New Year

Police officer at the scene of the accident

Ski resort Kran Montana

02.January 2026 NM

Four Serbs among the injured: Why did so many people die in a fire in Switzerland?

A New Year's celebration in the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland was interrupted by a fire in which more than 40 people died and 119 were injured. The media and the government of the Swiss canton of Valais suspect that the reason for the suffering of so many people is the so-called "flashover"

Welcome 2026.

01.January 2026 KS

Budva: About 600 drones fell into the sea and onto concrete

A real drone show was organized on New Year's Eve in Budva, but instead of a spectacle in the air, the drones ended up in the sea

Welcome 2026.

31.December 2025 KS

New Year in Belgrade on the water: A squadron of drones and a winter fairy tale (PHOTO)

The stage is being prepared, a squadron of drones will film the spectacle in Belgrade on the water, and in the Winter Fairy Tale, the countdown is on until Expo. How is Belgrade on the water preparing to welcome 2026?

Dictionary

31.December 2025 N. Rujević

New Year always happens.

Where does the word "year" come from and what did it originally mean

A pig at a market in Mexico before New Year's Eve

New Year holidays

31.December 2025 IN THE

From broken plates to 108 bells: How the New Year is celebrated around the world

Eating grapes at midnight, breaking plates on the doorstep, ringing temple bells or masquerading as bears - New Year's customs around the world testify to different beliefs about luck, protection and a new beginning.

Holidays

31.December 2025 RV

Opening hours of shops, post office and garage during holidays

During the New Year and Christmas holidays, the working hours of markets, post offices, shops and pharmacies in Belgrade will generally be shortened, and on January 1 and 7 most facilities will be closed

New Year's corruption

29.December 2025 MLJ

When Santa Claus brings you towels

Children from New Belgrade received special packages for the weekend. In addition to the meager sweets, Santa Claus brought them - also two towels. All this, the activists claim, cost 4.000 dinars per package

23.December 2025 KS

New economy: When we are already poor, let's sweep the streets for all the money

For New Year's decorations, the local self-government allocated several tens of thousands of euros. At the top of the list of cities that will welcome 2026 with the most expensive decorations is Bor, which paid more than 80.000 euros for the decoration

New Year's Eve

13.December 2025 S. Ć.

Drones and fireworks on the water in "private" Belgrade, darkness in Šapićevo

The mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, says that he is not interested in what is being done in Belgrade on the water, because it is a private reception. In the one he manages, there will be darkness and silence - for security reasons

New Year's decorations

13.December 2025 With C.

The light train in Novi Sad, the Christmas tree over the Sremčev fountain, what's next

Niš placed a New Year's tree over the memorial fountain to Stevan Sremac, which is the counterpart of Novi Sad, which decorated the center with a luminous train

New Year

06.December 2025 S. Ć.

Students of Novi Sad: How ashamed you are not to decorate the city with a lighted train

A train was placed in the center of Novi Sad as a New Year's decoration. You are not ashamed, say the students

Four walls as the only desire

08.January 2025 Ana Trujić, Mila Stojanović

Holidays and homeless people

As we celebrate the New Year, someone sleeps on cardboard, covered with a blanket so thin it curls up against the wall. While we're celebrating Christmas, someone is hungry and can't get to the doctor because they don't have a document. He is sick and lost, he didn't get support when he needed it, and he doesn't have it today. The system turns a blind eye to people in a situation of homelessness. And how are they doing these days?

Overview of the week

03.January 2025 Philip Schwarm

Cool Pyongyang on the water

What does Aleksandar Vučić want? Judging by his daily epistles, he would like fiddlers to sing his fan heroics, and the people to worship him in fear of his every spoken word and listen with bowed heads while he is humiliated and insulted on the screen

To think

02.January 2025 Aco Divac

Another day like no other

What is the Second Day of the New Year for? Nobody wants to be in second place. And yet, it's a day like no other. Use it

Cry out for change

02.January 2025 Ivan Mitkovski

Students, teachers, farmers: Serbia is in for a year of protests

From students to educators and environmentalists, many citizens demonstrated throughout Serbia during 2024. Their dissatisfaction and persistence showed that the pressure on the government will not decrease even in the coming year. Now the students are at the forefront of the rebellion, and Vučić can't do anything about them - and that obviously scares him

Sava promenade

01.January 2025 IN THE

Smog and welcome: Unprecedented fireworks in Belgrade on the water

The New Year's program gathered numerous visitors of all ages, but the fog and smog "spoiled" the enjoyment of those present

Chronicle

01.January 2025 IN THE

A lot of work for the emergency crews on New Year's Eve

During New Year's Eve, emergency services intervened a total of 168 times, of which 65 interventions were in public places

Economy

01.January 2025 Mila Jovanovic

New year, new hits on the wallet: What price increases await us?

The pockets of Serbian citizens have already been hit several times during 2024. Infostan, heating, some basic groceries and taxi transportation have gone up in price. What awaits us in the new year?

Protests and blockades

01.January 2025 IN THE

Students and citizens greeted the year 2025 in silence

In Niš, students released 15 lanterns into the sky in honor of those who died in the accident, and in Belgrade they stood in silence, holding the lights on their mobile phones.

Holidays

31.December 2024 IN THE

Opening hours of shops, shopping centers, post offices and markets during holidays

During the New Year and Christmas holidays, the working hours of shopping centers, markets, markets, post offices and pharmacies in Belgrade will generally be reduced, and on January 1 and 7 most facilities will be completely closed

New Year's resolutions

31.December 2024 DW / Julia Fergin

I firmly promise myself: From the New Year...

We will quit smoking, we will do sports, we will have a healthier diet. Every year we have big plans and good intentions - since January. Here's how to actually make some of it happen

GSP

31.December 2024 IN THE

What are the changes in public transport in Belgrade during New Year's Eve?

How public transport will function on New Year's Eve and the first days of 2025

New Year's TV program

30.December 2024 B. B.

Silly Zika and fireworks from Belgrade on the water

Four televisions with a national frequency for the New Year on a total of five channels will not offer anything that has not been seen before

Student blockades

30.December 2024 Mila Jovanovic

Students say: "There is no New Year, you still owe us for the old one"

For all those who were skeptical about student blockades for the New Year, the message arrives: "There is no New Year, you owe us the old one." In Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, students will spend one of the happiest holidays - in complete silence

Protest in Slavia: Bloody fist and banners

A new student protest

28.December 2024 TS

"There is no reason to celebrate": Students called for a New Year's Eve protest

The students organizing the protests invited the citizens to a joint New Year's Eve at the Student Square. They will enter the year 2025 with fifteen minutes of silence

Firecrackers and fireworks

27.December 2024 B. B.

Another noisy New Year's Eve: "Just let it be merry"

The vast majority of people who throw firecrackers or firecrackers are not malicious, but they probably don't think that there may be autistic children living nearby or fearful animals for whom noise and detonations are fatal.

On the occasion of the exhibition

25.December 2024 Robert Shepherd

Zlatnik napoleon in a hot donut, right at midnight

At the end of the 19th century, on New Year's Eve in Belgrade, a symbolic funeral of the old year was often organized, where the funeral procession, masked and carrying a white coffin, would enter the hall a few minutes before midnight and thus mark the end of the year. This would be followed by a ceremony to "birth" the New Year, represented by a girl decorated with flowers and a happy chimney sweep, which brought hope and joy. The highlight of the evening would be a comical pig hunt released among the guests, with the belief that whoever caught it would be lucky for the whole coming year