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Exclusive interviews with political and cultural public figures.
Eric Gordy, Professor of Sociology
Serbia is still in a pre-political state
May 07, 2001
The Milosevic regime survived through continued efforts to destroy the
society it ruled The critical moment was when the police chose which
side to support, when the people who worked for the regime turned against
it DOS would have to split into a conservative option and a social
democratic wing Society is more prepared than the politicians to face
the questions of guilt and responsibility.
Radovan Jelasic, the FRY National Bank Vice Governor
I still keep my money in a safe
February 28, 2001
Having in mind the current state of our banks, I still keep my salary in the safe If someone was clever enough to smuggle the money, it was also nor hard difficult to spend it, even an eight-year-old can see that.
Vladan Batic, Serbian minister of justice
Bread and prisons
February 26, 2001
Numerous machinations and felonies by former government officials will be revealed in the following weeks Corruption must be penalized as an individual crime, especially government and judiciary corruption The loop is closing around Slobodan Milosevic.
Sonja Biserko, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
The Hague is an unavoidable institution
January 25, 2001
Sonja Biserko was surely one of the most assaulted persons during the rule of the former regime. Even after the October changes she did not abandon her uncompromising dispute with the state-creating policies propagated by former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
Rasim Ljajic, Federal Minister of National and Ethnic groups
It takes a lot for hatred to disappear
January 25, 2001
Roads, water and power supplies are common both for the Serbs and the Albanians KFOR should correct their mistakes International Council has no trust in our army and police Heads of the former regime cannot keep their functions; The Party of Serbian Unity ought to be prohibited
2000:
Biserka Matic Spasojevic, Serbian co-minister for information
Tearing the walls down
December 28, 2000
How did co-minister for information played "bulldozer" in the local radio station in southern Serbian town of Bujanovac
Zoran Zivkovic, the federal minister of police
War - against mafia
December 5, 2000
Federal ministry formaly does not have jurisdictions to involve with the crisis in Presevo valley Kosovo should have the widest autonomy, but there's no way we could accept independence "War against mafia" means the full implementation of the law Unjustifiably accused and punished people will be amnestied
Bashkim Fazliu, reporter of Radio Kontakt - Pristina
We bear the responsibility
November 24, 2000
We have started confronting what has happened in the past The need for an independent Kosovo is not an ethnic Albanian need A large number of people in Kosovo do not have the freedom of movement, they do not have the freedom to use their language If we do not work in the direction of change, then we will bare a great part of the responsibility and guilt for what will happen
Borivoje Borovic, attorney
The time has come for team decisions
November 7, 2000
Draskovic has been a verbatim democrat for nine years I should have leave SPO earlier Slobodan Milosevic should be tried in Serbia
Aleksandar Zograf, author of underground comics
It makes sense to be creative even in this country
October 5, 2000
Everywhere in the world, there is a province and that provincial spirit If someone finds your work interesting, he will not mind you coming from some spot in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the Balkans Authors from Serbia have for example cooperated splendidly with a team gathered round the Slovenian "Stripburger" magazine Although it is not easy, it is not pointless to have a creative occupation in this country
Milan St. Protic, president of SDK Odbrana (Defense) and the co-president of Nova Srbija (New Serbia)
I am a soldier of the great idea
September 14, 2000
I just happen to live in a time when man is forced to give all he's got in order to change something in the country he lives in All the influences we received were from the West and not from the East I will retire from politics if we lose these elections The democratic movement in Serbia was founded independently and in the past decade we fought Milosevic, while the international community hampered us or was neutral in decisive moments.
Ivan Marovic, Otpor activist
He is finished!
September 4, 2000
OTPOR renounced student elitism Anyone wearing the OTPOR T-shirt is exposed In the SNP ranks there is a large number of people who don't have a good opinion of Milosevic's regime We think that our word doesn't weight as much when we try to judge, but it is heavy when we demand The best word describing the relationship of international community towards us in the last decade is clumsiness It is better to vote here and now, then next year in New Zealand
Goran Svilanovic, president of the Civil Alliance of Serbia
Trained Observers Will Prevent Election Fraud
August 22, 2000
If there is election fraud, you may expect protests, but we have to win first No undecided voters with united opposition bloc No comment on the Serbian Renewal Movement FC Red Star in Champions' League...
