"Masts", Try a naked man, Excellent hamster, 2024
We never looked retro, but the way people who are not ready to humiliate themselves look. Who is to blame for the enslaved majority who humiliate themselves by following seasonal trends?
"When you create an educational system tailored to the needs and goals of militarization, then it is a kind of special war that you are conducting against the future of society," says Alexander Weisner, an international expert on conflict resolution, in an interview for the new issue of Vremena.
We have to fight for the financial-corrupt dimension to be prosecuted. We need to find out where 24 million euros disappeared, because this obvious theft is the direct cause of the death of 15 people. Of course, the tragedy also starts the story of countless secret contracts that follow large public and infrastructural projects, which are the breeding ground of enormous corruption. The companies that did the reconstruction of the station in Novi Sad are more or less the same ones that build, say, Belgrade on the water or work on EXPO projects
"Serbia accounts for 55 percent of the total export of the Western Balkans." Serbia accounts for 64 percent of the total attractiveness of the Western Balkans. That's what I dream about, my dream is EXPO 2027. That's what I'm focused on,'' said Vučić in an interview with the BBC
To put it simply, Yugoslavia was a country that allowed all Serbs to live in the same state. How, under the existing conditions and over the decades, that, shall I call it, "primordial interest" can be realized, that is another question. The way in which the then leadership of Serbia tried to do this led, among other things, to the disintegration of the country. And the only ones, I repeat, in which all Serbs really lived in one state
Arrests of activists throughout Serbia should scare people and exhaust them so that they give up on everything, Predrag Voštinić from the Local Front tells "Vreme"
Writer, translator, man who went through hell, but says his life was mostly good. Ivan Ivanji speaks for "Vreme" more about the future than about the past
In a big interview for "Vreme" ("All my rebellious career"), which declared him the person of the year, Dragan Bjelogrlić talks about his student days, beginnings as an actor, cheering for Partizan and standing up for the little man
"I'm not hungry for food, I'm hungry for freedom and justice, for a life that we must not leave to nonsense... We only have one life and only ourselves," Marinika Tepić, who is on hunger strike, told "Vreme"
With the authors of News Net, Jelisaveta Miletić, Marko Dražić, Viktor Marković and Nenad Milosavljević, we talked about satire in Serbia today, how reality is "ruining" their jobs, election results, politicians who lie, but also the most positive and worst things that have happened to us in the year we are slowly seeing off
They will not go to power with those who are in favor of the Franco-German "ultimatum", sanctions against Russia or Serbia's membership in NATO
"I have always liked digressions, it seems to me that we are mature, especially the young generation, at least for this you open a lot of windows, you come to some code, you search further, then you return to the basic narrative. Since life is chaotic, there is a need for calmness that would give (and hence the desire in the theater) clean storytelling. It seems to me that purer forms are on the rise - the story, the return to realism, we put the microphones away, we build, in fact, a scenography that evokes, closes, does what a film does for us"
The editor of the Vreme weekly, Filip Švarm, thinks that the success of the officials' campaign rests on the long-term campaign of building a cult of personality, destroyed institutions and the fact that Vučić controls at least 90 percent of the media market.
ProGlas reminded people that this is their country and that they can influence its future with their voice and engagement, says Predrag Peca Popović for "Vreme".
"A person also asks himself the question of what he has done in his life, not only in his work. Therefore, living in a time that is upside down, not reacting and not opposing - especially if there are objective possibilities for my voice to be heard - it is not only my obligation and duty, but also a matter of honor. That's why I broke, aware of all the troubles and threats. This group in power has various possibilities to harm me and, by God, they are not sparing in it. But I'm ready for that. I'm ready to live with it, I'm ready to defend myself and I'm ready to face all their attacks with a raised forehead"
Raising your voice in "upside down times" is both a duty and a "matter of honor", famous actor and director Dragan Bjelogrlić, one of the signatories of "ProGlas", tells "Vreme"
"Now the most important thing is to go to the elections in one column, to offer policies that will bring changes in Belgrade", the future holder of the "Serbia against violence" list for the Belgrade elections told the "Vremena" portal.
After Banjska, Vučić is desperately looking for room for maneuver, says historian Milan St. Against. "Regardless of whether Vučić knew or did not know about Banjska, he seems like an unreliable person."
"It seems that Aleksandar Vucic Milosevic told the Serbs from the north of Kosovo - here, I have to hide, and you take responsibility for yourselves, organize yourself, and we will help you as best we can. And before that, he took everything away from them, including participation in the judiciary and participation in the police. He left them alone and told them to make a parallel story. He also said that he would send a trusted man to organize them, and that the army would be close by to come to their aid if necessary. And then the army was dragged to the barracks near the administrative border with Kosovo, but not in combat formation but for taking pictures"
Vučić told the Financial Times that the postponement of membership does not reflect the reality in Serbia, because it is "in a much better state than Romania and Bulgaria were in 2007, when they entered the EU."
"The school year is starting, and I, as a citizen, have no real picture of what has been done, or how it will start in the first place? Or, how come it was suddenly interrupted, ie. two weeks shortened? And why did the person who posted the news announce it, saying only 'that's the way it is'? We don't even know what will happen to the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School building. Some media reported that children who asked to transfer to another school were not allowed to do so. Is it fake news? If so, who will be held responsible for it? Where are the denials? All the letters sent by the victims, and there were a lot of them in the previous months, are proof that the system does not work."
Boban Stojanović and his partner Adam left Serbia in 2016, after state institutions did nothing to find the perpetrators of the numerous physical attacks and threats that were directed at them.
"All those people who sold themselves to the authorities see the great dissatisfaction of their fellow citizens and neighbors, and they must be assessing whether it is too great a risk for them to continue to be on a sinking ship. Another problem is that the appetites of all those who have received something from the ruling party are growing and it will not be able to satisfy all those appetites. Because of this, her power will gradually dissipate. That process of attrition will continue even if protests in this form cease to be visible"
"Aggression - especially in language - has become something completely normal. Because when you lie all the time, and we've been lying for thirty years, what else is left for you but to fuck? No one is ashamed of anything anymore. When he says 'my aunt gave me money for an apartment', he is actually saying that he should hurt you and everyone else below him. It exists at all levels, from politics to various other fields. I think that's where all that aggression comes from."
"Aggression - especially in language - has become something completely normal. Because when you lie all the time, and we've been lying for thirty years, what else is left for you but to fuck? No one is ashamed of anything anymore. When he says 'my aunt gave me money for an apartment', he is actually saying that he should hurt you and everyone else below him. It exists at all levels, from politics to various other fields. I think that's where all that aggression comes from."
"The particles of the patriarchal, animalistic and unconscious in us are so dispersed and deeply hidden that we don't even know when and how they will emerge. The most difficult thing is to distinguish what is the inherited relapse of a disturbed society that needs to be freed, and what is our irrational being that needs to be freed"
"I don't see how jobs that are carried out by the services, like 'Jovanjica', have anything to do with the so-called "state reason", I do not see any justification for them and no connection with the national interest, even if it is misunderstood. Nor is there legal coverage and decision of a state authority for them, even if formally. There is no documentation, not even 'in white' (in the jargon of the service, these are documents without headers and signatures), but simply work and remain silent. Individuals get rich using the services as their private resource, give a piece of the loot to the party and period"
