Milan Igrutinović
Historian & IR scholar at the Institute of European Studies, Belgrade
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- Serbian police forces have entered the premises of the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Novi Sad, to break up the ongoing student protest started because of the dismissal of one of the professors. n1info.rs/english/news...
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićThis is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
- A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words. youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
- Hungarian MOL is going to buyout Gazprom's share (~56%) in Sebian NIS oil company. Emirates' ADNOC is part of the deal but it is uclear how exactly. And now they are going to ask the USA to lift the sanctions on NIS as the Russian ownership is, maybe, on the way out. n1info.rs/english/news...
- Reposted by Milan Igrutinović"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićEverything going well.
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićI’ll see yall next year ✨
- A required nod to overall New Year's pessimism
- One wonders who delegated A. Kavcic to represent the student body of Serbia, as their usual channels of communication are silent about him. And while he is/was a professor in USA, he's not a professor in Serbia nor has any students there. Pretty odd. multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/awa...
- My two colleagues and me have just published a paper, tackling a Jadar lithium mining project in Serbia against the backdrop of the EU integrations, inherent norm compliance, and strategic interests. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- A Hillbilly EULogy, so to speak.
- MAGA->MEGA against the EU will shape to be quite an existential challenge: "Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”"
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- Since I'm in Florence, been reading the outlet and got hooked on local darkwave bands from the 1980s. Starting with Diaframma, on to Litfiba, Neon, Pankow.... www.theflorentine.net/2025/11/19/d...
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićActivism without lasting forms of collective organisation On 19 November, 16.00 CET, join a lecture by Anton Jäger @ox.ac.uk on his concept of "hyperpolitics", describing today's increasing politicisation leading to few political consequences 👉 loom.ly/deT9Uyc Organised by @inthiseui.bsky.social
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićJoin us next Monday for an @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social (hybrid) seminar with exciting presentations by @migrutinovic.bsky.social (Yugoslavia-EEC relations, 1980s) & Jonah Berger (early steps towards creation of a European foreign service, 1990s). Registration here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
- Reposted by Milan Igrutinović💬 How were the EEC–Yugoslavia relations? And how did the EC build its own diplomatic corps? Join us on 17 November for our next research seminar with @migrutinovic.bsky.social (Institute of European Studies, Belgrade) and Jonah Berger (EUI) exploring Europe’s external relations. 🔗 loom.ly/15xC2tE
- Vučić is hoping for a magical US-RU deal on the issue, and looks to ride Orban's coat tails on this. There's practically zero chance of that happening. He and the gvmt still refuse the idea of takeover of NIS ownership from Gazprom, thus increasing the chances of major internal oil crisis.
- Serbian gvmt has decided to create a "Faculty of Serbian Studies" by cutting out depts of history, Serbian, and Russian(!?) language out of University of Niš. It has done so despite the tacit "no" from the uni and departmental councils. /1 www.danas.rs/vesti/drustv...
- And they're gonna stack it with friendly* academics, to create a safe haven for pro-SNS party line of thought. The first, interim dean will be a party loyalist, of course.
- It seems that internal* Russian repackaging of ownership of US-sanctioned oil business (Lukoil but, implicitly also Gazprom, and for Serbian NIS) is a non-starter for lifting the sanctions.
- My interview for "Glas Slavonije" (Croatia), with Darko Jerković, on Serbian integration into the EU. The point is fairly simple - any progress now is practically inconceivable under this government. Reasons are many, but they merge to a straightforward answer. www.glas-slavonije.hr/magazin/2025...
- Reposted by Milan Igrutinović👋 Meet our new Fernand Braudel Fellow, @migrutinovic.bsky.social , joining us thanks to the #EUIWidening Programme! His project explores the political and economic relations between Yugoslavia and the ECC in the 1980s. Find out more about our Fellowships 👉 loom.ly/u_hjJE4
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićYES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
- From Oct 1 the US Gov will levy sanctions against the Serbian de facto oil monopoly NIS, as majority of its shares are owned by Gazprom and connected companies. For months the SR gov has refused to nationalise the company (as Vučić values the RU connection) and RU side has refused any buyout.
- This actually isn't a building in New/Novi Belgrade, this is the "Eastern Gate" or "Rudo" complex. But stiil, brutalism par excellence. maps.app.goo.gl/HtvYfJoY9x3B...
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- And late last night, president Vučić called the @europeangreens.eu MEPs the "worst European scum" while fuming against the student/civic protestors at the University of Novi Sad, attacked and tear-gassed by the riot police and armed SNS party thugs. New levels of vitriol. n1info.rs/vesti/vucic-...
- In his letter to the @financialtimes.com Serbian president Vučić claims that "democracies cannot rewrite electoral timetables ... Doing so would be destabilising, costly, and harmful". That's rich given that he and his party have initiated 5 parliamentary elections in 9 years (2014-2023) without /1
- legitimate reasons (collapse of the governing coalition, inability to form a majority etc) but for the perpetual campaign that kept the party on the line, media disciplined and institutions captured, to bolster the populist appeal, with immeasurable irregularities on each and every election cycle.
