Personalities of the year: Rebellious students, collective interview

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The year behind us was marked by the student rebellion. We were all surprised due to decades of social apathy and the feeling that nothing can change in Serbia. That is why "There is hope" is written on the front page of the New Year's issue of "Vremena". There is - indeed. The rebellious students showed everyone what real courage, solidarity and maturity look like. Also, there is their unprecedented democratic way of making decisions, openness to dialogue and non-violent way of fighting for the public interest despite all slanders, provocations and physical attacks.

Fifth day of unrest in Georgia

Tbilisi: Tear gas, water cannons and mass arrests

Protests in Tbilisi over the Georgian government's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union have not subsided for the fifth day in a row. The police again used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the parliament

Seeking justice

Hundreds of protests in Serbia: Streets barren against Vučić

Citizens of Serbia are increasingly expressing their dissatisfaction on the street. DW investigated what protests have in common, what motivates young people to protest and how they view violent protests

Albanija

Ten people were injured in the clash between police and protesters in Tirana

Ten people were injured in violent demonstrations held in the capital of Albania against the Government of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Demonstrators demand Rama's resignation and the establishment of an interim technocrat government that will manage current affairs until parliamentary elections already scheduled for next year.

Protest in Belgrade

Dacic: SPS strongly condemns the announcement of violent demonstrations on Saturday

Some of the participants in the protest against lithium mining announced for August 10 in Belgrade hinted that roads will be blocked. Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic strongly condemned the "announcement of violent demonstrations"

Bloody protests in Bangladesh

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh resigned and fled the country

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed resigned and fled the country. Almost a hundred people have lost their lives during the latest mass protests in Bangladesh against her administration, and 300 since the beginning of July. Over 11.000 "terrorists" were arrested. Law enforcement used live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas. Social networks are prohibited

Repression

Amnesty International: Right to peaceful assembly threatened across Europe

In a new report, the non-governmental organization for the protection of human rights, Amnesty International, recorded cases of excessive use of police force and impunity by the police in Serbia. They warn her that the right to peaceful assembly is threatened throughout Europe

Georgia between the EU and Russia

"Russian law" and Ukrainian flags

"While you have one Kosovo, you see, we in Georgia have two - Abkhazia and South Ossetia, so judge for yourself what kind of situation we are in," explains the political moment in which his country is a taxi driver in Tbilisi.

Gruzija

The president vetoed it because she believes that the law was used to stifle the opposition and the media

Week-long demonstrations on the streets of Tbilisi, a fight in the assembly, a warning from the West... Nothing prevented the Georgian parliament from passing the law on foreign agents. President Salome Zurabishvili vetoed the controversial law, even though she believes Georgian Dream will outvote it

Gruzija

Mass demonstrations in Tbilisi against "Russian law"

In Georgia, protests against the authorities have not subsided for days because of the planned law "on the transparency of foreign influence", which critics simply call a "Russian law" that distances the country from Europe

Israel

Netanyahu successfully operated, tens of thousands of protesters demand his resignation

After his hernia was diagnosed, Benjamin Netanyahu underwent a successful operation immediately, the office of the Prime Minister announced. But health problems are not the only ones that bother him

Demonstration

The streets became crowded this year after violent protests last year

In Serbia this year, there were no huge gatherings and protests like last year, the Archive of Public Gatherings announced. The biggest protest was the one on the anniversary of the murder of Oliver Ivanovic

Demonstrations in Greece

Tear gas and Molotov cocktails at a protest against private universities in Athens

The protest was held ahead of the parliamentary session, which is expected to adopt a law that will allow foreign private universities to open branches in the country.

Eighth post-election protest

Pavle Grbović: There is a danger that Serbia will turn into Belarus

"Accusing those young people who were arrested of destroying the constitutional order is absurd," says Pavle Grbović for "Vreme". From the RIK, the citizens protesting against the election theft went on a walk to the police station in 29. november street, where today's protest ended. After the protest on Sunday evening in front of the Belgrade Assembly, the police detained over 30 mostly young people

Consequences of political activism

"Vreme" finds out: A girl was expelled from a riding school for going to a protest

An 18-year-old student was kicked out of the Belgrade riding school "Bela Griva" where she volunteered, because the owner did not like that she was at a protest in front of the City Assembly and allegedly supported violence and Dragan Đilas, whom we "barely chased away" from the authorities.

Protests against "election theft"

Violent protests: "Part of people take cover when tension starts"

Do the protesters against the regime want to radicalize the protest or not? How who, says Aleksandar Gubaš from the Archive of Public Meetings for "Vreme". He states that it is natural for the number of people to decrease when the fuss starts

Post-election fight for election results

Serbia against violence: We will not give up the fight, regardless of the cost

The Coalition of Serbia Against Violence assessed that during the protests on Sunday evening, the authorities showed their true colors by sending their hooligans to create incidents, and in the end, they sent the police to the citizens protesting because of the stolen elections.

Address of the President of the Republic

Aleksandar Vučić: The demonstrators ran away like rabbits

The President of Serbia accused Serbia against the violence of having "dirty political goals", said that all the perpetrators of the riots will be arrested, and they will prosecute the "self-proclaimed politicians" who incited them.

Post-election protest

Lazović: We fight in various ways

"I am moderately optimistic that the elections can be repeated. This is such a big theft that it cannot be hidden," Radomir Lazović told "Vreme" in front of the City Assembly

The World

Israel: Descending into Civil War

Despite massive, months-long protests across Israel and molestations coming from allied states, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed through the Knesset a law that effectively puts the government above the Supreme Court. The demonstrations not only do not subside after that, they become more and more intense. Doctors, medical staff, reservists, pilots, trade unions go on a general strike

Protests

Protests in the nineties and today: The freedom and peace we are still searching for

Journalist Danica Vučenić and writer Vladimir Arsenijević for the portal "Vremena" on the parallel between the protests of the nineties and today's "Serbia against violence" protests

Comment

Clash Tiling: Faster, Stronger, More Violent

The President of Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party respond to the "Serbia against violence" protests with even greater verbal violence. The alleged invitations to talk are disingenuous and grotesque. The head of state is leading the country in the direction of conflict

Comment

Last night in Belgrade: For all our children

On Friday, decent Serbia won. Citizens who took to the streets wrote history. They rocked the ship that the angry helmsman steered towards the open sea of ​​abnormality. That May 19 will be recorded as the date of the beginning of Serbia's return to the flow of civilization, where it belongs

News

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

Analyze

Opposition and protests: Penalty to win

The opposition leaders realized that the Rio Tinto issue could create the desired referendum atmosphere for Aleksandar Vučić to remain in power, but they do not agree on the tactics of how to use the awakened environmental awareness of the citizens. It could be said that Vučić's team committed such an obvious foul in the penalty area that the referee could not ignore it. The only question is who will take the penalty and how, and whether the goalkeeper is afraid of the penalty

News

Blockade of Serbia: Epilogue of the second protest

It should be worrying for the government that a significant number of people went to the protests and that a few young activists showed great organizational skills and no fear, under a regime whose power is intimidation. Where there were provocations, the demonstrators did not back down. Finally, there was a change of generations in the civil protests. There are still four months left until the elections

Interview

Brajan Brković: In Novi Sad, we are ready for violent provocations

"These protests are both legal and legitimate because citizens have the right to them if they think that the government is not leading the country in the right direction and if there is no other way to prevent the harmful actions of the regime"