Putin-weary Russians are settling in Belgrade. Property prices are rising there and Serbian Putin fans are waiting.
A police cordon protects the anti-war vigil in front of the Russian cafe Zar in Belgrade. “Stop the war in Ukraine!”, “Putin = war criminal”, “Stop the occupation of Ukraine”, read the Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian inscriptions on the black protest posters: in addition to the Belgrade peace activists “Women in Black “It is mainly Russian immigrants who take to the streets of the Russian capital of Serbia against the war in Ukraine.
It is “interesting” that the Russians are “at the forefront” of Serbia’s rather weak anti-war protests, says Sasa Seregina, co-founder of the group “Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Serbs together against the war” in Samara, southern Russia: “We met at a spontaneous protest in front of the Russian embassy the day the war broke out,” she says.