The historic election of Pope Francis
Last week, Pope Francis promoted 21 new cardinals in Rome, and among them Ladislav Nemet - the Belgrade archbishop became the first cardinal from Serbia. In the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica, the twenty elected cardinals together with Nemet received from the Pope a cardinal's beret of purple red color and a cardinal's ring and then took the oath of allegiance to the Pope and the Catholic Church.
Ladislav Nemet was born in 1956 in Odžaci and two years ago he became the first Belgrade Archbishop born in Serbia, and the first Hungarian to head the Belgrade Diocese since its formation exactly one hundred years ago (three predecessors were Slovenes, and before them three Croats). He attended high school in Subotica, then joined the Catholic Verbite order and completed his studies in philosophy and theology in Poland in 1982, and after a few years he obtained his doctorate in Rome. He served and taught in the Philippines, Austria, Croatia and Hungary, and in 2008 he became the head of the diocese of Zrenjanin.
By the will of Pope Francis, Nemet became the first Catholic priest born in Serbia to be elevated to the rank of cardinal and the first cardinal to head the Belgrade Archdiocese. He sees his appointment as a "special sign" for the Roman Catholic Church in Serbia, which gathers around 300.000 believers.
There is nothing good about REM.
After almost nine years as a member of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media and as president for the last four years, Olivera Zekić is still in REM, as she is employed in the position of public relations representative, i.e. PR, by the will of the director (read: authorities) .
Her and the other members of the Council's mandate expired at the beginning of November, and as she explained in her statement to Cenzolovka, she has been employed at REM since 2016 and, in fact, since then, in addition to the position of member and then president, she has also been in charge of relations with the public if its mission to degrade an institution that plays a key role in creating media space in our country can be called that.
"Each member of the Council must be in permanent employment, because otherwise he would be at the Employment Bureau. Since 2016, I have been working full-time at REM because I was unemployed at the time. At the same time, dismissals are given by the director, not by the REM Council, the European Union, the opposition or the civil sector. All of the above, and especially this 'holy three hundred', unfortunately for them, will certainly not remove me from the company", said the new PR of REM and the old promoter of the progressive regime, practically clarifying that the regime has no intention of relinquishing control over REM om regardless of the new legal solutions on the election of REM Council members, which will follow us in the next few months.
Maternity hospital in Petrovac na Mlava
After a month and a half, the maternity ward of the General Hospital in Petrovac na Mlava is working again as a new obstetrical table has been delivered and women in labor no longer have to go to Požarevac, 40 kilometers away.
Danijela Katić, head of Gynecology at this hospital, clarified for our website that the problem was noted at the end of October, and that the maternity ward was closed on November 4. The authorized service technician concluded that the defect could not be repaired and that the table was not safe for use, so the director of the General Hospital ordered the maternity ward to be closed.
"While the village roads are being asphalted and solemnly opened, none of the management of the hospital or the municipality is dealing with the problem of the maternity ward. Due to the closing of the maternity hospital, pregnant women are referred to other maternity hospitals, without the management being aware of the urgency of certain conditions in obstetrics that must be resolved immediately and now. This is how the municipality of Petrovac na Mlava and the General Hospital work for our children," said Dr. Katić.
Dragan Stajić, a local councilor of the National Movement of Serbia, revealed to "Vreme" that the hospital needed the necessary equipment even in earlier years, including an obstetric table, and concluded that "the negligence that exists in many hospitals throughout Serbia should be resolved in a timely manner, and not through public pressure".
“Subotica octopus”
The latest speeches of the opposition champions in Subotica, as well as earlier research by journalist Branko Žujović, clearly point to the conclusion that the operations of the Public Enterprise Subotica-trans are a paradigm of progressive management of public goods in the north of Bačka. Thus, a few days ago, Luka Vučinac, member of the Green-Left Front in the City Assembly, filed a criminal complaint against an unknown person from the criminal organization known as "Subotica Octopus", which robbed and ruined the mentioned public company.
Paradoxically, the application is based on the statement of the current director of Subotica-trans, Dejan Ljubisavljević (SNS), at the session of the City Assembly at the beginning of September, when he literally said that "the criminal organization committed various criminal acts and embezzled property", as well as that "it is still fighting against its members" and that Mayor Stevan Bakić (SNS) is also aware of the situation.
