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

Happy New Year!

Person of the year, collectively

Rebellious male and female students

Selection of the photo editor of the weekly "Vreme"

Red - pictures of Serbia 2024.

Red is the color of blood. A good graphic symbol can unite people more than many words and sermons. Historically, the cross, the star of David, the crescent, the pentacle have done this. And in recent times here too - target, the fist of "Resistance" and now the red, i.e. bloody hand

Interview: Bishop Grigorije Durić

Apathy and indifference are not virtues

"Now some other young people have appeared, completely different, who are inspired by the same thing. Maybe they are inspired by someone's religious education, maybe someone's anti-religious education, maybe someone's philosophy... Maybe they are a new world that adapts much better to dramatic technological development. But maybe they actually feel what freedom means in the true sense, even much deeper than we who have uttered the word many times felt it. Perhaps they sense the danger brought with it by the apparent crisis of democracy throughout the world. I confess, I thought there were no more such young people as we were. However, they exist and are realistically much better than us and much less susceptible to manipulation, both by the so-called deep state and by politicians and the media."

Spying on the phones of opposition politicians

You talk, we listen

People's deputies Marinika Tepić (SSP), Miroslav Aleksić (NPS) and Radomir Lazović (ZLF) speak for "Vreme" when they first suspected that their every word was going to the secret services and that the regime was abusing that information. Although their privacy is threatened even when they are in their own home and when it comes to their health problems, they have remained silent for years. They say they were overcome by the fear of having their words twisted in public and of being stigmatized as paranoid.

Interview: Marija Todorova

European identity is shared only by bureaucrats in Brussels

"Today, the discourse on the Balkans focuses on corruption and poverty. For example, if you read the news, even when Bulgaria is presented as an attractive tourist destination, it will always be described as 'the poorest country'. That adjective cannot be omitted. Of course, Bulgarians are now waiting for a poorer country to join the European Union so that they can finally stop being the 'poorest'. Poverty is criminalized, it is considered something bad, almost a moral flaw"

World Event of the Year: The "Peliko" Affair

A woman who sent shame where it belongs

How a seventy-two-year-old woman from a small town in the south of France, with a frail body and a head held high, became an icon of the fight for the dignity of women after she imprisoned 51 men who raped her, including her husband

Interview: Nikola Đuričko

There is no one to tell me what I can and cannot say

"I fail to see anything funny in politics. The audience that comes to see me already knows what I think and there is no need for me to further inform them about it. I testify my political position with my life"

Hollywood Bowl

For the benefit of the people, as the Americans do

This is the story of the people who created an amphitheater for art and culture and presented it to the citizens of Los Angeles a hundred years ago, about which an exhibition has been opened, the author of which is a woman from Novi Sad, who has been the director of the Hollywood Bowl Museum and Archives at the Los Angeles Philharmonic for ten years.

A memory

Puriša Đorđević - child prodigy

A book will be published soon Purish on the occasion of one hundred years since the birth of the great director. The publisher is the Čačak Cultural Center. The text that follows is an excerpt from that book

The culture of memory

On the trail of a military photograph

We will never know if Werner, while standing at the window of the PRIZAD building with his camera pointed at the Fairgrounds pavilions, even thought for a moment about their new purpose. It is more likely that the Fairground was found by chance in a photograph whose subject was a striking scene of the sunset. And yet, by chance, this ordinary photo - a military souvenir from Belgrade - immortalized a turning point in the history of Belgrade: the moment when the Belgrade Fair became the Semlin Judenlager

Interview: Nebojsa Bradić

Violence often begins under the radar

"Some of us remember that, at least for a short time, we had democracy. However, all this is just a moment in time, which, admittedly, has been quite long and whose end is in sight due to the frequency of the tragedies we live through.

