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Election 2022.

27.May 2022. Sofia Popović

Voting in Veliki Trnovac: Victory of the Valley Albanian Coalition

In the second repeated voting at polling station 6 in Bujanovac (Veliki Trnovac), the list of Coalition of Albanians of the Valley won the most votes - 598, while the Socialist Party of Serbia won six.

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25.May 2022. S.Ć.

From the dairy to the media: "Politika" and "Novosti" have the same owner

Miroslav Bogićević is satisfied that he sold his share of "Politics of Newspapers and Magazines" to Boban Rajić because he was a big customer of the Šabac Dairy, which he owns. The state made this purchase possible

Interview

21.May 2022. Sonja Ciric

Branka Petrić: My experience in Bollywood

"When you put on the costume, they place a bug, a microphone, the cord of which goes around the waist and is stuck somewhere around chest level on the inside of the costume. In an Indian film, a woman puts the bug on the actresses"

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21.May 2022. S.Ć.

Russian gas: Seven countries pay in rubles

After Poland and Bulgaria, Finland is the third country to which Gazprom has suspended the supply of gas because it does not pay for it in rubles. This Russian condition was accepted by Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and North Macedonia. Serbia is in the group of countries that Russia does not (yet) consider hostile

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20.May 2022. MT

"Srbijašume" declared an energy company: The price of wood and pellets jump

The prices of wood for firewood and pellets are 30 to 50 percent higher than last year, but the acting director of "Srbijašum" believes that this increase is unjustified and unrealistic - in that company, a cubic meter of wood is about 4.000 dinars, and at the warehouses about 8.000.

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17.May 2022. S.Ć.

Pristina: Again candidacy for membership in UNESCO

Kosovo has done a lot to increase the level of security, restoration and functioning of Orthodox churches, claim from Pristina announcing its candidacy for membership in UNESCO. Belgrade replies that Pristina's only connection with Serbian Orthodox churches is their demolition

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15.May 2022. Sofia Popović

Eurovision 2022: Ukraine winner, Konstruct fifth

The winner of Eurovision 2022 is Ukraine. Serbian representative Ana Đurić won fifth place. The prize for the best artistic performance of this year's competition went to Serbia

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12.May 2022. SP

Eurovision 2022: Originality found its way to the final

Serbia made it to the finals. The construction is something that they say has never been seen before at Eurovision, in the strongest competition since 2011. Ukraine is the favorite, and as before, Eurovision is a musical mirror of the current political relations on the continent, but also a place from which messages of peace, solidarity and respect for diversity are sent.

Personal attitude

09.May 2022. Zoran Hamovic

The question of political determination: How to say YES

The story about two chairs on which Serbia is sitting and has to choose one has intensified. The problem is not in deciding, but in the one - the must

Analyze

07.May 2022. Radmila Marković

Energy: Russians still control NIS

More than 10 million shares of the Oil Industry of Serbia were sold yesterday. The seller was Gazprom Neft, and the buyer was Gazprom. Gazprom Neft no longer has a controlling stake on its own, but together with the "mother" it does

Analyze

06.May 2022. Bogdan Petrovic

The war in Ukraine and energy products: There are (no) alternatives for everyone

In theory, Serbia can replace fuel oil with gas in a large number of heating plants, and citizens who use individual gas connections probably have alternative sources for heating. However, the grim truth must also be told: due to logistical problems, it will not be possible to provide huge amounts of fuel oil instead of heating gas for heating plants in cities.

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06.May 2022. SP

Agreements between Belgrade and Pristina: Washington unfulfilled, Brussels pending

The biggest stumbling block and still unimplemented part of the Brussels Agreement concerns the formation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities (CMU) and the principles on which it will be founded.

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05.May 2022. FM

Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina: Recognition of Kosovo's independence as a condition

Serbian recognition of Kosovo is a condition for the end of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, but also for the continuation of Serbia's path towards membership in the European Union, this is the basic conclusion from the meetings of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister of Kosovo Aljbin Kurti in Berlin

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04.May 2022. SP

Vučić near Solac: Ironing out a clear message

Germany will continue to support Serbia's European path, but expects it to defend the common values of the European Union and stick to what was agreed upon. In particular, the dialogue on Kosovo belongs to the latter

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04.May 2022. S.Ć.

