(Un)transparent CEC
Crta – 28 days since the election was announced, the City Election Commission (CEC) is yet to allow domestic observers to attend its meetings. During this period, as many as 17 CEC meetings were held.
Victims of a sick society
Natasa Kandic is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018. This was enough to cause a barrage of threats to this brave women, whose life mission is to record every victim of the wars of the 90s.
A very dark place
Transparency Serbia announced that our country ranked 62nd in the big international Open Budget Index survey for 2016. The list covers 115 countries, which means that we are in the bottom half.
The countenance of Milos Crnjanski
The spirit of roaming, and straying, that spoke through him was not part and parcel of the literary modernism of the period after the Great War.
What does an “average salary” mean, if it’s out of reach for most?
In 2016, half of the population of Serbia had an income of less than €213, three quarters less than €312, and 80% lower than €344.
The sultan’s slipper
The extradition of a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin, Cevdet Ayaz, caused an avalanche of comments and reactions from the public. This controversial case can be seen in two ways…
Whose army?
If Serbian parliament adopts the proposed law on the army, the military police will protect people based on the decision of the minister of defense, and arrest citizens who are against it.
Serbia – the vanguard of populism
Preface from the author’s new book in English “The populism Serbian Way”: Finally, one thing in which the Balkans have had an advantage over Europe! Download the book!
For the first time in modern history
For Tanja Tagirov, whose article would be better: Vucic agrees with Brussels that the Serbian judiciary system is inefficient, but said that these problems are inherited.
Serbia is Kosovo
Since the UN Special Rapporteur’s for torture findings for Kosovo and Serbia are almost identical, it turns out that Belgrade and Pristina have much more in common than they are willing to admit.
Justice and the future
Vucic said that now is not the time for happiness or sorrow, that we should instead look towards the future. How? How are he or former president Nikolic supposed to look towards the future?
Anti-civil war
HRT management issued a statement regarding their journalist Aleksandar Stankovic because he “equated the Homeland war with civil war on multiple occasions” in his show “Nedjeljom u dva”.
Serbia, the ICTY and reconciliation: The terrifying new era of “quiet pride”
Many of my international friends were astonished at the tsunami of hate speech triggered in Serbia by the ICTY verdict against Ratko Mladić.
Vucic, Vuletic, and one chair
In Serbia people felt first on their own skin that Vucic says one thing and does another, i.e. that his pro-European rhetoric is often only a cover for his pro-Russians and pro-Putin practice.
Stabilocracy and political crisis
One of the main features of Vucic’s governing technology is snap parliamentary elections. Usually, in a multi-party system, this kind of election serves to return the mandate to the citizens…
October 1917: How it all went wrong
The Russian Revolution heralded a fertile period for economic thinking in the 1920s, but this was decisively killed off by Stalin. The effects of the destruction he wrought have left a long shadow.
History – the continuation of war by other means
From the conference Memory laws: The solution to controversial issues of the past is in changing the education system…
Bending knee to Sultan
Erdoğan’s festive welcome pointed out all the features of the “poor man’s glory”, which mostly shows the things that don’t exist. In this case, glamor, honesty and grandiose friendship.
Monkeys
National Council decided to appoint a “professor from Italy” as “a member of the expert committee to analyze the disputed doctoral dissertation of the mayor of Belgrade, Sinisa Mali”.
Waiting for the election
The atmosphere of social conflict on the brink of an armed clash is intolerable for most citizens and they are willing to sacrifice a lot to avoid it. This is the secret of Vucic’s success among Serbian voters.
Catalonia and the issue of secession
Yugoslavia proved unable to deal with secessions without disintegrating. That is also the worry of the Spanish government – that the secession of Catalonia will lead to the dissolution of Spain.
Ready for the Declaration!
Vucic has been successfully strengthening the myth on the innocent nineties. This U-turn has abolished war criminals, promoters, profiteers, but also authors and promoters of the Memorandum.
A terrible past and a bright future
A comment on the interview of Aleksandar Vucic on Happy TV: He has everything on his side – international support, regional projects aiming towards a bright common future…
Why poetry?
When my mother was very old and in a nursing home, she surprised me one day towards the end of her life by asking me if I still wrote poetry. When I blurted out that I still do, she stared at me…
Football selector as head of state
Aleksandar Vucic offered to one refugee boy from Afghanistan and his family a chance for a decent life in Serbia – and then turned that offer into its very opposite…
Melancholic, unequal and devoid of common sense
The first form of violence is war-related. Serbia participated in wars of horrific proportions. A number of Serbian men were in the paramilitary forces…
Murder in controlled conditions
We spoke about violence against women with Natasa Jovic, assistant secretary general to the Ombudsman and Tanja Ignjatovic from the Autonomous women’s center.
The sovereign
Aleksandar Vucic became the new president of Serbia, but also, in a sense, the theorist of his own political system. The cover of the last issue of Nedeljnik shows A. Vucic playing chess with himself…
Ana in cotton candy, or the tragedy of a civil servant
Ana Brnabic is used to annul homophobia in Serbia, because – come on, gays – if our prime minister is gay, how can you have it bad!?
Electoral autocracy
A person who is a minority according to practically all features of political significance, Ana Brnabic, is going to be Prime Minister. How will she rule? She won’t. President Vucic will.
Mirëdita, bad days
They tried to enter the room where the fourth “Mirëdita, good day” festival, which presents the cultural scene of Kosovo, was planned to happen. The police managed to prevent them…
Phantom of Bujanovac
Ivica Dacic said that the only reason Jonuz Musliu won’t be “arrested” is the fact that Aleksandar Vucic “makes sure that his actions don’t cause additional damage or turn Musliu into a victim”.
