>>...how I understood Walter's message. Where I may be wrong, as well. I know I was recommended to return to Russia.
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>Wouldn't that be difficult to do since Serbia is not part of Russia? Or have I been mistaken all this time in thinking you are from Serbia?

No, someone else here was mistaken, and I didn't have the heart to explain how wrong they were.

>Which Serbia would you return to? The Serbian Empire under the House of Nemanjic, the autonomous principality (1817–1878), the independent principality and kingdom as the Kingdom of Serbia (1878–1918), the part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1941) ,the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Nazi-occupied puppet state (1941–1944), the socialist republic within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992), the republic within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), the republic within the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006), or the independent the Republic of Serbia? :o)
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> (I got all that from wikipedia) :o)

Now you see why this change of citizenship doesn't have much to offer me, specially with this impossible and roundabout process that the US have. I've done it so many times (skipped the kingdoms and DFY, born in FPRY, then grew up in SFRY, then our third was born in FRY, then visited Ser&Mo (btw, "serimo" literally means "let's crap"), and I guess my next passport will be from .rs domain - and I haven't lifted a finger for any of it. Comes with the territory, this thinking that changing citizenship is something one doesn't do, it just happens by itself.

>Actually, I guess Serbia may eventually evolve into tighter relations with Russia since Russia supports it against an independent Kosovo...

I think Serbia is trying to re-learn Tito's art of "pretty lamb sucking two sheep", though the current crop of politicians doesn't seem to have the ability to play the game at such level. There were decades of negative selection during the communists - when they didn't really trust intellectuals (they wanted to achieve the unity of "workers, peasants and honest intelligentsia" - the latter being presumably dishonest, under permanent malefit of doubt). Then one more decade of even worse, when nobody with any honesty wanted to take part in the mudslinging match that politics became under Miloševic - and I guess this current crop can't be much better, they won playing by his rules.

So, any game of trying to play both Russia and the EU is probably just pretense. They aren't big players, IMO. They're just selling the country factory by factory, which was the transition plan all along, right? So they are doing their job, helping recolonize the country. They don't have much preference as to the color of the money.

And Russia's insistence on Kosovo and Metohija is what every other country in their position would to: help defend common sense where it suits their interests, or look the other way when it doesn't. We have had our disagreements, and there's a growing discontent at the price of pieces of Serbian economy sold to Russians. Peanuts were mentioned. OTOH, I guess people have even more distrust towards the West, so from time to time it's easy to rekindle the Russian connection.

>I must have missed that message though because I don't recall anyone telling you to go back to Russia. Perhaps they meant it facetiously?

More furiously, but that may have been just role playing taken to the next level, or adrenalin speaking. Which is why I played along.