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

Students who want to study

Ćaci, a synonym for shame and dishonor

When all this is over, our grandchildren will not believe that - when Serbia was restoring its dignity and freedom - there were young people who were not ashamed to openly come forward and say that they do not support their rebel colleagues because they are not interested in the rule of law and the demands to reveal the culprits for the death of 15 people at the railway station in Novi Sad. They "just want to learn"

Phenomena

Second career

Former radical MP Nemanja Šarović delights the masses with his reporting endeavors. And he says that he mostly feels sorry for the people he interviews at Vučić's rallies

Uncovering reality

RTS, demonstration exercise

The students in the blockade managed to organize simultaneous protests in front of the public services in Belgrade and Novi Sad within two hours, to gather thousands of citizens on a rainy night without any of the authorities finding out before the action had already started. What is left to the government? Spin, which hits her head like a boomerang and the president's angry face because he has been five steps behind every student move in recent weeks. What did that event show in the long run, especially before March 15, when it comes to students, what about citizens, and what about the authorities, especially about President Aleksandar Vučić

MUP and March 15

Baton storage

"Do you think that I would send the police to my two children, students?", a colonel in a prominent position in the MUP tells "Vreme". "They are at all the protests - from Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Niš, and now Belgrade again"

Politics and law

Technical or transitional government?

A technical government, or a government of experts, would have the task of creating the conditions of possibility for the re-establishment of the rule of constitution and law. Because of that, it is quite expected that factually the leader rejects the proposal to establish a technical government: if he agreed to a technical government, he would formally disempower himself. In other words, technical government is a political, not a legal issue

Interview: Svetislav Kostić, Green-Left Front

Students cannot solve everything for us

"That March 15 can be a perfect day if on that day there is an opportunity for broad segments of the society that rebelled - students, opposition parties, professors and other social groups - to reach a common agreement about what we should do next. Such an agreement would be an incredible success, something that would move this society in an unstoppable direction - to replace this government and this system quite quickly.

Teachers on strike

Solidarity has no price.

Teachers in primary and secondary schools who are on strike are the only public sector workers in Serbia who did not receive their February salary, or the amount was humiliatingly reduced. Financial, legal and moral support is coming to them from all sides, and educators say that it would mean the most to them if colleagues from other state institutions joined them in the fight.

Interview: Nemanja Nenadić, program director of Transparency Serbia

Things are even worse.

"It is very wrong that Serbia's progress in the fight against corruption at a high level is measured only on the basis of statistical data on the number of indictments of the Prosecutor's Office for organized crime and accompanying verdicts. In Serbia, the performance in that field should be measured first of all by whether there were cases where the corrupt participation of high state officials was suspected - and those cases were not investigated"

Serbia and the region

Prices are going wild, and so is the boycott

The specter of the boycott of trade chains began in Croatia. From there, it spread to the region. How do citizens live in Serbia and the region (Croatia, BiH and Montenegro)? What is the price/earnings ratio? Finally, how effective was the trade boycott action? "Vreme" spoke with economic experts throughout the region

Economy and politics

Inflation undermines every government.

In Serbia, although there is formal economic growth, citizens feel a serious decline in purchasing power due to the rise in prices of basic foodstuffs and energy. Students' protests were joined by citizens deeply dissatisfied with the high inflation that directly affects their standards

Inclusion

Every guest is special.

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3, the inclusive cafe "Zvuci srca", the fourth under this name in the country, started working in Niš. It was opened with the idea that people with developmental disabilities are employed after school. There are currently five of them

Denial

"Radioactive surveillance", Vreme no. 1783, March 6, 2025.