Contrary to the popular belief, the student and civic protesters and the Serbian government are not the only political factors of relevance, despite the efforts, both in Serbia and abroad, to present them as such.
Author: Dejan Pantic
Serbian pro-EU opposition parties and netizens scold the Russian ambassador
Unlike the student protester front that doesn't want to offend Russia, some parts of the society in Serbia, including notable opposition parties, are not amused by the constant interference of the Russian government in Serbian affairs, especially the vocal support for the Serbian government expressed by the Russian ambassador Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko.
All pumped out and nowhere to go
With the Russian government's open support of their Serbian counterparts, through the mouth of the Russian ambassador, it is worth noting that one of the reasons for the failure of Serbian student protests is the protesters' desire to keep the BRICS-dominated economy after the removal of SNS, and keep Serbia out of EU.
Fear and loathing factories of the Serbian internal media warfare
The overdramatized scenes of riots like the ones in Serbia, shared by rather clueless agency news and often manipulative social media content creators, without actual context and placed into narratives without delving into the specifics of the local events are not doing anyone any justice and do not help the situation.
Retro review: People’s General
People's General, the weakest representative of the SSI's 5-Stars series, with atrocious graphics and crippled, illogical game mechanics, that the modding community later tried to salvage.
Retro review: Shattered Union
A turn-based strategy that makes the Second American Civil War semi-fun again, Shattered Union will provide some entertainment for two boring afternoons when you have nothing else to play and you just loved the TV series Jericho ang have nightmares about what four more years of MAGA might do to the US.
Myth of the neutrals and other Serbian political fairytales
The student and civic protesters, who represent the third, latest manifestation of Serbian alt-right populist sentiment, following the one that gave rise to Slobodan Milošević in the late 1980s and the second one that returned Aleksandar Vučić to power in 2012, are now getting a dose of reality with the opposition parties taking back the forefront from pro-Russian extremists.
Long live Marta Kos, long live the European Union
Every loser needs a scapegoat; Serbia found a perfect one - the European Union, the world's largest and most successful peace and economic project.
Republic of desolate minds
Both the government and the protesters in Serbia held their vile and manipulative commemorations of Croatian military-police Operation Storm, which comes as a very neat deflection from actual problems plaguing the Serbian failed state, such as a rapidly shrinking workforce, appalling pollution, and food products meant for export flavored with health hazards.
Dances with ruins
Foreign commentators like Rachel Maddow and Timothy Snyder, just to name a few, who come in support of the supposed anti-authoritarian, anti-corruption protests in Serbia are not doing us any favors by basing their opinions on wishful thinking and second-hand information.