Vladimir Kostic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/DS)
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts president Vladimir Kostic has said that "probably one of the indicators of a creeping autocracy is the moment when the leader starts directly communicating with the people without a mediator (here I mean the institutions of the system) and bringing decisions that are other people's responsibility and prerogative."
"Hana Arent vividly notes that this is actually a 'perversion of egalitarianism' because it threatens everyone as equally unimportant," Kostic says in a op-ed for the latest edition of the NIN weekly.
He also suggests trying institutions and "promoting decency," noting "if it is not too late."
The academician asks in the article "how it would be like if we personalize the political sphere as little as possible and try for the umpteenth time with institutions (state and other)." "Of course the free media (as much as possible) is an unavoidable institution."
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