Right Wing President of Serbia
21 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Serbia, Zoran Djindjic
Against all odds, against all polls, the right wing radical party in Serbia won the presidential election. The pro European moderate democratic candidate, the darling of the western democracies, lost, and not by a narrow margin.
There are several explanations offered for this surprising electoral result:
1) low turnout in the second round at the polls, because the citizens of Serbia are worn out with economic depression, corruption and they don’t trust any political leadership.
2) A boycott of the elections which was advocated by some small intellectual and progressive parties, with the warning: beware all of you in power, we can topple anybody, good or bad, by NOT voting.
3) A change in the attitude of the Serbian population, who genuinely want a radical nationalist in power when Serbia is facing some a hard integration into international community standards. More
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Game of Thrones in Serbia
02 May 2012 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Belgrade, elections, Serbia
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Every time I come back to Belgrade, my hometown, I fear what I might see and hear with my own eyes and ears.
In the new, soft, homogenized power of the pro-European president Boris Tadic, the Serbian press is eerily uniform in the many things it does not say. Eastern Europe is strangely devoid of turbulence.
Serbia, this notorious nation of seven million once infested with war criminals, has become just a small EU border state. Serbia struggles to cope with United Europe bureaucratic standards, complains against corruption, endures its local moguls, takes mournful notice of the brain drain, and has finally noticed that its birth rate is catastrophically low and its once-furious population is growing ever older.
When you land in Belgrade, which Le Corbusier described as the ugliest city on the prettiest site in the world, the globalized surroundings of the airport look pretty normal.
Then you start seeing strange differences. The presidential candidates for the forthcoming general elections on May 6th seem to be dressed in clown makeup. Imported campaign experts have laid on the Photoshop with a heavy hand, an effect rendered weirder by the Cyrillic fonts.
No women running for high office this season; mostly blunt, unsmiling, hardcore Serbian officials confronting the voters with tough one-word messages: STRONG, HARD, FAIR, TRUTH, SECURE. These slogans are completely enigmatic to anyone not part of local culture. More
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Share Belgrade 2012
28 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Belgrade, Internet, Serbia
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13 th Anniversary of NATO Bombing in Serbia
24 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Belgrade, bombings, NATO, Serbia
A movie I made in Belgrade in 1999 during the bombings
