Dejan Pantic

serbianism.comWant to support democracy in Serbia? Arm UkraineThe incessant criticism of the Serbian right-wing political opposition and protests spectrum didn’t shake the foundations of the government led by the right-wing populist kakistocracy of Alek…

16 Nov 2025

Russian aggression against Ukraine actually emboldened the pro-Russians in Serbia. They are convinced that Russia will be on the Danube any day now and that we will join forces to reclaim what is called a Greater Serbia. Wanna support democracy in Serbia? Arm Ukraine.

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Kristian Kiehling

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Who is Akram Selo, and why does Gen Z regelt, a group calling on young people to emulate the French student protests on 31 October 2026 in Germany and elsewhere, use the same colour scheme as the St. George's ribbon logo of russian supremacism?

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Maria Popova

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I would temper my expectations about a new era coming to Serbia. The election winners have virtually the same geopolitical positions as Vucic; most previous election winners (Vucic included!) ran on anticorruption; the student movement is above all populist. Good luck to them but let’s be realistic.

nspm.rs: Јово Бакић за РТ Балкан: Студентска листа неће уводити санкције РусијиПредставник 'Студентске листе', професор Јово Бакић поновио је да нова влада Србије неће уводити санкције Русији, упркос тврдњама бившег председника Александра Вучића да ће се то догодити за неколик...

🧵 "We are fully aware of the geopolitical and energy situation in which Serbia finds itself and we are grateful to Russia for the favorable gas arrangement, as well as for the cooperation regarding the Serbian Oil Industry," Student List representative Professor Vladan Kuzmanović told RT Balkan. ⬇️

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1/ Student Ticket representative and one of its MP candidates, Professor Jovo Bakić, reiterated that the new government of Serbia will not impose sanctions on Russia, despite former President Aleksandar Vučić's claim that it will happen in a few months. ⬇️

When the entire planet keeps patting them on the back and lauding yet another set of bozos, the dopamine hits are a validation of how a wonderful an idea it is to keep on keeping on, only under a different management. Serbia has actual problems that don't involve preserving...⬇️

...the icky culture that created those problems in the first place. Which part of this does not compute? At least try not to repeat our mistakes, and get bogged down in stupid identitarianism and imaginary grievances while the air quality is so bad you can taste it.

Dejan Pantic@serbianism.com

"...they fight corruption." Yup, anti-corruption demagogy, revanchism over Kosovo, grievances over "historical injustices", complaints that Serbia got too Westernized, that it is exploited by foreign interests, that it lost its Holy Fantastic Identity - the exact same BS we got in 2012. ⬇️

*Sound on* The liberators even have the same music taste as the oppressors - the ghastly Serbian/Balkan turbo-folk music that is nothing but an unspeakable crime against the senses. "But it's our culture, we must preserve it, it's under attack by evil modernity!" ⬇️

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social

Victory party in Belgrade tonight following the dethroning of Vucic in yesterday election.

Dejan Pantic@serbianism.com

"The student movement is also permeated with unhealthy nationalism, pro-Russian attitudes, and obvious infiltrators from the current regime." Jon Kvaerne wrote this in an article published just before the elections. It does sting that the foreign commentariat insists that the Student Ticket's...⬇️

...victory is some change and how it doesn't matter that these are just another set of vatnik bozos "they'll fight corruption". This is the same kind of wishful thinking that we got in 2012 when Vučić's party got reelected. "Oh, the nationalism and pro-Russia attitude doesn't matter...⬇️

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"I think the government's policy was passive, and, if you like, it was also dishonest towards the Russian Federation. It always looked after its own interests, not the interests of the Republic of Serbia, but the interests of remaining in power," said Kuzmanović. ⬇️

aftenposten.noI Serbia har Russland vunnet, og EU har taptLes kronikken

Gee, poor Russia. Speaking on a Russian TV channel banned in the EU and elsewhere, no less. See, this Norwegian guy gets it. "In Serbia, Russia has won, and the EU has lost". Exactly, doesn't matter who is in power with this kind of dominant policy. ⬇️

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@chrysthalassa.bsky.social

Ya know, when Trumpster deservedly gets blasted over the "Putin the humanitarian" BS, why isn't the same dire ire aimed at the Student Ticket in Serbia, who are grateful to Russia over their dealings with - get this - the government they just deposed. What are they "grateful" for? ⬇️

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#Serbia’s EXIT festival helped turn public anger into solidarity and gave the student movement a wider cultural reach. Its story offers lessons for democratic renewal across #Europe. ourkindredfuture.com/the-power-of...

ourkindredfuture.comThe Power of Culture: Serbia's Lesson for Europe - Our Kindred FutureSerbia’s EXIT festival helped turn public anger into solidarity and gave the student movement a wider cultural reach. Its story…

Smrt Trećoj Memorandumskoj Anti-Šiptarijadi.

serbianism.comStudent Ticket: New government of Serbia will not impose sanctions on RussiaThe bright future in Serbia with the Student Ticket that won the yesterday's parliamentary elections is the same as the bright future in Serbia with Vučić's party.

