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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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).
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.
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.
“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?
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.
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