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pre 22. Dec 2021 Bogdan Petrovic

Inflationary shock in Serbia: Rising prices and falling standards

As of January 1, the state will increase pensions by 5,5 percent, which at the current rate of inflation means that pensioners' incomes will decrease by 2 percent in real terms. And that's just the beginning, just as drastic price increases are yet to come

Gilet

pre 21. Dec 2021 S.Ć.

Jews and us: 500 years in Belgrade

Jews, together with Serbs, are one of the first inhabitants of Belgrade. However, few people know that they settled here 500 years ago. And the work on the "Staro sajmište" Memorial Center, the camp from which Jews were en masse forced to die, will begin, perhaps, only next year

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pre 21. Dec 2021 Sofia Popović

Stamping charges against protest participants: Unlawful intimidation

Citizens who participated in environmental protests and blockades continue to receive misdemeanor charges. The Ecological Uprising movement published an email address for legal assistance with the message that "there is no fear or surrender." Citizens are advised to return the warrants to the misdemeanor court or the police station that issued them within eight days of receiving them, because most misdemeanor charges are illegal and must be overturned in court

Referendum in 2022.

pre 21. Dec 2021 A.I

Sofija Mandić: The proposed amendments to the Constitution increase the influence of politics on the judiciary

In an interview with DW in Serbian, lawyer Sofija Mandić explains that the Venice Commission, contrary to what government representatives claim, wrote that it is "worrying" that six of the eleven members of the council would be practically directly elected by the Assembly. Because the selection of judges and prosecutors is completely transferred to legal councils, and there the people elected by the ruling majority in the Assembly play a crucial role. That is why you should go to the referendum on January 16 and vote against

Technology

pre 21. Dec 2021 Dr. Saša Marković

Robots: From the kitchen to the mouth, all without humans

Flippy doesn't get tired, he doesn't get late for work, he doesn't get corona and, most importantly, he doesn't ring a bell, he doesn't demand $15 an hour and the right to unionize. Flippy makes burgers and pizzas, roasts chicken, packs fries or serves ice cream. Flippy is a robot

Comment

pre 21. Dec 2021 Teofil Pančić

Verbal and thought garbage: Before all this, there was nothing

If languages had a language to speak, the Serbian language would shout at the top of its voice, mortally offended by the way it has been abused and prostituted in this charade in which not a single letter is correct or coherent, in which even commas and periods are wrong

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pre 20. Dec 2021 M.M

Chile: Gabriljel Borić, leftist, millennial and president of the country

The next tenant of the Chilean presidential palace La Moneda became the leftist of Croatian origin Gabriel Borić. The left in Chile has been growing stronger since 2019 when it was rocked by social protests. The new president promises to reduce the gap between rich and poor, equal health care for all and finally breaking the shackles of Pinochet's dictatorship.

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pre 20. Dec 2021 A.I

Mural to Ratko Mladić: A goal of the anti-muralists in stoppage time

A local, communal problem grew into a national and international issue. The state of the mural to Ratko Mladić on Monday at 12.25:XNUMX p.m. is that in the spirit of those who see in it the glorification of the convicted war criminal and the West, it has been defaced with greasy, black paint

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pre 20. Dec 2021 M.M

Threat to developing countries: The US Fed announces an increase in interest rates in 2022.

In an effort to curb stubbornly high inflation, the US Federal Reserve is paving the way for an increase in benchmark interest rates next year. This would, among other things, jeopardize the refinancing of the debts of developing countries. According to data from the National Bank of Serbia, the total external debt of Serbia on June 30 amounted to EUR 31,961 billion

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pre 20. Dec 2021 FM

If the profession asks: In the name of business

Less than four months before the elections, Vladimir Kovačević left the People's Party and founded his own movement. He rejects the possibility of cooperation with Vučić, but he would have nothing against him implementing their program. He does not explicitly reject the idea of lithium exploitation, if it would be in the interest of the state, and not of foreign companies

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pre 19. Dec 2021 A.I

Ranko Panić: Abuse of a tragic death for marketing purposes

One of the few things that Aleksandar Vučić did not renounce from his radical biography is the event of July 29, 2008, when Ranko Panić was injured during the violent demonstrations of the SRS. His death two weeks after the protest will become one of the symbols of Vučić's "struggle for change in Serbia", Vučić's refrain and "proof of what they were like", and what "we" are today, that is, they, the progressives

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pre 19. Dec 2021 S.Ć.

New Belgrade: The best New Year's packages ever, but for the Serbian New Year

Last month, Aleksandar Šapić promised the children of the municipality of Novi Belgrade gifts for the New Year. Yesterday, however, they were informed that they will have to be patient. In the meantime, it was found out that most of the money for gifts due to the insolvency of the municipality of Novi Beograd actually came from the republic budget

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pre 19. Dec 2021 TR

Migrant crisis: EU borders as a graveyard for children

On the occasion of the International Day of Migrants on December 18, the organization Save the Children reflected on the fate of migrant and refugee children who continue to suffer - and made serious accusations against the European Union

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pre 19. Dec 2021 M.M

Bolivia: The battle for lithium high in the Andes

The indigenous Quechua people revere the 4.000-square-mile salt-covered plain called the Salar de Uyuni, because their ancestors believed it was a mixture of the goddess's mother's milk and her baby's salty tears. For Texas-based EnergyX CEO Tig Igen, that "pure white beauty as far as the eye can see" is a treasure trove of lithium.

I remember

pre 19. Dec 2021 Ivan Ivanji

Saint Nicholas: How I was gifted by "Mr. Meinl"

I remember well my first meeting with St. Nicholas: he came to give gifts to children. It is actually a Catholic custom, but in order to make the children happy, members of other religions also organized his arrival in homes. A man dressed in red with a big white beard and a bag of gifts entered the children's room. He asked me if I was good

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pre 18. Dec 2021 A.I

Protest in front of the Government: See you after Christmas

The message of the demonstrations held on Saturday in several cities was that there will be a large mobilization of citizens and a blockade of the country if Rio Tinto is not legally expelled from Serbia by Christmas. A few more requests could be heard