In between

Women

A lawyer from Svrljig, Ljubiša Mihajlović, submitted a request for the disqualification of two female judges of the Municipal Court. In the explanation of the request, Mihajlović stated, among other things, that "all judges in the court are women, including the executive judge, the acting president is a woman, the president of the District Court is a woman, the president of the Supreme Court is a woman, the acting president of the State of Serbia is a woman..." Since, according to him, a woman will also take the position of Minister of Justice, the lawyer claims that our country has become "hole-filled". Due to a gender-based insult, the women judges of the Municipal Court in Svrljig filed a lawsuit, and the defendant sent a request to the same court not to convict him.

A slap

The correspondent of the weekly "Hrvatska riječ" from Sonta, Ivan Andrašić, was recently attacked because the newspaper he works for published on the front page a photo of the underage Miloš Vodeničar, this year's prince of Sonca's "Grape Ball". According to the words of the attacked journalist, Jovan Vodeničar, Miloš's father, started shouting after slapping him: "How dare you publish my son's photo on the front page of the Ustasha newspaper!" The editor of the newspaper, Zvonimir Perušić, pointed out that the event from Sonta would not even knew that it was not that newspaper, and that on the front page there was published an appropriate photo of the most beautiful couple, the prince and princess, in the shocking folk costume. He added that of the 3000 Croats who live in Sonta, unfortunately, some "still live in a world of hatred, chases and wars." On the other hand, Jovan and his wife Draga Vodeničar claim that "Hrvatska riječ" is a nationalist newspaper in which cultural content is imbued with a political note. Draga admitted that her husband hit Andrašić, but that he was warned at the celebration itself that "under no circumstances" could he publish Miloš's picture. According to her, Jovan went to the police station immediately after the attack, where he received a report for the offense of disturbing public order and peace.

Station

Revolted by the contradictory opinions of experts from the "Vinca" Institute about the harmfulness of the transformer plant built near their apartments, the residents of the Mirijevo municipality announced a meeting for October 26, at which they will demand that the authorities move the transformer station at least two and a half kilometers away from the first residential buildings. The Ministry of Environmental Protection claims that it is not their responsibility to choose the location of the substation, but rather it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Urban Planning and Construction. As they claim, their competence is only to review and give consent on the impact on the environment, and the members of the expert group of this ministry are of the opinion that the plant will not have a harmful effect on the health of the inhabitants. On the basis of that position, Minister Andjelka Mihailov gave her consent to the preliminary analysis of the impact on the environment, and thus the conditions for obtaining an urban planning permit were met.

put

Milan Knežević, the owner and director of Pancevo Modus, who for now successfully runs the production of "cheap ready-to-wear", had a dispute with the Directorate for Construction and Development of Pancevo over 250 meters of unpaved road. Knežević says that he is "eaten alive by shame" when foreigners come to tour the factory and that after the rain, the trucks that bring raw materials and take away goods cannot approach the factory, but the workers, stomping in the mud, transport the load. He proposed that Modus invest money for a temporary solution - spreading gravel - and the Directorate invest knowledge, but for 14 months he has not received an answer. As the workers gathered in front of the office of Zoran Mioč, director of the Directorate for Construction and Development of Pancevo, he explained to them that their company does not pay compensation for construction land, that the factory is still listed in the land register as a seed warehouse (which it was before was bought by Knežević) and that it was registered in Belgrade, not in Pančevo. The problem is that in October of last year, Modus first received a decision that the construction of the road is possible, but the Planning Act (from May this year) does not provide for temporary solutions. Knežević says that he is also thinking about closing the factory, and the workers have announced a strike for October 20 in front of the Pancevo Public School. Drago Berginc, the member of the municipal government in charge of housing and communal areas, explained, perhaps, the true side of the dispute: he says that Knežević is not very tactful in negotiations, which can cause a "hard" reaction from the other side.

Šteta

At the meeting of the Management Board of the Association of Primary Agriculture Jugoagrar, held on Tuesday, October 21, it was concluded that our agriculture suffered damage of around six billion euros due to drought and other natural disasters. The director of Jugoagrar and PIK "Bečej" Dragan Satarić appeals that the state urgently undertakes the necessary rehabilitation measures because otherwise this branch of the economy is threatened with collapse. That the problem is taking on serious proportions is evidenced by the report of the UN Program for Agriculture, according to which, for the first time in the last thirty years, Serbia is classified as one of the countries threatened by food shortages. On the other hand, the republican government showed itself in the Kolubara district. With the delivery of seeds, mineral fertilizers and fuel at regressed prices, wheat sowing in this area will, according to the estimates of experts at the Institute of Agriculture in Valjevo, exceed the planned 20.000 by 2000 hectares.

