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).
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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.
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.
Rio Tinto might still have faith in its Jadar lithium project in Serbia
Based on publicly available data, Serbian Forbes speculates that Rio Tinto is not giving up on its lithium mining project in Serbia, while the Serbian media and society continue their anti-Western crusade using the Jadar project issue as a cause to rally opposition nationalists.
Two rallies and a kind of resignation
Following the student and Vučić supporter rallies this weekend, Kosovo still remains the best distraction from actual problems in Serbia, while the announced resignation of the Serbian president is no more than pre-election tactics that he employed throughout his political career.
On this Europe Day, Serbia is still moving away from Europe
The internal political and social dynamics of Serbia, dictated by both dominant political tribes, keep it moving further away from membership in the European Union, and tightly in the grip of authoritarianism, superstition, revanchism, and nationalism, closely aligned to Russia and China.
Student movement: The third and final wave of Serbian nationalism
Even before proclaiming their Kosovo Memorandum, the Serbian student movement has been as nationalist and revanchist as the current Serbian ruling coalition from the word go. It was pretty obvious ever since the protests started. Why is everyone acting all surprised now after they produced yet another right-wing pamphlet?
Do us all a favor and stop platforming Aleksandar Vučić
The foreign commentators' cardinal mistake is foremost the fact that they even give room to Serbian top politicians, like President Aleksandar Vučić, who represent a vicious strain of narcissistic Serbian nationalism, and fall into the trap of sympathizing with their sentiments. That's the wrong approach, and it helps no one.
Anti-Ukrainian pro-Europeans of Serbia
A recent poll in Serbia conducted by Ninamedia asked, "Who is responsible for the war in Ukraine?" The respondents answered NATO 31.1%, US 28.2%, Ukraine 16.1%, Russia 8%, and EU 5.3%.
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