Conservator Nenad Leibensperger, Vremena's Person of the Year, talks about the fight to preserve the General Staff, all the pressures and threats, as well as how he "with a German surname" went to war in Kosovo, while others were only basking in their supposedly patriotic chests.
Who is responsible for Goran Vasić and Aleksandar Ivanović remaining in the leading positions of the Republic and City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, even though they participated in the illegal cancellation of the status of a cultural monument from the General Staff complex
Although he admitted that he falsified the proposal on the termination of the protection of the General Staff, Goran Vasić remains at large. The court only prohibited him from contacting the witnesses, while the public is wondering - who is the real orderer of the attempt to demolish this cultural monument?
Goran Vasić, the acting director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, sent without the knowledge of the employees a proposal to revoke the status of a cultural monument for the General Staff complex, they claim, and that is why they are asking those who put him in that place, the Government of Serbia, to replace him
The open letter of the employees of the National Museum supporting the students, asking for protection for the General Staff and showing solidarity with colleagues from the Republic Institute for Protection and the National Library of Serbia who are trying to preserve these institutions is a big change in the local culture
Despite the government's decision, the General Staff will not be deleted from the Central Register of Immovable Cultural Properties thanks to the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments. At the same time, where the General Staff is now, there will be a Trump Center, reports Bloomberg
The deputy director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Estela Radonjić Živkov, was dismissed from that position at her personal request. He will be replaced by Branislav Orlić, who was the only one who did not sign the request of his colleagues to preserve the General Staff
The conservators of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments publicly opposed the abolition of the status of non-movable cultural property of the General Staff buildings. The profession and the public have declared war on the state, which is not allowed to show the contract signed by Vesić with Trump's son-in-law, even though it is a public document
That taking care of cultural heritage is a political issue is proven by the Movement of Free Citizens with the Map of Serbia's destroyed or extremely endangered cultural heritage. There are 26 on the first one, and there will be around 40 on the new one they are preparing
