A Guru for Serbian Russophiles | Beta Briefing

A Guru for Serbian Russophiles

Source: Beta
Biographies / Biographies | 23.10.24 | access_time 19:31

Emir Kusturica (BETAPHOTO/DRAGAN KARADAREVIC)

Movie director and actor Emir Kusturica, the most successful and globally best-known artist from the former Yugoslavia, attracted attention last week with a strong message that he was ready to lay his life down in the struggle against those looking to mine lithium in Serbia. Kusturica – an anti globalist, Russophile, and sharp critic of Western society and foreign policy, as well as the winner of two Palme d’Or awards in Cannes, has thereby for the first time publicly confronted the government of Aleksandar Vucic, with whom he has been close for years.

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