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Pressure on farmers

13.December 2025 Katarina Stevanović

Harassment of farmers: Removal of subsidies on political grounds

The repression of farmers continues. Those who protest are now visited by inspectors and share solutions on household passivation. Two interlocutors of "Vremen" testify about the growing repression.

Homework

21.May 2025. Tijana Stanic

Sheep are for shearing - what about wool?

In Serbia, wool for nine million sweaters is thrown away every year. Why?

Public tenders

21.February 2024. MS/New Economics

Allocation of grants: How the state encourages the return to the countryside

The Ministry of Rural Care has announced three public tenders: one for the purchase of rural houses with a garden and the other two whose application deadline expires tomorrow - for the allocation of grants for the purchase of minibuses for the transport of the rural population and the organization of the "Miholjske susreta village" event.

Settlement of the village

24.January 2024 BG/Business/Time

The state provides 10.000 euros for the purchase of a house in the countryside

In two and a half years, 2.650 rural houses were revived in Serbia. A third of the new residents of the village have exchanged city addresses for rural ones, and the interest is still growing

"Time" reveals

22.December 2023 Jelena Zoric

The case in the village of Svirce: "Whoever wanted could vote more than once"

It seems that there is no mechanism for manipulating the electoral process, and that it has not been perfected in Serbia. "Vreme" presents you with a case from the south of Serbia, where anyone could vote without ID, and even in the name of several people. We had access to police reports and statements of participants and eyewitnesses

Society

27.November 2023 S.Ć.

The local carrier refused to transport the students

Sixty students from the villages of Bujanovac and Vranje walk 20 kilometers to school because the transport company sees them as an unprofitable investment

Society

24.October 2023 S.Ć.

Every eighth elderly woman in Serbia does not have a pension

Almost half of the elderly women in Serbia live in rural areas. Their socio-economic position is much worse compared to their urban peers

On the spot

28.August 2022 Irena Ristić

Decentralization: Village Cultural Center in Markovac

In just three years, 90 programs were implemented in the Markovac Rural Cultural Center. The barn became a theater, and the wine cellar became a library with 4000 books and an electronic catalog. A world is being created in which everyone can and wants to participate