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Editorial
SERBIA AT A
CRITICAL POINT
By Sonja Biserko
With brutal dismissals at all levels the new
regime speeds up the dissolution of the Serb society. It has started
a “cultural revolution” of sorts that follows in the footsteps of
the notorious anti-bureaucratic revolution of the late 1980s.
Everything is more threatening today than in 1980s because, two
decades later, Serbia has no more potential for opposing another
wave of populism. All questions are still open – from those dealing
with political system to the conceptual one. Since 2000 not a single
government has defined its vision of Serbia’s...
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First “Triumphs” of the New Regime
GAMBLING WITH THE
FUTURE
By Ivan Torov
As it seems, one hundred days of the rule of the
parliamentary-patriotic makeshift produced the result that was quite
predictable when Boris Tadic lost the presidential race and Ivica
Dacic accepted with both hands the “take it or leave it” offer:
economic and political agony grew beyond all bounds, while the new
rulers clearly indicated that at the right moment they would
“settle” the newly created chaos by reviving Milosevic’s
totalitarianism. Given that in the hands of recycled cadres of 1990s
(with assistance from inevitable...
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Serbia at the International Scene
A
STEP CLOSER TO MOSCOW
By Petar Popoviæ
Initial effects of the new regime’s policy only add
to the impression that Belgrade’s boat is changing its course. More and
more frequently Serb officials are stating that membership of EU is not
a goal to be achieved at all costs, that there are things more important
than integration (Kosovo) and that should Brussels continue insisting on
accession preconditions (recognition of Kosovo’s territorial integrity)
there is always an alternative: a speedier movement towards Russia. The
September meeting between...
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Mafia and the State
LA PIOVRA
(THE OCTOPUS)
By Zoran Janic
Nebojsa Covic’s name has been popping up every
now and then over years – either in the context of allegations of
crime and plunder, under-the-counter dealings or complicity in Zoran
Djindjic’s assassination. This was the case not long ago when an
episode of the TV B92 series “Patriotic Plunder” reported colossal
misconduct that had literally swallowed billions of tax-payers’
Euros meant as assistance to Kosovo Serbs at the time Covic was in
charge of distribution of these moneys. What marks all these affairs
is that Covic’s name is...
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