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Berlusconi’s Photoshop trick: using Milosevic’s methods?

February 12, 2010
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Way to go Silvio! Learning from the best. Or is it the worst?

When this photoshopped photo of Berlusconi came out couple of days ago, there were many here who immediately thought of another dictator – one who had much bigger influence on their lives, of course.

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Just before falling off [...]

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March 9th, 1991 – first major protests against Milosevic in Belgrade

March 9, 2009

On this day, eighteen years ago, first huge demonstration against Slobodan Milosevic and his regime were organized in Belgrade. Couple of months ago someone uploaded a video of the protest on Youtube, so you now have the chance to see a glimpse of the riots, filmed from the balcony of the National Theatre on the [...]

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Socialist Party forgives the people of Serbia

October 19, 2008

They are tough but fair and their leadership has heart after all – the Socialist Party of Serbia, formerly led by Slobodan Milosevic, decided to forgive citizens of Serbia for letting them stay on power throughout the nineties. All those complaints, suffering, beatings by Milosevic’s police, and even numerous political and criminal executions are forgiven [...]

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Rimtutituki Antiwar Action

February 14, 2008

LaLara found this video on youtube recently, and I thought it would be cool to bring the story of Rimtutituki antiwar action that happened in the early nineties in Belgrade to the audience of our blog.

But, first, the (approximate) translation of the song:
“Now Listen Here”
Peace is the most beautifull girl
Not everybody can have
If I can’t [...]

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October the 5th 2000 – October the 5th 2007

October 5, 2007

Dear readers, today has been the 7th anniversary of the democratic changes, or maybe revolution, that have changed the political leadership of Serbia and at that time “Milosevic Yugoslavia”. It was a unique event in Serbian history when an entire nation deprived of freedoms and welfare have revolted and most importantly, more or less non-violently, [...]

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Handke and Serbia

April 14, 2007

The Austrian author Peter Handke a highly contraversial personality in the european cultural scene, but mostly criticized for his appearance on the funeral of the former yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic, is also known for his positive attitude for the Serbs.
Nowadays, it mostly very “modern” and “rational” to condemn Serbia and the Serbs for the infamous [...]

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2006 Political Retrospective

December 13, 2006

Now as 2006 is nearing to an end, the political life of Serbia was turbulent, thus it earns to take a look back on what marked our political life thoughts throughout the last year:
Many things happened, many interesting, exciting and depressing, optimist, unusual, nostalgic and confusing.
One of the most significant things that marked the last [...]

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Peščanik

July 3, 2006

“Pescanik” means hourglass in Serbian. It’s a weekly radio show on B92, one of the few, if not the only radio show truly critical to the current (and all the previous ones) goverment.

This is a movie shown on the Pescanik DVD promotion recently in Dom Omladine.
Author is Nadezda Milenkovic, journalist, one of the frequent guests [...]

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End of an era

March 18, 2006

Here is a brief retrospective of things that took place last couple of days.
1. Slobodan Milosevic dies in Hague alone in his cell due to cardiac arrest. He is found dead several hours later.
2. His party anounces that he will be buried in Belgrade, in a graveyard reserved for prominent Serbs. They soon give up [...]

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Just to make sure…

March 17, 2006

Since foreign media houses still report that “huge numbers of people” gather to honour Milosevic, i had to go and see this with my own eyes. Once i got there, it wass all pretty clear to me. Number of something over 1000 people doesnt seem so large, but when they all line up, they make [...]

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Only one thousand to pay respect

March 16, 2006

Although some world media report as if the whole Serbia is sad because dictators departure, the truth is somewhat diferent: only one thousand people gathered in front of the museum to give their last respect to the dictator. Now i know that this is about one thousand people too much, but in a country of [...]

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Dictators corpse in Belgrade

March 15, 2006

Latest update: March 16, 11:00
I always knew that i live in a bizzare country, but this is just more ridiculous every update. From 12:00 today, the body will be held in a museum for sympathisers to give last respect. On saturday he will be buried in the backyard of his family house in Pozarevac, city [...]

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Anti burial

March 15, 2006

update: the funeral WILL be held in Belgrade!
It seems that the family has now changed plans and that the funeral will be held in Moscow instead of Belgrade. This is not 100 percent certain yet, as it can turn out to be just a diversion to prevent demonstrations in Belgrade.
Speaking of which, here is the [...]

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Another diversion

March 15, 2006

This morning, new version of the funeral hit the news: he will be buried in his home town Pozarevac. This just looks like another diversion, so i expect the news to change during the day.

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Persona non grata

March 14, 2006

This post comes a bit late, on purpose. You have probably all heard that S.M. died alone in his cell in Hague. Serbia was in all world news agencies’ headlines again, not so much of a good news, as usual. And you probably know all the tiny details by now. So i didn’t want to [...]

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