The Prime Minister announced that he was resigning because he heard what happened that night in Novi Sad. We don't know if anyone could believe that, especially since information about the connection between the attackers and the ruling party will emerge later in the day. And what we have seen many times has happened again: whenever Vučić, as he did at the press conference on Monday, guarantees security - someone gets hurt
This is not a colored, imported or any other revolution, but an authentic aspiration of students and citizens of Serbia to bring about changes in our country. That's why I don't think we should pay too much attention to the statements of foreign officials, neither from the USA nor from Russia. We have our authentic and national goal, which is to survive and enable a normal life
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.
A voice hums from the megaphone politely reminding the gathered to pick up after themselves and not leave trash. The cleaning operation will start soon and will last for the last three hours of the blockade. Some of the banners are slowly being packed, while those hung on the overpass above the highway remain as a reminder. And then, the students will split up. Someone goes home to rest, and someone goes to university. Blockades continue
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
Textbooks could become free in all of Serbia, outgoing Prime Minister Miloš Vučević announced. How the authorities finally remembered just now
Former official of the Democratic Party and Minister of Agriculture in the government, Mirko Cvetković, has long been forgotten by the public. If, like some of his colleagues, he had switched to the progressives in time, perhaps this trial would not have lasted 12 years and only until the first-instance, acquittal. Now there is an appeal, and maybe years and years of a process that has lost all meaning
According to a free estimate, there were between 200 and 300 people at the protest meeting. The day before, 15 buses from Smederevska Palanka went to Jagodina for a rally organized by Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party. The municipality used to be among the few where the Democratic Party was in power. Later the situation changed
The red middle finger practically outlines the return to schools and universities as road signs. It took less than a couple of days to stop this campaign, because it is practically political suicide
While Serbian citizens take to the streets en masse and students brutally fight each other, the country is left without two key pillars of government - the government and the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM). At the same time, the process of electing new members of REM, the body that should ensure the independence of the media space, completely fell apart due to irregularities and political manipulations that led to the withdrawal of candidates from most of the nomination areas.
"I believe that the members of the SPS and JUL, those who are not mentioned in the newspapers and on television as thieves, rich or that they are suspicious and responsible for some other reason - I believe that they are the ones who made an agreement with the new authorities to that government protects their material and other interests, their rather large wealth, and that in return they contribute to the bribery of their yesterday's comrades and personal friends"
"Refugees have been manipulated like no other population in recent times. Perhaps only the mentally ill were manipulated that way in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign of terror."
The new authorities shout at the top of their voices that those responsible for the collapse of the state will be tried. Wouldn't it be more logical to rehabilitate the victims first?
In some reflections on the latest events not only in Macedonia but also in the south of Serbia, one hears how the Albanian side is allegedly trying to catch the "last train" for a more comprehensive solution to its own issue and to reach, possibly, a new Dayton by radicalizing the situation on the ground.
While the media and citizens find out new details every day and expose the government's lies, the prosecutor's office is dealing with the case of noise and stampede in Kralj Milan, apparently only in order to amnesty the regime
The Minister of Police is lying. Okay, that's not much of a surprise. But the entanglement of Ivica Dačić in the kitchen is more than simple lying
We allowed ourselves two dictators in 30 years. That is the core of our problem. There is no quick fix for this. And that's why March 15 could not be the Fifth of October. Because the Fifth of October is not enough now. Must be slower, must be smarter. It needs to be more thorough. Yesterday was not the end, because this is just the beginning
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