''Vreme'' (

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also * * * Old Serbian (disambiguation ...

for ''Time'') is a weekly

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based in

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 mi ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hu ...

History

Launch

In 1990, dissatisfied with the media climate in

SR Serbia , life_span = 1944–1992 , status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia , p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia , flag_p1 = Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg , p2 ...

SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yu ...

's largest constituent unit, a group of liberal Serbian intellectuals, including prominent lawyer Srđa Popović, decided to start a weekly newsmagazine. Following a seven-month preparation throughout the year, ''Vreme'' was launched with its first issue coming out on 29 October 1990, little over a month before the 1990 general election in SR Serbia as the entire country of SFR Yugoslavia was transforming its governance from a

one-party system A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of sovereign state in which only one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution. All other parties ...

under the Yugoslav Communist League (SKJ) to a multi-party one. Most ''Vremes original staff were journalists from ''

Politika ''Politika'' ( sr-Cyrl, Политика; ''Politics'') is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in Belgrade. Founded in 1904 by Vladislav F. Ribnikar, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans. Publishing and owners ...

'' and '' NIN''. It characterizes itself as "a magazine without lies, hatred, or prejudice" and has opposed nationalistic mobilization for the

Yugoslav wars The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from ...

.Gordy, Eric D. (1999). ''The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives''. p. 69. Penn State Press. . It is modeled after its U.S. counterparts ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and event (philosophy), events that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various me ...

'' and ''

Newsweek ''Newsweek'' is an American weekly online news magazine co-owned 50 percent each by Dev Pragad, its president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis (businessman), Johnathan Davis, who has no operational role at ''Newsweek''. Founded as a weekly print m ...

''. In 1993, 30,000 copies were produced weekly with a quarter of its sales abroad. ''Vreme'' has established a reputation as one of the most reliable media sources of the former

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...

and its writers have been largely cited by international media.J. Williams, Carol (23 March 1993). " agazine Makes Assault on Serbian Nationalism: Scrappy Vreme Has Emerged as Yugoslavia's Most Trusted Chronicle of War. ''Los Angeles Times''. Accessed 7 September 2009. ''Vreme'' has started a number of supplements such as ''Vreme novca'' (Time of Money), ''

Vreme zabave ''Vreme zabave'' ( sr-cyr, italic=yes, Време забаве, trans. ''Time of Entertainment'') was a Serbian popular culture magazine. History ''Vreme zabave'' was launched in 1993 by newspaper company ''Vreme ''Vreme'' ( Serbian for ''Time ...

'' (Time for Fun), and has become a publishing house. The newspaper has an international edition called ''Vreme International'', which is mainly targeted at the

Serbian diaspora Serbian diaspora refers to Serbian emigrant communities in the diaspora. The existence of a numerous diaspora of Serbian nationals is mainly a consequence of either economic or political (coercion or expulsion) reasons. There were different wa ...

in Europe.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20110217062904/http://www.vreme.com/ (Has archive from last issue in 1998 to present day) *http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/serbian_digest (Archive of every issue from late September 1991 to 1997)
Novinari kupili nedeljnik "Vreme"
''Blic'', 23 April 2008 {{Serbian Newspapers 1990 establishments in Serbia Magazines established in 1990 Mass media in Belgrade News magazines published in Europe Magazines published in Serbia Serbian-language magazines Weekly magazines