Interview: Jovo Bakić, associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade

Society is under heavy opiates

"What is called the intellectual elite is probably the most rotten part of society. They are not in need of selling, they are selling out of necessity in order to live more comfortably than before, because the needs have grown. It's tragic and that's why I blame them more than an ordinary person who works from morning to night, so they put him on a bus with a sandwich to go somewhere to applaud."

Comment

The flower of the patriotic intellectual right: Against logic and common sense

If, in contrast to them, that lovely group of citizens who write for Putin's propaganda magazine, you have no sympathy for mass murderers and tyrants (whether Serbian or Russian), and what's worse, you stand for values ​​like freedom, for example, then you are nothing, a traitor, a bastard and, in general, a fag

Politics

Milan St. Protić: It is as clear as day that Kosovo is lost for Serbia

Kosovo was lost to Serbia due to the systematic anti-Serbian policy during Titoism and the disastrous policy during the Milosevic era.

Comment

The logic of dictatorship: Serbia's path to the Middle Ages

From the point of view of the dictatorship, it is quite logical to persecute those who think for themselves and who, by the nature of things, oppose the dictatorship and constantly nag something. That is why it is desirable to eliminate them from the public space, and even better to eliminate them from life.

Crimean platform

Michael Kirby: It seems that Serbia has sided with Russia

The former US ambassador to Serbia said that the Russians have significant influence in the important institutions of Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party, and that since 2012 there has been a period of significant distancing of the Serbian Government from the European path and a very obvious turn towards Russia, and especially towards Vadimir Putin

Side effects

Serbia: Instructions for use

Teofil Pančić's open letter to our new, at least temporary fellow citizens from the Russian Federation, published in "Vremen" number 1656

In the new issue

Aleksandar Vučić's foreign policy: Russian collar, American borscht

With his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly and accompanying announcements on social networks, the Serbian president moved Serbian foreign policy away from what is the official strategic commitment of the country - accession to the European Union. How much citizens will pay remains to be seen, but his success on social networks is undeniable

Comment

In Russia's embrace: On the wrong side of history again

After more than three decades, the same people again seem not to understand what is happening outside the borders of the Serbian world. That great world is at a historical crossroads, torn apart after Russia's attack on Ukraine, is being looked at through the crosshairs. The conflict until complete exhaustion or destruction will last a long time, and those who remain between the front lines will be crushed

News

Vladimir Putin: I talk regularly with Aleksandar Vučić

Russia appreciates the efforts of "Serbian friends" to implement a balanced, independent policy on the international stage, and Russia and Serbia will continue to deepen cooperation in the economic, scientific-technical and humanitarian spheres, said the President of Russia.

Personal attitude

The collapse of morality: Ethical deficit in the state policy of the Republic of Serbia

Serbia is a very poor country, and among the most important causes of that poverty is the generally deficient morality, and especially the morality of those at the highest levels of the social hierarchy. A cynic would say that with this mechanism society is located at those unenviable levels of development that it deserves in the moral dimension, but that would seem to be an illegal simplification.

Comment

Expression of programmed emotions: The people and Russia

The dry, one-sided question "Are you in favor of imposing sanctions on the Russian Federation" that was asked by the New Serbian Political Thought in a public opinion survey and received the answer that over 80 percent of Serbian citizens are against it, is as relevant as the fact that you asked "whether tomorrow in war to defend the Russian Federation". Research that confirms pro-Russian attitudes measures the emotions of the population, and does not, of course, deal with where citizens have such attitudes and does not raise the question of the consequences of not imposing sanctions on Russia.

Croatia

Historical identification: We understand Ukrainians, we went through Serbian aggression 

While the whole of Europe sympathizes with Ukraine, which has been exposed to Russian aggression for 11 weeks, Croatian politicians say that they are actually the only ones who understand what Ukrainians are going through, because they themselves went through the hell of military aggression - that of Serbia. Similar tones can be heard in Sarajevo

Overview of the week

Serbia and Russia: Sharpening the knife in the back

Since he threw himself around like a carp in a net, how will Vučić tell the electorate that he gave in to Brussels and Washington and imposed sanctions on Moscow? It seems that the answer is: I didn't betray, but Putin - that's what the newspaper says