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EDITORIAL: MORAL CHALLENGE
By Sonja Biserko
The year about to pass was the year of consolidation of the
Balkans’ stability. Serbia was a major consideration of the process due to her fluid
situation and great dilemma: whether to opt for the West of the East (Russia). Serbia
remained hostage to political insecurity mostly caused by her stalled cooperation with the
tribunal in The Hague. Actually, Serbia put an end to that cooperation. Therefore, the
fact that the EU cancelled the association and stabilization negotiations with Serbia... |
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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2007:
DELUSIONS, LABOR LOST AND TRICKS
By Teofil Pancic
Last December was really hard on all, and a still harder January awaits
us. Everything aspiring to rule Serbia in the four years to come is running to and fro,
making promises and endearing citizens. The whole Serbia resembles a fair of jugglery and
acrobatics. Everybody exerts himself to sell his cheap merchandise at highest price
possible. Well, that circus makes up unavoidable side-effect of the picturesque
parliamentary democracy a la South. And we will (probably) leave all... |
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2007: WHAT IS IT WE GET WITH THE RADICALS AT
THE HELM?
By Bojan Al Pinto Brkic
It seems rather strange that the party offering voters a turn to
Russia, China and some African and Latin-American countries may win the elections in
Serbia in early 2007. Even stranger than that is that its voters expect it to put an end
to corruption, the global plague, which is probably at its worst in the above-mentioned
countries. The party promises a radical betterment to be attained through the abolishment
of several good things Serbia has done since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic’s
regime... |
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2007: IMAGES OF LIFE AND DELUSION
By Velimir Curgus Kazimir
How should one keep his senses in a madhouse? By pretending to be there
just temporarily? This is how people have been living over here for more than fifteen
years. Every new electoral contest in Serbia only adds to that feeling of temporariness.
In a way, temporariness has become a key national trait. All that is constant in some
crazy way is the double role of the media. Serbian media, newspapers in particular, are
both a stronghold of democracy and its very negation. It’s more than obvious today
that those gangsters of the Zemun clan... |
SOUTH SERBIA AND KOSOVO: THE NOBLE PRINCE'S CURSE
By Miroslav Filipovic
Some aspects of the solution to the Kosovo status might undermine the
peace in the Valley. Serbs nostalgically recall the time when, not long ago, a Serbian
tank was parked in the Kosovo Street in Bujanovac. Your eyes see what your soul longs for.
Every now and then, people start discussing the rebellion in Kosovo and the ensuing
massive, unofficial draft in keeping with noble Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic\'s curse,
“Whoever fails to show up in the battle for Kosovo... |
STUDIES ON (ANTI)FASCISM: COLLECTIVE SUPPRESSION OF ANTI-FASCISM
By Nikola Samardzic
Assessment of totalitarian legacy makes a part of today's European
identity. In this sense, Europeanization emerges from de-Nazification. In general sense of
the term, de-Nazification implies a break-up with totalitarianism, something more sincere
and heartfelt than simple denial. In Europe\'s contemporary political culture
de-Nazification was a long and painful process of confronting not only the trends that had
flooded the cataclysm of the WWII but also their... |
