Prologue

WORLD AND SERBIA: BITTER REALISM AND CAREFUL HOPES
So That Touches Would not Become Wounds

Those who are occasionally hiding behind pseudonym “international community” by their actions produce evidence, on a daily basis, that the world in which we live is a cemetery of justice, truth and ethics. The old Khomyakov was wrong when he said that babbitry would be the last stadium of the western civilization. We see that this stadium is actually senilebarbarism. Horrible blindness of selfishness, parasitism and vulgarity, raised to pre-apocalyptic technological level. “Some guys are good, others bad. What group those who killed a child sitting on a potty belong to?”
Points of contact between Serbia and such “world” are wounds. Five billion people proclaimed as “auxiliary population” on this blue ball in the universe has similar experience. But fortunately there is also a different world and different encounters that Serbia has with it. Within the project “World in Serbia”, almost 200 new students from 40 countries will soon arrive to Avala. They will learn Serbian language and study at local universities. Top artists are bringing stunning images from the life of their peoples and countries to the International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade. Some of these images came here, to the cover page of National Review. Japanese government is financing capital ecological project in Serbian thermal power stations, taking care of the health of Serbia. Russia rejected another fabulous offer in exchange for withdrawing support for territorial integrity of Serbia. Several on-aligned countries are withdrawing their hastily given recognition of violent separation of the Province of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia...
It really seems that the hope is the last to die.
And as long as there is hope...