Summary/Abstract: Following the general urbicide policy from the last decade of the 20th century, urban and social degradation of Belgrade is revealing new tendencies and features during the actual 2000s: institutional incompetence and corruption, collapse of health care system and public health generally, media criminalization of doctors,professors of medicine and medical staff , obliteration of cultural institutions, pressures on small and medium business initiatives as strongholds of labor and capitalist ethics,public promotion of unhealthy lifestyle, public and institutional tolerance (even support) of extremism directed against minority groups.