Dveri Movement: Vucic Turning His Back on Russia

Bosko Obradovic (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC/MO)

Bosko Obradovic, the president of the Serbian Dveri Movement, said on Feb. 20 that the Serbian government, headed by Aleksandar Vucic, is increasingly distancing itself from Russia and that the country in general is not moving in a good direction.

“The last straw would be for us to yield to the pressure from the West and introduce sanctions on Russia, whereby our mutual relations would take a completely wrong and detrimental turn leading to Russia declaring us an enemy country and endangering our numerous ties in the energy sector and the economy in general – and in particular endangering the defense of Kosovo and Metohija,” Obradovic said in a press release.

The opposition leader added that the West is currently preoccupied with coaxing Serbia into accepting “capitulation in the form of the Franco-German agreement for Kosovo” but that this does not mean the West will not simultaneously increase pressures regarding the introduction of sanctions against Russia.

According to him, the Serbian public is already being prepared for the sanctions via the media, which are “accusing Russia of staging protests in Belgrade, according to the same NATO model Milo Djukanovic once employed in Montenegro, when every opposition to his regime was labeled Russian interference.”

Obradovic concluded by calling on all Serb patriots to unite in an even stronger resistance to the government’s increasingly blatant intentions of committing “two cardinal mistakes” against the interests of the Serbian state and people.