Goran Skrobonja, SF writer and translator
Reality more fantastic than fantasy
August 19, 2000
SF writers are ultra-liars, since their lies usually cannot become true in a foreseeable future Real events made my SF books, in a span of mere years, become the alternative history works The establishment hasn't got any communication whatsoever with the kids who, some day, must grow up and become a part of this society; thus, the establishment doesn't have any serious future...
Mileta Prodanovic, Serbian writer awarded in Croatia
It's easy to be smart from a distance
July 23, 2000
In the last ten years have we been we able to witness fortune-tellers and some kind of 'experts' appearing on TV who skilfully present the fatalism of 'conspiratology' It is easy to be smart from a distance of several years. And the poker players, well, I guess they are all those people, on both sides, who have identified themselves with this role and feel thy are masters of other peoples' lives.
Nebojsa Covic, president of Democratic Alternative
We need genuine and honest unity
July 17, 2000
It seems as though certain parties are trying to take better positions, fearing the moment of return of SPO. The Anti-terrorist Act issue is a direct blackmail by the Radical Party I think Belgrade Waterworks and City Waste Management are next
Mladjan Dinkic, Coordinator of Group 17
I would never join the government alone without my colleagues
July 9, 2000
G17 will not take part in the following elections as an organization The people in G17 are essentially not too interested in politics, but they have been forced Only 5% of the total direct damage inflicted by NATO bombing has been mended Salaries and pensions mostly finance the reconstruction Our foreign currency policies are such a laugh, there is no such thing in the world I think that primarily a Montenegrin-Montenegrin war is possible Opposition is fooling itself if they think that young generations will vote for them just like that...
Dusan Gluvakov, Banat Forum Secretary General
Wheat Crop Has Yielded Well Only on Radio Television Serbia Programs
July 1, 2000
Our analyses indicate that famine is knocking on the doors of more than seventy per cent of the entire population of Serbia We are witnessing to ongoing ruthless exploitation of villages and farmers' households No one will ever anymore force Banat's farmers into kolkhozes, not even Soviet Serbia...
Ofelija Backovic, general manager and editor in chief of RTV Pancevo
May 25, 2000.
Bogoljub Arsenijevic Maki, a painter and a fugitive
May 15, 2000.
Momcilo Trajkovic, President of the Serb Resistance Movement from Kosovo
May 8, 2000.
Goran Milicevic, Belgrade University professor
May 4, 2000.
Janko Baljak, director
April 27, 2000.
Nenad Canak, chairman of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina
April 16, 2000.
Vesna Pesic, Director of the Centre for Antiwar Action
April 9, 2000.
Zarko Trebjesanin, psychologist
April 1, 2000.
Ivan Novkovic, Democratic Party member, former technician at TV Leskovac
March 24, 2000.
Gordana Susa, president of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia
March 17, 2000.
Lino Veljak, representative of the ruling "six" in Croatia
March 11, 2000.
Slobodan Pajic, captain of Belgrade Police Department
March 3, 2000.
Rasim Ljajic, president of the Sandzak Coalition
February 20, 2000.
Kanda, Kodza i Nebojsa, a rock band
February 11, 2000.
Prof. Zarko Korac, President of the Socialdemocratic Union
January 29, 2000.
Petar Lukovic, journalist
January 22, 2000.
Dragoljub Djuricic, drummer, member of the Group 17 Plus
January 14, 2000.
Ognjen Pribicevic, councilor of the Serbian Renewal Movement's president Vuk Draskovic
January 7, 2000.
1999:
His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Pavle
December 27, 1999.
Vuk Obradovic, president of the Social Democracy Party
December 19, 1999.
Dejan Nebrigic, executive director of Campaign against Homophobia
December 7, 1999.
Ph.D. Ljubomir Madzar, Professor at Faculty of Economics in Belgrade
November 16, 1999.
Sergej Trifunovic, actor
September 21, 1999
Statements of the Alliance for Change leaders
September 21, 1999
Short interviews with participants of Public meeting of Group 17:
Mladjan Dinkic, coordinator of group 17
Predrag Markovic, one of authors of the Stability Pact for Serbia
Slobodan Vucetic, former Constitutional Court Judge
Vida Ognjenovic, writer and director
Dusan Kovacevic, famous writer
September 9, 1999
Jovan Matic, frontman of Del Arno Band
May 21, 1999
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