Jared Kushner withdrew from a real estate project in Belgrade amid an indictment against several officials for corruption, but Affinity Partners can sue for reimbursement of expenses. The site, often labeled a "historic landmark," is essentially a derelict ruin. Protests against Kushner's investment reflect long-standing anti-Western sentiment in Serbia. There's nothing to celebrate about this.
Tag: Serbia
Serbian politics, current affairs and history
The failure of Serbian student protest movement is now finally complete
After one year of protests, the student and civic movement in Serbia has achieved the unimaginable - it failed to make a dent in the rule of a genuinely unpopular, incompetent, and corrupt Serbian ruling big tent coalition. So how exactly did they manage to do that?
Russo-Serbian oil telenovela continues: Vucic proposes 50-day deadline for NIS ownership changes
The Serbian government stated that it will give additional 50 days to the Russian side to find a new investor for its stake in the Serbian Oil Industry NIS. The extension might have been motivated by internal Serbian calculations considering the possible outcome of the Russian aggression against Ukraine that might reward the Kremlin's ambitions, in line with the Witkoff-Dmitriev 28-point peace plan.
Games of hunger
The Serbian political discourse features opposing nationalist factions: the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and protesting students. Both groups blame external forces like the EU and scapegoat opposition figures such as Dragan Djilas. A potential scenario suggests emigration may lead to a regression to the economic turmoil of the 1990s.
Marta Kos on Serbia: You cannot sit on two chairs – ask for money from the EU and ask the other side for gas
"If you [Serbia] participate in the action of the army that kills people in Ukraine, forget the accession process, the chapters, such a country can never become a member of the EU, but that is your choice", Marta Kos, the European Commissioner for Enlargement of the European Union said at a meeting with journalists on the sidelines of the EU Enlargement Forum in Brussels.
Rio Tinto’s Jadar lithium and boron project in Serbia on hold
Rio Tinto has paused its Jadar lithium and boron project in Serbia. The company aims to support employees during this transition while adhering to local laws. Activists welcome the pause but seek a permanent ban on lithium and boron exploitation in Serbia.
The best protests Vučić could hope for
Serbian student and civic movement protested this week against the deal that would allow Jared Kushner to develop real estate in Belgrade at the site of the bombed-out General Staff or Generalstab. The protests and counter-protests are marked by similar tactics employed by both opposed camps, which keep evoking nationalism and try to elicit sympathy through hunger strikes.
Reforging of melted lies: One year later Serbia is still none the wiser
On the first anniversary of the train station Canopy collapse in Novi Sad, Serbia is in a deadlock between the alt-right government of Serbia and the equally nationalist student and civic popular front of protesters.
Charlie Kirk International Mourner Society
Governments, organizations, and individuals outside the US have come to the conclusion that it's easy to win some favor from MAGA and its affiliates if you do some sucking up, like in the case of public sympathy expressed in Serbia and Republika Srpska over the murder of Charlie Kirk .
Dearly departed war criminals and some basketball
Overt displays of political and ideological affection for war crimes, Russia and territorial expansion permeate the Serbian political spectrum. Both the student protesters and the Aleksandar Vučić's Progressives engage in such activities, like the recent funeral of Nebojsa Pavkovic, a Yugoslav and Serbian general convicted of war crimes in Kosovo.
Serbianism 