Night in Belgrade

Whoever comes out last should turn on the light

The party was a valve, an escape from the reality that constricts and suffocates many people. There were no convictions on her, only release. For many visitors, that club is a symbol of freedom, a place where they can take off the masks they wear every day, a space where there are no glances, criticism or judgment. In fact, it wasn't just a party, but escapism in its most stripped-down form

Interview: Davorin Bogović, singer of the Dirty Theater

I still raise people to this day

Our friend drew our attention to the fact that the Zagreb and Belgrade comeback concerts were different - while in Zagreb everyone came with question marks above their heads, in Belgrade everyone came with exclamation points! And you could clearly see that in Zagreb it took a little bit of work to get it rolling, so that in the end it would be total madness, while in Belgrade it was known from the beginning what it had come to and what was eagerly awaited

On the occasion of the exhibition

Zlatnik napoleon in a hot donut, right at midnight

At the end of the 19th century, on New Year's Eve in Belgrade, a symbolic funeral of the old year was often organized, where the funeral procession, masked and carrying a white coffin, would enter the hall a few minutes before midnight and thus mark the end of the year. This would be followed by a ceremony to "birth" the New Year, represented by a girl decorated with flowers and a happy chimney sweep, which brought hope and joy. The highlight of the evening would be a comical pig hunt released among the guests, with the belief that whoever caught it would be lucky for the whole coming year

Essay

The golden age is… now?

The perception of the world that seems to prevail is dark, there is a sense of personal and collective confusion, even fear, a dystopian future is seen as almost certain. But the facts are different

Nuclear energy

Life after the moratorium

Serbia is ready for a nuclear marriage, but as with any courtship, all kinds of questions are open - the most important is certainly with whom, although there is no shortage of candidates for the groom, as evidenced by the agreements on nuclear cooperation with both France and Russia. However, the question of whether Serbia, without personnel, is mature enough for this adventure is also important

The most popular domestic sport

The glory and misery of basketball in Serbia

Having won silver at the World Championship in Manila, our national team secured participation in the Olympic Games in Paris and Lille, which was announced as the strongest of all time. The Americans sent the best they had, the French, led by the sensational Victor Vembanjam, wanted to present themselves in the best light on their home field, and the current world champions, the Germans, also came for a medal. Unlike some previous championships, this time Serbia also sent the best they had

Chess and psychology

Gukesh, the new world champion: The will to win

It was a tight match with several top games, and Gukesh became the world champion in the last, fourteenth game of the match after one of the biggest oversights in the history of world champion matches.

Do we have literary stars in Serbia?

The clouds obscured the stars

The 20th century was a period when culture was important to both individuals and states, literature had a greater social impact, but there were also much fewer media, and because of that, among other things, it was more visible and present. The mass culture that dominates today, with the presence of the Internet and social networks, has changed everything. Some other contents and values ​​have gained importance, and great writers and their books and attitudes are still marginalized today

Internal reporting: Vienna

Black coffee, brown coffee

Like any big city, Vienna is made up of strong identities that coincide, pass each other, go in different directions or together, oppose each other. Each of these identities is a mixture of prejudice and reality, each is of impure form

Cinema: The sun never again

Difficulties of life and expedient politics

The film tells the story of a turbulent period in the life of a child growing up in a family that lives on the edge of a mining basin in the Bor area, with the constant threat of relocation, or perhaps the necessary sale of the house and household to an investor, which, by its very nature, would expand and prosper

Cinema (2): Spoon

Green lives matter

Spoon it definitely deserves to be seen on the big screen, it is an adaptation that has a lot to offer, but which is actually quite shallow and superficial

Theater

Cooling of a human being

Franz Kafka: Transformation; directed by Marko Torlaković; Yugoslav Drama Theater

Inner voice

Deadly noise

Celebrating the New Year and welcoming it has deeper implications than choosing wine and making a Russian salad. The idea that a year ends at some point and then a new one begins originates from ancient epochs and is an integral part of the understanding of time as cyclical, as a vast, perhaps endless, series of universes, lives and years, which arise, last and end, only to begin again. started with or without a certain break

TV maniac

The final experiment

In Novi Sad, 15 people died in a falling canopy and nothing was funny anymore. Resignations were forced, and general paralysis could be seen in the example of the Day of Mourning - one in Serbia, three in Vojvodina. Lack of empathy was shown by the prime minister, who tried to measure the scale of the tragedy by the death of 15, 155, or 15000 people. Beaters were sent to attack the students, and RTS unhesitatingly reported accusations that they were mercenaries. However, the exact opposite happened, as the wave of discontent only grew stronger. That is why student protests and plenums will mark the end of this year and the welcome of a new one, between fear and hope, which has emerged, just like empathy and solidarity

Ventilation

Who tells the story?

Stories have become just one of the weapons of mass destruction, which is why all of us whose profession it is to tell stories have ended up as suspects for participating in crimes against humanity. We are all potential manipulators and seducers, we all invent and twist