The US bells are ringing for Vu?i?, the Serbian president may soon be put on the American "black list", this is how Washington cut his arms with sanctions for his "five".

Time is running out for Aleksandar Vucic. The US bells now seem to be ringing for the Serbian president. After Milan Radoicic, Zvonko Veselinovic and Aleksandar Vulin, the US imposed sanctions on Nenad Popovic and Misha Vacic. Sanctions against these five were imposed because they are classified as a criminal group, as well as for their ties to Russia, a country that is under sanctions not only by America, but also by the entire European Union. Considering that it is a question of close associates of the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu?i?, who held the highest state functions, the question arises as to what message the USA is giving to Vu?i? himself with these sanctions and whether he may soon be on the "black list" of the Americans.

Vucic's "five".

"The recent sanctions of the US Treasury Department, Nenad Popovic and Misha Vacic are not a surprise to me. It is enough to look at the explanation", says the psychologist Zarko Korac for the Serbian media "Danas". According to reports, Misha Vacic was an "international observer" in the illegal referendum that saw Crimea split from Ukraine and annexed to Russia. His previous links to extreme Russian nationalist groups were not mentioned, but are well known. While Nenad Popovic, who is the head of a ghost party of the Serbian People's Party, was a minister in the Government of Serbia and was just slated to become Serbia's postmaster. He participated in numerous privatizations in Serbia and is best known for the privatization of Minela. He did most of his work in Russia. He has led numerous court cases against the Creek NGO, which he has lost almost all of them", recalls the interlocutor of "Danas". If we try to find the common denominator of these two completely different personalities, he points out, two emerge. "Working for the government of Serbia and ties with Putin's Russia. They were not chosen at random. Their sanctions are a message to the government that its political and economic ties with Russia must end. The EU and the US say this constantly. But these are clear messages", believes Zarko Korac.

Message to the president

According to his words, the five Vulin, Radoicic, Veselinovic, Vacic and Popovic, who are under US economic and political sanctions, represent and symbolically what the West wants to change in Serbia. "It remains to be seen how much the Vu?i? regime will receive the message", he adds. As he notes, the move symbolizes the core of what the US opposes to Aleksandar Vucic's policy. According to Miloš Bakovi? Jad?i?, spokesperson of Solidarity, the news that Popovi? and Vaci? have been sanctioned is joyful. "Of course I'm happy for everything that goes to the detriment of people like those two, because they work to the detriment of people in Serbia. For the honesty of the right-wing fraudster Va?i?, it is enough to remember only the elections in Vranje and the alleged occupation of this city by Hungarian voters, one should not even go as far as his "observation mission" in the east of Ukraine", says the interviewee of "Danas". . "I find the actions of former minister Popovic more interesting, he notes.

Next on the list

 "It remains unclear to me whether he still has a trace of consistency beyond his profit interests, or whether his immersion in Russian business is so deep that he has not even attempted to align himself with the West, which I believe many of his colleagues his tycoons will try to do, and some are already doing. Let's believe the American assessment, they understand each other both in business and in politics, no matter how strange the phrase "malign Russian influence" sounds and how hypocritical the calls for "functional democratic management of the region" Milosh explains Bakovic Jadzic. "I don't know who could be next, he says, I only know that at the moment it won't be the tycoon Zeljko Mitrovic," says the interlocutor of the Serbian media. "And I hope that after the fall of the SNS regime , no one should play the piano like Nenad Çanka on the pink democratic television", concludes the interlocutor of "Danas".