Lucky countries seldom have to think hard about where their future lies. Serbia, sadly, is not one of them. The message from the leading candidate after the first round of Serbia's presidential election on January 20th was uncompromising. The Radicals' Tomislav Nikolic, who took almost 40% of the vote, declared that Serbia must turn its back on the nasty European Union and solidify its links with the nice Russians instead. Right on cue Gazprom, Russia's energy giant, agreed to buy the Serbian national oil monopoly and to link Serbia to its planned South Stream gas pipeline.
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