Student Ticket representative and one of its MP candidates, Professor Jovo Bakić, reiterated that the new government of Serbia will not impose sanctions on Russia, despite former President Aleksandar Vučić’s claim that it will happen in a few months.
“We respect Russia both as a great power and as our historically important partner and, in many cases, protector. There will be no changes there (in the country’s foreign policy),” said Bakić on RT Balkan TV.
He pointed out that “we [Serbia] survived UN sanctions, and we know very well what an ordeal it is.” “Sanctions from small Serbia to Russia would not change anything, but symbolically they would be very bad,” said Bakić, reiterating that Serbia would not impose sanctions on Moscow.
No surprises here, considering that it was already announced in the election program of the Student Ticket that they will not impose sanctions on Russia if they win, nor that there will be a change in Serbia’s foreign policy.
Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat on a TV broadcast last night. In his words, only the Student Ticket and his list, United Serbia, will enter the new parliament, aside from minority parties of Albanians, Hungarians and Bosniaks.
So don’t start celebrating just yet.
This is what Serbia is – a house of dying lies and a republic of desolate minds, a failed state through and through. The media, both foreign and domestic, when they reported on Serbia, focused on issues like corruption and crime, but it is much worse than you think.
I would get asked from time to time if I grew up under Milošević. I did, I would answer. It only occurred to me recently that what the inquiring minds wanted to know was, “Were you traumatized by it?” No. Sure, it wasn’t much fun living through the 1990s, all I remember was destitution and illnesses, my own.
Much to my horror, my ever-so-clever compatriots almost immediately wanted Milošević’s government back once he was ousted. They got it back, reshuffled, in 2012, by voting for it, after more than a decade of Serbian society dragging its Overton window to the right and authoritarian, always reaching for the imaginary lost Greatness.
When Milošević’s government was ousted on October 5th 2000, I was very happy. Elated. Now, I’m just exhausted by another 14 years spent in this collective illness of ours.