Student Ticket: New government of Serbia will not impose sanctions on Russia The bright future in Serbia with the Student Ticket that won the yesterday's parliamentary elections is the same as the bright future in Serbia with Vučić's party.

3/ He pointed out that "we [Serbia] survived UN sanctions, and we know very well what an ordeal it is." "Sanctions from small Serbia to Russia would not change anything, but symbolically they would be very bad," said Bakić, reiterating that Serbia would not impose sanctions on Moscow. ⬇️

4/ So, there you have it, nothing will change. With only the Student Ticket and Vučić's Progressives crossing the election threshold, this is how the Serbian Parliament looks now:

2/ "We respect Russia both as a great power and as our historically important partner and, in many cases, protector. There will be no changes there (in the country's foreign policy)," said Bakić, appearing on the "Serbia Chooses" show on RT Balkan TV. ⬇️

1/ Belgrade, Serbia, tonight, after the snap parliamentary election victory of the Student Ticket. n1info.rs/english/news...

4/...illnesses, my own. Much to my horror, my ever-so-clever compatriots almost immediately wanted Milošević's government back once he was ousted. They got it back, reshuffled, in 2012, by voting for it, after more than a decade of Serbian society dragging its...⬇️

5/...Overton window to the right and authoritarian, always reaching for the imaginary lost Greatness. When Milošević's government was ousted on October 5th 2000, I was very happy. Elated. Now, I'm just exhausted by another decade spent in illnesses.

1/ Belgrade, Serbia, tonight, after the snap parliamentary election victory of the Student Ticket. n1info.rs/english/news...

izlaz.comStudent list responded to Vučić: We will not impose sanctions on RussiaSerbia will maintain its principled stance of not introducing restrictive measures against the Russian Federation, students in blockade announced today who for

2/ But don't start celebrating just yet. This is what Serbia is - a house of dying lies and a republic of desolate minds. The media, both foreign and domestic, when they reported on Serbia, focused on issues like corruption and crime, but it is much worse than you think. ⬇️

Dejan Pantic@serbianism.com

🧵The "brighter future" with the Student movement in Serbia is the same as the "brighter future" with Vučić's party - Student Ticket responded to Vučić: We will not impose sanctions on Russia. And here's another thread on why it doesn't matter. ⬇️

3/ I would get asked from time to time if I grew up under Milošević. I did, I would answer. It only occurred to me recently that what the inquiring minds wanted to know was, "Were you traumatized by it?" No. Sure, it wasn't much fun living through the 1990s, all I remember was destitution and...⬇️

@guycalledfrank.bsky.social

Serbia snap parliamentary elections: Vučić just conceded defeat on a TV broadcast. In his words, only the Student Ticket and his list will enter the new parliament, aside from minority parties.

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Mr F

Autumn here is still crazy beautiful (Tornička Bobija, western Serbia)

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Vatnik Soup

@vatniksoup.bsky.social

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce James “Fergie” Chambers, an American communist, tankie and heir to the Cox fortune. He’s best known for bankrolling revolutionary causes, cheering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and supporting Hamas.

If you ever feel bad about yourself and think that you are a failure, know that some people are confident enough to become BBC Cyber Correspondents without knowing what PHP is. Attack your day with this energy.

...from criticisms, and often as a recommendation for work or position. Just giving an example here, not a jab at any particular group. So, this identity Olympics that we are engaged in here draws away from actual issues that a functioning society would have to face and solve, and more importantly ⬇️

...scared the living daylights any moderate who then decides, drawing from experience with this particular set of beliefs and the seas of blood and misery that such movements caused in the 1990s, that they don't want anything to do with any variations of freedom-loving anti-corruption degenerates.

