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Opinion

Columns, opinion pieces, analyses, interviews and commentary from leading journalists and experts across fields.

Aleksandar Vucic speaking, Serbian president addressing the question of the election date

Playing with Dates: Why Vucic Keeps Shifting the Election

ColumnsSaša Pavlović1. jun 2026.0

Huge crowd at Slavija Square in Belgrade during a mass protest, a Serbian flag in the foreground

Who Leads the Student List Is the Real Question

AnalysisSaša Pavlović31. maj 2026.0

Palata Albanija building facade in central Belgrade, thirteen-storey tower

The Banner That Killed Birds: When a Slogan Eats a City

OpinionSaša Pavlović30. maj 2026.0

Student march with umbrellas filling a Belgrade street during a protest

We Want Elections: six months of protest, one demand

OpinionSaša Pavlović30. maj 2026.0

Saskia Sassen, sociologist of globalisation and author of the concept of the global city, whose analyses are now applied to Serbia's gig economy

The Courier With the Green Bag Is Belgrade's New Proletariat

OpinionSaša Pavlović29. maj 2026.0

A pedestrian underpass in Belgrade, an example of urban infrastructure that cuts the natural neighbourly view of the street

Jane Jacobs in Mirjevo: The Pavement That No Longer Watches the Neighbourhood

OpinionSaša Pavlović29. maj 2026.0

Republic Square in Belgrade with the National Theatre, a classical site of public sociability and encounter between unknown citizens

The Tavern Has Stayed, but the Conversation With a Stranger Is Gone

OpinionSaša Pavlović29. maj 2026.0

Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, a site of academic reflection on the Foucauldian panopticon and the sociology of surveillance in the digital age

Foucault in the Cafe: The Mobile Phone and Consent to Surveillance

OpinionSaša Pavlović29. maj 2026.0

The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, the site where Serbia's school of the sociology of clientelism and transition developed

Corruption in Serbia Is Not a Flaw of People but the Habitus of a System

OpinionSaša Pavlović29. maj 2026.0

The Government of Serbia building marked with a red handprint, a symbol of Belgrade's student protests in 2025 and 2026, an essay on the generation without consent

Student Protest on the Square: A Generation That Has Stopped Believing

OpinionSaša Pavlović29. maj 2026.0

Serbian primary school classroom, essay on demographic decline and the disappearance of Serbian society

Eleven Thousand Fewer in Three Months: The Silence We Refuse to Break

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

Books on a library shelf, an essay on Serbian, Anglicisms and identity

Lunch Meeting on Knez Mihailova: Who Loses When Serbian Loses Serbian

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

Older man reading a newspaper on a cafe terrace, essay on pensioners as Serbia's invisible majority

One Point Seven Million Voters No One Writes About

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

Government of the Republic of Serbia building in Belgrade, the institutional frame within which formal public-sector rules are written

The Senjak Case Is Not the Exception: How Corruption Became a Form of Economic Rationality

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

Kafana Tri sesira in Skadarlija, essay on sport as a shared space in Serbia

Partizan's Eighth Title: Why Sport Unites Us While Elections Divide Us

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

A Belgrade tram on its route through the centre, essay on ageing public infrastructure

The Dorcol Tram Was Not an Accident, It Was an X-Ray

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

Belgrade tower blocks, a scene from the everyday family living room in which this essay on the generational gap and screens is set

Grandmother and Grandson Share a Screen, but Not the Same Serbia

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

Knez Mihailova street in Belgrade, public space as market shelf, essay on the commercialisation of the city centre

Knez Mihailova as a Shop Window: Why the City Centre Is No Longer Ours

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

Jurgen Habermas, author of the theory of the public sphere, essay on the disappearance of the moderately informed public in Serbia

The Disappearance of the Moderately Informed Citizen: Why My Cousin in the Pharmacy Will Not Ask About the War

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

The Sava riverbank in Belgrade, Savski venac and Belgrade Waterfront, the class geography of the city

€4,610 per Square Metre: How Savski Venac Is Becoming Another Country

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

The Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, site of veneration of the Belt of the Most Holy Mother of God

The Belt of the Virgin and a Paradox: How We Queue but Do Not Go to Church

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

A classroom in a Serbian primary school, essay on teacher authority and the relationship with parents

The Parent-Teacher Meeting Where the Teacher Apologised for a Grade

OpinionSaša Pavlović28. maj 2026.0

A student protest in Belgrade in 2014, a visual marker of Serbian student activism across decades.

The student plenum as political format: declaration instead of an electoral list

OpinionSaša Pavlović26. maj 2026.0

The building of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade, the venue for laws on police reform.

Cleansing the police as a political concept: who cleanses, whom, and before whom

OpinionSaša Pavlović26. maj 2026.0