The Hollywood movie fantasy of the Serbian Student movement's fight of Good vs. Evil will get the new government in trouble.
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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.
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.
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.
Why the West should keep ignoring the Serbian protests
German political scientist Alexander Rotert fantasizes about Berlin's imaginary support for Serbia's authoritarian government under Vucic, arguing it prioritizes a lithium project over democratic concerns.