The authoritarians and nationalists in Serbia produced an entire mythology about how the ousting of Slobodan Milošević on October 5th 2000 was the greatest disaster in Serbian history.
Category: Serbia
Serbian politics, current affairs and history
Election race in Serbia is getting its freak on
Nationwide coverage televisions and their cable competition are still the dominant media in Serbia, so whenever an election race kicks off, the TV junkie electorate is glued to the screen to enjoy the live political debates and panel shows.
So why is former president of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić debating a rock?
I can't believe I just wrote a blog post explaining why the former Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is debating a rock, but here we are, and I must demand to speak to the manager of this reality.
Putin endorsed Aleksandar Vučić
President of Russia Vladimir Putin publicly expressed hope that Aleksandar Vučić will be the next prime minister of Serbia, and extended his appreciation for what he called a balanced policy of the Serbian government and a desire for cooperation with Russia.
The election race in Serbia has now started in earnest
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.
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.
