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.
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Serbian politics, current affairs and history
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.
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.
“Four Pillars” foreign policy of Serbia has such sights to show you
Four Pillars foreign policy, which supposedly aims for a balancing act between EU, the US, China, and Russia, is a logical extension of domestic Serbian political discourse of narcissism and the notion of historical injustices that robbed us of greatness. So don't read too much into Vučić's visit to Kyiv.
Instagram barbarians of Serbia
With Russia and China firmly in the camp of the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, and with further own goals from the student movement, will the Serbian centrist opposition be able to capitalize on the votes of the pro-EU part of the electorate?
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