- The Russian ambo to Serbia with strongest comments against the ongoing anti-gvmt protests thus far, with intentionally vague and sweeping accusations that the protests are run by "the West", for "Belgrade to lose control of the situation" etc. www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/69...
- The gvmt will welcome these comments, as it is showing its party base - right wing, pro-Russian - that it has the support of an "ally". And this is the best gvmt Russia can get in Serbia. To Western ears, the gvmt sings a tune of a "centrist gvmt trying to manage a complicated social situation".
- Nekoliko mojih komentara o tezi o "građanskom ratu" u Srbiji trenutno: www.masina.rs/ne-ovo-nije-...
- So, probably the first editorial of major international daily dealing with Vučić, and calling for pressure on him by the EU and UK, as "Vučić has to be pushed to be more accountable and hold genuinely fair elections". AV is likely not on the breaking point on that, but still...
- And also in Le Monde, an editorial firmly critical of Vučić. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
- A good recap on the current vawe of clashes between civic protestants and the police and SNS party supporters. #Serbia #protests www.masina.rs/eng/tear-gas...
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićTell me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research without telling me you don't understand the purpose of humanities research @economist.com @eui-history.bsky.social www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
- So, a Serbian Gvmt minister and a key SNS party operative, Darko Glišić (52) had a stroke on live TV this morning. He was rushed to a hospital and is in intensive care after a difficult surgery. No prognosis on the survival or recovery. www.blic.rs/vesti/politi...
- The government and the police in Belgrade have completely lost the plot last night. Beatings, mass arrests, violating the university property (down in the link)... they are turning up the dial of repression but the protests and civic anger are growing by the day. youtube.com/shorts/ONVYK...
- This morning, the police is focused on arresting students and teenagers, snatching them from the streets even if they have not obviously done anything. What the regime hopes to achieve is unclear, except to show "strength" to its own dwindling base. #Serbia #Belgrade #protests 📷 by Gavrilo Andrić
- Morning scenes from Belgrade. n1info.rs/english/news...
- Protests in Belgrade are now practically everywhere; people are casually blocking traffic and quickly move around to frustrate the cops. Atmosphere is both kind of festive and tense. The police is now widely seen as just pro-regime thugs, as they started beating and arresting student protestors.
- So, the Serbian police has apparently arrested Colombian professor Miguel Ángel Beltrán, who is in Novi Sad at an academic congress. No peeps on this in the national media, still unclear on the background of such a move. www.semana.com/politica/art...
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićTens of thousands of protestors, led by students, are protesting in Belgrade, Serbia, demanding the resignation of Pres. Vucic and calling for early elections. #OSINT
- In reality there is no "momentum", no immediate perspective of getting the EU accession back on track. Just empty gestures and pretense all around. The pro-EU public in Serbia will see this for what it is - yet another missed opportunity to set things straight, and Brussels' support to Vucic.
- Yesterday’s adoption of three new media laws in Serbia is an encouraging step. It is crucial for #Serbia to keep the momentum going, continue implementing the outstanding reforms, and keep pushing forward on its 🇪🇺 EU path. #EUEnlargement
- The so-called Washington agreement of Sept 2020 (Serbia-USA-Kosovo) was/is pretty much irrelevant in a grand scheme of SRB-KS relations, it did not stop any war (the war was in 1999), and the relations actually got worse (not because of that agreement but still). Hot air, selectivity, and lame PR.
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- Delighted to receive a Fernand Braudel Fellowship award within the EUI Widening Europe Programme, starting in October. 💫 Looking forward to interact with @eui-history.bsky.social colleagues and dig into the HAEU sources.
- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićWhen your statistical model "fits the data well" ...
- A piece by @sciencebusiness.net shows some of the effects of the illegal changes in the work/salary structure of Serbian unis by the Gvmt. The background is the penalisation of the part of academia for the public support given to student protests. sciencebusiness.net/news/researc...
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- So, the Serbian gvmt is witholding salaries to uni professors and staff due to ongoing student protests. As there are effectivelly no classes, and even though the unis are not in strike, gvmt is disbursing only about 10% of regular pay - "for research", as a form of punishment against higher ed.
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- Reposted by Milan IgrutinovićOur Euronews Correspondent Dušan Ilic brings us the latest from Belgrade's massive protest over nationwide government corruption, which gathered over 100,000 people. #EuropeNews
- Unlicenced tractors brought to Belgrade center by the party-state apparatus last night, in order to incite more tension and probably prepare for violent crackdown against the student-led protest tomorrow. Policemen doing nothing. Surreal
- This morning, regime's armed thugs passing casually by the police and into the camp in front of the presidency building. Long-standing symbiosis between criminal gangs and the ruling party is once again at public display.
