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Andrei Ivanji

He has been working as a journalist since 1991. Since 2007, he has been the editor of the foreign policy column in the weekly "Vreme". He has written for numerous German-speaking newspapers, currently for Berlin's TAZ and the German public broadcaster MDR.

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Do not fit the pistons in the wrong wheels

We can dwell endlessly on what would have been. The political reality, however, is that the idea of a boycott has failed. The worst thing now would be if its supporters undermine the campaign of those who go to the elections, just to prove that they were right. In Belgrade. Because in the rest of Serbia, even the boycotters are not calling for a boycott

Analyze

When the coalition "I choose the fight!" went to the polls, the idea of a boycott initially failed

The calls of some opposition leaders to boycott and others to go to the elections on June 2 seem confusing to the voters. But actually everything is quite clear. The question is: what now?

Iran's attack on Israel

Playing with total war

Iran's direct attack on Israel is a precedent in the decades-long conflict between the two arch-enemies. Israel has, for now, refrained from a disproportionately murderous response, which is also a precedent. The reason for this is that the Israelis, with the help of the Americans, the British and the French, neutralized 99 percent of Iran's fleet of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles before they hit their targets.

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel is ready to attack and will respond in kind.

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Iran's Attack on Israel: An Explosive Precedent

Iran's direct attack on Israel is a precedent in the decades-long conflict between the two arch-enemies. If Israel refrains from a disproportionately murderous response, that would also set a precedent

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Government and opposition negotiations: A game for Western ambassadors

And the third round of negotiations between the government and the opposition, this time in the presence of EU and US ambassadors, failed. While waiting to see if the charade of negotiations will continue or not, the countdown to June 2 continues inexorably.

Belgrade elections

Family, Serbia and the hawthorn stake for Tito: Šapić as the new Šešelj

Aleksandar Šapić is campaigning for the Belgrade elections as if he were running for the head of the republic's government, not for the mayor of Belgrade. His mouth is full of Serbia, Kosovo, Orthodoxy, anti-communism, traitors and patriots, family and national values, he only mentions city traffic, sewage and other problems that plague the citizens of Belgrade every day.

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Pre-election negotiations: Searching for a solution or who wants whom

If the opposition's claims that an epic theft was committed in the December 17 elections are true, the government will look for the slightest reason for negotiations on election conditions to fail. One way or another

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Who cares who will be prime minister

They are arguing about who will be Brnabić instead of Brnabić, that is, the president of the new government. Why, when it doesn't matter

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Assembly for Oscar

At first authoritative glance at the continuation of the constitutive session of the Assembly of Serbia, it could be said that there was nothing new. But it's not like that. The progressives broadcast a clear threat from it

Post-election pre-election positioning

Postponement of the Belgrade elections: The cards have been distributed again

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, ruled that the Belgrade elections will not be held on April 28, as he had previously announced, but on June 2. He also postponed the continuation of the constitution of the Assembly of Serbia. The cards are dealt again, the question is who holds what trump cards. And did a completely different game begin

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Postponing the Belgrade elections: "Casting pearls before swine"

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić postponed the Belgrade elections from April 28 to June 2. The united opposition united with ProGlas recorded a small victory. Now let him prepare for the dirtiest campaign in the history of dirty Serbian election campaigns

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Opposition before the elections: Losing messages instead of announcing the fight

The word spread by the opposition representatives that it is certain that the Belgrade elections will be repeated cannot find a positive response in the electorate to which they are addressing. It sounds defeatist and demoralizing

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ODIHR report: A few more years for them

Finally, the final report of the OSCE/ODIHR international observer mission on the elections held in Serbia on December 17 was published. Participants in the internal post-election conflict interpret it diametrically oppositely. However, one conclusion could be drawn: Aleksandar Vučić was given more time

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Belgrade: Elections, elections, the latest elections!

If the Belgrade elections are repeated, the same premise as before the extraordinary elections on December 17 will still apply: Progressives in Belgrade cannot win, but they must not lose. Don't let anyone hope that they will be fair and correct

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The Belgrade debacle of the two Alexanders: The first political crisis in the Vučić era

For the first time since Vučić came to power in 2012, one can speak of a political crisis. The opposition must find a way to inflame it because otherwise Serbia will sink from the phase of autocracy into a form of dictatorship.

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EP resolution: The opposition's first diplomatic victory

For Vučić, the Resolution of the European Parliament on the Serbian elections is the slap in the face that he feared. He knows very well how those, who from the "stability factor" in the eyes of the so-called of the West become a "disruptive factor"

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Such elections, such Parliament: Noise against theft

The opposition, committed to the policy of fighting bare legal and media violence with non-violent methods, can only hope that some other wind will begin to blow from Brussels and Washington.

Israel's war against Hamas

The conflict in the shadow of the lawsuit for genocide

The spectacular actions of the Israeli special forces, the flooding of the tunnels dug by Hamas, the airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, the terrifying "collateral damage", i.e. the Palestinian victims numbering in the tens of thousands, have their legal epilogue before the International Court of Justice, where Israel will defend itself against the lawsuit for genocide, while the conflict spreads across the region

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Post-election stress: Whose City is it!?

The answer to the old battle cry on the wings of the yellow duck "Whose City is it!?" is as clear as it is tragicomic: Aleksandar Jerković

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Western Balkans: European billions for good governance

The leaders of the Western Balkans who participated in the "Growth Plan: Western Balkans and the European Union" meeting in Skopje signed a joint statement that they "realize" the "extreme" importance of cooperation in the region and "joint" integration into the European Union. The EU will pay several billion euros for the implementation of that plan

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Voices from Strasbourg: Hey progressives, don't steal the elections

Members of the European Parliament discussed the elections held in Serbia on December 17. Individuals used the terms "theft" and "outrageous." If nothing else, the contested Serbian national elections have been internationalized

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Happy Vucic Day!

The President came up with an idea, the technical Government expressly supported and recommended it, and let the employers see what will happen - whether they will let the employees continue to celebrate on January 8, or whether they will turn a deaf ear to His word

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Do you believe in aliens?

In the next election campaign, should we promise to introduce optional subjects in schools called "The Earth is a Crooked Plate" and "Descendants of Aliens and Their Influence on Serbian Cultural Heritage", in order to get into the large electorate of Prof. Dr. Branimir Nestorović

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Protest in Terazije: Did the message get through?

The spirit of the nineties blew past the Terazije fountain. Again because of the election, again because of theft and election fraud. Where they lived for thirty years

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Where is this protest leading me?

The sad and demotivating question is: how many citizens of Serbia, after all, believe that all those massive protest marches and gatherings lead nowhere? And here's another one: do all those who are bothered by the Serbian autocracy care about democratic changes at least as much as they want him to stay in power?

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There are fewer and fewer Protestants, more and more hunger strikers

The President of Serbia failed to show compassion even when so many children were killed at the beginning of May, so he will not be moved by these "mercenaries" who are starving themselves, right under his window one after another they start to fall from exhaustion. But that's not the point

Post-election frictions

"Majdanization" of Serbia: On the contrary, an attempt at intimidation

Zaharova, Brnabić, Vucevic compare the protests due to "election theft" in Belgrade with the "anti-Russian" revolution on the Maidan in Kiev. The attempt at intimidation is transparent, and they also confused the pots