The conditions of the Book Purchase Competition are discriminatory, threaten the functioning of libraries, and lead them to violate the law - it is written in the announcement of the Plenum of the National Library of Serbia
After almost a month, the Belgrade Philharmonic ended the strike, even though their two demands were not met. They say that they are hostages of bad laws and even worse regulations, and the disinterest of those in charge to change them
About fifty publishers have decided to boycott the competition of the Ministry of Culture for the purchase of books, not to participate in international fairs organized by the Ministry, and to temporarily suspend the delivery of mandatory copies of books to the National Library of Serbia and Matica srpska
The publishers of the two largest associations, UIKS and UPIS, and independent publishers are demanding that the Ministry of Culture cancel the competition for the purchase of books by libraries, among other things, because it only supports one, the Cyrillic alphabet.
It is to be believed that the Ministry of Culture, the Provincial Secretariat and the Belgrade Secretariat for Culture will not award money to associations and companies that do not deal with culture or do not exist this year through tenders.
The latest tender of the Ministry of Culture for the purchase of books includes editions published last year and this year, although the budget for that purpose has not been doubled. Also, only books in Cyrillic are allowed to compete
At a time when cultural workers with the support of students are protesting because of the lowest budget in the region, the Government of Serbia has adopted a solution that reduces it even more. It is not known for whose benefit
The Ministry of Culture participated in the adoption of the Decision by which 16.250.000,00 dinars were taken from the already unacceptably small budget for culture, say members of twenty representative associations in culture.
Last year, the Independent Cultural Scene received about 27 million dinars from the Ministry of Culture, not 40, as the Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković announced to the public from a closed building, safe from those who protest.
Culture Minister Nikola Selaković was aware of the whistles under his window. Just as the cultists in the blockade of his Ministry saw that people were greeting them from the window of that same Ministry. They seemed united, that they were on the same side. Selakovic was alone.
The Ministry of Culture was blocked by people who produce culture from the independent scene and from institutions and institutions of culture, with the aim of unitedly fighting for change
This year's budget for culture has been reduced, plus the Ministry and the City Secretariat for Culture have changed the method of financing. People in the culture believe that it is because of the Expo
Blockade of culture announced that it will block the Ministry of Culture on February 3. Their numerous reasons for this action include one of the above: due to the long-term degradation and marginalization of culture!
In the Capital of Culture, Užice, they are satisfied with what has been achieved so far, and announce that the main results are yet to come. The Ministry of Culture is also satisfied. Only the opposition is not, especially since the court does not respond to their criminal charges for corruption
One year and four days after the end of the Competition for National Pensions, the Government of Serbia approved the list of artists who were recognized for their outstanding contribution to culture. Vida Ognjenović, Goran Marković, Dragan Velikić, and from this year also Gorica Popović are not on that list.
The Ministry of Culture announced that at the first session the Government will vote on their Decision on the suspension of the implementation of the Tariff, and that they will review the irregularities in the work of the OORP, most of which relate to the lawyer Dušan Mijatović
The Ministry of Culture is preparing to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Einstein: correspondence between her and Einstein was bought, and her birth house is being renovated, which will not resemble the original
Next year, Serbia allocated 0,67 percent for its culture, less than this year. UNESCO recommends that the annual culture budget should be at least one percent. The countries of the region have exceeded this limit
Although the Ministry of Culture has decided that from January 1, it will not buy books in Latin for libraries, publishers will continue to publish them. This means that this new measure will not help the Cyrillic alphabet, and that it has deprived libraries of many good and important books. Only the state will save again
The State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture appealed to the Ministry of Economy to review the document, which would even mean its abolition for libraries. This is the first reaction of an institution regarding the librarian's appeal
"Cyrillic is ours too, it's not just theirs - those who use it in the manner of 'divide and conquer' divide us even more than we already are, poor, lonely and terrified that whoever is not with us/them is against us/ them," says the editor of the "AzBučni red" edition, which has been promoting the Cyrillic alphabet for years
According to the research results of the Center for Empirical Studies of Culture of Southeast Europe, the state allocates three percent of the budget for contemporary art, and 130 million dinars are distributed from the budget at the discretion of the Minister of Culture.
At the Book Fair, not one of the 500 programs is devoted to the Cyrillic alphabet. And if it was, it was possible to publicly seek an answer to the question of whether insisting on the Cyrillic alphabet endangers the spread of the Serbian language, literature, science, art...
Many libraries will not have the money to pay the tariff for the compensation of the issued books, so from January 1 they will either have to stop working, or lawsuits will be initiated against them.
The Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, was clear and consistent: the state has nothing against publishers publishing in another script, but only books published in the "beautiful Vukova Cyrillic" will be purchased. And immediately. Because there is no cile-mile anymore
Since becoming the line minister, Nikola Selaković has announced the creation of a strategic document dedicated to the systematic tracing of directions for the development of cultural policy. New cabinet, new directions of development, priorities, projects, new artists
Our basket is half empty or half full, it depends from which angle you look at it - it is written in the latest attempt by artists to encourage the government to fulfill its obligation to them
