With the election campaign in Serbia kicking off, the electorate is between a rock and a hard place - the two opposing right-wing popular fronts of ruling Progressives and the Student Ticket.
Author: Dejan Pantic
Desperately seeking the untarnished
Serbian electorate is obsessed with finding angelic fresh faces "untarnished by politics", who are at the same time patriotic and "not puppets of Western powers" (read: those "fresh untarnished" politicians should also worship our dearly departed war criminals).
Pro-Russian Russians of Serbia
A viral video of a Russian expat in Serbia revealed the depth of Russian emigres' refusal to integrate into Serbian society.
Powdered Šešelj
The previous election cycles in Serbia are a clear warning that the stubborn Serbian student movement's right-wing politics are a road to electoral failure.
Doctor Lavrov’s urinotherapy clinic
With the Russian business interests in Serbia safe and sound, and considering the close ties with the local Serbian Orthodox Church, there are no signs of cracks in the relationship between official Moscow and Belgrade.
The eternal corruption of the insatiable mind
Serbia, a nation where 2/3 of the people, give or take, claim that their financial situation is good, yet expect that ruling party would provide them with employment in return for loyalty. Deeply rooted, cynical perception of Serbian society that "everyone steals" is a breeding ground for an entrenched kakistocracy.
Public meltdowns over Zelenskyy’s visit to Serbia
President of Ukraine Zelenskyy's visit to Serbia this weekend doesn't signal a change in Serbia's foreign policy posture, but it did ruffle a lot of feathers in Russia and the Serbian opposition right wing.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit Serbia on Saturday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to visit Serbia on August 8, the most pro-Russian nation in Europe. A recent poll reveals Serbian public sentiment blames Ukraine, NATO, the EU and the US for the Russian aggression.
The perpetual perfect storm of the Serbian victimhood narrative
The discovery of new mass graves in Kosovo containing the remains of Albanian civilians killed during the Kosovo conflict did not move the Serbian internal victimhood narrative based on the expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo and Croatia. Serbia commemorates the latter every August.
Spain’s migrant crisis reality check: Russian propaganda machine goes full steam ahead over Ceuta
The migrant flow to the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta has prompted a flurry of reactions across Europe, evoking the trauma of the 2015 migrant crisis, while there are warnings from Ukraine that Russia in cooperation with Morocco could be orchestrating the influx of illegal migrants.
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