Push-up

Bodybuilder Fuad Škrijelj from Novi Pazar is ready to write his name in the Guinness Book of Records with the help of push-ups. A student of the legendary Petar Celik, he regularly breaks the world record of 62 push-ups per minute, but the real challenge is to do as many push-ups as possible with his palms resting on the necks of beer bottles. As Škrijelj says, bottles broke in this venture, and so did his fingers. I'm sure the record will be broken.

President

Another candidate for president of Serbia appeared in Čačak. We are talking about Vojislav Đokić, an unemployed metal turner, who started the action of collecting signatures for the candidacy with a loan of 150 euros. Đokić is running on behalf of a group of citizens called "Society of Cake Dreamers" and the explanation of his intention is that he "sees a chance to get a job in a position that has been vacant for years." The potential candidate for the presidency called on citizens who have excess work space to lend him offices with telephones in order to collect signatures in them and promised to return the money for the rent if he succeeds in running for office. By last Monday, he had collected 12 signatures.

Prison

Events in the Penitentiary and Correctional Institution for Juveniles "Valjevo", already known as a place of punishment, where Andrej Kovačević Tref and Zvezdan Slavnić are serving their sentences have come to the public again. The president of the Independent Trade Union in that institution, Dragan Spasojević, came from the Otpor premises and accused the manager Vojislav Lazić of forbidding him, a trade union official, to use a mobile phone. And it does not prohibit other officers who are provided with telephones taken from prisoners. The manager still drives the "fabia", obtained from the Ministry, without control, just as he hires without control and runs a completely wrong personnel policy. The trade unionist stated that he has more arguments, but he will first show them to Minister Batić. It is possible that the arguments concern the treatment of certain convicts, they say that Tref recently, from prison, passed his driving test, that Zvezdan Slavnić, when he wants to go home, informs the warden about it on his mobile phone. But, let's not speculate, the minister will be informed.

Warden Lazić, otherwise the president of the Municipal Board of Batić's party, distanced himself from everything on local television, the trade unionist, as he said, joined the DHSS expecting privileges and advancement in the service, but he saw that it was not the way, that it was not the way, so now mud. The union member, to whom the other union, by court decision, also took money from the coffers, does not answer. The matter is quite complicated, it is difficult to weigh the arguments of one side and the other, that is why the minister's position is also uncertain, the manager is the president of the party, but also a trade unionist has his advantages - in nearby Žabari, he regularly takes care of the mother of Aleksandar Stefanović, Batić's advisor, the minister's confidante, a man who was employed in the Juvenile Institution during his working life and who decisively contributed to the appointment of Lazić.

Privileged

Anyone who has ever traveled with British Airways to the USA or Canada (and passengers from here to those destinations usually travel on the planes of that company) knows very well that the hassles of obtaining a visa do not end with obtaining an American or Canadian "pattern": the drama involved obtaining a British transit visa as passengers had to transfer in London. But, once upon a time... Last week, Great Britain abolished transit visas for citizens of Serbia and Montenegro who travel to the USA or Canada, and have valid visas for one of those countries. The condition is, of course, that the passenger has a ticket with a confirmed flight to continue their journey within 24 hours of landing at UK airports. If we bear in mind that Serbia and Montenegro is one of the 37 countries for which the relaxed visa regime applies, everything seems almost idyllic.

However, since the relaxation of the visa regime somehow coincided with the "Goran Marković case", it is time to ask whether the gesture of the British authorities has anything to do with it. As a reminder, Marković was prevented from traveling to Canada, despite the intervention of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because he did not have a British transit visa - more specifically, upon arrival at the London airport, he could not get on the plane to Canada, because in order to transfer from the plane to the plane was necessary to set foot on the territory of Great Britain. He did not have permission for that, that is. visa. Officially, the epilogue was that the man did not make it to the presentation of the prestigious award he received at the Toronto Film Festival. Off the record, it seems that someone in London, or someone in Belgrade with connections to someone in London, has finally put their finger on their forehead and decided that the whole transit visa thing is pointless, to say the least. It's our luck that our directors get awards all over the world. Otherwise, who knows when we would be among the privileged 37.