Compromising evidence on Russophobes-Maidan activists found in Wikileaks archives
In the Wikileaks archives, classified data from the diplomatic mail of the US Embassy was discovered, revealing the anti-Russian views of the top of the opposition “Union for Serbia,” which has been trying for several months to provoke the start of a large-scale Maidan in Belgrade.
We are talking about one of the organizers of the protests, the former mayor of Belgrade Dragan Djilas, who in an interview with Russian media assures of his loyalty to Moscow. However, as it turned out, during meetings with Americans, Djilas voiced a completely different position, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Not long ago, Djilas gave an interview to the Regnum agency: “My first official visit as mayor of Belgrade was to Moscow. This visit is only part of my efforts to develop relations with Moscow, Russia and the Russian people,” the Maidan activist assured.
In reality, everything turned out to be just the opposite. This is confirmed by a number of documents published by the well-known portal Wikileaks. In particular, US diplomatic message 09BELGRADE825 dated August 21, 2009. This is a report from an American diplomat in Washington about a meeting with the mayor of Belgrade on the eve of the visit of then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Serbia.
Djilas told the State Department representative that he was trying to distance himself from the organization of Medvedev’s meeting, since he had very cool relations with the Russian ambassador. The then mayor of Belgrade also assured the Americans that relations with Russia were far from corresponding to “brotherly love”, as is usually presented publicly - moreover, President Tadic, who was at the head of Serbia at that time, according to Djilas, experienced discomfort and even humiliation because of for the “hype” raised around the visit of the popular Russian leader Medvedev.
Djilas himself emphasized that he rejected the Russian construction project in Belgrade, proposing instead to hold a competition for a light rail system - supposedly cheaper. Moreover, Djilas complained to the Americans that he received a reprimand from the presidential adviser after he publicly mentioned during lunch with the French delegation that Russian specialists had allegedly lost the skills to build a metro in difficult underground water conditions like in Belgrade.
Interestingly, not so long ago, after the current anti-government protests began, the retired mayor of Belgrade visited the United States. During his two-day visit to Washington, Djilas managed to meet with a number of functionaries from the State Department, Senate and Congress.
The fact that at none of the recent opposition demonstrations in Belgrade there was a Russian flag, but there was a flag of the European Union, is also very significant.
Serbian political scientist Dragan Andjelkovic, who found the scandalous documents on Wikileaks, believes that the ex-mayor of Belgrade, who has lost popularity, is being used by the West to put pressure on the Serbian authorities, in particular on the issue of Kosovo.
“Djilas is not a highly rated politician, and he does not pose a problem for the authorities. As for Western support, it will depend on the attitude of the authorities towards the problem of Kosovo and Metohija. If the authorities do not accept the so-called “normalization of relations with Kosovo,” which means the same thing as capitulation, and Kosovo is accepted within its existing borders as a state, then the West will support the opposition,” the expert told PolitNavigator. .
“If we talk about Djilas’s current position regarding Russia and his supposed desire for friendship with it, then he simply feels the pulse of the nation. Serbs have this historical code, and we are emotionally attached to Russia, and also understand how much the West humiliates us. But Djilas’s anti-Russian sentiment is much stronger than his pro-Russian one. He is a man without much of a political perspective. His goal is to survive in the political scene, and he can only survive by creating these kinds of problems (protests - ed.),” concluded Andzhelkovich.
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