Vreme is a weekly newsmagazine based in Belgrade

Belgrade

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, Serbia

Serbia

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After being prepared for seven months throughout 1990 by liberal Serbian intellectuals dissatisfied with the regime's control of the media, its first issue came out on October 29, 1990. Most of its original staff were journalists from Politika

Politika

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and NIN

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

Yugoslav wars

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. It is modeled after its U.S. counterparts Time

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and Newsweek

Newsweek

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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

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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 and its writers have been largely cited by international media.

Vreme has started a number of supplements such as Vreme Novca (Time of Money), Vreme Zabave (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

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in Europe.

External links

• http://www.vreme.com (Has archive from last issue in 1998 to present day)
• http://www.ex-yupress.com/vreme/vremeindex.html (Some articles of the newspaper)
• 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