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?
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
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
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
The New Year's program gathered numerous visitors of all ages, but the fog and smog "spoiled" the enjoyment of those present
During New Year's Eve, emergency services intervened a total of 168 times, of which 65 interventions were in public places
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?
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.
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
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
How public transport will function on New Year's Eve and the first days of 2025
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
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
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
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.
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
Celebrating the New Year and welcoming it has deeper implications than choosing wine and making a Russian salad. The idea that a year ends at some point and then a new one begins originates from ancient epochs and is an integral part of the understanding of time as cyclical, as a vast, perhaps endless, series of universes, lives and years, which arise, last and end, only to begin again. started with or without a certain break
The majority of foreign tourists who will welcome the New Year from Serbia traditionally come from the countries of the region, Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria
While activists and the opposition are organizing protests under the slogan "Bloody on your hands" due to the death of 15 people in Novi Sad, the City Secretariat for Culture has announced a tender for winter magic: New Year's concerts, children's events, installation of lighting in Belgrade
For about ten years, Dragoljub Žarković, the editor-in-chief of "Vremena" for decades, has wished readers a happy new year in every New Year's issue, looking back on the previous one. Recalling some of Žaret's holiday epistles, the editorial staff of "Vremena" wishes you a healthy, successful and much better 2024.
For those who are looking forward to the New Year, i.e. children, theaters have provided optimism and Santa Claus. For adults, only the National Theater has a New Year's program
The city of Belgrade gave up on the pyrotechnic "spectacle", but thousands of people will throw firecrackers for their own money. Especially for children with autism and animals it means a new hell
The company from Leskovac DOO Lux, which in previous years was in charge of New Year's lighting, received almost 3 million dinars this year for decorating the city. It is not yet known what kind of decorations will beautify the holidays for the people of Leskov, but the City has set aside 400 million dinars more than last year.
Only his monologues and our Blama transfer are certain. Everything else can matter, but it doesn't have to. That's how it is in times of uncertainty. Nevertheless - we will survive
Belgrade will be visibly less and shorter illuminated than in previous years. In Europe, most of it is for savings, so the cities will be decorated with LED lights and the lights on the Christmas tree will light up thanks to the cyclists. In Germany, they opted for brilliance, to the delight of merchants and restaurateurs
In the covid clinic of the student polyclinic, there is a state of emergency - there are twenty people crowded in the corridor of about fifteen square meters, which is also the entrance and the waiting room. The New Year holidays have arrived
The New Year's celebration organized by the City of Belgrade is a reflection of radical populism seasoned with nascent cynicism. While mass printing and spitting could be seen live on almost all televisions on New Year's Eve, Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić assured viewers that everything was in accordance with epidemiological measures. The result is expected
