On July 11, 2026, a video was posted on Instagram in which Vladimir Arsenijević calmly announces that, just before the start of a planned commemoration for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide, he was beaten by a group of twenty to thirty people. Violence, it...
This year's edition of the regional literary festival KROKODIL has once again confirmed its role as an open space for contemporary social debates and the connecting of diverse cultures. Through the appearance of the Swedish festival Littfest within KROKODIL, authentic authors and topics that challenge...
By: Katarina Jurčević, KROKODIL’s journalist for a day The first early twilight was descending over the area in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia as visitors slowly gathered around the Studio Stage for the final program of this year's KROKODIL festival. A few chairs, a plush...
"Power is not something that is given and received. Power is something we build together and it resides in the people," was one of the key messages of the third Right(s) Therapy event, held as part of this year's KROKODIL festival. The third Right(s) Therapy, titled...
As the legal representative of the author Vladimir Arsenijević, I consider it my professional and moral obligation to inform the public about the information received from the responding police officers, according to which two participants in the physical attack on my client have been identified...
This morning under Branko's Bridge in Belgrade, the president of the Krokodil Association, one of its founders, and award-winning writer Vladimir Arsenijević was assaulted. He was ambushed by a group of twenty to thirty young men who threatened and beat him, and desecrated the area...
A conversation about the novel Here the Forest Begins (Ovdje počinje šuma), memory, and trauma marked the "1-on-1" program on the Studio Stage of the XVIII KROKODIL Festival, where Croatian writer Monika Herceg spoke with poet Radmila Petrović. Petrović opened the talk by reminding the...