Russian aggression against Ukraine actually emboldened the pro-Russians in Serbia. They are convinced that Russia will be on the Danube any day now and that we will join forces to reclaim what is called a Greater Serbia. Wanna support democracy in Serbia? Arm Ukraine.

Memes make themselves.

Russian contingency plan to substitute the three destroyed Yandex data centers (colorized):

According to the Russian media, all three Yandex supercomputers may have been disabled. The last of these facilities was attacked on the night of October 11, Yandex’s supercomputer, Galushkin, is located there.

Cause meet effect. Ukraine camping on russian data centers is collapsing their internet.

Your assumption is right on the money - when it comes to Serbian beer, you don't wanna drink anything made south of the Danube. Sorry, Jagodina, Zaječar, and Belgrade, but those breweries are crap now and have been such for decades.

Upon informing someone from Belarus that the roma in Sofia burn plastic garbage in winter to stay warm, I was informed that Belarusians are too poor to afford garbage so they burn shit. So when that winter smell starts hitting you, remember, it could be worse :)

Yeah, even the moonshine in the Balkans has better ingredients than the Russian crap.

No disagreement over it being better than Russian, but Serbian comfort food, swimming in gravy, is just that - comfort food, best to be avoided if anything better is available. Serbian wines are great, but all anyone ever hears of is brandy (rakija), which is cool if you're into stiff drinks.

*Serbia

In authoritarian countries, most of them are (secret) police informants, and when a company is owned by a company located in a totalitarian state like Russia, you might wanna keep your mouth shut when interacting with their employees.

Why is this important? If you visit places like Seria, do not get into small talk with cab drivers, in which you would divulge your personal information - occupation, contacts, family details, financial situation, anything sensitive. Taxi drivers are a premier HUMINT source. ⬇️

It was to become the company’s primary infrastructure site, supporting services across global markets. Yandex Taxi, branded as Yandex Go, another subsidiary, holds a near-monopoly on cab rides in Belgrade and is also available in Pančevo, Novi Sad, and Kragujevac. ⬇️

Yandex subsidiary, Yango Group, headquartered in Dubai, entered into a memorandum of understanding to host infrastructure at the State Data Centre in Kragujevac, Serbia. Based on a colocation model, the company will deploy its servers within the facility, which was scheduled to go online in 2025. ⬇️

🧵 Drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted services across Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Serbia. Serbia hosts Yandex's largest international office and engineering hub outside of Russia, with 1500-2000 employees. ⬇️

"Naša deca su najpametnija na svetu, bilo na televiziji, osvajaju nagrade na meDŽunarodnim takmičenjima" vajb.

Meh, beating Russia at anything is a very, very low bar to clear. Pretty sure our alcohol is also way better than Russian samogon crap.

Giga-reformistički, slobodarski građani Srbije su sa punim pravom skeptični prema iskrenim namerama EU u pogledu vršenja nužde po ulici i korišćenja otpadnog ulja za grejanje.

The climate in Serbia did change. We had mosquitoes last year...in November.

Mi smo jedna od onih situacija gde život imitira umetnost, "Yes, Prime Minister" i Ministry of Silly Walks, ali u stvarnosti.

Da nije tužno, bilo bi smešno.