The social media rumors about the Newsmax Polska channel starting operations in Poland tie it to the Serbian state-owned telecommunications company and the Russian Sberbank. Those rumors are false.
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Explosive found near a gas pipeline in Serbia, Orban convened the Defense Council
Serbian authorities reported that explosives were found in the municipality of Kanjiža in the Serbian northern province of Vojvodina near a strategic gas pipeline leading to Hungary. Viktor Orban and his political allies were quick to decry that it is plot aimed at ousting him from office.
Populists be popular: What foreign commentariat doesn’t get about Serbia
The conventional wisdoms about Serbia published in the West are a dime a dozen, pushing imaginary narratives but have no grounds in reality. Yes, this is a paternalist autocracy - it was re-elected as such in 2012. Electorate here knew full well what Vučić is - and they love it (sort of).
Serbian local elections: The Wild, Wild East
The local elections held this Sunday in ten municipalities across the country are another testament to the failures of the Serbian society that has normalized the non-normalities of a failed state.
Serbian Ides of March
One of the most common political tropes of the Serbian political discourse for the last four decades has been the recurring victimhood narrative of the "suffering Serbian people" that is trampled upon the weight of historical injustices which seem to have a higher occurrence in March - the anniversaries of Milošević's death, the assassination of Zoran Đinđić and the anniversary of the NATO bombing.
And now for something completely the same
Serbian student movement has been establishing itself as the only viable alternative to the Serbian government, with support from the media and public figures, all the while trying to court the nationalist electorate and distance itself from the established opposition parties that the students keep painting as undesirable and no better than the ruling Progressives.
The Ministry of Liewords
Ukrainian MFA spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi responded sharply to Serbian Minister Boris Bratina's claim that Croats and Ukrainians should be punished with territory. Serbian minister's statement is just a drop in the ocean of such rhetoric that Serbia has been drowning in for four decades. The electorate stubbornly rewards such behavior.
Jared Kushner gives up on the Belgrade project: Another victory of Serbian nationalism
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.
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.
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