Political 2025. 25.December 2025. Jovana Gligorijevic The year a decade happened In 2025, the citizens also changed in that they no longer looked for leaders. They did not wait for a signal from the stage, nor did they expect salvation from the election. They learned that pressure is itself a political fact. In this quiet transformation lies the biggest problem for the government. A regime based on control does not know what to do with people who have stopped being afraid
25.December 2025. "Vremena" editorial office Nenad Leibensperger Person of the Year of the weekly "Vreme" Despite all the pressure, the conservator of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Nenad Leibensperger and his colleagues fearlessly did their job and refused to delete the protection for the General Staff. That's why "Vreme" declared this historian the person of the year
Selection of the photo editor of the weekly "Vreme" 25.December 2025. Marija Janković Pictures of the Year 2025.
Foreign policy of Serbia in 2025. 25.December 2025. Slobodan Georgiev Kneeling with bitten legs In the changed world context, Serbia without a strategic commitment and a real strategy in foreign relations looks like a country that is trying to balance by promising something to someone on one side, and buying something from someone on the other side. Its leader simultaneously says how proud we are, how small and miserable we are, how libertarian we are, but how we don't ask about anything. What awaits us next year
Interview: Dragan Markovina, historian 25.December 2025. Nedim Sejdinovic Yugoslavia was better. "The former Mostar still exists - it lives on. There is also the former Sarajevo, and the former Belgrade - but as a minority energy. Which will not disappear. That is why it is impossible for the space to be 'cut' to the end and for everything to end the way the nationalists wish. That is why the nationalist spasm is coming. They would so much like that minority, that common cultural and social reflex to be gone - that it does not exist, that it does not survive - but they cannot fight against it. And that is, paradoxically, both our strength and our worst problem: we are a media and publicly influential minority, numerous enough to bother, but not strong enough to turn things around"
Generation Z 25.December 2025. Vukasin Karadzic Growing up children of the revolution Generation Zed will not be understood by anyone who does not see that young Nepalese did not ask for the burning of institutions but their resurrection, that our students are not "weak" if they want the same, that it does not matter who the president is as long as the constitution watches over him, that the ban on social networks is not a "defense of true values" but an attack on identity and freedom of speech, that trash culture is also cool and that "shitpost" is funny
Interview: Željko Hubač - playwright, playwright and screenwriter 25.December 2025. Viktor Radonjic When a louse is fed, it enters the eyes "You cannot, in these social circumstances, achieve any progress through a system of compromises. You only reach a compromise with yourself. Whoever compromises with himself has not realized all the potential of his life. Most of us have encountered a compromise and most of us have agreed to that compromise in some segment of our lives. And if we are not sorry that because of that compromise, because of that conformity, we gave up developing a part of ourselves, some gift, no matter how small, then we must be aware that, unfortunately for us, we did not blame others, but, first of all, us"
Interview: Nebojša Antonijević Anton and Zoran Kostić Cane ("Partibrejkers") 25.December 2025. Zorica Kojić and Dragan Ambrozić First-hand life We wrote the lyrics as if we were talking to each other. We didn't offer the form, but the essence: "Loser", "Hey you, down in the dark"... Totally different than it was at that time. The music was punk rock, rhythm and blues, hard rock... a mixture in our own way, according to our possibilities
Science 25.December 2025. Slobodan Bubnjević The mystery we live Maybe it didn't happen in the previous year, maybe it won't happen in the next one either, but at some precise moment in time, physics will reveal what time really is. That, the biggest question of all, is constantly being re-examined by physics, no less than every human being inevitably deals with it. What do we know about time now?
Interview: Nikola Jovanović 25.December 2025. Danilo Savic Why Belgrade is rapidly deteriorating "Every social measure is financed by reducing capital investments, not by reducing corruption or by making the administration cheaper and more efficient. Expenditures in the budget for the bureaucracy are 27,1 billion dinars, which is about 14 percent of the total budget. That is a record! The administration has become more expensive, and that means higher prices for utilities and property taxes. The payment to transporters from the budget for next year is around 400 million euros, another infamous record."