Ljubisavljević, after working in the criminal and tax police, and in the state Telecom, advanced in the progressive system and in 2018 he was appointed director of JP Suboticka pijaca, and three years later, in a progressive role, he became the head of Subotica-trans, and his the predecessor in that company, Aleksandar Aleksić, moved to Suboticke pijace. Even before Aleksić, that public company was run by progressives, and it is possible that Ljubisavljević was referring to them when he mentioned the criminal organization that destroyed the company and which is the subject of a complaint by an opposition councilor.
FSS still without a decision on equipment
The contract of the Football Association of Serbia with Puma, a German manufacturer of sports equipment, is about to expire, but the Executive Board has not yet decided who will be the technical sponsor in the coming years, that is, who will dress the national teams. Macron and Capelli have been officially in the game for some time, and the latest information says that Puma has changed its mind and wants to extend the contract.
The national football team of our country when it was called Yugoslavia, big and short, was dressed by Adidas, and the multi-decade cooperation was terminated shortly before the name of the country was changed, so the years of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro are also remembered by the representative jerseys of the Italian Lotto. After the separation of the country in 2006, the color of the jersey was changed with a new name, red instead of blue, and a new sponsor arrived - the American Nike. After eight years, the cooperation was terminated in 2014, probably due to related failures of the national team, and in the following four years, FSS had a contract with the English company Umbro in order to conclude a valuable agreement with another major manufacturer - Puma, before going to the World Cup in Russia. And everything was fine until the end of last year when Puma announced the imminent termination of cooperation.
Until this week, the closest to signing a contract with FSS was the Italian Macron, who is expanding and in our market in 2017 "won" the biggest club - Crvena zvezda. As Sportklub learns, Macron offers FSS 1,7 million in the next two years, of which 700 thousand in goods. The offer of the less renowned Capelli is more generous, but also includes two four-year contracts. The rising American company offers $800 a year in cash payments and equipment, plus bonuses for placing in major competitions.
Although time is running out, the FSS leaders still cannot decide, and Sportklub sources say that Puma is back in the game after the changes in the Association.
Less than two days of blockade - that's how long it took to see how weak and powerless the public media service is, both from the outside and from the inside. At the moment of writing this text, it is the eighth day of the blockade, and the sixth that RTS is not broadcasting its program. They also seem to be facing a strike inside the house. And the essence of blocking RTS is not in what it publishes, but in what it keeps silent
In the months after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, the flames of rebellion spread throughout Serbia. The first protests started in Novi Sad right after the tragedy. The authorities responded with arrests, police cordons and intimidation, but instead of calming down the protesters, new protests followed.
The rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, has been the target of top state officials and regime tabloids for months, who label him as an insidious instigator of student protests, an opportunist, "the face of evil" and "the leader of the criminal octopus." How and why a rector became "state enemy number one"
"I'm standing in the cordon, and my daughter is shouting at me 'aw, aw, killers'. What should I do? If they ordered me - I would throw down my baton and bulletproof vest and stand on the side of my child," a police officer from the south of Serbia, who works as needed in the Belgrade Police Brigade, told "Vreme"
The recent formation of the Đura Macuta government is part of the regime's revenge and cynicism. This can be seen most in the "black troika" of new ministers appointed to deal with the parts of society that are the leaders and symbols of the big rebellion that lasted for several months, the cause of which was the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, which claimed 16 human lives. Education, universities, unsolicited media and parts of the judiciary that refuse to listen to orders, either publicly, with announcements, or hiding behind legal procedures, should be dismantled. Those who will have no problem doing everything they are told, even reinforcing the orders with their own inventions, are chosen for this.
Who mentions the extraordinary elections when the rating of the party in power is falling, and according to all surveys, Vučić is not the most important political factor in the country, but the students?
The brutal beating of students and citizens in Novi Sad shows that the regime is not only ready to take revenge - it is actually carrying it out
If in reality the principle of balance is violated - the way the incompetent regime violated the relationship between the concrete elements at the Novi Sad Railway Station - reality will behave like a canopy: it will fail to obey
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