Interview: Saša Ilić, writer

No story of resistance is a story of defeat

A characteristic of each of the narrative streams is learning about different forms of resistance. That's why I wrote the novel under a working title Resistance, although I knew I wouldn't publish it under that title. Over time, I realized that there is a common denominator between that working title and the place where the action takes place - the mountain Rtanj, two letters that remind us of the chemical element that the heroes of my novel are fighting for. And that is the "Cape", which, in addition to denoting the protruding free part of the land, is also a symbol for Freedom - a critical mineral that we desperately lack.

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Serbia in a collision of elephants: How REM urgently gave a license to a Russian channel in German

Since Thursday, Russian state broadcaster RT has been broadcasting a linear program in German - citing a license recently issued by Serbia's REM. Serbia thus entered into a tug of war between the great powers, the tension between which these days can be cut with a knife. At stake are the price of gas, sanctions, political murders, but also Moscow's many years of attempts to market its state media on the German market.