Initiative A11: The Social Card Law is unconstitutional

The Law on the Social Card requires 135 personal data from the user. Even the MUP does not use so much data on one person. The law is intended to deprive someone of social rights, not to grant them, say A11, who submitted an initiative to the Constitutional Court against such a law

Personal attitude

04.May 2022. Branko Miljus

Decision Time: Russian-American To Be or Not To Be

"These days, we are actually choosing what kind of mark we will leave in history as a generation, we are choosing whether we will renounce the Balkan circle of madness that guarantees descendants only the obligation to pay debts that are the product of the decisions of our ancestors. I am a million percent sure that we as a people believe that everyone has the right to live freely. I believe that after the bloody legacy of the recent past, which we went through together with our neighbors, we all despise war"

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25.April 2022 S.Ć.

Donfrid in Pristina: Focus on mutual recognition

In Pristina, on a tour of the Western Balkans and before arriving in Belgrade on Tuesday, US Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried said that efforts should be intensified in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, which should be aimed at mutual recognition. The US has no greater ally than Kosovo, said Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani

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25.April 2022 S.Ć.

Faculty of Economics: Media in Serbia is not sustainable

There are over 2500 media outlets in Serbia. Their market value is modest and tends to decline. Media advertising budgets are a "small pond", for which, in addition to the registered ones, those who distribute content via the Internet are robbed. A fifth of the population does not trust any media

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21.April 2022 S.Ć.

Open Venice Biennale: Reality brought to abstraction

"Walking with Water", Vladimir Nikolić's exhibition that represents contemporary Serbian art at the Venice Biennale this year, tells the story of the relationship between technology and nature. The Croatian exhibition is dedicated to today's post-truth era and its content will depend on current news, while the Montenegrin one builds an experience similar to a sci-fi story about possible futures.

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15.April 2022 SP

Vučić and Dodik: Ties never stronger

A few days after Great Britain, along with the United States, imposed sanctions on Milorad Dodik, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met with the leader of the Bosnian Serbs. Dodik complained to Vučić that he and the Republika Srpska were under great pressure regarding the internal political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Election 2022.

23.March 2022. S.Ć.

Voting of Serbs in Montenegro: Tensions for no reason

On April 3, citizens residing in Montenegro with the right to vote in Serbia will be able to vote in Berane, Sutomore and Nikšić, not only in Podgorica and Herceg Novi. The competent Montenegrin minister explained that it was about procedural failures of Serbia and accused Vučić of causing artificial tension

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19.March 2022. Radmilo Marković

Manipulation of fear and the price of populism: Peace, stability - Vučić

The pre-election scare of citizens with possible catastrophic consequences of the war in Ukraine is nothing new, the same matrix was applied in the 2020 elections, only then the apocalypse was threatened by the corona virus. When the fear is instilled in the voters, Aleksandar Vučić presents himself as the only savior with the tabloid thirds

Election 2022.

06.March 2022. Filip Mirilović

Presidential candidate Aleksandar Vučić: There is only one

His most ardent admirers say that like Saint Sava, he is the greatest visionary, the solution to all problems, the last and only free leader in Europe. He says all sorts of things about himself, often contradictory, but one could say that he is a radical at heart, a hooligan by behavior and a populist in governance.

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02.March 2022. SP

EU ambassadors in Belgrade: Serbia should condemn Russia's aggression

"Part of joining the Union is full compliance with the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Today, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on the UN resolution on Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Every vote is important. Every vote counts. And we are counting on Serbia."

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05.February 2022. S.Ć.

New Strategy for Roma: Old unfulfilled promises

Roma are the poorest community in Serbia. Two-thirds of them cannot even pay for prescribed drugs or testing for Covid-19. In 38 percent of Roma settlements, not a single residential building is connected to water, and more than 70 percent do not have sewage. Until now, the effects of the planned improvement of the living conditions of Roma women and men were limited to workshops on discrimination or educational programs of non-governmental organizations. Only slightly more than 0,1 percent of Roma are employed in the public administration

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25.January 2022. Vremena editorial office

Research on corruption: Serbia is again in the bottom half of the world

According to the research on corruption in the public sector conducted by the Transparency Serbia organization, out of one hundred ideals, the corruption index in Serbia is 38, the same as last year.

Interview

16.January 2022. Sonja Ciric

Snow White von Houwelingen: Recipe for Netflix

The producer of "Impure Blood", the first Serbian film on American Netflix, does not know why one of our previous films did not succeed, but she knows what and how to do it in order to reach the world.