The culture of memory 25.December 2025. Dragan Popovic A fortress, woven from stereotypes The Knin fortress itself is an interesting witness of time, but also a place of memory. The unit to which the film hero Luka belonged at the beginning, although it had a training center in Golubić, very quickly took over the Knin fortress and installed its headquarters there. Captain Dragan also had an improvised prison in the fortress where his men held captive Croats in June and July 1991, mistreated and tortured them. Captain Dragan himself participated in the torture, for which he was convicted before the court in Split. The statements of the victims from the Knin fortress are available to the public and they are certainly part of the history of this fortress
In honor of Tom Stoppard 25.December 2025. Jaroslav Pecnik Freedom Writer From a series of his truly brilliant pieces in which everything bursts with perfectly thought-out sentences, provocative dialogues, metalinguistic puns (they call him a magician of language), playful satire, and all the tragedy of our lives is fascinatingly "packaged" in a seemingly fluffy entertaining context, it is impossible to single out the best, because all his works are simply perfect, "the best"
Interview: Nemanja Milenković, fine artist 25.December 2025. Lidija Marinkov People, animals and other troubles Hunting is necessarily political because hunters demonstrate their position of power vis-à-vis other species. It is no coincidence that even today many powerful political figures are avid hunters. When I think now about the human relationship to any non-human entity, I automatically see a political battleground. It is a small step between ecology, bioethics and politics
Movie 2025: theaters, streaming and more 25.December 2025. Zoran Janković, Đorđe Bajić Count on them. The selection that follows is not a strictly ranked overview of the best films of the year at the end, after all, all even the most hardened film buffs know how difficult it is to make a precise and complete list on the subject. It is simply a quick reminder of the film year 2025, which goes in two directions - on the one hand, we have films that shined in this year, but were not covered by separate critical reviews on the pages of "Vremena", and on the other, those excellent films (of course, again only some of them) which, due to screening and distribution circumstances and decisions, did not make it into the Serbian cinema offer, nor are there any official indications that they will happen in the foreseeable future.
The Spirit of Time: Seven Decades of Lolita (5) 25.December 2025. Milan Milošević Odyssey of Vladimir Nabokov who loved butterflies Feuilleton about a writer whose "head speaks English, his heart speaks Russian, and his ear listens to French", a descendant of the Russian aristocracy who fled the October Revolution on the ship "Nadezhda", changed his date of birth because of Lenin and lost everything - including his first love, his Annabelle Lee - so he married in Weimar Germany and survived Hitler's regime with a Jewish woman; in Paris he kissed and then left the unfortunate emigrant Irina and fled from Hitler to America, wrote a bestseller book about a pedophile and a nymph, which is still discussed in the movement today MeToo; and towards the end of my life, I heard that his Annabelle Lee from paradise married a Chekist and did not return to Russia, but on the Magic Hill, at an altitude of 1900 meters, he fell while trying to catch a butterfly parnassius apollo, the messenger of Olympus
Housing culture 25.December 2025. Sara Devic Why are Belgrade's facades falling down? We do not have a culture of living in a building that we jointly own with other tenants. Before 1945, buildings were cared for by private capital, between 1945 and 1990 by massive state infrastructure, and today groups of impoverished and ignorant individuals and families have to deal with it.
Agricultural Revolution 25.December 2025. Marija Vidic We didn't make civilization sober Did the ancient hunter-gatherers become farmers in order to make bread from grains or maybe - beer?
Good memories 25.December 2025. Nebojsa Jovanovic New Year in modern Serbia The desire of the learned bachelor Mihanović to Anka, the boss of Jevrem's daughter, a diplomatic scandal at the duke's court and other beautiful New Year's incidents and mishaps from modern Serbia
Postcard 25.December 2025. Robert Shepherd The exodus of millionaires from the banks of the Thames While the opponents of Brexit in front of Big Ben play songs in which they mock Nigel Farage, the most responsible for the exit of Great Britain from the EU, it is estimated that 30.000 millionaires have left London in the past 10 years
TV maniac 25.December 2025. Dragan Ilic We are ready for the end. The TV phenomenon of the previous year is a kind of media contradiction. The government organizes marches that paralyze the suburbs of cities, the tabloids report on "hundreds of thousands of citizens" who are bothered by not being able to move freely, go to the maternity hospital and collect their pensions, then block them all over Serbia, where the only blockade is Ćaciland in front of the Parliament
exclusive 15.March 2001. Igor Mekina and Svetlana Vasović-Mekina Confession of Mira Marković "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"
Interview - Sanda Rašković-Ivić, Commissioner for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia 15.March 2001. Jelena Grujić We don't want ghettoization "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 case of the three beaten 15.March 2001. Uroš Komlenović Nothing new in Pozarevac 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?
Macedonia 15.March 2001. Nenad Lj. Stefanović The collapse of ethnic romanticism 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.
Overview of the week Special Forces Belly Dance Why is the belly dance of special forces at a show competition in Dubai so important in Serbia and similar authoritarian countries? It will have to do with media and other freedoms Philip Schwarm
Comment Happy New Year to everyone celebrating Manja Grcic comes to RTS with the image of a peasant - between journalism, loyalty to the regime and big capital, she always chose the other two Nemanja Rujevic
Overview of the week Life in a mafia state What are the similarities and differences between a classic mafia family and a mafia state? What role does Capo di tutti capi play in both cases? And where is Serbia? Philip Schwarm
