Vučić's caravan moves from city to city, protests follow in its footsteps. What has stopped so far and where it all leads
The mini "investigative" series about student protests called "(De)blockade" which was broadcast on Pink, is actually a propaganda mashup permeated with the discourse that has been cooking in the kitchen of the Serbian Progressive Party for the past three months.
Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar boasted back in December that waiting lists for cataract surgery had been abolished. It is impossible to verify the truth of this information because the records on the website of the RFZO have been deleted. It is known that 923 people are waiting for surgery at the VMA alone
"It's a question of the moment when schools, hospitals and other social infrastructure will become a nuisance on valuable land, so they too will start to be erased so that elite housing and business complexes can be built in their place," Olga Andrić from the Ministry told "Vreme" space
Although the meeting in Jagodina was an attempt by SNS to respond to the organic discontent that has been raging throughout the country for months, the image of the Serbian president waving a flag while his supporters were leaving seemed more like a defeat. How has the regime managed to get out of crisis situations so far? And how those mechanisms work in these weeks
The past two years have shown that citizens are not satisfied with the current government. Especially students, as the leaders of the current rebellion, enjoy majority support from the public, but its political operationalization is an open question. What is happening with the opposition parties and why dissatisfaction with the government does not automatically mean a vote against it
In Serbia, about 200 cases of violence against animals are reported annually. Although the law classifies the killing and abuse of animals as a crime, in practice it is rare for the perpetrator to end up behind bars.
Students of the Faculty of Law in the blockade distanced themselves from the members of non-governmental organizations who appear in the media. Who is allowed to speak on behalf of the students and how the regime cuts off anyone who turns their noses up
Although Vučić feared that the consequences of the tragedy in Novi Sad could affect the future of Serbian construction, the Government of Serbia allocated more than 300 billion dinars for capital projects this year. Some of these projects are more capital-intensive than others, and first and foremost is the mezimche of the Expo regime
This should be a time of giving, a time of forgiveness, after all, and a time of much-needed rest for the average citizen. Instead, young people took to the streets, faculties were blocked, educators, farmers, actors, lawyers were dissatisfied...
"It will be a great shame for the whole society when this is over. I don't know how we will cope when all the monstrosity of this regime begins to unravel, with which people have cohabited, accepted it or were a part of it. These are amazing things that somehow happened. I always had the hope that it would accumulate somewhere, that at some point it would escalate, that the ulcer must burst."
Students of the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade have decided to join the student protests and begin the interruption of classes, "Vreme" has learned from several sources. After this decision, classes were suspended at the entire University of Belgrade
"I used to know many Radical MPs who had a pattern of creating chaos, without being uncultured people in private." What is the message? They will do it as long as they think it is profitable," sociologist Zoran Stojiljković tells Vreme
The specter of student blockades is spreading across Serbia. Although the government pretends to be deaf, it is becoming increasingly difficult for it to ignore the voice of the youth. Can students really change the course of events in Serbia or is this another wave of discontent that will subside over time
"Being against the regime is now a matter of elementary home and civic education. This is no longer a matter of power struggle. This is a fight for freedom and the preservation of the essential substance of normality in our society"
The high prices of excursions and recreational classes every autumn give parents trouble. The agencies claim that they operate according to the rules, while parents doubt the real value of the arrangement. However, the state has created a system in which the agencies are clever, and the parents suffer the most
In a country where citizens shell out large sums of money for health insurance, tens of thousands of people still wait years for basic medical interventions. During that time, the President of Serbia proposed populist and long-term unsustainable measures. Is there a cure for endless waiting lists?
Applications for student cards began a year ago and a little earlier for pensioners. Both of them should provide citizens with significant discounts - or so it is said. Is that really so?
If this year's Pride were to be compared to those of a decade or more ago, a big improvement would be that no one was beaten, that there were no major attacks on participants or the police, and, ultimately, that Pride took place at all. On the other hand, if you look at the atmosphere on social networks, which over the years have become a significant part of the average person's life and an indicator of social mood and attitudes, the road to tolerance and acceptance is long.
After the tragedy at the railway station in Novi Sad in which 14 people lost their lives, the government promises that the culprits will be held accountable. However, if one looks at the history of being ignored in the progressive government, the impression is devastating - there are only two ministerial resignations compared to dozens of lost lives. Will it be different this time?
In the period leading up to the Belgrade Pride, numerous hateful messages addressed to the LGBTQ+ population were spread through right-wing communication channels, "Vreme" found when monitoring social networks. Psychologist Vladimir Mihić speaks for "Vreme" about the role of social networks, but also the role of politicians in strengthening that hatred, as well as whether and how it can be eradicated.
Does the video showing Pavle Bihali receiving money from Marko Knežević really show the financing of the unrest in Kosovo or is it manipulation? Pavle Bihali says for "Vreme" that he "does not want to make excuses to our enemies", and Čedomir Stojković claims that "it is clearer that what is seen in the video is financed by Vulin than that today is November 1".
Before this year's Belgrade Pride, "Vreme" investigated how the extreme right wrote about this event on its Telegram channels and X profiles. Parade of "perverted freaks", "parade of sick people", "parade of degenerates", "fag parade", "satanic parade", "parade of shame" are just some of the colorful names that have been called the Pride Parade on social networks