...because of its fluidity - the "body of Serbdom" tends to rip itself apart and then reattach itself fueled by a myriad of issues and characteristics. Nativism and tribalism are among those - birthplace of a particular Serb, is he/she from Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, Vojvodina, Belgrade, etc...⬇️

...is weighted and examined in excruciating detail by EVERYONE to determine imagined purity, worthiness, superior moral and physical qualities and so on. For example, people will brag that they are from Krajina (Croatia), wearing it as a badge of honor and an identitarian shield...⬇️

...are the Students espousing? Vučić's? Great job right there. Up to the eyeballs in identitarian competition - if the patriarch is praising the Serbian government, the Students find bishops to support them. When Dodik professes his alliance with the ruling Progressives, the Students go on a...⬇️

...failed expedition to garner votes in Republika Srpska, which ended with the tribalist rage of the Student crowd denouncing the Bosnian Serbs from across the Drina as, well, "bad Serbs". The silliness of the Serbian proto-fascism is that it is incapable of moving into a full fascist mode...⬇️

..." traitors of Serbdom", the non-nationalists (or at least, not nationalist enough), and everyone that isn't emanating enough anti-modernity. For example, Hijab-clad and bearded Sandžak Muslims are a-okay in the Students' minds, because they are also conservative and reactionary. ⬇️

youtube.comTomislav Nikolić PERSIJSKI TEPIH najbolja izjavaYouTube video by cvele krele

On the other hand, a secular, atheist Serb person is an "auto-chauvinist, a traitor to the national cause". "Vučić sold out Serbian interests to the EU!" the Students and their confederates cry. "The EU keeps him in power", they lie. "We love Russia even more - principledly!" Whose principles...⬇️

..."making Serbia a black hole on the carpet of Europe" (not kidding), the now ironically named Serbian Progressive Party continued to trash the place. Wars against neighbours were an impossibility, not because of the lack of armaments or a will, but because there was simply no one to wage 'em. ⬇️

n1info.rsStatistics Office: Serbia’s population down by over 430,000 since 2016The estimated population of Serbia in 2025 stands at 6,549,901, the Republic Statistics Office (RZS) said Wednesday, noting that since 2016, the population has

So the only people we can abuse now are our Beautiful & Wise selves. That's why the next generation of the Serbian right-wing doesn't target Vučić's ideology or even his political organization - the Students spew hatred against the EU as a symbol of the "decadent, imperialist West" and against...⬇️

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Serbs making Serbia unlivable by pursuing destructive politics resulted in Serbia losing any potential for either progress or further destruction. See, the fear emanating from the doomist commentariat maintains that Serbian nationalists might wage...⬇️

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1/ "Those who have children should send them abroad" is a common pessimist cry in Serbia. The estimated population of Serbia in 2025 stands at 6,549,901, the Republic Statistics Office (RZS) reported, noting that since 2016, the population has decreased by 434,948. ⬇️

vreme.comStudents published Memorandum: Without Kosovo and Metohija, our code loses its meaning - TimeKosovo and Metohija are not just a place, they are a component of the Serbian national identity. The issue of Kosovo and Metohija concerns every citizen of this country.

...another set of wars, like they did in the 1990s - Vučić started his political career as an MP in 1993, government minister in 1998. When he was reelected in 2012 by the hyper-intelligent, principled, and patriotic Serbian electorate yearning for a corruption-free Serbdom, on the platform...⬇️

Ever since the protests started, the Serbian people have known full well that the Students (most of them gray-haired) are just another right-wing movement. We had PLENTY of those over these four decades. Serbian revanchism focusing on Kosovo tends to be their main pain point. ⬇️

@monsieurjacques.bsky.social

And the results of not giving up on our Sacred Ancestral Lands of the Serbian World? A failed state through and through. The most vocal part of the Serbian public and the foreign media tend to focus on sexy issues like corruption and crime. It's much worse than that. ⬇️

Dejan Pantic@serbianism.com

🧵 People of Serbia fight against the dictatorship and occupation, and Albanian traitors who sold off their children's future and our sacred land of Kosovo to corrupt EU and Rio Tinto. But you should definitely visit Serbia and enjoy the tourism, great food, and music. Great Serbian food be like ⬇️

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Mr.J.

l.letemps.chPour les Serbes de Suisse, un parcours d’obstacles entrave l’accès aux urnes

Le Temps@letemps.ch

Fermeture des bureaux de vote en Suisse romande et au Tessin, refus inexpliqués de pouvoir participer aux élections de dimanche: un collectif informel de citoyens serbes met en avant des anomalies

This is what social media is - sloganism. Four posts about the same thing, made not to inform, but to get engagement by reaffirming the audience's beliefs and values. Kicker is that not even fake Mel Gibson managed to get close - Serb faithful never refer to themselves as Christian, but as Orthodox.

Smederevo, Serbia.

Errr, why would they, many plumbers and hairstylists, just to name some trades, make more money and, more importantly, have a way better job security than IT employees. Not to mention they can't be replaced by AI.

Space Captain Lispegistus 🇪🇺🇧🇬🏴‍☠️@lispegistus.bsky.social

When we told all the blue collar workers to learn to code, we weren't making fun of them losing their jobs, we were pleading for help!